I’m primarily a PC gamer and lack of physical copies is probably one of my top three drawbacks of it. It’s slightly different in PC though, because at least we have GOG as a non DRM option.
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Rusty@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
I don’t understand why console players are so obsessed with physical copies. I play on PC and the last game with a disc I bought was 16 years ago, it was Civilization 5. After multiple moves I lost the disc and had to buy it again on steam.
So the downsides are that you are wasting plastic and can lose the disc. Can anyone explain the upsides?
iamthetot@piefed.ca 3 days ago
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Used game market.
nullspace@lemmy.world 3 days ago
And PC games are easily accessible. Digital downloads for consoles only last as long as their specific storefront.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yeah, I got a wii U game fairly recently and panicked when I fired it up because it wanted to access the internet to look for updates. Luckily you could just skip past that and still play, but it made me wonder about the newer games that are just download codes and how they will be handled. Though I already have a good guess.
It’s annoying enough that they didn’t patch either the systems or games to not bother trying connecting to servers that no longer exist. Though now I’m wondering if anyone cooked up some home brew servers they can redirect DNS to that at least say “connection accepted, nothing new here, grey out the options that depend on this being real” if not attempt to support actual features.