I love how you put the DVD on there, as if disk is a distribution method that’s been used at any point in the last 10 years as anything other than a key functionally indistinguishable from buying a license from the stores you hate.
Denaviro
Hey hey hey hey!!!
Don’t you dare put steam next to those scum. Steam is in a tier of its own! Show some respect to our lord and savior steam
milkafiu
Thanks for reminding me about the free Epic games, tho.
crlcan81
Fun little fact. Not all discs are ‘you own it forever’ too. Especially now days the disc is just another piece to verify the key, you still gotta download it somewhere. Plus there’s update, then you got the classic EA move of degradable discs. I found out when on the third or fourth windows refresh of a used computer half the DLC discs stopped reading on Sims 2. As in half of the entire Sims 2 DLC collection no longer did what we paid for.
epspATAopDbliJ4alh
Nuh uh steam good. Epic games bad but no hate cuz free games
Gonzsd316
Some of you can’t just enjoy a joke. Geeez.
Big-Perrito
Correction: I just want to actually own my *software*.
This is a major issue with all new subscription based models, whether games or not. What ever happened to buying a floppy or CD with 1s and 0s on it that you actually own forever. Even productivity software is moving towards this stupid ‘cloud based’ subscription model. There is no technical reason for it, it’s a marketing and financial decision. There is no reason for Adobe software to be cloud based. There is no reason for MS Office to be cloud based. I don’t want 365 – fuck off and give me my local copy!
I can bust out Doom on floppies and still install it on my 486. Do you think Steam will be around in 35 years?
Don’t get me started on streaming services – 4k BR is superior in almost every regard compared to compressed streaming sources.
Yes, I’m old fashioned. No, I don’t care.
Hattix
I have a friend who made sure he had the optical drive version of his consoles, because he wants to play again with his kids in 10-15 years.
“I know, son, it’s an awful game and it doesn’t play right, but Cyberpunk 2077 was patched for over a year after release and they really fixed it all! We just can’t download them because it’s been turned off.”
Geronimobius
Really this take is now 2000 and late. Given the iterative nature of games you don’t want to “own your game” if that theoretically sticks you with the garbage that is shipped day 1.
Blunt552
Steam aint the same as the others.
TheAnonua
Wait, why is GOG better than Steam in regards to owning your games?
SyrousStarr
To be fair, I have delisted games on Steam, Xbox, and PS. I can still redownload them and play them today. In fact, I still have literally every game I’ve ever bought digitally. Probably close to 1k across a few platforms. But my physical collection is pretty small. Last console I particularly bought for was like PS2/Gamecube. Have some, sold some (regrettably), loaned some and probably lost some. Some of my earliest disc games have a few scratches (I was single digit years old for PS1). It’s all digital for me from now on. Most of the physical games I own I’ve just backed up digitally anyway and play on my PC. I love that I can backup my digital stuff, entire libraries tucked away that I should never lose. Seeing posts about people trying to pack up game rooms with these hurricanes coming is scary.
sirfannypack
Why are we gate keeping where people buy their games?
WhAtEvErYoUmEaN101
First of all: how dare you
floppydisks2
Communism. You are owned.
Licensed_Ignorance
I feel like at this point owning a game is basically irrelevant with everything being live service, that physical copy isn’t gonna matter if the servers get shut down and there’s no offline play.
However if we are talking about something like Elden Ring, that to me is worth owning physically
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I love how you put the DVD on there, as if disk is a distribution method that’s been used at any point in the last 10 years as anything other than a key functionally indistinguishable from buying a license from the stores you hate.
Hey hey hey hey!!!
Don’t you dare put steam next to those scum. Steam is in a tier of its own! Show some respect to our lord and savior steam
Thanks for reminding me about the free Epic games, tho.
Fun little fact. Not all discs are ‘you own it forever’ too. Especially now days the disc is just another piece to verify the key, you still gotta download it somewhere. Plus there’s update, then you got the classic EA move of degradable discs. I found out when on the third or fourth windows refresh of a used computer half the DLC discs stopped reading on Sims 2. As in half of the entire Sims 2 DLC collection no longer did what we paid for.
Nuh uh steam good. Epic games bad but no hate cuz free games
Some of you can’t just enjoy a joke. Geeez.
Correction: I just want to actually own my *software*.
This is a major issue with all new subscription based models, whether games or not. What ever happened to buying a floppy or CD with 1s and 0s on it that you actually own forever. Even productivity software is moving towards this stupid ‘cloud based’ subscription model. There is no technical reason for it, it’s a marketing and financial decision. There is no reason for Adobe software to be cloud based. There is no reason for MS Office to be cloud based. I don’t want 365 – fuck off and give me my local copy!
I can bust out Doom on floppies and still install it on my 486. Do you think Steam will be around in 35 years?
Don’t get me started on streaming services – 4k BR is superior in almost every regard compared to compressed streaming sources.
Yes, I’m old fashioned. No, I don’t care.
I have a friend who made sure he had the optical drive version of his consoles, because he wants to play again with his kids in 10-15 years.
“I know, son, it’s an awful game and it doesn’t play right, but Cyberpunk 2077 was patched for over a year after release and they really fixed it all! We just can’t download them because it’s been turned off.”
Really this take is now 2000 and late. Given the iterative nature of games you don’t want to “own your game” if that theoretically sticks you with the garbage that is shipped day 1.
Steam aint the same as the others.
Wait, why is GOG better than Steam in regards to owning your games?
To be fair, I have delisted games on Steam, Xbox, and PS. I can still redownload them and play them today. In fact, I still have literally every game I’ve ever bought digitally. Probably close to 1k across a few platforms. But my physical collection is pretty small. Last console I particularly bought for was like PS2/Gamecube. Have some, sold some (regrettably), loaned some and probably lost some. Some of my earliest disc games have a few scratches (I was single digit years old for PS1).
It’s all digital for me from now on. Most of the physical games I own I’ve just backed up digitally anyway and play on my PC. I love that I can backup my digital stuff, entire libraries tucked away that I should never lose. Seeing posts about people trying to pack up game rooms with these hurricanes coming is scary.
Why are we gate keeping where people buy their games?
First of all: how dare you
Communism. You are owned.
I feel like at this point owning a game is basically irrelevant with everything being live service, that physical copy isn’t gonna matter if the servers get shut down and there’s no offline play.
However if we are talking about something like Elden Ring, that to me is worth owning physically