Considering picrel, physical gaming is definitely just fucked right?Every company is slowly moving away from it more and more with almost no repercussions.People who play multiplayer games a lot clearly don't want to take the time to change the disks out every time either.And most zoomers don't seem to care at all about physical since most of them have grown up with computer games.
Day 0 patches already saw to making it pointless not to mention optical media is egregiously slow.
>steamthe death blow to physical PC games was dealt the moment half-life 2 came out in 2004. there's nothing more to say about it. but that doesn't mean consoles have to go through the same thing.>game key cardswidely, almost universally, reviled, and set to become less frequent as more cartridge capacities are made and game key cards sell like spoiled milk. the kinds of games that exclusively use them are generally the kinds of games you don't want to buy on a nintendo console.>playstation detachable disc drivessucks, but possibly the least insidious or threatening of these since it made sony move production from e-waste permanently digital-only consoles to selling, at worst, upgradable consoles. the DRM on them will remain a long-term issue, but new slims come with the included drive already paired to the console, and by the time in the far future that the servers needed to activate these are shut down, you'll probably be pirating everything through digital copies, and only using discs for novelty if you already bought them.>game passjust got dragged hard in public opinion after increasing the price. hardly know why since it was always a bad deal and overpriced, but whatever, more normalfags falling out of love with it isn't a bad thing. not a long term threat.>>728913453most games work fine without a patch. installing discs to faster media before playing them is a non-issue.
>>728913363Physical retailers don't give a fuck about my country and the imported physical games we have are pricey as fuck so good riddance, the death of physical can't come soon enough.
>>728913363everyone's moved on from physical for quite a few reason.one reason for example, steam is unironically a safer way to own your games than a disk>disk gets scratched>no game>disk gets broken>no game>fire>no game>inevitable disk rot>no game>disk reader fucks up and messes up the disk>no gamei could go on, but you get the point, any little thing with a disk can and will fuck your ownership of the game.meanwhile, with steam you have two major points that both need to fail in order to lose your gamesthe availability of steam, and the presence of your hardware.as long as steam is available then you will have access to your games. even if you were to lose everything in a fire overnight. steam will be there with your games ready for download once you can afford a new machine.and if steam does get shut down, as long as you have a hard drive with enough space you can save all your games and easily rip the steam dependency from them. >inb4 MUUH LOICENSE!!!!!!!!it was like this with disks as well due to the nature of buying applications.there has never been a meaningful way to enforce the revocation of that license unless its a multiplayer game with centralized servers because the devs cant force you to delete the game once its on your PC.the only difference is that your games are stored on a far safer medium and you can get them again if you lose that medium.
>>728914720Half Life 2 and Steam did not kill physical on PC. Steam did not become a significant force until 2010 or so. Piracy, free web games and the commercial success of sixth and seventh generation consoles drove PC games out of retail and developers out of business, like Looking Glass, or to switch to console games, like Bioware and Bethesda. The PC industry did not really exist in the latter 2000s, it was just people clinging onto multiplayer time sinks from the first half of the decade, Dota, WoW, Runescape, CS1.6, Brood War and Age of Empires II. Firaxis, Stardock and Paradox were barely clinging to existence. Steam was reforesting a desolation. It recreated a niche for smaller and singleplayer games that had not existed during the Battle.net era.
>>728914720>since it made sony move production from e-waste permanently digital-only consolesWhat? They moved from every console having a disk drive to it being a paid add on.>gamepass not a long term threat.The new xbox consoles are literally just game pass machines at this point kek.
>>728916041>What? They moved from every console having a disk drive to it being a paid add on.no, digital-only PS5s were already in production for a few years before the slim redesign introduced the ability to add or remove the disc drive later. all the fat digital-only PS5s in the wild are doomed to be digital-only forever. from the slim onward, you can just buy the disc drive to fix it.
>>728916240Oh that's pretty funny. I have to imagine physical will basically just be kept alive by the equivalent of gacha whales.
>>728916240Doesn't matter cause the disk drive, just like Xbox consoles, needs an online activation to work. And the online check will also need to be repeated if you ever factory reset your console, etc. So you're stuck with the original fat model if you want a PS5 that will be able to play your physical games fully offline forever
360/PS3 is the last generation where physical really mattered. Everything after has platform drm, but that barely matters since 99% of games end up on PC now.
>>728914720>the death blow to physical PC games was dealt the moment half-life 2 came out in 2004valve was the worst thing to happen to the industry
>>728918834>valve was the worst thing to happen to the industryPhysical-chads' most embarassing cope
>>728913363Physical is retarded. The only niche usecase it has is for locked down cuckboxes like consoles, where you otherwise have to airgap the system to prevent it from arbitrarily doing stuff to your files and at that point you should simply not use consoles, because we're at the point where they are actively fucking with your ability to do things with games on separate physical storage media.>But I want to own my gamesYou are much more limited with a disc or cartridge, since they usually have copy protection or obfuscation, as opposed to digital downloads that have to give you files to do whatever you want to them (if you're not stupid enough to use Goypass on Windows of course). If the game has no DRM, then you own it in every way that matters.>Muh first sale, I want to resell the gameJust pirate if you can't afford to buy games.>>728915714Piracy had no negative impact, that was just company copium for their service problem.
