I like to have something to put on a shelf, but it feels a little silly now.
I like to have something to put on a shelf, but it feels a little silly now.
Don’t forget downloading the installer and registering an account on some dubious site you’ve never heard of.
38Whenever I pirated something in the 90's I went to this site, covers archive, where I could print out the CD cover inserts. So in effect I pirated a physical copy, minus the box it came in.
21I did this too but with DVDs. Also I bought a ton of DVD boxes on the internet. Still have some of the DVD:s in my shelf
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having your older brother download the fitgirl pack of Dishonored 2 and put it on a flash drive to give to you
9I miss box art and gaming guides.
8I'm not anti physical media; I buy Blu Ray discs because they offer a much higher bitrate than streaming. However with three people using my PS5, the convenience of not needing to swap discs outweighs the advantage of having a physical copy that I am highly unlikely to sell or lend.
7Maybe consoles should have one of those CD switcher things inside so you can have a few discs in ready to go at all times.
2Not optical media, but I've seen an accessory for the Switch that's like that, holds four cards and switches which is active with a press
2Or the consoles could have a writable drive and the game disc could have a rewritable section for recording if the license is currently checked out. You could have the systems be able to install and play from the disc, while also recording that the license is checked out to that system. Then the disc wouldn't have a playable license until you unmount the license from the system and it records back to the disc partition that the license is available again. That way you wouldn't have to mess around with the disc's after initial install, but you can transfer the license back to the disc for resale when you're done with it.
It isn't hard to imagine a system that has the best of both disc and server attributes, but clearly the console companies have motivations to keep physical media constrained and inconvenient.
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It's also a 100Gb download.
6I was so confused when I got a game that only had a slip of paper inside.
5This is why my disc tray gets no action
4We all have dry spells every now and again
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Fallout New Vegas did this to me over 10 years ago. Brought the box home from GameStop only to find the waste of cardboard wanted me to download the game from steam instead.
4Lukily, disc is more often than not cheaper
3I'm still baffled by the Spyro trilogy on Switch
3Still not as bad as the international release of Final Fantasy X and Resident Evil Revelations.
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All the physical games I install don't download the whole game, just the inevitable patches.
2Yea, but it does suck that we don’t own the thing anymore. I know it’s more convenient, but it beats if you can’t connect to the server. And as for publishers that push out just a launcher for the disc/cartridge that’s straight up just e waste
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