I don’t care if games come as a physical medium or a digital download. I care about stuff being DRM free!
GOG has been so much better than optical media for well over a decade at this point. You can’t easily backup your physical games. I can backup my game installers, not just GOG either but they are the most popular IIRC. But I got Factorio DRM free directly from Wube.
you can sell a physical disc, can’t sell the game installer from GOG (at least not legally)
So I’ll just give friends a copy instead. Oh that is so much worse than having to share a DVD around…
Even if it’s DRM free, it completely kills the resale market. Good luck finding something for any game going forward at a discount or being able to make back any of your money off of it when you’re done playing.
And yes, we know the natural conclusion from both sides as a result of this: more people will pirate, and prices will stay high, and only one of those two groups will have the leverage of the government and police.
And that exact reason is why physical media is out for the next generation. They want to control your ability to share, lend, and re-sell
Does not matter if it’s DRM free (except for the re-selling part)
It probably depends on some server which is getting shut down in 5 years anyway.
I consider the requirement to connect to some special server also as DRM.
As you should, but is there a way to check that prior to purchase?
Have you ever heard the expression “the customer is always right?”
I have… but the new saying should be corporations are serial rapists and always wrong.
I’m just quoting the movie lol
Someone said elsewhere that it’s going to be 200gb, would that even fit on a disc?
Not a single disc, but there’s been many games released on multiple discs for generations. As recently as FF7 Rebirth.
I remember playing games on multiple floppies way back when! Then there was a good stretch when a single CD could hold everything, and now we’re back to multiple discs. It’s all cyclical.
Please insert Disk 2 into A:\
Installer crashes on disk 5 and you have to start all over again
riven came on 5 CDs. good times.
I totally forgot about that! Yeah, I guess there were multiple CD game, damn. And we had lost, what was it, disk 3? So my family never beat Riven specifically. What a memory from the archive that is thanks for bringing it up.
Phantasmagoria was what, 7 CDs?
Lots of games have multiple discs.
Bet if they had to put it on discs they’d do a better job optimizing and the game wouldn’t be 200gb.
It will still be record sales for GTA6, I bet on it.
People say they care and show outrage… And then pay up anyway
Code? I would fucking love it if games just let you download the code. (there are even some paid games which do btw)
You’ll get the obfuscated compiled binary, because fuck you, that’s why.
