Why is Yea Forums so opposed to physical games? Do they not like owning their games...

Standalone installers like the ones from gog or humble store are factually superior to physical in every way besides maybe some weird collector's fetishization. Can copy them wherever you wish, they work offline, don't clutter your shelves and even if you don't save it you can always redownload from the site.

Ye because CD/DVDs last forever haha
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_rot

gamerant.com/anthem-streamer-alpha-nda-break-origin-library-loss/

No they don't most games aren't online only, and if they are they're probably garbage games anyway.

>of course, there’s always the possibility that Anthem was the sole game in smokethrone’s library at the time of streaming,
This one sentence implies to me that this was actually the case because if it wasn't then this would not even be question. The steamer (and the entire internet) would already be raging about losing his entire library.

Dude, even single player games connect to a server these days.

Yeah optionally, I can play RE2 and AC7 for example without any kind of internet connection. I'm not sure what games you're playing

This is idea of ownership for its own sake is pure autism. Video games is spending not investment. Having access to the game now has value today, but probably not in even a few years. That's why I choose digital for convenience at the "cost" (not really a cost) of the potentiality of losing access at a point when I no longer care about it.

You do however sign a contract in the EULA that you have a license to the games that is revokable. Technically physical do too, but I'd like to see EA try to come into my house and take my games without getting trespassing charges.

only if you store your games like a dumbass laying out exposed to light and humidity.

This thread makes me lose all hope. Nu Yea Forums is nothing but zoomers who would trade convenience for their rights. Digital is only decent if you decide to pirate the game.

>Technically physical do too, but I'd like to see EA try to come into my house and take my games without getting trespassing charges.
Considering that you're talking about an EULA, they wouldn't. They'd send the authorities who don't give two shits about your deep south tier trespassing bs. Or in fact they'd first just send a formal letter asking you to hand in your copies under threat of legal process, and then you'd go to court, and then you'd be asked to turn them in when you inevitably lose it.

It makes no difference. These are capitalists, they want you to buy shit from them, they want you to like them. That shit in in the EULA is there only to defend them if they fuck up something. It's hidden under 6 miles of text. It's like the shit you sign before a surgery.

No one gains anything from taking your games.

>he doesn't read the license agreement on his physical game copies
You don't own shit, kid.

Yet another example of why fucking consoles need to die so kids can finally get off this goddamn pain in the ass physical media addiction.

I own all my gog games no less than you own your blurays. Difference is I don't clutter my place with colorful plastic like a manchild.

The fuck do consoles have to do with this? I own like 2 physical games on console and the rest is all digital. You talk like you've never ever seen a console.

>GAME DOESNT REQUIRED A DONWLOAD
>PROCCED TO DOWNLOAD A PATCH

KEK

Read this. Digital they can just wipe out your library remotely, physical they have come and take all my games, and since it isn't criminal they wouldn't send cops, instead repomen who have no right to trespass on my property and if they do I have a right to lethal force.

Because it automatically does it you dumbfuck, it's not required to play the game though.

I literally have some of the first commercially available CDs and there quality is as good as ever

If you treat your discs like a child yes

>Includes mobile, Facebook games and used games

Jesus, what's even the point of the graph then? The fact that physical sales are still so high when compared to all of those different delivery methods -- including F2P and Facrbook farming sims and shit -- is actually kind of surprising to me.

Physical fell out of fashion where I live, or at least for PC games. There are some pirated copies, sure, but I'd rather pirate those myself.

I wish people bought more physical.

cdm.link/2017/02/a-generation-of-cds-is-already-rotting-and-dying/

It means too at least some people are still aware of their rights.

It's literally not. You may not notice a difference but the physical disc degrades over time, there's no way to prevent it, just slow it. Considering these discs are no more than ~30 years old, they'll be severely degraded by the time our generation is gone.

Government preserved archives are beginning to lose quality. Your hobbyist collection is too. It's just a matter of time.

Data decays too with digital so what's the difference then?

Digital can be duplicated onto new physical media with no loss (I.e. a new hard drive) where physical, you're stick with the copy you have. If that copy is damaged or destroyed, your only option is to purchase a new copy.

The license you get with digital games has significant flexibility, especially when you consider console generations and PC gaming, where I have little worry that I'll be able to play DMC5 when the PS5 arrives because my PC copy will still be viable and still be able to play the latest games.

I remember best buy having a whole section dedicated to PC games when I was a kid. Now they have maybe 6 and half of them are mmos.

I don't know why physical PC games are even still sold