Omnipunctual Godot
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A game like GOW Ragnarok isn't going to be a niche title that goes for three times the value in a couple of decades, though.
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Physical discs still have a place!
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buenoblue
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I actually agree with most of this. I have a massive digital game collection and only about 20 physical discs. Where it comes in handy though is for me GOW wasn't gonna be a day one digital buy for £70 because I wasn't really that I interested in it. But being able to buy it, play it, then get 90% of my money back or turn it into 3 or 4 older games that I missed out on is a nice option...surely you must see the reasoning of that.
sachos
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Yup OP, thats a good reason to buy physical. For anyone interested in the collecting/preservation side of it, i recommend following DoesItPlay1 group on Twitter, they regularly test physical releases, mostly for Playstation and Nintendo, they have a regularly updated spreadsheet, most of the time they find that releases are able to be played and finished offline without patches (if a game clears those requisites then that means you actually 100% own it, regardless of what happens to the platform holders or your account)
Here is the spreadsheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KB3dfTKMhudQD9OWVY8p0GRGvWqeblHAjsb8HsarzYU/edit#gid=0
Here is the spreadsheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KB3dfTKMhudQD9OWVY8p0GRGvWqeblHAjsb8HsarzYU/edit#gid=0
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CrustyBritches
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This sounds like an expensive game rental. The trade-in value of GoW Ragnarok PS5 at GameStop is $35 store credit or $28 cash. The PS4 version is $25 credit and $20 cash. I’d rather keep it or give it away at that rate.
Hendrick's
If only my penis was as big as my GamerScore!
The only place for discs is a landfill. I honestly can't believe people still want to buy plastic discs in useless plastic cases.
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Codes 208
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Im indifferent, while BC is always important, i couldnt care less about general preservation, older tech just collects dust on my shelf/closet.
Plus ever since the ps4/xb1 era i just found digital to be more convenient (dont need to change disks, risk losing them, dont need to wait in line in the damn cold on release night, etc)
Plus ever since the ps4/xb1 era i just found digital to be more convenient (dont need to change disks, risk losing them, dont need to wait in line in the damn cold on release night, etc)
Trazyn the Infinite
Member
Here we have the perfect example of someone who will gladly let companies Fuck him over just to push that warrior mindset. Pathetic.The only place for discs is a landfill. I honestly can't believe people still want to buy plastic discs in useless plastic cases.
ReBurn
Gold Member
Are you talking about the companies that make those plastic discs? Those companies get money regardless of how people buy games.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Buying discs and selling them to someone (or a store) for good money back is fine and all.
But the deal isnt that great if you do home sharing with a friend so it's effectively 50% off. And you keep it.
But the deal isnt that great if you do home sharing with a friend so it's effectively 50% off. And you keep it.
Valedix
Member
Lol if 10 seconds of your life is too much to ask for god knows what else is
Trazyn the Infinite
Member
Your family throws it in the trash.
onnextflix5
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Op is dumb, that is the very reason the next consoles will probably just have cd keys like pc games, lol,
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Hendrick's
If only my penis was as big as my GamerScore!
How am I getting fucked over? I am removing plastic from the planet and have all the convenience of digital. Maybe a decade ago when discs weren't just download keys you would have some point, but not today. Sure I could save some money if I sold games, but I stopped needing to do that long ago.
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I don't know why we keep having this thread every month. It doesn't matter. Everyone's lifestyle is different. You're going to buy what fits your life. I stopped buying physical because when I was in the military I got tired of moving all this crap with me. If we're being honest, unless you have a very nice game room that was very well thought out, most of this videogame tchotchkes look like ass. Every time I see all that shit in the background of some of the youtubers I follow I just ask "why?", but that's me. Other people are like "they have an awesome collection."
Team Andromeda
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People can try and kid themselves (and to be fair trading is a good reason) but physical media is dying a slow death and will be phased in a decade or so even real hard cash is going the way of the Dodo
Morrie’s wig shop
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No dude, your concern about getting hacked, Sony deleting your shit because you were banned? Those things. You make light of it every time in these digital/physical threads.
Every time I see a thread, where some poster is crying about their account getting banned by Sony or Microsoft and how they have no idea why and they did nothing wrong. Then 99% of the time it turns out they were doing some shady shit in the store or they are just a shitty person online.
The only way everyone looses all their shit at once is when this next war happens.
You gotta look at it in a more positive way.
I look at physical like vinyl. Vinyl never went away, it was always there. Sure the production of vinyl scaled way back. Even in the mid-90s’ right at the cusp of the digital age you could walk into a Sam Goody and all the way in the back there they were tucked away in some cobwebbed corner were the records. Plus you were always able to get vinyl through the label like Geffen through mail order.
And now look at the resurgence of vinyl. There is a store in the mall that sells all vinyl, I mean you can walk into the store and buy Tools Undertow album on vinyl how cool is that.
I’m just saying physical is going nowhere in your lifetime.
Destruction-1002
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If physical discs didn't install games entirely on HDD, it would been much better
On PS3, games install a portion of the game on HDD
On Xbox 360, most of the game didn't have mandatory HDD installations
Unfortunalely optical discs hadn't gotten fast enough
On PS3, games install a portion of the game on HDD
On Xbox 360, most of the game didn't have mandatory HDD installations
Unfortunalely optical discs hadn't gotten fast enough
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Rocco Schiavone
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At least they can be recycled. Unlike your shitty account from where you download your games.
twilo99
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Download? Pfff, that's old news, cloud only baby!
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twilo99
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I'm just messing with you..
But really, we already use so much plastic for things we actually need, so using it for things we don't really need just feels wrong to me personally
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DevilMayFlyForAWhiteGuy
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You know what was the best? The GOTY editions of 360 games that came with install discs. Games like Oblvion, Fallout 3, and Dragon age GOTY editions had all the DLC on a second disc that you just installed to the HDD, then used the main disc to play. You could lend the DLC disc to friend and even if they had a non GOTY copy of the original game disc they could get the DLC and play it with their own main game disc.
Not sure if it worked like that on PS3, but it was great. My friends and I took advantage of that a lot. I think maybe only one game didn’t let you do that and that was Arkham City GOTY, which had the same DLC disc to install, but required the “GOTY edition” main game disc or it would disable the dlc, which was bullshit.
And now those GOTY versions BC on Series X are playable, but if you want to play the DLC you to play the game using the DLC disc as the key, so you can’t do the same lending trick, which is also bullshit.
Anyways that’s my TedX talk I hope you liked it.
Not sure if it worked like that on PS3, but it was great. My friends and I took advantage of that a lot. I think maybe only one game didn’t let you do that and that was Arkham City GOTY, which had the same DLC disc to install, but required the “GOTY edition” main game disc or it would disable the dlc, which was bullshit.
And now those GOTY versions BC on Series X are playable, but if you want to play the DLC you to play the game using the DLC disc as the key, so you can’t do the same lending trick, which is also bullshit.
Anyways that’s my TedX talk I hope you liked it.