| prayformojo said:
For some people like me, playing the game is only 1/4th of the enjoyment. There is the tactical experience of owning it and the collectable aspect of it as well. Both of those will be lost when/if it's all digital. I recently bought a used SNES again off Ebay and some games to go with it. Some of them I own on the virtual console. Do you know how much more enjoyment I'm getting out of actually playing these games on a real console, with a real SNES controller via an old CRT TV? It's night and day. People like me, they are small in number, but they're out there. If it ALL goes digital or streaming, most of us will just find something else to do with our time. Either that or build retro collections like I'm doing. Those old games will never get boring imo. |
I don't get that at all. Whether is digital or not is completely arbitrary. It has no baring at all on your game experience. I get the feeling of ownership. I don't get how that feeling accounts for 75% of anyone's enjoyment of consumable media. Like, would you stop listening to music if record lable stopped making CD's? Would you stop watching movies if Bluerays and DVD stopped existing? Would you stop reading if nothing was ever written down on paper again? Probably not. You'd probably suck it up and get on with it because a cool as collecting is, no one is just going to forever sit in a room by themselves, cross-armed, just staring at and replaying collections of old indefinitely while the rest of the world moves on and continues to consume new and innovative media.
Unless you genuinely don't like video games, I find it very hard to believe that you would be done with games all together over something so frivolous. And since you've made an account on a website like this and since you collect video games, I highly doubt you don't like video games.
