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[–] Snapz@beehaw.org 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Look around and realize how you got here to Lemmy/kbin/beehaw/etc - you were betrayed by a few VC-captured executives that made profit-blinded, consumer-hostile decisions about an important product you used frequently. They ruined it.

Anyone here defending digital media or saying it's not that bad or they should have done a digital lending system, you're not remembering the recent past.

The only acceptable ground to give here is NONE. Physical media needs to start mandatory, or your purchases are never owned and you're always at risk and at the whims of someone like Spez.

[–] brejela@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

This.
Also, AAA companies shouldn't be able to ask for pre-orders and them deliver botched games that require terabytes of network traffic just to be playable. Physical media should be playable (decent framerate and seamless-enough gameplay) from the beggining.

[–] klangcola@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago

Alternatively downloadable self-contained installers like what you get from https://www.gog.com/