No Mutants Allowed

Call me retarded but having physical discs and physical consoles on the shelf is and always will be more satisfying than booting up an emulator or scrolling through a steam library. i own it and its mine. it wont be taken off my shelf like something might be from netflix's catalogue. it'll always be there. and that's nice.

Well, you attach your satisfaction to physical objects instead of to experiences. Physical objects that break, are overpriced and have built in obsolence in them.

digital goods can stop working just from changing your OS. and yeah they may be overpriced on release but most games are pretty cheap now. you can buy an original Xbox and like 7 games for as little as $60. and besides shit doesn't break if you take care of it.

I definetly love having to buy film for a camera that I have to pay someone to reveal to be able to have the photos when I want them, and having to keep the negative in a dry cool place or risk losing it forever, storing your photos on a memory stick? That's gay.

also how is being obsolete a problem? just because things aren't being made for a console anymore doesn't make it useless.

If a digital good stops working from changing my OS I can just downgrade or download software to make it work again without having to buy and lug a piece of plastic crap that was obsolete technology even when it was new.

well photos are a far different thing than video games or movies. now you're just being facecious.

I sure love horading plastic boxes and fiddle around with cable configurations just to play Crash Bandicoot, and that is if the lens or the disc haven't gotten scratched and damaged just from general use.

I am just taking your argument to it's logical extreme.

what do you mean lug it around? you hook the thing up and then it stays there.

Is your desk/shelf connected to hammerspace?

you're making this out to be way wrose than it is. and yeah i really enjoy collecting games and consoles. its not at all a hassle to hook something up to a tv. and a disc doesn't get scratched from general use unless you're just careless.

hammerspace?

Discs do get damaged from general use, like any physical object that gets force applied to it, however minimal, gets damaged with general use, specially when it's method of use is to spin around at high speed inside a tray that it can touch by bending even slightly from the force.

Oxygen itself damages shit, just having the disc out contributes to disc rot.

i've never had disc rot but its always there in the back of my brain... and yeah digital is a great way to preserve content but its just not how i want to collect stuff.

I don't care if I have physical copies of my games or if they are saved in some kind of cloud/hard drive what ever. But I have to say, there are two things that really distrub me. One is the fucking software. I avoided games for windows life like the plaque beacuse It NEVER(!) worked for me properly and even locked me out of some games, games that worked when I used a fucking crack to remove GFWL.

THe second issue, are the sometimes really shitty consumer rights with digital games. You often can't return them, for example if you have an extremly bugged game or if you simply don't like and if it really happens that a game is not supported anymore, it can be a hassle to start it when it's requiring online conections.

Game for WIndows Life? Are you posting from the early 2000s Crni? That shit doesn't even existe anymore. Steam also has refunds.

Yeah, it does have those features now after like almost 20 years of games beeing sold digitally. WOOOHOOOOW!. And Sony, I actually played Steam games before Steam was even a thing. And the service was absolute trash for years on release. It's awesome what it has become today, no doubts about it. But one shouldn't pretend like it's a perfect world.