Hello console nigger.PC Chads stopped giving a fuck about le physical after the average internet speed got good enough to download games from the net.PC physical was also raped with increasingly malware-tier copy protection.You cling to physical because you never knew the comforts of piracy and never got hit with cancer like SecuROM.
>>749792725Keep in mind he has to pay for his internet twice
>>749792725hahaha holy shit what a fucking embarrassing post
>>749792725bodied that freak.
>>749792636Good morning sir.
>>749792725OP BLOWN THE FUCK OUT
>>749792725Everyone always goes on about how much better Steamworks DRM is than previous solutions like SecoROM but it's only trivial to crack because Valve are the laziest and most incompetant niggers around who can only sell other people's games, make sequels to mods, or sell gambling to underage kids. Valve are an objectivley terrible software developer and the only reason steamworks DRM still works on modern OSes is because they want to keep you in their ecosystem.>but look at all they've done for Linux gaming!Wait until these retards look at the history of android and Google. Locking you into any DRMed ecosystem is not good and if you think otherwise you're a fucking moron.
>>749792725Christ, you browns always type the exact same way.
Physical media for PC was doomed either way, the only question was that who’s going to dominate the digital market.
>>749792636>Steam killed physical mediathats an odd way of spelling Sony
>>749792725fpbpOP is ragebaiting faggot.
>>749792636You're right that nobody does give a fuck, other than maybe hoarders and scalpers, or someone with hopeless internet speed. It's the same game but more convenient - people like convenience.
>>749792636I am starting to think that Tim Swine is behind all the anti-Steam hate posts on /v/>>749792753I never understood consolefags not getting a PC for the relatively higher price they have to pay (without the price increase caused by AI, it would be moreless equivalent to modern consoles) and then they are happy to waste all those money on the console internet subscription.The games also generally seem to cost more even when looking at sales of the same game.
thank God why the fuck would I want 2 tonnes of disks in my house
>>749793127for the price of a single computer component, i can pay for my online sub for over 50 years. but please, continue to tell me how to manage my finances
>>749792884>lockingwhere's the lock-in, retard?go on and embarrass yourself
>>749793229which computer component?
>>749792956Lmao imagine being so brown you have to lay down a 2 layer cope mechanism where you pretend to be white and complain "browns" in a vain effort to discredit others because you're so mentally gangraped by being called a brown
>>749792956What makes me brown? The only people besides console fags who clung to physical were browns with internet too shit to download games so they had to go to a fucking store just to buy pirated versions of GTA San Andreas with mods lol.
>>749793127Convenience. PCs have the opinion of being complicated: you have to build one with the right parts, install drivers, deal with compatibility issues... Consoles and mobile phones are easy.
>>749793269how much was your hard drive? how much was your ram? how much was your GPU? how much was your monitor?
>>749792725FIPPY BIPPYfuck discs, outdated piece of shit storage form. Imagine being a console nigger and having to pay extra to patch your game and being able to even launch it.
>>749793352>vegans once again are proud to announce how completely ignorant they are of how a console worksConsidering they are so simple, "any retard can use one" you morons really don't have a fucking clue
>>749792636You were still downloading the game onto your own PC which you had full control over. If Steam said you couldn't play your game, then you still had the files and could play the game with a trivial crack if the game had DRM at all.The problem with abandoning physical media on consoles is that you don't own the hardware that was sold to you and the console can be programmed in such a way that you can't exercise your legal rights over the things you bought. >>749792884There is a world of difference between shitdroid and Steamworks. Android is an entire OS built around lock-in and advertisement, Steamworks is just some APIs. Steamworks DRM functionality really just exists so that companies don't feel like they need to get creative with their DRM or fall for scams like Securom that only decrease sales, because piracy itself doesn't actually harm sales figures.
>>749793349you pay more to get more, you retarded childstrange concept, i know
>>749792636Steam is more consumer friendly than every consolefaggotry company combined.Steam has never taken any videogame away. Sony hasn't even gotten rid of physical media yet and they've already taken products away.
>>749793446what a stupid, evasive response. you asked me a question, and in order to accurately respond, i am asking you for some very simple and basic numbers. are you not able to do that at all?
>>749793127Past a certain age, a man without a PC can be a bad thing.
>>749793531your snoybox is a bare minimum shitbox that's at best a 2700x and an rtx 5050i pay more to get better performance, so it's more expensiveif i was satisfied with a shitbox, like you, i could get one for $600 too
So im like a disc enjoyer or whatever I like discs and ill pay more for a nice edition.But I just dont believe people who say they are satisfied with the "gold master(they love that word)" on a disc. I guarantee you everybody connects for the day 1 patch. And in the event that your console cannot connect anymore because the servers are shut down (which hasnt happened for PS3/360 yet, just the stores) I would assume most normal people would find a way to play an updated version via unofficial means and not just be satisfied with the disc build to BTFO the digicucks told ya so or whatever.
>>749793404What a sad post. Consoles have always been sold only to tech illiterate retards too stupid for anything more complex and willing to paid for a highly limited, but very accessible experience.
>>749792636That's because on PC you have control of the files on your computer. It must be wild for a consolefag to imagine such a thing, but for PC games there's no difference between having the files on a plastic disc and having the files on your computer's internal storage.
you obviously aren't playing video games if you are here arguing about video games
>>749793693consoleniggers need to drop their controller and slowly tap out their posts on their phonesanyone on pc can just alt tab, type out their post much faster than on a phone and tab back in
>>749793572soooo you can't even give me a single number for anything currently in your PC? are you embarrassed when you think about how much you've spent on a shitty 4chan shitposting box? or maybe you're backpedaling because you realize your original post was so incredibly stupid and you don't want to get called out for being retarded?
>>749792636Physical pc games were already kinda on their way out even prior to steam being totally dominant.
>>749792725It's also worth mentioning that PC never really ran games from discs to begin with. In most cases, the disc was just a medium to copy the files onto your hard drive.After installation, the disc was useless except as a form of annoying DRM in some cases, which was easily bypassed by a nocd crack. People would regularly download cracks for games they owned just to avoid the hassle of swapping discs.
>>749793693I'm playing Etrian Odyssey while I shit on your arguments, cope and seethe nigger.
>>749793636>consoles are for tech illiterate retardsSays the guy who, without a single shred of self awareness, thinks inserting a disk or updating a game costs extra fucking money. You are beyond fucking retarded and shouldn't even be considered a sentient creature.
>>749792725niggers with console have no counter arguments to this post
>>749792636Fuck off Tim Sweeny, your ass got roasted by Valve simply because you wanted to vibe code your worthless piece of shit to run a tiny bit faster and then you got fucking owned. Deal with it.
>>7497937375700x3d, £200, more than double of your snoybox cpu performance in games9070xt, £650, 80% more powerful than the ps5 pro gpu, 130% more powerful than the ps5 gpuagain, you pay more to get more
>>749792725Securom / Safedisk / Starforce cancer is also notable for the fact that even if you own a physical copy of such game, you probably can’t play it in 2026 without resorting to no-CD cracks. In fact, you probably don’t want to install anything containing Starforce on your PC, shit’s literal malware.Purely for ownership purposes, DRM-free GOG installers are the ultimate product, you can backup them in any way you ever want with no limits.
>mean while im playing GTA4 with the patchholy fuck life is so goooooood on a PC
>>749792725FPBP
>>749792636Yes, fuck sony.I can pirate pc games, preservation was never a problem since forever.
>>749793349I got DDR4 16GB for like $50 a few years ago.Hard drives was also cheap back then and since Ryzen, CPUs don't cost that much anymore.You can get a very good GPU for the price of a console.So like 3 years of PS+ but you could get some games instead
Because steam offered a better experience thn physical, simple as that, and I know you're 12 now, but I lived through the end times of pc physical media and it was basically the same shit as steam, having to always link the game key to an online account, having zero resale value and a lot of games had an up to three activations in total until the key expired and the disc was useless.
>>749793886thank you.£200 is 26 years of an online sub for me. £650 is 86 years. i don't think i need to be concerned with the cost of "paying for online" given your prices
>>749792636Nobody gave a fuck because most people only care about convenience. Valve has proven that Steam can be trusted, so I trust them.
>>749792636games were cheaper and installing stuff on pc with fifty DVD/CDs plus the one to play the game was a shit experience Steam is still drm garbage though
>>749794084ok? you have a bare minimum shitbox that runs games like shit and you don't own itas a consolenigger you sell your arse to a single company that tells you what you can and can't do with "your" property
>>749792725thread
Consolecuckold humiliation ritual
>>749792884>Valve are the laziest and most incompetant niggers aroundYou're saying this about the biggest digital distributor on the market, especially right after they recently and publicly bodied EGS yet again with a quiet update that increased load speed before EGS even got around to bragging about vibe coding theirs to be faster. No, Steam's DRM isn't trivial to get past because they're lazy, it's trivial to get past because they're genuinely customer focused, not dev focused. DRM whose only purpose is to fuck over customers is not a priority to them, there's third party software for that.
>>749794124you are the one who brought up the price of the online sub as if it mattered at all. i am simply putting it into perspective for you. don't get pissy with me for giving you a genuine answer to your shitpostnot even going to entertain the rest of your irrelevant seething, all you "people" do is constantly move goalposts with bad faith arguments so i'm glad we were able to resolve this before you waste any more of both of our time
>>749793823I see, so you dont have to pay twice for your internet connection on consoles? Is that it? I must lived in a lie all those years.
>>749792725AIIIIIIIIE ZAMN YOU CHUDIGGULOID!!!
>>749794221So valve made steam faster because a competitor did the same thing but it's totally not a monopoly, right?
>>749793127>I am starting to think that Tim Swine is behind all the anti-Steam hate posts on /v/You're far less cynical than I am then. I just assume it's jannies and comparable trying to force "us vs them" narratives to keep engagement up, we saw in the hacks from 2023 that jannies would have long discussions in how to bait replies when the traffic was diving hard.>>749793772You sir have noted the reality of what happen. It's why so much DRM of the 90s and early 90s with PC gaming was tied things that came with the box such as "go to page 55 and write the ninth word of the third paragraph" because the games didn't run on the floppies and/or CDs. Physical media for PC game for it's near entirety was having a digital game on the hard drive and why game systems usually advertised "plug and play" as a feature because the games just ran off the cart/disc. The reason now that console systems are trying to get away from physical media is a mix of both internet being far more common and hard drives being the norm for everything now. If these techs were as available and common place in the late 80s we already be living in a digital only dystopia.
>>749794318wat
>>749794318Epicsisters please please please learn what a monopoly is challege
>>749793880>and then you got fucking ownedIt's even funnier than that, they were owned before they even stepped up. The patch that improved Steam's boot speed was live for four hours before they made their post.
>>749794272yes, it matters because you have to pay ityou, in your infinite retardation are trying to compare a much better pc to your bare minimum shitbox as if the price difference didn't justify itself just by how much better it performs
>>749794318See >>749794356
>>749793772In the earlier days they did use the CD for music too, like in addition to the game installer it also contained actual CD audio that the game would play. Back then high-quality audio used too much space so it was played directly from the disc. This was probably more efficient too, since optical drives had direct audio outputs so the drive could even handle all playback independently with no load on the CPU.I think some early FMV games also played their videos from disc directly, for the same file size issue.
>>749792725The people posting these threads also never had to deal with the era when every fucking publisher had their own launcher and you could only play their games on it. Origin, Uplay, GFWL, RGL, battlenet, etc all made it so you had to download a program, make an account, keep it updated, open it every time you wanted to play that game and they all inevitably caved to steam anyway. Utterly fucking AIDS.
>>749792636You niggger faggot mega retard. Steam has competition. I don't even buy there most of the time. The colsole store you wanna defend with this shit doesn't. MONOPOLY MONOPOLY MONOPOLY MONOPOLY MONOPOLY MONOPOLY MONOPOLY MONOPOLY MONOPOLY MONOPOLY MONOPOLY MONOPOLY $120 GAMES SOON $120 GAMES SOON $120 GAMES SOON $120 GAMES SOON $120 GAMES SOON $120 GAMES SOON $120 GAMES SOON $120 GAMES SOON DID YOU GET THE DIFFERENCE NOW?
>>749794284>vegan thinks downloading a patch requires an additional paid subscriptionThis is why you are a retard. You talk out of your ass like a complete fucking moron while pretending you know anything when you fucking don't. This is an incredibly common habit for you vegans, which is a big part of why you get called vegans. Absolute fucking braindead nigger.
>>749794448consolecuckold century of humiliation
>>749793349I got my PC in 2019 and including all of the extras like monitor, keyboard, gamepad, mice, headset, and speakers it's never exceeded $4,500 total.I also pirate all of my media and don't buy $100 games at launch.
>>749794358okay well in 80 years when the cost of my sub equals out to the price of your GPU, i'll be sure to come back and say that you were right. until then, keep fighting that good fight, brave platform warrior
>>749793127>I am starting to think that Tim Swine is behind all the anti-Steam hate posts on /v/Yes and no. He isn't personally behind it, but his company is almost certainly paying some fucking guerilla marketing firm to do it for him.
>>749794448nah, you call people vegans because you can't accept that you're a minority on this board, consolegroid
>>749794531i already am righti bought better hardware, the price of which justifies itselfagain, it would be trivial for me to use old, cheap hardware like youbut i actually have dignity
>>749794438only paypiggies suffered from it. So not my problem.
>>749794507>get called out for being wrong>pretend you aren't a retarded niggerSasuga, vegan>>749794553The PC cultist is immunized against all dangers: One may call him a faggot, tranny, cuck, redditor, it all runs off him like water off a raincoat. But call him a vegan and you will be astonished at how he recoils, how injured he is, how he suddenly shrinks back: "I’ve been found out".
nah fucking Gamestop killed PC physical. They would only stock console games except for a few of those Blizzard War Chests which Blizzard made billions of they were like AOL installation discs.
>>749792636Because it's not trueI think the only reason you keep making these threads is to feed a lie to the algorithm
>>749792636If you only care about physical things then why are you online right now? Go outside to play with sticks and stones.
>>749794438anon I don't think they have ever gamed on PC at all. I go as far as to assume they just play mobile slop and are poor as fuck for how retarded they are acting.If you can buy whatever you want, you just don't give a fuck what others do with their money. You buy your gaming rig, you buy your PS5, you buy your switch 2, you buy your Steam box, your Mac book, hell you might buy all of it or none of it, and you just don't give a fuck what other people do, because why would you? You are doing what you enjoy for you, not for what retards here think. You have to have some regret with your choice or not be able to make the choices you want for this kind of argument to make any sense.
>>749794531You also pay triple for games on average. If they can physical even more since amazon was cheaper than ps store. Consoles are only cheaper for people who own like ~20 games per gen max.
>>749794318yes anon valve saw your masters embarrasing themselves and went back in time to make steam faster>>749794448>>749794627the filth shitting up our board with this dogshit was a nintardog?? NO WAYfucking subhuman cattle
>>749794627nah, your attempts at insults just suckit's like niggers trying to invent slurs for whitesconsolenigger is self evident, the system is made to be easy to use so that a nigger can't fail using it and a nigger doesn't need to think about higher concept like owning their hardwarevegan, meanwhile? pc gets to have access to everything
>>749792725FPBPAlso starforce drm, which was denuvo prime and bricked computers
Fucking kek at how valve drone (one word, try it) is still filtered.Here you go: not that any people who live in Gabe's ass will read it.https://valvetruth.blogspot.com/2023/04/after-watching-platform-of-steam-and.htmlOh, and half-life is the only good game Valve has ever made. Alright, maybe Portal too. Everything else (including Portal lol) are just built of work that other people did.
>>749794736now watch it call you a snoy
>>749794038>shilling snoy consolesThis fag is a subhuman brazillian
>>749794084>Switch online costsYour tablet PC can be outclassed with even cheaper components.
>>749794782Hang yourself jeet
>>749792636Look...I'm just not getting a console...I know... I know...It's just... I'm not gonna buy it!AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Do console games still have paid online and silky smooth cinematic framerate? Millennials for some reason accepted this but I hope zoomers have higher standards
>>749792970You can thank sony for that, the blu ray monopoly paired with fags shovin a million fans and tempered glass to make pc's cases gay and lame didnt help.
>>749794627You are trans nigga lolol lol lol lol
>>749794837it do be funnyswitch 2 is literally a 2011 pc, i5 2500k and gtx 580and tendies think they're getting a good deal by buying it
>>749794981it is indeed known that the tendoid livestock is mainly composed of autogynephiliacs with a high melanin concentration, yes
>>749794782>Oh, and half-life is the only good game Valve has ever made. Alright, maybe Portal too. Everything else (including Portal lol) are just built of work that other people did.>see a potential in something a small group of passionate people started>hire them and help them expand on the idea>turn their small hobby project into multi-million franchise and give them financial security for centuriesIt must hurt jews like you they just didnt do what 99% of companies do and steal the idea, upsell it and fire people who actually started the whole shtick.
>>749794408EA, fucking Electronic Arts solved this in 1996 with wing commander 3 kilrathi saga, by telling players to copy the files into the folder, same goes to wc4 with the dos to win patch.
>>749795080hl2 was a shitty tech demol4d2 was a worse sequel to l4d and basically the same game againportal 2 was peak reddit and basically the same game againtf2 is a fucking terrible fpsdota 2 is... come on now
>>749792956Found the projecting brazillian gametuber who voted for lula.
>>749795153>tf2 is a fucking terrible fpscompared to what?
>>749792725Also missing the point. Console physical is important because it's the only cheaper store. Stuff is 17 bucks on disc while snoystore wants still 70. You are as retarded as the console niggers defending no discs.
>>749795242Wow another argument in favor of PC and Steamthank you
>>749795242consolecucks have so few games to play and are so lazy that games don't actually compete with each other there
>>749795153>TF2 is a terrible FPSkeep playing Quake 2 singleplayer unc. That's were you belong.
>>749795270It really is. Since I have a bunch of stores on pc and not just one. But accepting this for console cucks means you will accept a price hike anywhere. That's why console physical has to stay.
>>749792636the state of retail PC gaming was literally online activation DRM and boxes with serial codes in them for online activation by 2005.
>>749794707>people who understand how money works avoid ostentatious spending, thus retaining their wealthWhat a shock.
>>749794782>ctrl + f "monopoly">three resultsAnd just like that I discarded the whole thing, even if it has legitimate points in there, it's tainted by retarded people not knowing what words mean
>>749792636Gaming retailers "killed" physical media for PC by not carrying them anymore to make room for more console games at the height of their popularity. That's why Steam took off, it was the only storefront left. Stop being a fucking retard or kill yourself.
good thread, hope its still around tomorrownight monica's
>>749794851Holy fucking shit it is Babel Media doing this
>>749792725Also, PC used market died long before the death of physical media on PC, while on console it's still today one of the only ways to get a cheaper product.
>>749795221fucking anything
>>749795153CS is an unstoppable juggernaut Deadlock will dominate the market:)
>>749795635coward answername what's supposedly so great if tf2 is terrible despite avoiding by far the worst thing about modern shooters, insane ttk and assault rifles
>>749792725F P B PPBP
>>749792636Wrong zoomie. When Valve forced steam instead of WON people gave a fuck. It was horrible. When Valve forced steam for Half-Life 2 people gave a fuck. I personally remember being pissed with HL2 setup, since I didn't have Internet in my room, so I had to carry my PC down to the living room even though I had the DVD and you couldn't easily play it without a connection.But then internet got faster, steam got better. Sales were bigger and overall steam just offered many good things that I liked.I don't like what steam stand for in spirit, but Gabe was right about the service thing. It's just good, so people don't mind not having physical media for PC games anymore.Also: if Steam ever goes down. I could easily pirate what I need, since my system is not locked down. And with Gaben pushing gaming on Linux Steam actually works in my favor.
I do wonder if the the guy making these threads and the PCSX2 guy are from the same family of retards
>>749792725raped and gaped OP but he will be back in a few hours like clockwork
>>749795909Looking back, Steam was probably for the best, can you imagine if literally any other company had cornered digital distribution instead?
>>749792636Last time I used Steam was also 20 years ago when I played L4D1, I don't even remember my login and pass. I put my money where my mouth is, niggers.>>749792725Nigger.
>>749792636And that's a good thing. Sharing games with friend has never been easier since steam family sharing.
>>749796067People that occasionally rightly shit on valve forget that the alternative would've been infinitely wirse
>>749795712RTCW. now shut the fuck up, retard.
>>749796213generic as balls codslop predecessor lmao
>>749792725OP RAPED AND GAPED FOREVER KEEEK
>>749793349>how much was your hard drive?I use an SSD since I'm not living in the middle ages. I also use multiple since I'm not a plebian. Anyway, all of them were maybe 3/400 total.>how much was your ramLike 50 bucks. RAM is, well was, cheap as dirt.>how much was your GPU?Around 600.>how much was your monitor?Maybe 1 or 2 hundred.Maybe a grand total. The rest of my PC is probably an extra 7-800. Looking at your online sub prices, it's almost a hundred per year for the lowest tier. And that price has been creeping up and will keep doing so. A bit over a decade to match my PC, and that's without counting the more expensive games or the fact that your hardware costs money too. How much did you pay for your TV? If it's even remotely new and not the lowest tier possible, probably almost as much as my whole PC.
>>749792956Post hand pic stupid nigger
>>749792636I don’t give a shit if all games I buy are 66-90% off.
>>749794318literally what
>>749796349still better than tf2, retard.
>>749795407I feel you are the poor it's talking about to have such an empty headed reply. I hope your parents don't resent your mooching.
Fun fact, People hated Steam for that at first then most people just stopped giving a fuck
>>749797228Do your feelings often create elaborate fantasies in your head about anonymous retards?
>>749792636it's really simplewe didn't think that physical would ever disappear. it was right there at our fingertips back then so we didn't think much of it.
>>749797194codslopper opinions are not to be taken seriouslythe reality is that you got filtered by tf2 because you can't just turn off your brain and play an assault rifle class that kills people in 3 bullets
>>749792636>same thread every day by same faggot How about you play your physical games instead of wasting time on this non-physical faggotry
>>749792884Disillusioned TFtroonor CStroon? My money is on the latter.
>>749797382I'm sure your parents had elaborate fantasies in their head of what you would have become too anon. Shame it didn't.
>>749797619Could have simply said yes
>>749797619Go fuck yourself asshole.
>>749792725Yeah to be quite honest PC was raped from the get-go with laughable anti "piracy" measures on physical games that just hurt the consumer more than anything. I still buy physical PC copies of games as collectibles whenever I find them (and have my old copies of stuff like half life and its expansions/ halo 1/RUNE/DOOM 3 etc etc laying around) but my machine hasn't even had a disc drive in a decade soon. Steam didn't "kill" shit, it just provides better service than anything else on PC ever did, which is also the complete opposite of the rape DRM nightmare that the goysole digital stores are on multiple levels
>>749797453>it was right there at our fingertips back then so we didn't think much of it.It still is. You can buy a 64GB USB for chump change. That's the real reason nobody cares
>>749792725>PC better because piracy and copy protectionconsolefags have been burning CDs/DVDs and cracking copy protection since the beginning. What are you babbling about?
>>749797482you just told me that you have never played RTCW. do you know how much of a retard it makes you? ha-ha. what a mong.
>>749798195Sure they have. Watching snoys celebrate the latest PS5 jailbreak like it's the second coming of christ really convinced me they've been doing this forever
>>749798195 (cont.)You could've said PC's better because it has better performance/graphics and easier first/third party modding support.
>>749798247anyone can play it? there's a reason no one doesit sucks shit, it's generic but it's old so you suck its dick
If it wasn't for steam it would have been somebody else, probably a lot worse. Imagine Denuvo, but it comes with every games.
>>749792725PC physical was also heavily crippled by not being stocked anywhere.Like, console games would be stocked in places like walmart and easy to get. PC games you had to go to a specialty game shop (often 1/10th of the shelf space was for PC games) or a PC store that'd have like one or two rows of shelves for it.PC physical was fucking cucked out of the market by console games. Lets not pretend that getting PC games was easy.But what killed physical PC game media was companies just putting steam codes in the box and not discs. At that point just buy a steam card.
>>749798386>RTCW>generic
>>749792884Look into their anti-cheat. It is the same philosophy. Valve is not ideal, but they are a lot less intrusive than everyone else.
>>749798301I think nobody bothered until now because there was no point, if you wanted a PS5 that could play anything you could just build yourself a PC after all.But now the point was to spite Sony, so the project gained immense traction.
>>749792636i didoriginally i boycotted the first wave of steam exclusivesbut the sales man i couldnt resist them
>>749798538>full auto guns that kill in a fraction of a second>not generic
>>749792636>Steam killed physical media for two decades and nobody gave a fuckThat shit was killed by madatory CD keys that need internet to authenticate you to play that CD game. It was really no different than downloading the game off a Steam since that automatically authenticated you and your game.Console disk on the other hand does not need any online authentication bullshit. Just have the game and play. No online needed.
>>749798682anon, look, you should not try to guess the gameplay of the games you have never played. never do that, alright. you obviously never played through RTCW. now, don't go full spastic and remain a silent, filthy casual, instead.
>>749792636>oH NoOOoo, what ever shall I do? What ever shall I go?
>>749793684>It must be wild for a consolefag to imagine such a thingFucking zoomer.The files to play the game weren't playable from the disc on PC, the disc is just an install file that required unpacking to use. It installs the game onto hard drive to play it.Console games pre-xbox didn't use install files, they just ran directly from the cart/disc. AKA they were pre-installed onto the medium and not a method of installing onto your consoles hard drive (as consoles before the xbox didn't even have a hard drive)Modern consoles are no different to the PC in that the discs just have install files that install on the (tiny) hard drive it has.
>>749792725fpbp consoleniggers are a cattle. Those cds and dvds were completely pointless i have shitload of them to the left and right of me and guess what i'm never using them as i can download old games in a few minutes from internet with patches
>>749794318use your brain retard and do research they had that patch since september in beta stage and only released it today
>>749792636Microsoft forced it earlier with that GFWL nonsense that requires subscription to play online, and all the scumbags publishers in existence that are cohorting with Microshart.
>>749798778Okay now ill go fire up my copy of RTCW.
>>749798883>The files to play the game weren't playable from the disc on PC, the disc is just an install file that required unpacking to use. It installs the game onto hard drive to play it.You.......you do know that you could always choose WHERE the game was installed, right? And you can still copy and move the installed files around at your whim because they're on your hard drive and you can access them at all times. This is basic ass stuff, man. Even Win98 and XP could do this
>>749798195I think he's correctly implying that console DRM, unlike PC DRM, is somewhat hidden from the user unless the user is operating their device incorrectly - eg jailbreaking, trying to make homebrew software, etc. Buying physical on PC back when it was still available was completely asinine because the pirated version was way better and you needed a crack for a physical version anyway. At that point why are you wasting time and money getting the physical media when you can DL the equivalent product from the Internet for free? It's a pretty easy decision.
>>749799078while you're at it. Half-Life, the first one, is also superior to the tf2. so is the original UT. So are Quake III Arena and CS 1.6. In other words, that anon was correct. Anything is better than tf2.I obviously don't even perceive modern day purple HR slop as video games.
>>749793234You won't be able to install APKs from outside of Google Play soon on most Android devices
>>7497990823.11, NT, and DOS gangs rise up!
>>749798195Gay furfag retard, you can't even turn off your crummy nogames4 without losing the janky hack and that continues to be the case on nogames5. Piracy on consoles is an extra layer of humiliation for zero benefit.
Valve superiority causes corporate bootlickers to seethe once again (they're butthurt that "their" corporation sucks)
>>749799289I got Half Life 2 on Xbox, is that close enough?
>>749799082Explain where I said you couldn't you fucking retard?Also copying and moving those files around doesn't really do anything because the installation often modifies the registry.This is basic knowledge nigger.
>>749799082>He never had an xboxYou could make folders and move installed games around on the hard drive. You also could copy music CD's to the hard drive.Of course, a zoomer like you wouldn't know this.
>>749792636I can make my own Physical media on PC.And internet makes sure any game no matter how old will always be easy to find download and play.Even console games. And any an all games i own be it on Disc or Steam will work on my Future PCs.Meanwhile once your old console dies or gets its servers shut down or your disc gets scratched your game is lost forever.
>>749799915>>749799959>seething consoletardRefer to this:>That's because on PC you have control of the files on your computerYou're conceding to this argument while making some excuses about the "registry" or something because you read about it somewhere and that scared you. In practice, these registries did absolutely nothing. Certainly didnt stop your transferred files from working but then again, you wouldnt know about that.On another note, the xbox line is an adorable cope. Go ahead, tell the class why you'd ever buy the RROD machine to begin with
>>749792636sony was one of the main companies behind to kill pc physical with securom and now they're shitting up pc gaming in general with Denuvofunny how for decades it's been one company continually trying to make sure you don't own anything, and it's starting to affect sonygroids directly
>>749792636god you are such a retarded faggot.look, steam didn't kill anything, they won out of convenience. the publishers/developers themselves killed physical because they could make a better profit without having to ship cd's.further, steam is filling a niche THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN FILLED NO MATTER WHAT. I hope you understand, but because you are a retarded, hopeless retarded fuckign cunt zoomer. i'll repeat.someone.would.have.figured.out.online.distribution.chances are they would have been FAR more unfriendly to you the consumer than valve. (microsoft)do you get it? does it make sense? can you read?
>>749797619Based. I fucking hate animals who buy Ishit or buy endless clothes.
>>749792636The internet killed physical media nothing more. The people and companies around at the time do not matter. On another planet in another galaxy that invented the internet it too killed all physical media.Internet = death of physical media it is inevitable.
