Microsoft is killing the Physical Gaming market
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Just another way that Microsoft is fukking over the gaming industry. First was microtransactions, now this.
The fact that people still don't realize they don't own the "physical" copy of games on disk still is pretty funny.
On top of that, owning a physical copy of games now means little of nothing since most of these games are slop before being patched up or updates.
Popping in your purchased physical copy in 20 Years and trying to play a game is going to be vastly different then when games came "finished" and complete from the mid 2000's on back.
Better have a Internet connection and hope the servers are still up
But yeah it's MS fault
On top of that, owning a physical copy of games now means little of nothing since most of these games are slop before being patched up or updates.
Popping in your purchased physical copy in 20 Years and trying to play a game is going to be vastly different then when games came "finished" and complete from the mid 2000's on back.
Better have a Internet connection and hope the servers are still up
But yeah it's MS fault
levitate
I love you, you know.
Yes the fukk I do.
Don’t come at me with licensing shyt.
Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo will not be coming to my house rounding up discs.
Gizmo_Duck
blathering blatherskite!
Microsoft has been trying to kill physical gaming since the xbox one
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Jonah
XBOT Suicide Prevention Squad
Owning physical copies of modern games is important for preservation's sake. an example used in the video is the cyberpunk physical copy, which you can pop in regardless of internet connection and play through the entire game using the 1.0 release build.The fact that people still don't realize they don't own the "physical" copy of games on disk still is pretty funny.
On top of that, owning a physical copy of games now means little of nothing since most of these games are slop before being patched up or updates.
Popping in your purchased physical copy in 20 Years and trying to play a game is going to be vastly different then when games came "finished" and complete from the mid 2000's on back.
Better have a Internet connection and hope the servers are still up
But yeah it's MS fault
Another example would be GTA V, where you can actually play through the original GTA Online without all the updates, experiencing the original vision for the mode before greed ended up ruining it. It can be ran either through emulation or console by doing a few modifications.
all of this data is still on the physical PS3/360 disc of GTA V.
another example is the GTA Definitive Edition physical copy on the switch having a bunch of leaked mission source code that "Grove St Games" forgot to remove.
There are more examples of source code & other important files being left forgotten in physical releases that modders such as myself are able to access and fukk around with.
but the point still stands, physical releases are important for preservation.
we'll own nothing and supposed to be happy. buying games on disc is too antiquated for him.
You don't own your copy of whatever retro game you have lying around your house? Not the rights to the content or source code, but the actual disc. I've yet to see a physical game even as of last gen become obsolete.
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I think this only applies to games that are always online. If there's no online requirement, then you own the game. I don't mind a digital future, but there still need to be option for console gaming. I don't think console gamers are willing to adapt digital only like PC gamersThe fact that people still don't realize they don't own the "physical" copy of games on disk still is pretty funny.
On top of that, owning a physical copy of games now means little of nothing since most of these games are slop before being patched up or updates.
Popping in your purchased physical copy in 20 Years and trying to play a game is going to be vastly different then when games came "finished" and complete from the mid 2000's on back.
Better have a Internet connection and hope the servers are still up
But yeah it's MS fault
Xbox is simultaneously extremely weak while also being strong enough to ruin gaming.
So the super jank version
at that point you don't need to "own" the physical game. you just need to have the data on some medium
DarkandHellisHot
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Yeah, i'm sure the decision of no physical for Alan Wake 2 is def MS fault.
Disgusted that you think physical media would last after music went streaming and digital.
The consumer is killing physical games. Same way it happened in music and movies.
I still buy physical movies and games but a lot of ppl don’t.
I still buy physical movies and games but a lot of ppl don’t.