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"

northendtrooper@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  People have been buying more and more physical media recently due to the enshittification of streaming.

  Have they? More and more, really?

  I guess I must have missed the memo, because I no longer have the giant storage cases full of plastic discs or tapes. I’m hard pressed to name anyone else in my social circle who still does.

  I’ve been buying blu-rays for movies I really want to ‘own’.

  I just pirate that shit. Why on earth do I want a hard copy of something, plus a device to play it, when a 2-TB hard drive can host more media than I could watch in a month. That’s before you get into degraded quality of older discs and machines. Or my increased appetite for foreign media - shit that was never on offer in the states without knowing a boutique distributor or a friend traveling overseas or someone with a subbed copy.

  Imagine how much more $$$ valve would make if they published physical copies for their steam machine.

  Getting this from Valve is absolutely mind-bending, given how much of their library is exclusively digital.

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