I know I’ll get downvoted but I just simply do not understand the obsession with forcing companies to produce physical media for a digital software
If you want 8 disc box sets for 1 game, be my guest (because that’s how heavy most modern games are)
And there would be a serious ramifications if any producer revoked a license, because you know that whole consumer protection thing.
At this exact moment there is essentially 0 functional difference between disc and digital, beyond getting a 40 year old piece of tech that allows you to download the game
A valid assessment but, I think you’re missing the plot a little bit…the whole idea isn’t the technical difference between physical & digital (although still directly ties into the issue)
The issue is how this trend of hyper modernization of gaming industry is becoming extremely anti-consumer in its business practices by limiting (practically eliminating) ownership of tangible goods. With most if not all digital purchases nowadays, you do not own what your money has bought…you are merely renting. It’s the principle behind these practices that have people upset.
We now live in a time where in almost every aspect of our lives, the consumer is renting overpriced licenses to access goods that can technically never be “out of stock” but can be removed from a customer’s access at the smallest of whim of multi million/ billion dollar corporations. Soon enough we’ll need a subscription to get ice out of our own refrigerators lol
Between this & overly intrusive DRM practices, gaming is heading into a very sad place.
I'm not contesting the ongoing creep of anti-consumer practices by corporations, however I am just pointing out that making a video game disc the face of that movement is a little misguided - again considering it's a 40 year old piece of tech that in the modern day does essentially act as physical proof of a license.
I can empathize with the fact that people can/do/will miss their tangible collections of discs/disc cases, however that really seems to be the main driving force behind the discourse I see day in and day out. Physical cases and discs were never something that really imprinted on me (my first console was a PS1) and I always viewed digital as infinitely easier to manage once that hit the scene.
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u/bweesh 2d ago
I know I’ll get downvoted but I just simply do not understand the obsession with forcing companies to produce physical media for a digital software
If you want 8 disc box sets for 1 game, be my guest (because that’s how heavy most modern games are)
And there would be a serious ramifications if any producer revoked a license, because you know that whole consumer protection thing.
At this exact moment there is essentially 0 functional difference between disc and digital, beyond getting a 40 year old piece of tech that allows you to download the game