It's not about physical vs digital games, it's about ownership
2026-07-05 15:06 UTC
Replies (4)
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@hirihit640@sh.itjust.works 2026-07-06 04:34
Then buy from GOG. The gaming industry is not a monopoly. Vote with your wallet.
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@Mikelius@lemmy.ml 2026-07-06 05:08
It’s kind of both for me honestly. Call me old fashion… Or just old… but I really enjoy seeing a shelf full of game cases and looking through them to physically pick out what I wanna play. And it’s honestly just nice-looking to me, just like a bookshelf that’s actually full of books looks good.
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@turdas@suppo.fi 2026-07-05 16:09
The ability to trade is lost on pretty much every platform including PC. In some ways it’s been lost on PC for the longest time, because PC has had CD key nonsense since at least the 90s while consoles operated on physical media for much longer. The lack of this ability is, of course, compensated for by piracy.
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@Mediaburn@lemmy.zip 2026-07-06 06:45
It baffles me how ingrained this allready is. The people I play games with just accept that it’s happening. Saying “It’s all digital anyway.” and “I never owned anything.” And in the same breath they still remember “the good old days.” It’s like they have allready given up. I’m hellbend on owning my own software and owning my own data. And if I tell people I have my own cloud server to store my photo’s instead of some corporate cloud they express the wish to have that option as well. Yet, they all just go on with their dossile behavior of not owning anything…