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“i am angry at the company who’s killing physical distribution on console. to comfort myself i’ll glaze the company who killed physical distribution on pc”
???
Valve isn’t in charge of CD production, they’re just providing a digital storefront. Game publishers choose digital because it’s more profitable when you can ignore logistics.
I don’t know about others, but as an end user, I hates having to deal with physical media. Being able to just download any game in twn minutes is great.
(I know that there are lots of potential drawbacks with that situation, but it’s really convenient, unless you’re in a third world country with no bandwidth, in which case it probably sucks)
This is just kind of moronic. Valve didn’t kill physical PC games it was the Internet…
Why didn’t the internet kill console games sooner?
BestBuy and corporate meddling, companies trying to stay relevant
PC is an open platform, consoles are not. If a data can be downloaded locally it can be backed up one way or another. You may need a crack to get around the DRM or reverse engineered private server to access some games but the options are there.
At some level this is also possible on many consoles but usually requires either emulation or modded console.
Consoles are the same.
Being able to crack a steam game doesn’t make it physical media.
It’s not that open, but it could be.
We need rights enshrined in law about digital products. We need the right to transfer them to other accounts, and on PC, even other stores. We need assurances about what happens when stores close. The consumer should never lose out. If they do, the law has failed utterly.
And the law needs to do this. Corporations, even Uncle Gabe, aren’t going to let you have this willingly.
There’s two main reasons why I like physical media:
Steam meets both of those in different ways.
They are both ultimately in it for greed, but a different kind of greed. Sony wants the short term make most profits this quarter every quarter, even if this quarter’s strategy hurts next quarter, that’s a problem for next quarter.
Valve seems to at least understand that not taking its users for granted and forcing shitty options on them to make a quick buck will mean they are more willing to continue spending money on their shit.
Also, Valve didn’t come in trying to end physical media, they were a digital service from the start. Similarly, I had no problem with some games on the PS store not having physical releases and I’ve even bought a few. My issue is that the physical disc drive is one of the main reasons I even have a ps5, so saying they won’t be doing them anymore mostly just means that the ps6 won’t be as interesting to me. I’m not even really mad, just disappointed and moving on.
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Physical games on PC were already dead at the time, with securom+activation key and dead activation servers
To be fair physical media for PC has always been a bit different than the “insert disc, play game” you get on consoles.
And to be fair, there are so many games on steam or GOG that I want to play, we can wait until they are on sale. Usually for a fraction of the original price.
And depending on who you ask, most keep an eyepatch and pirate hat always on standby for these kind of things.
For modern PCs most don’t have optical drives anymore and it’d have to be USB sticks and there’s no guarantee if It would outlast an optical disk. Kind of a tough situation for archival purposes.
This is the shit that makes me laugh about this. Fucking people simping for a billionaire, because they think he’s their billionaire.