KManX89 said:
If not actually owning the things you buy and having to wait for long ass downloads is "progress" now, having no or shit internet be damned. The whole point of buying physical is NOT having to wait for downloads. Fuck Activi$ion and fuck digital. |
You can struggle or you can adapt, but stopping the progress won't happen. A 100% digital distribution is inevitable. Current generations don't even know anything else. It started with music, then movies and now games. The next step is not even having data stored on your devices anymore because it's all streamed. Music and movies have completed that step already.
That "not owning" thing is a console only problem, though. Media on PC and mobile are on your device and accessible and manipulable as you wish. Completely locking you out from the content you own is what consoles do because they're closed systems. I do very much own all of my Steam, Uplay, Origin and Blizzard games and if their services will ever go down at some point there will be ways to access your data without their involvement.
Digital data isn't the problem, after all, the data on your discs and harddrive is digital. The issue is DRM and consoles are to the brim full with it.
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