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[–] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (8 children)

He's half right. An all-digital future is an inevitability, one way or another. In a world where games have a long tail of updates and DLC, what's printed on the disc is often quickly obsolete anyway, it's not necessarily the version you want to preserve and won't be that useful by itself in 50 years time when all servers are gone.

But consumers are angry because you haven't given us an alternative that lets us trust that we own our games. The problem is that we don't trust you or the industry, not when the industry is actively fighting against ownership with DRM and games being shut down left and right. If you want to earn our trust, show us what your solution to these problems is. Don't just tell us we're wrong to want to own our games, solve the problem.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    An all-digital future is not by any means inevitable...

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    We're already a lot closer to it than you think. Do you know how many modern games don't even fit on the disc in the first place? Or ship incomplete because in order to meet a target release date they have to start pressing discs before 1.0 is actually finished? And what about all the updates and DLC?

    In 50 years time, when servers are all gone and you can't redownload the data that wasn't on the disc, do you still own your games?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    SD cards instead of CDs. Problem solved.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Have you seen the prices on SD cards lately?

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