Support Physical Games

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Cerebralbore101 said:

sc94597 said:

The main advantage PC has is that most games are either DRM-free or easily cracked. The exception are Denuvo titles, but usually after half a year they are cracked too. So if the goal is to have longevity of purchase and physical backups, PC is the easiest platform to do it. Of course it doesn't solve resale or collector objections to moving to digital, or the issue people in developing countries/regions might have with internet speeds, but it solves the longevity problem much better than physical with DRM ever did as you can backup updated versions and have multiple backups, making it redundant to the media breaking or failing. From an archivist perspective, PC is the best platform.

A physical disc lasts over 100 years when properly stored. 

Some Blu-rays are sadly suffering from disc rot already, it doesn't look like they last as long as CDs or DVDs, but the ones failing now are most likely either due to temperature/humidity conditions and bad printing process, either way, I don't think Blu-rays will last as long as 100 years. They are listed to last about half of a CD/DVD, so around 50 years if stored properly.

There is also some strange reports about PS3 Blu-rays that look pristine being refused to be read by the PS3 since some time now, I also read they could still back it up on some programs without a problem so not likely disc rot, so I dunno what is happening to some PS3 Blu-rays discs, maybe some games batches got inferior printing quality and are suffering faster than they should when put against an also aging PS3 laser.

There is a conspiracy theory that some PS3 updates where making the PS3 unnable to read certain game discs, because the reports of some games having problems are bigger than others, but as other people copies can still be read by their PS3s that is just indeed conspiracy theory, as it would affect basically everyone with those games, which is not the case.

Anyway, I should really think about backing up all my games, specially the PS3 ones.