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Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital"

missingno@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

I hate it as much as the next person here, but it was always inevitable. It was never a question of if, but when.

I know a lot of people look at physical media from a preservation angle, but in an era where games have a long tail of post-release updates and DLC, I'm not so sure they even serve that purpose anymore. If I want to replay my old games in 50 years, in many cases I probably don't just want to play the 1.0 that's on the disc. If I'm still dependent on the availability of a third-party download server to get the remaining data, do discs even still matter all that much?

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Korkki@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

physical media from a preservation angle… If I want to replay my old games in 50 years

And don’t forget bitrot. The modern bluerays are scarecrow and wind chime material in like 2-3 decades after manufacturing.

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- GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  I’ve been downvoted en masse for saying that physical media doesn’t last forever, and that many of my PS1/2/3 physical copies no longer work due to labels peeling off and disc rot. It doesn’t happen apparently.
  
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- doublah@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Also Blu-ray players/drives need regular updates for the encryption keys, it’s why the PS3 gets updates every couple years still. Sony will stop updating them some day.
  
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