Comment on As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG

• But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Ah, you’re one of those who think only pc gaming exists

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• Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There’s these things called consoles, that let you put a disk in, they both contains the game and a license to play it.

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  • Psythik@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    What a bizarre concept. I doubt they’ll ever catch on. We already have computers, and you don’t need any fancy “discs” or “empty boxes” to play games on them, either. Just download what you want straight from the internet.

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    • Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s great, I can lend my friend the games he doesn’t have, and I can do the same with his games. In this way, we can play many more games than we have the money for.

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      • Psythik@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yeah but who needs friends when you have millions of random strangers on the internet to talk to? The infrastructure issue is a problem that I’m too urbanized to understand. My neighborhood alone gives me the choice of cable, DSL, fixed wireless, and fiber. Move to a place like this, and you won’t need friends or these newfangled “con-souls”.

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  • Joeffect@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Unless it’s a switch 2 then all you get is a key on the cartridge… Biggest waste of time on both sides

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    • Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Some games, some are on cart too. Switch 1 is actually probably the best because just about every game is fully playable unlike ps and Xbox which require patches often to run alright. Switch 2 I hear cyberpunk is fully on the cart, but I doubt many publishers are willing to pay for the bigger carts, so we’ll probably see a lot of third parties be just the key, which is ridiculous.

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• mesitoispro@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I honestly don’t know, but my local library apparently has something similar.

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• Panda@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Not sure how it works nowadays, actually! As a child I would borrow PC and PlayStation games from the library. They were physical copies of course. But with Steam keys and all I’m not sure!

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• Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Imagine they just crack it.

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