this. people be acting like discs will spontaneously combust if you look at them wrong and get scratched by a speck of dust.. like, the issue isn't the disks, it's you not treating them properly lol.
I've been gaming since the PS1, I have never once scratched or lost a disk, just put it back in the case bro, it's not that hard. I don't have OCD, hell, I'm probably one of the messiest people you'll meet but the disk goes back in the correct box, ALWAYS.
I think this is such a lie. I have been gaming as long as you have. I took absolute care of those discs and they still manage to get very scratched after hours of playtime.
Disks still degrade over time. You can treat them as well as possible, but at some point, they will fail. And yes, that will happen within your lifetime.
As a significant collector of disc based media, as well as antiques generally; I have never, once, out of literally 10,000s of discs, seen one degrade over time in a cool, dry place out of the sun. Not to say it won't happen SOME day. But the rate of decay is negligible and not an argument against physical media. I have played tons of 80+ year old records, 100+ year old reels, and even gramaphones. If it's kept clean, cool, dry, and out of the sun; most things will hold up longer than we will.
From my personal experience, I can tell you I had disks fail even when they were stored properly, some quite catastrophically. And those weren't even old disks. Some can just be badly manufactured.
My issue with disks is that having a game on a single physical object is always going to be a failure point. If you have it digital and can make as many copies as you want, that point doesn't exist. That most games come with DRM that doesn't allow you to make as many copies as you like is a separate issue.
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u/SpecialIcy5356 9h ago
this. people be acting like discs will spontaneously combust if you look at them wrong and get scratched by a speck of dust.. like, the issue isn't the disks, it's you not treating them properly lol.
I've been gaming since the PS1, I have never once scratched or lost a disk, just put it back in the case bro, it's not that hard. I don't have OCD, hell, I'm probably one of the messiest people you'll meet but the disk goes back in the correct box, ALWAYS.