Here from Reddit–might stay a while.
Oligarchs oligarching. Every “publisher” and “developer” is firing everyone and are gonna very quickly vanish once it’s remembered that perpetual motion is impossible.
Meh. Pirates will always be there to make these things available for free if anyone cares.
Only fools will be champing at the bit to own a scratched to hell copy of the idea of Death Stranding or Elden Ring on a disk that doesn’t work on a system that doesn’t work when they can just download a rom of it for free off what ever the hell new site pops up in the future (or pay $0.30 for a native build on whatever computer platform is dominant then).
I got Wind Waker on like 3 different devices, all stored locally. I don’t care that I sold my physical copy of it (that I bought new for the game cube back in the day). I also don’t care that I also have a physical copy of its hd re-release collecting dust in a cabinet. Guarantee you’re not gonna be too sad that you can’t play your original copy of Ghost of Tsushima from disk on a PS5 20 years from now. But I’m sure you’ll be complaining that games are so expensive at $80 in 2046 (but that’s a different gamer essay).
“I want a disk that is literally just an activation dongle to download some digital software!” —ANGERY “pro physical media” morons.
Fucking dishonorable Klingon from the jump; can’t believe no one else noticed.
Just musing on the fact that Bethesda doesn’t care about making games and instead just cashes in on nostalgia. I also think their finance bros realized their upcoming big IP drop is going to be an objective POS and wanted to prime people’s expectations by re-releasing a 20 year old game with some lipstick on it.
It would be neat if they hired some people who actually had innovative ideas about gameplay, visuals and stories to maybe make a neat new game within an existing or new IP, but they haven’t done that in literal decades so I think its pretty reasonable to not be incredibly excited about anything they are putting out or planning to put out in the future.
Amazing to learn that if you fire someone who knows how it works the works stop. Supply and demand or something. Maybe every economy “professor” should be fired annual from Business School. Might help redirect the invisible ham of the market 🍖