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.
>>730649062>misses the point
>>730649053you cannot transfer licenses.
>>730649007>hard drives have a lifespan of 7-15 years
>>730645849
RIP
>>730649312yeah i was being a bit charitable. consumer grade hard drives have a 50% fail rate after 4 years
>the basics of data storage go out of the window because it’s a Product(tm) that companies want you to consoomkill all goyim
>>730649347lmao get owned retarded faggot
>>730649370
>>730645849This literally never happens though
>>730649410you are basically just showing off your own self-hatred when your comments are as tryhard as this
>>730649347this is solved by spending $10 a month on house insurance.
>>730649615>insurancemore like inSCAMance
>>730645849All games are digital.The industry has convinced consumers, however, that when a digital game is delivered via download rather than delivered on a disc or stored on a flash card, this game is "different" and they can do things like revoke your license at any time (which they cannot, and this is easy to prove, imagine if Steam sold a game but revoked the license one second after you paid for it, requiring you to pay again to install the game, this would be legal according to the Steam's EULA, but it would be considered a scam under any legislation anywhere in the world).
>>730645849I have a ton of CD up to over 40 years old and not a single one has any rot on it.
>>730649370that's bullshit and you know it
>>730645849I still have all of my ps3 games and I treat them like absolute shit. I two of them have just been left on the top of a shoebox in my closet for years. All of them are in perfect condition. What gives?
>>730650101it's mostly not a real problem yet. discs have a life span of 40-100 years depending on environment. music cds from the 80s are just starting to go bad.
>>730646012And you deserve to have your online accounts permabanned
>>730645849Sure if you literally live in an environment like Area X from Annihilation but as long as you aren't totally retarded when it comes to mold your discs should be fine. Anyone who complains about disc rot should posts pictures of the rest of their house which they are probably neglecting.
>discrotYou mean>flood and water damage
>>730651418Correlation not causationIts not mold that causes disc rot but a humid environment which mold does also thrive in.But you are correct. If disc rot is a problem to someone they are also the type of person who has mold issues as well.
What happens when the console breaks?
Disc rot is such a meme issue. If you keep your discs in a dry room, like those in the northern hemisphere, then you have no problem. If you live in a damp and squalid, third world environment, of course you’re going to get mold, but you should probably be more worried about Aspergillous
>>730649347I bet this guy only played Mario, Zelda and Sonic despite having 500 retro games.
>>730645964>>730645991>>730649774>>730651564Yep. OP is a retard.
>>730649615Insurance prevents fires?
>>730649347smaller chance than steam shutting down
>>730645849The point of owning something is that you can sell it when you no longer need it, or give it to someone, not that it will last forever.
>>730649615>$10 a monthWhat the fuck kind of coverage are you getting with that?
>>730645849>physicalkekThey get mogged by cheap HDDs, SD cards and qbittorrent. Ignore these retards. Fucking retarded collectors
Piracy is ownership.
>>730645849>Own a steam game>The developer wasn't a retard and allows the game to run without Steam>Copy the game to as many sd card as I wish
>>730645849Now that we have already established that disc rot is not a real issue unless you are turd worlder itt, should it also go without mentioning that digital media is also not completely infallible either? I mean if you want to use this stupid as fuck doomer logic hard drives can fail, software rot can happen and data can be corrupted along with any other issues pertaining to hardware that the digital medium is stored on. I am of course talking about owning your games by making backups or by pirating them or through having them be DRM free of course and not renting them through steam. If you are brown and stupid enough for disc rot to be an issue then surely digital software is not going to be much safer in your hands either.
>>730651974shit canadian study debunked by other studiesalso funny how they dont addd m-disc which lasts 500+ yearsalso the blu rays i burned back in 2015 still works without a single bit missing, which accordding to this shitty debunked study all my bd-r should be unreadable by now
>>730651974also fact that BD-RE is at 20-50 to shows how flawed this test is lmao
>>730652046slay the spire, stardew valley etc.it's insane steam doesnt tell you though, like why the fuck do i want your proprietary software running for some pointless "protection" that i dont have to endure if i pirate? it's why i prefer gog these days
Fuck off Bringus
The hard reality: physical DOESN'T matter.What maters is perpetual accessibility and all that requires is a digital copy of the game and a way to load it reliably. That's why ODE owners don't care about carving up their systems to install one.
>>730649350Yikes that games like 150 bucks now
Does anyone have experience on AWS S3 glacier? I want redundant backup outside my house because I fear this >>730649347 but I can only find normal S3 storage
lol at you retardslet some loser museum care about preserving games foreverif your game is older than 10 years i don't care about playing it anyway
>>730653426>if your game is older than 10 years i don't care about playing it anywayfr fr no cap miss me with that unc aah shit *crying laughing emoji*
>>730653426>fortnite>roblox>minecraftya sure?
>>730649350Sold my Colosseum as fast as I could while the game was still working because it started cracking like crazy
>>730653426Okay, enjoy eating slop. I actually play the old games in my collection, that's why I keep them.
>>730649350nothing a little cream can't fix.
>>730652096>Can make as many backups as I want of DRM Free games>Still have access to every single digital library I ever made purchases on, even if the store itself went offlineObjectively better than having to baby your physical collection otherwise it will rot away after not touching it for some years, and when it's gone it's gone, you can't get a replacement disc for the game you "own"
>>730647719imma upload my brain into a puter real quick, brb.haha, what a funny clown.
>>730645849I know op is just baiting but Has anyone actually encountered this? I have like 50 + disk based games and have never seen this once
>>730653701that shit is for kids, retardkids play any old crapyou don't actually get good taste in video games until you're about 15
>>730653921my ps1 games are getting bad
>>730653921do you think disc rot happens when you have lots of games?
>Game is still in pristine condition >Console still works>Can't play the game because the Wii decided it hates dual-layer discs now
>>730653921I used to frequent pawn shops and thrift stores, I've handled countless discs, I own CDs from the early 80s and I've never seen it
>>730653921Nah, but i have a burnt cd of crash 3 for ps1 from over 10 years ago that's rotting
>>730653921Not a real problem for nowIt will start happening eventually doeIt won't be just poof and all cds gone but it'll be more or less similar to floppy disks where you flip a coin on each one working
