| Vinther1991 said: I agree that physical has lost some of the benefits it used to have, indeed some games do require downloads or internet, and you anyway need to install all the content on the console. When you could just play off the disk, you saved a lot of hard drive space. Still today, with physical games you get the ownership. Digital DRM is still a nightmare, and what happens if Steam ceases to exist or Sony shots down the PS4 servers? |
I also still support physical media but see even the main advantage of ownership go away. The other day Microsoft had an issue here in Europe and Xbox services were offline. I wasn't even able to play an installed game with the disc in. My Xbox Series was a useless brick for 24 hours. Yes, if it had been set to "my home xbox" prior it would have worked, but it just shows you that in this day and age, even with physical media you are at the mercy of the console maker. And what reselling value will a disc have if the console it was supposed to play on does not work anymore because the company which made it dropped out of the console business and doesn't uphold the servers anymore which are required for check-in. In that scenario your physical games are just as useless as the digital ones.
