• mrfriki@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    The problem with discs vs. digital never was how much of the game you own or the fact that you can play the same disc 20 years down the road. It boils down to the fact that you can no longer sell the game you own after finishing it.

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      13 days ago

      Or even just lend it to a friend. When I was a kid everyone in my group would get a different game and share them. We barely would have been able to play anything if we didn’t share

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        13 days ago

        See, this is the real problem. Anybody with an MBA is going to look at your statement and think about all the money they didn’t get because they’re too fucking stupid to realize that you would not have bought more games if you had to buy multiple copies. It’s the same thing with like pirating music they used to talk about how much money they’ve lost, and I used to think no I just wouldn’t have bought that album. So they’ve spent all this time trying to figure out how to chase down dollars they never would’ve gotten to begin with.

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          13 days ago

          Yeah the reality is I would have just read (more) books from the library and played fewer video games

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        11 days ago

        That’s correct, most of my collection on XboX 360 and PS4 comes from second hand games.