You can sell all those games to help pay for the barn.I have to do some math but i might have to buy a barn to store my collection
I got a 64Gb one for my camera barely few weeks ago and I paid it something north of 20 €.Umm I can get 128gb microSDs for 10-15€ nowadays and that's the retail price, I'm sure companies could purchase them for much less, especially in bulk.
I don't think I'd go quite that far, but if I did, I'd have more than enough physical console and PC games in the backlog to keep me playing for the rest of my life. PC gaming is all about having options, so it's weird to think that some people would be in favor of taking any away. Yet, here we are.Oh so you don't think we should have a choice or the option to own our games huh? I've said it before - I'd give up modern games entirely if digital were the ONLY option.
I got a 64Gb one for my camera barely few weeks ago and I paid it something north of 20 €.
Still, even 15 for the empty support is a pretty fucking price spike to add to a game, and those are ALREADY prices you got from the fact that companies "sell them in bulks", by the way. SD cards aren't exactly niche products, but everyday consumer objects.
Switch to consoles. You get the best of both worlds. And I would hardly call 10 seconds of switching a Blu ray "inconvenient".
AH!
I would.And I would hardly call 10 seconds of switching a Blu ray "inconvenient".
Barely. And for a minority of titles, anyway.
Switch to consoles. You get the best of both worlds. And I would hardly call 10 seconds of switching a Blu ray "inconvenient".
Okay, let's not get too silly now.
One of the reasons digital took off so quickly on PC is because physical distribution was an aboslute nighmtare on the platform:
-super strict DRM schemes tied to the disk. At times even with install limits.
- Every copy had a key you needed to redeem, making trading and loaning games impossible.
-because of corporate fuckery, blue ray drives never took off on PC, meaning increasingly large games are distributed on DVD's. Bleh.
-no central infrastructure for patches an updates. You think having 5 launchers to deal with is a lot? Try every publisher or even every dev in case of self-publishing. Also since small companies tend to go bust prepare for having lots of old games with abandoned infrastructure and having to use 3rd party sites for patching old games.
etc.
With how modern publishers operate, physical doesn't make sense on the platform imo.
So basically, publishers nearly killed the market with their bullshit and that's why we don't own games anymore.
All according to plan.
you dont really own a game per se. Digital or physical you own a license to play the game.So basically, publishers nearly killed the market with their bullshit and that's why we don't own games anymore.
All according to plan.
Okay sure, but at least I would own the disc that contains a copy of the game to sell/trade/give away freely. I can do whatever I want with it as long as it doesn't violate copyrights.you dont really own a game per se. Digital or physical you own a license to play the game.
Yeah, but it should be stressed that those in particular were already largely dead YEARS before the digital market overtook the physical one.Only part that was better were the physical boxes with manuals. Other than that though, it was the dark ages before PC went digital.
i think i would be seriously tempted to give up pc gaming if it went back to discs.
i really don't like physical media. the sooner consoles ditch it the better. they should do what PC done years ago and go all digital.
We're never going back to physical discs for PC. Hell, most PCs don't even come with disc drives anymore. You can't find physical games at barely any retail stores either.After Steam has yet again forgotten gigabytes of data, forcing me to spend ages fixing its dumbass bullshit, I've come to the realisation that at least for me, these digital stores are just worse in every way than buying a game on a disc, installing it, and not having it connected to a temperamental and opaque piece of software. It would probably be faster (even counting delivery times of an amazon equivalent) than downloading modern games off steam too, even assuming I only have to download them once instead of twice.
I'm sure it works great for you people with nine billion zetabit fibre connections, but digital games have never been anything but slow, annoying, and temperamental to me.
Yeah, but it should be stressed that those in particular were already largely dead YEARS before the digital market overtook the physical one.
For a long time all we got in our (empty) "physical boxes" were incredibly useful pamphlets with life-saving instructions like "To start a new game, click on NEW GAME".
lol good oneSwitch to consoles. You get the best of both worlds. And I would hardly call 10 seconds of switching a Blu ray "inconvenient".
That genuinely confuses me. How can that bother people that much?
Because I have over 1000 games in my library. Over 170 concurrently installed on my system to pick what I want to play on a whim.That genuinely confuses me. How can that bother people that much?
Fair enoughBecause I have over 1000 games in my library. Over 170 concurrently installed on my system to pick what I want to play on a whim.
Even assuming a single disc per game, keeping similar habits with physical copies (and still having to install and update them most of the times, anyway) would annoy me to no end.
I just disc swapping is bearable, if all you play are five exclusives a year and you sell them back as soon as you are finished.
Wtf is this? C'mon now.
From my brief Google-ing of the issue, are you using an external drive to store any of your games? Because it seems that your issue matches the issue others are having where their drives are going to sleep.Steam can occasionally forget that a game has been installed or that space has been allocated for a download if something unexpected happens during said download. This is basically fine when it takes 30 minutes to download a game, but not when it takes multiple days. Steam support is useless and written for people who can casually download a AAA game in the time it takes for them to go eat lunch.
I'm pretty sure I have more ownership over stuff I buy on GOG than a good chunk of DVDs that can't even be activated because the site that checked the keys authenticity doesn't exist anymore.
I agree, but good luck telling that to devs and pubs. Physical DRM was by far worse than anything on digital market, including Denuvo, at least Denuvo won't give you blue screen of death.There shouldn't be sites required to check the key authenticity or keys required period in the first place.
Yeah! We should go back to the days where I have to turn to a random page, paragraph, sentence and word in an instruction manual and type it in after swapping 10 floppy disks in order to install the game. Those were the good ol' days!