I have an exceptionally large game collection that includes even current generation console games - so PS5, Xbox Series and Switch 2.
There are still games on those platforms that are fully playable from the physical media with no download required to ensure it's playable to completion.
Switch 2 is unfortunately the biggest offender with key cards, but those are easily identifiable. Other consoles I just avoid specific publishers.
No Ubisoft, no Activision-Blizzard, no Bethesda, no Microsoft Game Studios and so on. It's very possible to find completely on disk playable games, a good example of this is Pragmata and the latest Resident Evil for PS5.
I'm pro physical media, but real physical media, not not key cards, not code in a box, not requiring an always on connection, not full base game but DLC is a code.
I think all games should be able to work in perpetuity without any external validation or activation across it's entire life.
Okay and Cat Stevens released a song called Afghanistan under the name Yussef Islam effectively in tacit support of what would be understood later as the Taliban.
See, old out of touch musicians are wrong all the time
The Dark Queen of Mortholme is brilliant but takes usually no more than half an hour to play through.
I bought it understanding it's length, but the art of the experience was what I wanted. It's just not objectively true that a game needs to be longer to be worth your money.
I... don't actually understand how to do that. I broke my back two decades ago, and no one ever told me after I healed I could move again the way I used to, so there are ways people understand how to move that I've just forgotten
This is so bad for optics if actually true. I don't care one way or another but this will absolutely affect the narrative.
I have an exceptionally large game collection that includes even current generation console games - so PS5, Xbox Series and Switch 2.
There are still games on those platforms that are fully playable from the physical media with no download required to ensure it's playable to completion.
Switch 2 is unfortunately the biggest offender with key cards, but those are easily identifiable. Other consoles I just avoid specific publishers.
No Ubisoft, no Activision-Blizzard, no Bethesda, no Microsoft Game Studios and so on. It's very possible to find completely on disk playable games, a good example of this is Pragmata and the latest Resident Evil for PS5.
I'm pro physical media, but real physical media, not not key cards, not code in a box, not requiring an always on connection, not full base game but DLC is a code.
I think all games should be able to work in perpetuity without any external validation or activation across it's entire life.
Hope that clears things up.
I'm struggling to understand what this would achieve as well. They're objectively more expensive to manufacture.
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Okay and Cat Stevens released a song called Afghanistan under the name Yussef Islam effectively in tacit support of what would be understood later as the Taliban.
See, old out of touch musicians are wrong all the time
Where did my Van Goff huh?
Or just silently mining crypto
Yet I see them everywhere
This is outrageous, but what is Tesseract??
Makes sense, Sabrina SINGER is a carpenter
This interests me a lot. I want a physical copy though.
FIY US minimum wage is $7.25 for non government contract employees and $2.13 for tipped workers.
Some States have higher minimums, but many do not.
I just play mostly classic games and have a great time
What a shit take
Strange. Does this affect the flavor?
I can't make sense of your reply. I've never seen the word lawfare. I am unable to determine what point you were making here.
I was just posting about this, and I agree, it's absolutely amazing! Sometimes I just want a short experience.
The Dark Queen of Mortholme is brilliant but takes usually no more than half an hour to play through.
I bought it understanding it's length, but the art of the experience was what I wanted. It's just not objectively true that a game needs to be longer to be worth your money.
I... don't actually understand how to do that. I broke my back two decades ago, and no one ever told me after I healed I could move again the way I used to, so there are ways people understand how to move that I've just forgotten