you don’t own your digital games, I have my physical games foreve- ACK!
I have music CDs my parents bought for me as a kid back in the 90s that still play flawlessly after sitting in a leather cd case booklet for 30 years.
>>730645849Stop living in a third world shithole and this wouldn't be a problem
>>730645849physicalshills are just scalpers trying to drive up demand of their extremely limited supply of stock, and anyone who falls for their shilling deserves to be scmmed and pay exorbitant prices for the privilege to be scammed
>Look at some of my old PS1, PS2, and Gamecube games, no disc rot>Dig out some old DVDs that I stupidly left outside in a box for 15 years, no disc rot>Put an old hard drive from the 90s into my PC via an adapter, no issuesWorks on my machine.
I store all my physical media underwater in a milk crate in the ocean and can confirm disc rot is a serious problem. The discs also attract sharks
I live in a romanian salt mine so this doesnt affect me at all
Remember to check and re-backup your cold-storage physical platter drives every 12 months. If you can get a second copy, keep it in another physical location.
>>730647682what if i accept the impermanence of all things instead
>>730647719Then kill yourself now.
Just remember you lose all your games when you die.
>>730648770what makes you think so?
>>730648770I will take all my vidya with me to the afterlife. You'll see.
diskrot is mostly a problem if you live in a tropical environment. decades of humidity and heat. the lifespan is double+ if you live in europe or northern usa. but it is true that all physical media will eventually degrade. it's not exactly a gotcha though because hard drives and ssds have a lifespan of 7-15 years. far less than discs. it being virtually impossible to rip 4k discs without obscure rolledback update specific drives will be and is a problem though. a lot of 4k media will become lost media at that quality/format.
>>730648770I will inherit it to my off-spring
>>730648925steam states you are not allowed to transfer an account after death to another person. it obviously still happens. almost all digital media has the same clause.
