Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe?

RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You do realize that flash drives are not near stable enough for long term storage, much less archival storage, right?

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  • bilb@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not to take away form your point at all, but optical media degrades, too. Usually much slower, though. In the long run, regular transferal between backups is the only option. ~In the long-long run, we will succeed in preserving nothing and all traces of our existence will be obscured!~

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    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes, thats my point.

      You have maybe a year, if you’re lucky, on a flash drive… and very few’d probably make it that far, and the ones that did would be egregiously expensive.

      on optical media you have time that can be measured in decades, possibly even a century if proper storage practices are used.

      That is a significant difference in stability

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  • yogurtwrong@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    One time programmable flash could be a good a solution to this

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• MortUS@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ugh, I would love a portable/offline launcher/installer for my GoG game files.

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  • DarkMetatron@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    GOG already offers offline installers for all games they sell.

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    • MortUS@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nice - I didn’t realize that the GoG installer was portable.

      I wish their settings had custom connections. Like, If I could have a portable version that connects to my NAS and downloads/installs my offline/saved GoG games; that’d be the sweet spot. If anyone has suggestions for a setup like this lemme know!

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      • DarkMetatron@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I have the offline installer stored on my NAS and use GameVault[1] as a local installed web interface to access my digital game library.

        [1] gamevau.lt

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• phx@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’d kinda love to see a comeback for optical given the supply issues for flash memory, but I’ll about that a custom USB ROM stick or SDCard style carts for PC would be kinda sick

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