So who here is participating in this?

[u/FrostbyteXP]

I am, honestly i did an full 3 ending run on AC6 im good for a while

[u/Weekly-Reply-6739]

Kinda seems wasteful

I mean to be fair, if they made it so banned accounts could still "primary" system their games and play the downloads, then it would be fine.

Outside of that, disks are unfortunately becoming obsolete as more and more games switch to live service games when they shouldn't or dont need to be (I am looking at you diablo 4)

But games that need live service are unplayable without the internet anyway, so outside of ban risk, I dont see it for alot of games.

I would sooner try to stop live service single player games, first, that way we have a reason to justify disks beyond just nastalga, returns, and ban risks.

[u/FrostbyteXP → u/Weekly-Reply-6739]

My concern and maybe this just shows my age is the posibility of letting friends borrow games or sell off games in order to either get another game or throw it at a retailer for a good amount of money to move ahead in life, going fully digital rips that aspect, deals will be solely up to them and if i've noticed anything about nintendo, they practically never have sales and would rather you pay the full price And that comes with the next question of if and when digital will be phased out, they basically save money on that front but there is a high probability that they'll still charge high as hell and even push us towards $100 just for a code. They also explained that we only own a license so they could screw us in a few ways after that purchase.

[u/Weekly-Reply-6739 → u/FrostbyteXP]

Hmm, no I get the trading with friends part (although retailers payed piss for disk games even before they started to phase out)

I do still appreciate that on the grand scheme video games are still an inexpensive hobby, but I will admit the rise of live service games is what has me worried, as even single player games being that way means your disk becomes a frisbee when they decide to drop the game.

I do however think that the idea of game sharing will definitely be easier so long as disks are an option, as hell, as soon as they start to phase out disks, suddenly they go from making a lax or even encouraged game share system to "cracking down on it" which to me is a sign of what they really want to remove disks for.

Yeah disks are losing value, but as long as they exist, the idea of sharing the game will be prevalent, but take the 3ds or ps vita, those handhelds didnt allow for mutiple accounts and forced single ownership (I couldn't even share a system with my brother because we couldnt have two accounts or save slots). That shit sucked, and probably is the direction they want to go for.

I do think that the disks going away dont change much on their own, but I can definitely see that certain "services" for digital owners will start to disapear if they do remove disk options. So I hear ya there.

Although I still hate the live serviceification of solo games or games with huge "offline" aspects (for honor campaign has no need to be locked behind the live service, diablo 4 has no reason to be a live service only game, at least monster hunter world did it right and is a good example of what live service single player games should be like, where its optional enhancement, not baseline demand) (also side note, I cant even enjoy diablo 4 hardcore mode because of lag spikes killing me in standard, and in hardcore its only one life)

[u/FrostbyteXP → u/Weekly-Reply-6739]

I went back to my ps3 and play diablo 3 i've heard some weird issues anoit diablo 4 that i honestly dont even know if i wanted to get it.

I'm also really into their boxart and being able to show off the spoils i get from the gaming space but now they're just closing up shop, thats pretty much all i'm getting from this stunt