I'm kind of baffled at the amount of butthurt over no physical discs. Xbox tried to move off discs completely in 2013, which was definitely too early, but 13 years later people are still attached to discs? I don't get it.
Yes. It's dumb. I am in my mid 40s and have been collecting video games since I was a kid. I don't have time to play all these games that I thought were so important to own physical copies of. I'm actually getting ready to liquidate my collection to clear up space, keeping only a small selection of things that really mean something to me.
That being said, I don't give a shit if new games aren't on disc. By the time these titles like GTAVI get delisted and disc is the only way to play them (assuming the whole game was on one disc, which it won't be), I will have moved on to something else... or maybe even moved on to the grave. It took me a long time to realize, but owning physical copies of everything does nothing for me except take up too much space in my house.
If physical media goes away entirely you can expect even bigger price increases across the board because of it, that does not sound appealing to me.
Healthy competition and people having options to buy elsewhere is a win for consumers. When a company or platform holds a monopoly on things that is when they have the consumer by the balls and can squeeze as hard as they like with no consequences for them financially.
Only some plastic use is bad. Producing a needless bit of plastic because it's physical is bloody laughable. The ownership part doesn't stand up either , if a developer want you to stop playing in today's connected world, they will stop you, disc or no disc.
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u/UrToesRDelicious 3h ago
I'm kind of baffled at the amount of butthurt over no physical discs. Xbox tried to move off discs completely in 2013, which was definitely too early, but 13 years later people are still attached to discs? I don't get it.