People shits so much on GKC for the obligatory use on internet for download the game, but in fact, isn't Nintendo Switch an online console anyways?>requires internet to update the software >requires internet to login your account>even physical games need internet to upgrade new patches
I'm still not buying cuckcards.
Physical releases have been utterly cucked ever since DLC became a thing.
>>740639819Key Cards exist so that publishers can pass more costs onto the consumer in the form of memory space.If you could get a 2TB SD card for $50, it wouldn't matter. But you only get 256BGs for that.
>>740639819still never buying a game keycard
GKC outrage is fake and gay. Physical media being merely a trigger to download the game has been a thing on every console for the past two generations.
>>740639819No. You can play all your physical games without ever connecting to the internet.
>>740640471true, but at least you can sell a GKC secondhand
>>740640920it sucked then too, retard
>>740639819
>People shits so much on GKC for the obligatory use on internet for download the game, but in fact, isn't Nintendo Switch an online console anywaysAre we so conditioned to tendies being jeets that niggas talking like this just flies under the radar
>>740641090and yet you fags have been silent on it for years. yet its daily outrage for GCK. despite codes in a box being far worse and a bigger issue for other platforms.
>>740639819people are shitting on gkcs because of pirating purposes and are larping behind "muh perservation muh lost media" they dont give a shit about any of that they're just bitching about the possible hurdle thats gonna come with trying to dump gkcs for emulators down the line since in you need to connect to nintendo's servers to download a title the same way you would with buying it off the eshop
>>740641282nta, but nice deflection, you shit eating faggot. people aren't "silent" on it for other platforms, there are entire websites dedicated to cataloging which games can be fully installed offline with just the disc, and switch 2 still has way more gkcs comparatively
>>740641282speak for yourself
If you can’t afford internet then you shouldn’t be gaming. Put in work on yourself, level up your irl skills, get a better job that can easily pay for internet then you can start thinking about gaming
I am okay with keycards as long as I can sell dogshit games after I finish them. I can understand the hate though and I am not going to argue against people who boycott them. we are at the point of things being so over where keycards are the only reason some games can even be sold in a physical copy so it is what it is
>>740641581I refuse to buy GCKs myself. But if you are denying you fags only give Nintendo shit for this these days you are lying to yourself.>>740641558by all means link them then. never once seen anyone post these sites.
>>740639819All those reasons and more are why I'm not buying a S2, and likely done with Nintendo for good, because I very much doubt they'll get better next time
>>740641558>people aren't "silent" on it for other platformsSure they are. Steam for instance has literall zero haters and their entire platform is a code in an email, plus you don't own anything.
>>740642704>Sure they arenope >more deflectiondilate you shit eating dyke>>740642486https://www.doesitplay.org/
>>740640920a minority of games for each console do this. people have been persistently outraged toward it the entire time and it continually affects whether publishers make proper physical releases or not on a per game basis.there's nothing "fake" about it. just say you, personally, don't care, instead of speaking for others.
>>740641539this is not a hurdle at all and absolutely no one has this in mind while complaining about it. dumping and decrypting either physical or digital games will equally require hacking the console.i know you feel clever like you've figured out the "real" reason people care, but you just sound retarded because you don't know what you're talking about.
>>740642765>nopeNah I'm basically one of the only people on /v/ to criticize Steam for being codes in boxes. They largely go without criticism inspite pioneering this act.
i'll buy my first cuck card if they announce the kingdom hearts collection tomorrow for switch 2. will be the only time i ever buy one
>>740642828>a minority of games for each console do thisYeah but every PC game does this and PC gaming is more popular.
>>740639819>requires internet to update the softwareMandatory updates are distributed on via the game cards which require them.>requires internet to login your accountLocal accounts, for keeping saves & settings separate from other players, can be done totally offline.>even physical games need internet to upgrade new patchesSwitch games will let you launch & play a game even if it knows there's a new update available for it. Also, see #1
>>740643125And here's the kicker: the same people acting outraged over GKCs are the same people defending SteamTROLOLOLOLOLOLOL
>>740639819>isn't Nintendo Switch an online console anyways?no. the entire point of consoles is PLUG AND PLAY. if it has accounts or you get asked to connect to the internet, there's no point to the console
Steam gives me the Workshop.GKCs give me nothing.Brownoids will seethe at this objective fact.
>>740643547Uh no. There's literally zero functional basis for consoles remaining mostly offline or any expectancy that consoles as opposed to other platforms use a specific kind of media. I'm correctly identifying you as someone pretending to be enraged over nothing. You're at the very least a miniscule minority.
>>740643612I see you read my post and felt targeted, but you'll have to reply to me directly if you want to discuss this topic.
>>740639819switch is an online console because you need the internet to download .nsp and .xci files
>>740642828Just a bunch of horseshit from a dishonest nigger such as yourself.
>>740643786>t. retarded alphie who's never touched anything older than a PS4
>>740641539>>740640920>>740639819Totally not paid shills
>>740644403Must have replied to the wrong person because my first console was an NES.
>>740644410Shut up, dishonest nigger.
>>740639819Literally the whole point of physical was that you didn't need an internet connection. The amount of bullshittery a company can perform with a device you don't own if you need to constantly phone home is just intolerable, see also Switch 2 bricking.>>740640009Software has been utterly cucked ever since software copyright became a thing.Software has been utterly cucked ever since the DMCA became a thing.>>740640920And consoles have been shit for 2 gens.>>740641539It shouldn't be a hurdle. If I own the game, then give me the files to do whatever I want with them.>>740643125PC is incomparable. I have full administrative control over my device and full control over what happens to the files I have downloaded.
>>740645570>Literally the whole point of physical was that you didn't need an internet connectionNope. Physical existed long before internet was ever we a thing. >PC is incomparable.I'm comparing them. The best you can do is beg me not to. Did you mean to say PC is indefensible?
>>740646103>Nope. Physical existed long before internet was ever we a thing. After the 90s, that's pretty much what the remaining appeal to it was, which is why every publisher still relying entirely on brick and mortar was whining about piracy. The entire remaining appeal to physical was that you didn't need an internet connection to download it and you could do whatever you wanted with the disc and still have the game on it without needing to phone home to the publisher.>I'm comparing them. The best you can do is beg me not to. Did you mean to say PC is indefensible?I can copy files to a new storage medium on PC, I can modify my files, I can break DRM, my device will not do anything I don't tell it to do, I do not have to ask permission or pay someone to use all the features on my device, if I download something online, then there is no difference between that and installing it from a CD. I own my PC, you do not own your console, they are incomparable.
>>74064047150 dollars will get you a 256 gb card at best.
>>740646958>>740640471Oh sorry didn't read the post right, yeah everything's kiked to shit now.
>>740646767>I can copy files to a new storage medium on PC, I can modify my files, I can break DRM, my device will not do anything I don't tell it to do, I do not have to ask permission or pay someone to use all the features on my device, if I download something online, then there is no difference between that and installing it from a CD.I already know how PCs work and what features they have. Did you have a point in listing these seemingly random facts about computers?> I own my PC, you do not own your console, they are incomparable.No I own my PC and my console, also many of my console games. I'm comparing them.
I don't understand this weird obsession with "preservation".>In 25 years there is a small possibility I won't be able to play this game!Who cares nigga. Real gamers will pirate. Gay bitches will be begging for a RemasterMake. It's a non issue.
>>740647698It's just the PCMR cult virtue signaling on how they're the saviors of gaming.
So when will SKG do something about GKC faggotry?
>>740647698>pirateif corpos get their way, you won't even be able to pirate anymore. games will simply turn into lost media outright instead your corporate cocksucker
>>740643084Why not just buy it from the eshop if you have to download it anyways?
>>740648124What do you mean? Physical media is pro SKG. If anything they need to narrow their vision onto Steam and Epic, they're the ones facilitating game delisting and championing services as a game model.
There was another thread where an anon didn't realize there was a difference between game key cards and game cards and I think that's where the outrage comes from; it's another Wii U situation. For those who don't know, first party Switch 2 games have the whole game on the cart and do not require a download. Some third party games use a key card and require a download, as if they were bought from the eshop.
>>740639819My Switch, PS4 and PS5 have never once been online and outside of Nintendo being retarded faggots about the first batch of launch models, I highly doubt the Switch 2 requires online activation. Physical discs and carts have system updates on them anyway (unless you are xbox in which that is a lost science) and if you are playing a game that requires a patch to make it playable/good, you wasted your money on trash.It's absolutely a matter of laziness and being a cheap jew. Especially when the same game comes out fully on cart for the original switch.
>>740648307>Some third party games use a key cardI've yet to see any third party games for the NS2 using an actual game card for their "physical" release.
>>740639819Something no one talks about is the amount of storage space these things take up. I have a 1tb micro sd express and its already full. 60-100gb games are the regular now and you can't even keep the games in stalled with these things.
>>740648307Except for that pokemon harvest moon thing since apparently the richest ip in the world is too cheap to use a proper cart.
>>740639819I wouldn't mind GKC's as much if they had the advantages of digital, but having to have the key in the system loses the one edge digital games have which is convenience while taking up system data. GKC's should allow unlimited startups without the key in the console for at least two weeks to offset some of its weakness.
I would gladly take the trade off of losing portability to get a dock with a blu-ray player built in. A Nintendo Disc System you may say.
>>740639819>People shits>use on internet>to update the software>to login your accountjesus fuck how brown are you
>>740648258Nobody cares about outdated pre-release beta code. You use the internet to update them.
>>740639819I can't speak for anyone else, but I have bad internet, it takes ages to download stuff, I am disincentivised against deleting stuff, GCK take up a lot of space, more memory storage costs a fortune right now, and at the end of the day it's all because third party developers get so god damn greedy they offload the cost onto the consumers. It's straight up double dipping.Next time you're pumping gas, take one second to consider the analogy of it costing money not only for the gas, but it costs money to pump it too. Double dipping. Greedy publishers.
>>740648571The Pokemon Company are really cheap, it doesn't help that it's also a Koei Tecmo made game.
>>740649698It's a great litmus test to see what developers are worth supporting on the hardware, if a company repeatedly uses GKC even for new releases where it could fit on the cart that company doesn't respect you as a consumer.
>>740639819Yeah that's why you should pirate every game that means anything to you and make sure you have emulaters downloaded that run said games.
>>740649786Exactly, day one we had Cyberpunk and the expansion pack on the cartridge. If the other developers and publishers can't be bothered to start with a base cartridge to house most of the game, download the remainder, a best foot forward, a good faith effort, then what the fuck is their worth even. If your game isn't worth a fully physical release, then just how shitty is the game, on top of you being a greedy prick too.
>>740649889cool it with the anti-semitic posts
