Ubisoft recently removed The Crew from the digital libraries of those who had purchased the game. When questioned, the publisher said that it is up to players to begin to understand that their digitally purchased games are not theirs, just usage licenses that can be removed at any time. Therefore, if buying is not owning, then pirating is not stealing.
Pirating is stealing. It's very easy to look at companies like Ubisoft and EA and just think soulless corporation with greedy C-Suite execs. But there are thousands of people who make a living at these companies. Feel free to pirate all that you want to, but don't fucking justify it by saying that it isn't stealing.
You are absolutely right. I have been telling people for years that this generation of youth is being conditioned to not want to own ANYTHING. Big corporations love this, for the reasons you discussed. I think we are on the verge of the second great gaming crash. Consoles and games are too expensive, the quality SUCKS, having to re-purchase your collection every few years, and the trend to no physical media is pushing gamers to leave the hobby and these greedy companies will feel the consequences like they did in the 80's. WE as consumers have power. We need to speak with our wallets.
They're so afraid of us going out and buying a used copy of a game that they'd destroy the very concept of ownership. I hope we do have a crash, to be honest. The only thing we'll be missing out on is bad games. At least with all digital, they don't have to dig a hole for their games in New Mexico.
@@Tenacityfromtheglassthey'll use "climate change" and "sustainability" as reasons for getting rid of physical. Oh, it's better for the environment. And the kids indoctrinated in leftist brainwashing camps, ie schools, will accept it.
that will never happen unless GTA 6 is a MASSIVE colossal failure. but AFAIK even the investors at take two know how important this release is. and will pull every break for it -_- or Uncle sam decides to step in finally.
@@cool-soap For me, whether or not GTA 6 is a success or failure is irrelevant. I have already decided that this is the last generation of gaming consoles I will be buying. And I am not the only one.
@@wingedhussar1453these are the same people who got rid of their movie collections and went digital. Then complained when their digital collections got deleted because of a licensing dispute. Don't be surprised when it happens to your video game collection.
When physical games stop being released new, I will switch to exclusively playing retro games. Owning the physical game is an extremely important part of the hobby for me.
Yeah, games just floating around in the ether never sat right with me. I get it when it's from indie publishers who can't afford physical distribution, but with big publishers, it feels like I'm returning a rental every time I uninstall a game to make space.
"We aren't the target audience for these companies anymore" hit it in the head and went through the entire block of wood. That's precisely it. Today, I was playing GOW: Ragnarok for the first time and realized how formulaic some of these lauded games have become, heck, most Sony games follow a formula now, much like Ubisoft games, even Square started doing it with FF7R, and these games are praised! Yeah, I don't feel like the target audience for modern AAA gaming.
I hadn't bought a so-called triple a game in about 10 years when my friends recently convinced me to play final fantasy remake, part 2 with them. I had played the original as a teen in the 90s, so I was pretty hyped. I was SHOCKED to see that they had added unnecessary padding, a mandatory "Simon says" minigame and the entire game boils down to running from map marker to map marker. There's nothing final fantasy about this. It's like assassins creed was back in the early 2010s. And it's the reason I stopped playing games altogether. Shocking, really.
These companies are asking 2 dangerous questions to consumers. Would you rather own your games that cost upwards of $70? Or would you rather pay a monthly fee for access to hundreds of games and own nothing? Both are bad because you end up spending more money anyway. Games cost more to buy and subscriptions will always go up in price eventually.
I choose option 3: stop buying new consoles. I'm fine sticking with retro consoles and games, where I don't have to deal with this nonsense. I'm through being these greedy companies' bitch.
Exactly and people don’t look at how negative this is cuz they know they get keep getting paid they’re allowed to spend It’s not about that it’s about being smart with your money and they’re letting these companies have control of your money when you join their subscriptions And 70 dollars for a game is diabolical I usually wait till it goes down in price I have a big library of games and a lot of them take hours to complete so I have no problem waiting a year or two for games to go down in prices.
Unless I have absolutely no option to get my physical copy. Then I will do digital. But until then….. Physical forever until I am old. It just feels so good to own a physical copy of a game. Just the feeling of having it makes me smile.
I get your point. In my case I mix physical with digital. But digital is mostly DRM Free on PC. Easy to back up, run on any PC hardware I have (laptop, steam deck, desktop). Imo DRM Free digital is a good way for games preservation. And this just made my backlog grow. So if there will be a point I will just fully drop new game releases and console hardware I will still have a ton of games to try or play.
That’s the biggest issue: many physical games are just a physical DRM to access the actual game data on the company’s server, because well, games don’t fit on discs anymore… Idk the what is the answer (well, emulation is the best answer to preservation imo) Great vid as always dude :)
Steam was the start of all of this, but it was probably inevitable in the pursuit of immediate money. People went on about how great Half-Life was and how great Steam is because you don't need to switch discs. All I saw was an unnecessary app launcher that could kill your library at any moment and people too lazy to get up to change out CDs. Console became my bag baby, but with the rise of Ubisoft's minimal viable product strategy and XBLA games not getting physical releases and a massive drop in LAN support in games, things were starting to move to the must be online to function mentality. Xbox One announcement and release with giant console updates, giant game patches, mandatory installs, must be online to create or change settings on your profile was signaling the end for me. People cared more about achievements than loosing control of their hardware. Now the standard is literally incomplete games on switch and disc is normal. Broken games from major publishers never getting fixed. Defective analog sticks. Skyrocketing online multiplayer access. Endless lineup of inferior ports/remakes. I'm out, I'll stick to N64 - Xbox 360 era consoles to play with friends in person when 4 player and LAN was a thing.
Problem with subscription is that games are long unlike movies. Also not everyone can utilise the month subscription fully because of other commitments in day other than gaming. And the FOMO you get as the time passes.
& you forgot the 3rd solution, pay no more for sh8ty products, F_OFF THE HYPE - _NO SERVICE SUBSCRIPTION_ - _NO MORE EARLY ACCESS & NO MORE BUY DAY 1_ - _WAIT A WEEK FOR THE RETURN OF REAL GAMERS_
I refuse to pay to play online with friends (consoles). I refuse to pre-order games in most cases (exception, cat quest 3 for switch.). I have been burned too many times by issues and just generally bad gameplay. Day 1 edition or limited edition. Nah. I will forgo dlc even unless there is a substantial increase in value to the game to warrant the price. (Sims 4 is so bad for this). So, I agree.
Me too, think about it, 2nd hand game stores are gna eventually gna die out. Prices are already going up and it's getting harder to find the rare games
The thing is, once we accept that reality physical media is dead and gone, they will slowly increase the price of the subscription. They already are. Prepare for the monthly cost to go up even more too. Instead of $14.99/month it will be $24.99, then $29.99 a month. We are paying for these companies to not know how to budget their money to make these games because games did not cost this much to make 20 years ago.
Been saying the same to ppl for years. The 100 xbox 360 games weren't 70 dollars when they were released so it doesnt justify the subscription price raises.
@@gladiatorscoops4907 You can always go buy physical copies of those discs and put them in the Series X. Hell, there's even more back compat games that only work with the disc.
Yes and No, physical media will never die it'll just become Niche like Vinyl is and DVD/Blu-ray are becoming. You are right about price increases though, the movie industry crash is the number one reason why all the streaming services are raising prices. They're trying to make back the money they lost and failing because there's not enough people buying their services. The same thing will happen to the video game industry, we just have to wait as their crash is just beginning.
If that Skynet situation happens, I'm abandoning Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft's consoles, and even Steam if they try it. I'll then go full-throttle into retro gaming.
Despite having dozens of games on Steam and other platforms, I have resorted to piracy to obtain the same games that I have purchased and I am saving the ISOs on Backup HDs, to prevent the massive LOSS of games that will soon be removed from the corresponding platforms!! Unfortunately PIRACY is more important than HONESTY!
Steam doesn't remove games from your library unless a refund is issued. Concord is the only game I know of that was removed from users' libraries on Steam and refunds were issued.
While yes i do have game pass and other subsription services, I do buy a lot of physical stuff like 360 game, original xbox games, music cds and vinlys, movies, and I just got the original xbox 5 months ago, I do this because I was born in 2008 and didn't really play games until covid and i ended up falling love with old games. I hope Physical media makes its return and never goes away
Subscribe here, there, and everywhere... then consolidated into a social credit system and digital ID and currency where you will be told what you can enjoy based on your social credit ratings, with everything curated to what the powers that shouldn't be deem worthy. You will own nothing and be "happy."
I wonder if they'll ever use an algorithm to determine what we individually pay based on our personal information; when the same product is priced differently for me than for you.
@@Tenacityfromtheglass They already do, have been doing it in retail for almost a decade now. Not by adjusting shelf prices, but by sending you special deals and coupons for products based on your shopping history. Companies don't care about social credit bullshit or social justice. They care about sales. And when you're getting a free pound of sugar that usually costs $2, you're more likely to buy extras. When you're getting a year old game for 66% off, you're more likely to buy the DLC alongside it.
@@Tenacityfromtheglassairlines do this. If you check a ticket and not buy it, if you go back the price goes up as you really want it. If you go there in a different browser or incognito, the price stays the original. Not every company does this, but some do.
I grew up around the super & regular nintendo era, I miss the smell of a new video game cartridge & the booklet, digital is convenient but I still like buying a video game disc once in a while, now that you mention the subscription future I personally think your right on how it'll turn out, I finally bought my first gaming pc this summer & I was surprised seeing no disc tray when it was built for me, seems like the industry is pushing cds & cartridges away with intent
I keep an eye on GOG and buy the titles I already have on Steam when on special. A lot isn't there, but there is still a fairly decent amount. I'm even doing that on my SteamOS devices.
80% of my games are physical because I'm still using XBox as my main game platform. It's getting harder and harder to get hard copies, shit I even buy them from another country, but I will keep doing it because shit will only get worse; once stream services settle as the main way to play games, its subscription fee will go up like a mfer
I recently lost several games from my digital library and no one at customer service could tell me why? My games were there one day then just gone the next, their only advice was buy the games again so yeah but physical media.
Yep. Same here. It's partially why I am holding back more on buying games on pc altogether. I have a large backlog as it is on pc and console. I really only trust nintendo physical games now, and I might be wrong with that but at least I know from experience I can play those without a download. I will invest in that. I am abandoning xbox and ps
I'm subscribed to nothing. Amazon Prime, Netflix, Spotify, GamePass... I buy my music on CDs or even Tape, Switch Games only physical and PC Games on GoG while downloading every file and backuping it. I still have a backlog of death, reaching back to PS3. If there is a all subscription future, i will just stop playing new games completely.
Agreed. I am going physical only with switch as much as possible, I have given up on xbox and ps. Wasted so much time and money over there, I will play what I got but that's it. PC... I need to use gog more is the truth. I have been steam for so long.
@@Thesakuraharona well, yeah, i have some games on steam, but they are from a time before i realised i own nothing there. But i didn't buy anything there in multiple years.
The moment companies introduced subscriptions for everything is when personal ownership ended. Even if you own the physical disc to a game or movie who's to say these guys won't introduce some universal blocker for physical media just so you can subscribe.
I just know a lot of people are "subscribed" to the idea of all digital and subscription services, and the whole time making this video, I thought, man, I might piss some people off with this one. I'm glad we're not alone in this.
Lol, they'll come for the PC next. This happened to the Music industry a decade ago it's almost finished with Movies and television and it's just now starting with video games, but mark my words your PC master race will be next if we don't stop it now. However as Music lovers and Movie buffs couldn't stop it I doubt Gamers can do much to stop it. Pretty sure we're screwed but I'm going to buy physical media anyway till I can't find it anymore lol
I'm a fan of Pokemon since 1st Gen, but since the Sword and Shield was released in chopped content dlc crap mode, so... I quit, in Modern Gaming in General... That was the time when Gaming became a Soulless Money Milking Business, it was 2019, the End of an Era...
Being broke as a kid, I never really kept games for long. I'd buy second hand, and then trade in for more second hand games, topped up by the odd christmas present. Personally, I care much more about the complete death of the secondhand market than I do the point of permanent ownership, but you can't have a second hand market if it's not yours to sell. Preservation is also a big thing. We've already lost no end of digital only games from the seventh gen, and it's a trend that's only going to get worse. Piracy is keeping the best defunct digital only games alive, but the people that those games are still relevant to is a diminishing number, if nothing is done they will be lost eventually. From a cultural and historical point of view, what we're doing right now is pretty much the same as burning books and paintings.
I really hate Gamestop, mainly how little respect they have for physical games...But I would choose them all day over only being able to borrow video games
Your channel and others like it give voice to the consumer on the other side of that bottom line. None of what you said sounds conspiracy but rather closer to reality now than ever before.
After I lost a few digital games for seemingly no reason I stopped buying digital. I dusted off my PS3 and started buying Physical media again. Lastly this has already happened to the Music industry, it's happening right now to the Movie industry and its coming for the Video Games industry. It's completely motivated by greed and it always leads to one thing an epic loss of money for the Industry.
Fornite was literally digital and made over a billion dollars and was free, mark my words there is gonna be a company thats gonna have a physical free game and its gonna make bank
You are not too far off, there was an article in EU that leaked a few months ago that insurance agents are planning to connive with car manufacturers to place trackers and monitors on cars. With that said if you are in any way driving the way they think you should not be driving - your cars will be locked and you won't be able to use them. A Few months ago 2 Toyota Yaris GR burst into flames for no good reason and when the owners were claiming damage from Toyota they said that they were not liable as he drove beyond 140 miles per hour on certain occasions. Mind you the GR Yaris is a race car it was suppose to be driven hard. Everything these huge con-panies (con artists) want are subscription. That everyone else rents off. What do we do? WE HEAD THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION AND MAINTAIN THE FREE MARKET OF REPAIR, RE USE AND REPURPOSE.
Like it or not, the next step is streaming / cloud gaming. The top 11 countries for video game sales -- responsible for 80% of global sales -- are all working to introduce high speed everywhere, even rural areas. Piracy will be eliminated, publishers will have total control over mods, online cheating will be minimized (but not eliminated entirely), etc. etc. etc.
Digital is definitely convenient but am i the only one that went digital mainly to save their disc reading laser? Those damn things just dont last for me
If buying games is not owning games then pirating games is not stealing. I do think that cloud gaming is amazing especially for those who are window shopping to try out games they'll want to buy. But I hate when you buy digital games or even an unsupported game that they'll shut down and don't give any refund or replayability. Tbh I almost bought Marvel's Avengers but because the game got shut down online now i have to go find it somewhere physical. (I know that game is sucks but it gives a example of the harsh reality of the digital vs physical media)
I started enjoying shorter straightforward games that do not require 40+ hours to finish, such as Space marines 2, Silent Hill 2 remake, Resident evil 2 remake, Indie games like Crow Country, Dead cells, etc. I refuse to pay subscriptions, and I play games to relax and enjoy the story and atmosphere.
@@Tenacityfromtheglass I played it on switch, and it is so cool, with a nostalgic ambience, music, a real throwback to 90s survival horror games and polygon design such as Resident evil, Silent Hill, Alone in the dark, Parasyte eve etc.
The hysteria around Game Pass is so ridiculous. Game rentals have been around forever. Did Blockbuster "ruin gaming?" No. But instead of paying $5 - $10 to rent a single game for s week, you can pay $12 - $20 to rent hundreds of games for a month. The bigger issue is AAA games releasing digital-only, jacking up game prices, companies like Sony & Nintendo making their digital games more expensive than their physical ones, filling full priced games with microtransactions, "finish it later" game launches, and digital game "ownership" not being real ownership. Oh, and physical games not including the full games on disc/cart, while also requiring tons of updates. A rental subscription is the least of our problems & actually offers consumers a more affordable option to try new games.
I dont see a problem with rental, at least you know it's not yours. Different with digital games where you buy full price and they just take it away from you
If managing internet subscription is abit pricey for the corporate people to handle, wouldn't it be cheaper for them to just make their game less reliant on internet?
The only thing I hte about the recent development is the monopol console shops - a soon as the consoles become all digital I will stop buying them - on PC there is at least competition in the market. About the games: Theere are still tons of great games - even AAA ones.
So I think the reason that the PS5 pro will be a disc drive that’s sold separately won’t run physical PS4 games, I remember Sony removed the feature to play PS1 and PS2 games on PlayStation 3 systems later down the line. Remember how they re-released the last of us part 1 for the PS5, when you could play the last of us part 1 remastered on the system beforehand, if this disk drive can only play ps5 games you can buy it digitally, or buy the PS5 physical edition
Every PS3 can play PS1 games with the built in emulator. The first wave of PS3s had dedicated PS2 hardware to run PS2 games and it wasn't 100% accurate. Sony had to ditch the PS2 MIPS processors inside the PS3 to drop the price, that's why later PS3s cannot play PS2 games. PS3 was a PowerPC CPU, the same family CPU as Gamecube-Wii U and Xbox 360. PS3 games cannot function directly to a PS4 because the PS4 has an x86 type CPU. PS5 also has an x86 CPU, so it is very easy to make PS4 games function on a PS5.
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Purchasing a puppet string connection for your wallet is financial folly.
Hmm I think if the companies had their way - they would ban emulators, emulations, and make it harder to sell physical copies especially older games, while trying to surpress Indie companies or out right buying them. With that being said I don't see them being very successful in that fantasy - we're gonna resist tooth and nail, people are already pirating games, some are just buying older games, or booting up their PS2's for the first time in 2 decades - people are sick and tired of being treated like shit and in most cases people have either lack of control over the circumstances or don't have the willpower (getting a better job, moving to a better country, etc.), in this case most of us do, because all it takes is a little bit of self restraint, patience, and redirection as in not spending $80 on a new shiny game, and instead waiting for the price to go down or to download an emulator then redirecting that energy towards that "new" game whether that be Time Splitters 2 and Rogue Galaxy or Zelda: Minish Cap and Warioware. So yeah we'll buy indie games, play retro games, or straight up play ROM Hacks. Now I'm guilty of wasting my money - recently I bought Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2, and it's in my digital library... sitting there - but I will force myself to play - had I not bought it, I would've just continued playing on my Emulators. For me personally I think the sales they have on PS store is just too good, so we end up buying digitally - instead of driving to the mall and spending $80, we can spend $45 dollars and stay at home. In the end I think we'll be fine but those companies and their loyal consumers won't be.
I still play ps3. Always played offline games. Didn't really care for online games like cod or similar games. My modded psp helps me out whenever I wanna game on the go. Gaming like it's 2006. And if I want other retro stuff, I got another emulator handheld. Retro is the future. There are multiple lifetimes of games available in the retro scene. I'm good. Vanquish is awesome, btw. Haha.
I only spend $70 on PHYSICAL Nintendo games…… I wait for steams sales on everything else…… I have enough to play 😂 so I’m in no hurry to buy mid games at $70! Everything else is eBay😂 max im spending on any physical non Nintendo game is $20!
If you want your games digital that’s fine but the games should be complete physical format to because some people can’t afford a good internet service and they will be left out so that is why new or pre owned games is a better choice 😎😎
All of you in the comments especially 70s and 80s, 90s babies too better start discovering retro games that you missed out on. Snes is your favorite system? Mega Drive? I guarantee there's a whole bunch of games that you missed out on in the 90's. Go even deeper by playing some of the import titles especially the fan translated ones. This goes for any retro console out there, there's enough retro games you probably never heard about that could last you 3 lifetimes over. That's where I've been pretty much since the Dreamcast died in 2001.
@Tenacityfromtheglass You're already off to an amazing start. That's pretty much my favorite rpg of all time along with the Sega Saturn version of Grandia and it's sequel.
I don't Even Curtis let alone play video games other than rare replay or Master Chief collection. I feel like this RUclips channel isn't even for me anymore, I mean you have the right idea when it comes to Nintendo and what they do but I feel like I'm not even a gamer anymore
There are games that come on go on game pass. Meaning if you start a game of game pass and is taken off you'd have to pay for the game to keep playing it....
Maybe Black Myth Wukong is the first triple-indie game, haha. Jokes aside, yeah, I buy less and less full price games as time goes on and just stick to indies and emulating. Stuff is very rarely worth 60 to 70 bucks at this point, let alone 20 something dollars a month (I'll sub to the rare good MMO though). There's actually kind of a sense of peace in just sticking to a lot of retro stuff you grew up with; feels simple, and there's an endless sea of classics you never had the chance to check out as a kid.
This is a great video, but stop spreading the bs propaganda that most physical disk is just a key to access the game, absolutely not true, most disks carry the entire game inside (without future patches obviously) its only the extreme minority or mostly AAA online only games that doesnt have the game playable on physical. Also yes, even without patches alot of these games work fine, ignore the AAA slop and test it out yourself. Most games work and are fully playable on disk without an internet connection
So one thing Sony didn't announce with their attachable disc drive is that it has an always online drm. What happens when servers inevitably shut down? Will you have access to your physical games? Xbox is also notorious for the discs not being able to hold very much data. Also, games don't run entirely off of disc; they have to be installed to the consoles. I don't claim to have all the research and knowledge on this topic. Like most people, I'm just an average consumer. Whether it's digital or physical, I'd like to own and do whatever I want with those files, and I see a future where this no longer exists. I appreciate your insight, though, because you're able to offer me further perspective in order to research more. The last thing I want to do is to hop on this platform and act as if my word is definitive, and my words 100% should be held to scrutiny so that we can all be as informed as possible
Im just waiting for the crash. I lost my physical collection twice now after two moves. So the digital only is for my series S and I get physical games for my ps5.
Personally I'm going from console pc primarily just going to use a steamdeck, but I personally felt the 8th and 9th gen consoles were unnecessary and didn't really bring much to the table, like I have a series x and I had a ps4 but I spent more time playing n64 and ps2 games during the 8th gen and 9th gen I'm basically doing the same thing other then some remasters and new indies I use gamepass to try new games because to be honest most are not worth buying like if its not atlus or nintendo it tends be garbage, so im going with the steamdeck and I'll just use the wide array of sites to get cheap steam keys like humble bundle and visiting is there any deal ill gladly take free games from epic and cheap bundles for steam or gog keys because there is a way to play all of them on the deck
the matrix is here everyone has become computers nobody is real anymore i will never go digital i'll always stick with physical copies because digital comes and goes but physical is forever plus all my game collection are old school games i despise modern gaming
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Ubisoft recently removed The Crew from the digital libraries of those who had purchased the game. When questioned, the publisher said that it is up to players to begin to understand that their digitally purchased games are not theirs, just usage licenses that can be removed at any time. Therefore, if buying is not owning, then pirating is not stealing.
@brunocesaralves1740 I wonder how customers are gonna feel when buy button next to that $70 turns into a rent button
Pirating is stealing. It's very easy to look at companies like Ubisoft and EA and just think soulless corporation with greedy C-Suite execs. But there are thousands of people who make a living at these companies.
Feel free to pirate all that you want to, but don't fucking justify it by saying that it isn't stealing.
these companies are honestly getting out of hand…
They also basically turned every physical copy into a coaster, so your anti-digital rhetoric kinda fails, don't it?
@@slamshift6927 not true at all, dude. I really wish that people would stop spreading this misinformation.
You are absolutely right. I have been telling people for years that this generation of youth is being conditioned to not want to own ANYTHING. Big corporations love this, for the reasons you discussed.
I think we are on the verge of the second great gaming crash. Consoles and games are too expensive, the quality SUCKS, having to re-purchase your collection every few years, and the trend to no physical media is pushing gamers to leave the hobby and these greedy companies will feel the consequences like they did in the 80's. WE as consumers have power. We need to speak with our wallets.
They're so afraid of us going out and buying a used copy of a game that they'd destroy the very concept of ownership. I hope we do have a crash, to be honest. The only thing we'll be missing out on is bad games. At least with all digital, they don't have to dig a hole for their games in New Mexico.
@@Tenacityfromtheglassthey'll use "climate change" and "sustainability" as reasons for getting rid of physical. Oh, it's better for the environment. And the kids indoctrinated in leftist brainwashing camps, ie schools, will accept it.
that will never happen unless GTA 6 is a MASSIVE colossal failure. but AFAIK even the investors at take two know how important this release is. and will pull every break for it -_-
or Uncle sam decides to step in finally.
@@cool-soap With most of the original leadership leaving Rockstar, GTA 6 being a failure or not as great as people hoped is definitely a possibility.
@@cool-soap For me, whether or not GTA 6 is a success or failure is irrelevant. I have already decided that this is the last generation of gaming consoles I will be buying. And I am not the only one.
Stop paying for subscription services
Wont work.ppl moved on
I have.
@@wingedhussar1453 Morons.
@@wingedhussar1453these are the same people who got rid of their movie collections and went digital. Then complained when their digital collections got deleted because of a licensing dispute. Don't be surprised when it happens to your video game collection.
@@loslobos786 ok it still qont changw antrhing wveryone moved on
When physical games stop being released new, I will switch to exclusively playing retro games. Owning the physical game is an extremely important part of the hobby for me.
Yeah, games just floating around in the ether never sat right with me. I get it when it's from indie publishers who can't afford physical distribution, but with big publishers, it feels like I'm returning a rental every time I uninstall a game to make space.
"We aren't the target audience for these companies anymore" hit it in the head and went through the entire block of wood. That's precisely it. Today, I was playing GOW: Ragnarok for the first time and realized how formulaic some of these lauded games have become, heck, most Sony games follow a formula now, much like Ubisoft games, even Square started doing it with FF7R, and these games are praised! Yeah, I don't feel like the target audience for modern AAA gaming.
I hadn't bought a so-called triple a game in about 10 years when my friends recently convinced me to play final fantasy remake, part 2 with them. I had played the original as a teen in the 90s, so I was pretty hyped.
I was SHOCKED to see that they had added unnecessary padding, a mandatory "Simon says" minigame and the entire game boils down to running from map marker to map marker. There's nothing final fantasy about this. It's like assassins creed was back in the early 2010s. And it's the reason I stopped playing games altogether. Shocking, really.
These companies are asking 2 dangerous questions to consumers. Would you rather own your games that cost upwards of $70? Or would you rather pay a monthly fee for access to hundreds of games and own nothing? Both are bad because you end up spending more money anyway. Games cost more to buy and subscriptions will always go up in price eventually.
I choose option 3: stop buying new consoles. I'm fine sticking with retro consoles and games, where I don't have to deal with this nonsense. I'm through being these greedy companies' bitch.
Exactly and people don’t look at how negative this is cuz they know they get keep getting paid they’re allowed to spend
It’s not about that it’s about being smart with your money and they’re letting these companies have control of your money when you join their subscriptions
And 70 dollars for a game is diabolical
I usually wait till it goes down in price I have a big library of games and a lot of them take hours to complete so I have no problem waiting a year or two for games to go down in prices.
Unless I have absolutely no option to get my physical copy. Then I will do digital. But until then…..
Physical forever until I am old. It just feels so good to own a physical copy of a game. Just the feeling of having it makes me smile.
I get your point.
In my case I mix physical with digital. But digital is mostly DRM Free on PC. Easy to back up, run on any PC hardware I have (laptop, steam deck, desktop).
Imo DRM Free digital is a good way for games preservation.
And this just made my backlog grow. So if there will be a point I will just fully drop new game releases and console hardware I will still have a ton of games to try or play.
@@mravg79 fair point
But it's expensive. But i love physical games too but I don't game since ps4 came out.
@@tanura5830 I understand how you feel. It is very expensive.
My favorite Xbox' games I have in disc. But physical copies are doomed in any form of media. This video is pointless.
That’s the biggest issue: many physical games are just a physical DRM to access the actual game data on the company’s server, because well, games don’t fit on discs anymore…
Idk the what is the answer (well, emulation is the best answer to preservation imo)
Great vid as always dude :)
Steam was the start of all of this, but it was probably inevitable in the pursuit of immediate money. People went on about how great Half-Life was and how great Steam is because you don't need to switch discs. All I saw was an unnecessary app launcher that could kill your library at any moment and people too lazy to get up to change out CDs. Console became my bag baby, but with the rise of Ubisoft's minimal viable product strategy and XBLA games not getting physical releases and a massive drop in LAN support in games, things were starting to move to the must be online to function mentality. Xbox One announcement and release with giant console updates, giant game patches, mandatory installs, must be online to create or change settings on your profile was signaling the end for me. People cared more about achievements than loosing control of their hardware.
Now the standard is literally incomplete games on switch and disc is normal. Broken games from major publishers never getting fixed. Defective analog sticks. Skyrocketing online multiplayer access. Endless lineup of inferior ports/remakes. I'm out, I'll stick to N64 - Xbox 360 era consoles to play with friends in person when 4 player and LAN was a thing.
Still Steam/Valve is the only company of the big ones I still trust
Problem with subscription is that games are long unlike movies.
Also not everyone can utilise the month subscription fully because of other commitments in day other than gaming.
And the FOMO you get as the time passes.
& you forgot the 3rd solution, pay no more for sh8ty products, F_OFF THE HYPE
- _NO SERVICE SUBSCRIPTION_
- _NO MORE EARLY ACCESS & NO MORE BUY DAY 1_
- _WAIT A WEEK FOR THE RETURN OF REAL GAMERS_
I refuse to pay to play online with friends (consoles).
I refuse to pre-order games in most cases (exception, cat quest 3 for switch.). I have been burned too many times by issues and just generally bad gameplay.
Day 1 edition or limited edition. Nah. I will forgo dlc even unless there is a substantial increase in value to the game to warrant the price. (Sims 4 is so bad for this).
So, I agree.
I'm buying as many old games I can. The all digital future is coming.
Same.
Same here.
Me too, think about it, 2nd hand game stores are gna eventually gna die out. Prices are already going up and it's getting harder to find the rare games
Great video.
I buy 99% physical games also movies and tv shows.
I watched recently The Other Guys on prime and they had cut some scenes.
The gaming industry is dead.This whole generation of PS5 series X has been a joke PS5 might be my last playstation I will buy
Facts. I’ve been more content with Emulation this year
I enjoy gaming equally as I did 10-20 years ago😁
I was about to buy a PS5 last year, but I bought a Steam Deck instead. Best move I ever made. I feel like I dodged a bullet lol.
@@raychii7361me too man
@@amit_patel654i did the same thing a few months ago never looked back
Thankfully most new games are sh_t, so you're not missing out not subscribing to be allowed to play them.
The thing is, once we accept that reality physical media is dead and gone, they will slowly increase the price of the subscription. They already are. Prepare for the monthly cost to go up even more too. Instead of $14.99/month it will be $24.99, then $29.99 a month.
We are paying for these companies to not know how to budget their money to make these games because games did not cost this much to make 20 years ago.
Been saying the same to ppl for years. The 100 xbox 360 games weren't 70 dollars when they were released so it doesnt justify the subscription price raises.
@@gladiatorscoops4907 You can always go buy physical copies of those discs and put them in the Series X. Hell, there's even more back compat games that only work with the disc.
Yes and No, physical media will never die it'll just become Niche like Vinyl is and DVD/Blu-ray are becoming. You are right about price increases though, the movie industry crash is the number one reason why all the streaming services are raising prices. They're trying to make back the money they lost and failing because there's not enough people buying their services. The same thing will happen to the video game industry, we just have to wait as their crash is just beginning.
You'll own nothing and you'll be happy.
Not if Edward Kenway, Captain Jack Sparrow, and Monkey D. luffy have a say in it! 😂
I own nothing and I'm not happy.
Doomsayers are getting tiring.
It's not Doomsday if you are happy😅@@slamshift6927
@@slamshift6927problem is, they end up right most of the time.
If that Skynet situation happens, I'm abandoning Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft's consoles, and even Steam if they try it. I'll then go full-throttle into retro gaming.
Despite having dozens of games on Steam and other platforms, I have resorted to piracy to obtain the same games that I have purchased and I am saving the ISOs on Backup HDs, to prevent the massive LOSS of games that will soon be removed from the corresponding platforms!! Unfortunately PIRACY is more important than HONESTY!
Steam doesn't remove games from your library unless a refund is issued. Concord is the only game I know of that was removed from users' libraries on Steam and refunds were issued.
Good thing I never bought into digital gaming.
You missed out on practically nothing
Wake up people!!!! Get your physical games NOW!!!
While yes i do have game pass and other subsription services, I do buy a lot of physical stuff like 360 game, original xbox games, music cds and vinlys, movies, and I just got the original xbox 5 months ago, I do this because I was born in 2008 and didn't really play games until covid and i ended up falling love with old games. I hope Physical media makes its return and never goes away
Subscribe here, there, and everywhere... then consolidated into a social credit system and digital ID and currency where you will be told what you can enjoy based on your social credit ratings, with everything curated to what the powers that shouldn't be deem worthy. You will own nothing and be "happy."
The unfortunate reality of where this is all going
I wonder if they'll ever use an algorithm to determine what we individually pay based on our personal information; when the same product is priced differently for me than for you.
@@Tenacityfromtheglass They already do, have been doing it in retail for almost a decade now. Not by adjusting shelf prices, but by sending you special deals and coupons for products based on your shopping history.
Companies don't care about social credit bullshit or social justice. They care about sales. And when you're getting a free pound of sugar that usually costs $2, you're more likely to buy extras. When you're getting a year old game for 66% off, you're more likely to buy the DLC alongside it.
@@Tenacityfromtheglassairlines do this.
If you check a ticket and not buy it, if you go back the price goes up as you really want it. If you go there in a different browser or incognito, the price stays the original.
Not every company does this, but some do.
I grew up around the super & regular nintendo era, I miss the smell of a new video game cartridge & the booklet, digital is convenient but I still like buying a video game disc once in a while, now that you mention the subscription future I personally think your right on how it'll turn out, I finally bought my first gaming pc this summer & I was surprised seeing no disc tray when it was built for me, seems like the industry is pushing cds & cartridges away with intent
Alright, so I’m not the only one that Xbox’s ui induces adhd. I spend more time on menus than I do gaming.
How about we don't buy the shit?
Just another reason why I only play single player games offline on physical media.
Just wait until steam goes offline for some unpredictable reason 20 years from now.
For me, that would mean that all my post-2008 pc games are gone.
I keep an eye on GOG and buy the titles I already have on Steam when on special. A lot isn't there, but there is still a fairly decent amount. I'm even doing that on my SteamOS devices.
80% of my games are physical because I'm still using XBox as my main game platform. It's getting harder and harder to get hard copies, shit I even buy them from another country, but I will keep doing it because shit will only get worse; once stream services settle as the main way to play games, its subscription fee will go up like a mfer
I recently lost several games from my digital library and no one at customer service could tell me why? My games were there one day then just gone the next, their only advice was buy the games again so yeah but physical media.
Yep. Same here. It's partially why I am holding back more on buying games on pc altogether. I have a large backlog as it is on pc and console.
I really only trust nintendo physical games now, and I might be wrong with that but at least I know from experience I can play those without a download. I will invest in that. I am abandoning xbox and ps
Soon weddings will also have a subscription fee for SEX! A monthly fee for having sex!
Hahaha please don't give them such ideas!!
I'm subscribed to nothing.
Amazon Prime, Netflix, Spotify, GamePass...
I buy my music on CDs or even Tape, Switch Games only physical and PC Games on GoG while downloading every file and backuping it.
I still have a backlog of death, reaching back to PS3.
If there is a all subscription future, i will just stop playing new games completely.
Same. It's garbage anyway Spotify is garbage
Agreed. I am going physical only with switch as much as possible, I have given up on xbox and ps. Wasted so much time and money over there, I will play what I got but that's it.
PC... I need to use gog more is the truth. I have been steam for so long.
@@Thesakuraharona well, yeah, i have some games on steam, but they are from a time before i realised i own nothing there.
But i didn't buy anything there in multiple years.
The moment companies introduced subscriptions for everything is when personal ownership ended.
Even if you own the physical disc to a game or movie who's to say these guys won't introduce some universal blocker for physical media just so you can subscribe.
Hell even paying to play online to sony and xbox is even ass
It's like having to pay to use the internet we're already paying for.
This days you have to place games on micro SDs with huge storage as its only way to protect them from destruction (cds only lasts 50 years max).
no tinfoil hat bro, I think it, and so do the rest of us.
I just know a lot of people are "subscribed" to the idea of all digital and subscription services, and the whole time making this video, I thought, man, I might piss some people off with this one. I'm glad we're not alone in this.
The day that consoles go all digital is the day everyone should move to PC.
The steam deck was what pushed me towards pc. I'm at the point where I wanna build my own gaming pc during the next gen consoles
Lol, they'll come for the PC next. This happened to the Music industry a decade ago it's almost finished with Movies and television and it's just now starting with video games, but mark my words your PC master race will be next if we don't stop it now. However as Music lovers and Movie buffs couldn't stop it I doubt Gamers can do much to stop it. Pretty sure we're screwed but I'm going to buy physical media anyway till I can't find it anymore lol
No, it is the days I go back to play old games or not. I am done with video games
same here man. I gave my series s to my gf and I play more on switch than anything.
I'm a fan of Pokemon since 1st Gen, but since the Sword and Shield was released in chopped content dlc crap mode, so... I quit, in Modern Gaming in General... That was the time when Gaming became a Soulless Money Milking Business, it was 2019, the End of an Era...
They will make piracy great again!
I don't think that Xbox and PlayStation would survive in the next few years
If these companies want to survive, all they have to do is actually sell us games. And I mean actual games
Me and a friend used to argue digital verses physical back in 2013. He loved digital. I would laugh and be like "we are cooked!"
Not me I'm not fooled
I've been pirating my stuff for years because of "modern gaming" so I'm fooling them
Being broke as a kid, I never really kept games for long. I'd buy second hand, and then trade in for more second hand games, topped up by the odd christmas present.
Personally, I care much more about the complete death of the secondhand market than I do the point of permanent ownership, but you can't have a second hand market if it's not yours to sell.
Preservation is also a big thing. We've already lost no end of digital only games from the seventh gen, and it's a trend that's only going to get worse. Piracy is keeping the best defunct digital only games alive, but the people that those games are still relevant to is a diminishing number, if nothing is done they will be lost eventually. From a cultural and historical point of view, what we're doing right now is pretty much the same as burning books and paintings.
Piracy Is back again i guess
I stay away from all paid subscription
Listening about this digital future while also Watching my old pokemon vhs tape.
Am I the only one who cried like a baby when ash turned to stone. 😅
I really hate Gamestop, mainly how little respect they have for physical games...But I would choose them all day over only being able to borrow video games
This is why I prefer retro games. I don't even own the newer consoles.
You were ahead of the Curve then
Can't blame you. Switch is awesome, but you are not missing much in terms of the other consoles.
No, I'm returning to old games. I won't support this cancer
Buy physical copies of the ones you can, emulate the ones you can't and pirate the newer ones!
Your channel and others like it give voice to the consumer on the other side of that bottom line. None of what you said sounds conspiracy but rather closer to reality now than ever before.
After I lost a few digital games for seemingly no reason I stopped buying digital. I dusted off my PS3 and started buying Physical media again. Lastly this has already happened to the Music industry, it's happening right now to the Movie industry and its coming for the Video Games industry. It's completely motivated by greed and it always leads to one thing an epic loss of money for the Industry.
Fornite was literally digital and made over a billion dollars and was free, mark my words there is gonna be a company thats gonna have a physical free game and its gonna make bank
You are not too far off, there was an article in EU that leaked a few months ago that insurance agents are planning to connive with car manufacturers to place trackers and monitors on cars. With that said if you are in any way driving the way they think you should not be driving - your cars will be locked and you won't be able to use them. A Few months ago 2 Toyota Yaris GR burst into flames for no good reason and when the owners were claiming damage from Toyota they said that they were not liable as he drove beyond 140 miles per hour on certain occasions. Mind you the GR Yaris is a race car it was suppose to be driven hard. Everything these huge con-panies (con artists) want are subscription. That everyone else rents off. What do we do? WE HEAD THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION AND MAINTAIN THE FREE MARKET OF REPAIR, RE USE AND REPURPOSE.
Millenials are _problematic_ . They still remember buying a disc and not having pro bono ads in game.
Like it or not, the next step is streaming / cloud gaming. The top 11 countries for video game sales -- responsible for 80% of global sales -- are all working to introduce high speed everywhere, even rural areas. Piracy will be eliminated, publishers will have total control over mods, online cheating will be minimized (but not eliminated entirely), etc. etc. etc.
Digital is definitely convenient but am i the only one that went digital mainly to save their disc reading laser? Those damn things just dont last for me
If buying games is not owning games then pirating games is not stealing. I do think that cloud gaming is amazing especially for those who are window shopping to try out games they'll want to buy. But I hate when you buy digital games or even an unsupported game that they'll shut down and don't give any refund or replayability. Tbh I almost bought Marvel's Avengers but because the game got shut down online now i have to go find it somewhere physical. (I know that game is sucks but it gives a example of the harsh reality of the digital vs physical media)
buying a discless console and digital games, YOU did it to US all :(
I started enjoying shorter straightforward games that do not require 40+ hours to finish, such as Space marines 2, Silent Hill 2 remake, Resident evil 2 remake, Indie games like Crow Country, Dead cells, etc. I refuse to pay subscriptions, and I play games to relax and enjoy the story and atmosphere.
I want Crow Country to be the next game I play!
@@Tenacityfromtheglass I played it on switch, and it is so cool, with a nostalgic ambience, music, a real throwback to 90s survival horror games and polygon design such as Resident evil, Silent Hill, Alone in the dark, Parasyte eve etc.
The hysteria around Game Pass is so ridiculous. Game rentals have been around forever.
Did Blockbuster "ruin gaming?" No. But instead of paying $5 - $10 to rent a single game for s week, you can pay $12 - $20 to rent hundreds of games for a month.
The bigger issue is AAA games releasing digital-only, jacking up game prices, companies like Sony & Nintendo making their digital games more expensive than their physical ones, filling full priced games with microtransactions, "finish it later" game launches, and digital game "ownership" not being real ownership.
Oh, and physical games not including the full games on disc/cart, while also requiring tons of updates.
A rental subscription is the least of our problems & actually offers consumers a more affordable option to try new games.
I dont see a problem with rental, at least you know it's not yours. Different with digital games where you buy full price and they just take it away from you
It isn't 'an option'. It is becoming mandatory. Just like those 'optional' digital IDs that are being forced on us.
the issue is not being digital, the issue is having DRM.
physical media rotten.
Complete side note, but Vanquish is a 10/10
You. Will. Own. Nothing.
If managing internet subscription is abit pricey for the corporate people to handle, wouldn't it be cheaper for them to just make their game less reliant on internet?
What did the beggining of One Piece look like again?
"I'm gonna conquer the grand line and become the king of the pirates"
Now the ps5 pro got no disc drive shameless dude what the fuck is that
I believe they never planned on people buying that disc drive. It's only there to make all digital seem like the better option.
we were tricked ever since steam
The only thing I hte about the recent development is the monopol console shops - a soon as the consoles become all digital I will stop buying them - on PC there is at least competition in the market.
About the games: Theere are still tons of great games - even AAA ones.
Whats the game you are playing?
@Pixelblut it's called vanquish. It's a pretty awesome shooter similar to gears of war
Vanquish
I was wondering that too.
@@Tenacityfromtheglass Vanquish is more like a mix of Gears Of War and Bulletstorm.
So I think the reason that the PS5 pro will be a disc drive that’s sold separately won’t run physical PS4 games, I remember Sony removed the feature to play PS1 and PS2 games on PlayStation 3 systems later down the line. Remember how they re-released the last of us part 1 for the PS5, when you could play the last of us part 1 remastered on the system beforehand, if this disk drive can only play ps5 games you can buy it digitally, or buy the PS5 physical edition
Every PS3 can play PS1 games with the built in emulator. The first wave of PS3s had dedicated PS2 hardware to run PS2 games and it wasn't 100% accurate. Sony had to ditch the PS2 MIPS processors inside the PS3 to drop the price, that's why later PS3s cannot play PS2 games. PS3 was a PowerPC CPU, the same family CPU as Gamecube-Wii U and Xbox 360. PS3 games cannot function directly to a PS4 because the PS4 has an x86 type CPU. PS5 also has an x86 CPU, so it is very easy to make PS4 games function on a PS5.
Purchasing a puppet string connection for your wallet is financial folly.
Hmm
I think if the companies had their way - they would ban emulators, emulations, and make it harder to sell physical copies especially older games, while trying to surpress Indie companies or out right buying them.
With that being said I don't see them being very successful in that fantasy - we're gonna resist tooth and nail, people are already pirating games, some are just buying older games, or booting up their PS2's for the first time in 2 decades - people are sick and tired of being treated like shit and in most cases people have either lack of control over the circumstances or don't have the willpower (getting a better job, moving to a better country, etc.), in this case most of us do, because all it takes is a little bit of self restraint, patience, and redirection as in not spending $80 on a new shiny game, and instead waiting for the price to go down or to download an emulator then redirecting that energy towards that "new" game whether that be Time Splitters 2 and Rogue Galaxy or Zelda: Minish Cap and Warioware.
So yeah we'll buy indie games, play retro games, or straight up play ROM Hacks.
Now I'm guilty of wasting my money - recently I bought Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2, and it's in my digital library... sitting there - but I will force myself to play - had I not bought it, I would've just continued playing on my Emulators.
For me personally I think the sales they have on PS store is just too good, so we end up buying digitally - instead of driving to the mall and spending $80, we can spend $45 dollars and stay at home.
In the end I think we'll be fine but those companies and their loyal consumers won't be.
I still play ps3. Always played offline games. Didn't really care for online games like cod or similar games. My modded psp helps me out whenever I wanna game on the go. Gaming like it's 2006. And if I want other retro stuff, I got another emulator handheld. Retro is the future. There are multiple lifetimes of games available in the retro scene. I'm good. Vanquish is awesome, btw. Haha.
u will own nothing and be happy
i own all my roms and new games suck so im happy.
let him cook
This one trick lets you own all your games for free and the publishers hate it! Try it once (if you’re on pc)
I nicknamed my steam deck the black pearl
@ ahoy me matey
I only spend $70 on PHYSICAL Nintendo games…… I wait for steams sales on everything else…… I have enough to play 😂 so I’m in no hurry to buy mid games at $70! Everything else is eBay😂 max im spending on any physical non Nintendo game is $20!
If you want your games digital that’s fine but the games should be complete physical format to because some people can’t afford a good internet service and they will be left out so that is why new or pre owned games is a better choice 😎😎
Dude please tell me what game is on the screen? I feel like I’m missing out lol😊
vanquish
How many actual games we need to pay monthly to play digitally? That arent online multiplayer games?
All of you in the comments especially 70s and 80s, 90s babies too better start discovering retro games that you missed out on. Snes is your favorite system? Mega Drive? I guarantee there's a whole bunch of games that you missed out on in the 90's. Go even deeper by playing some of the import titles especially the fan translated ones. This goes for any retro console out there, there's enough retro games you probably never heard about that could last you 3 lifetimes over. That's where I've been pretty much since the Dreamcast died in 2001.
Truth! I played chrono trigger for the first time this year, and it's now one of my favorite games of all time.
@Tenacityfromtheglass You're already off to an amazing start. That's pretty much my favorite rpg of all time along with the Sega Saturn version of Grandia and it's sequel.
If rummies corner had a son
I don't Even Curtis let alone play video games other than rare replay or Master Chief collection. I feel like this RUclips channel isn't even for me anymore, I mean you have the right idea when it comes to Nintendo and what they do but I feel like I'm not even a gamer anymore
There are games that come on go on game pass. Meaning if you start a game of game pass and is taken off you'd have to pay for the game to keep playing it....
What game are you playing in this video
i believe he is playing Vanquish from Platinum games i own it on Steam
Maybe Black Myth Wukong is the first triple-indie game, haha. Jokes aside, yeah, I buy less and less full price games as time goes on and just stick to indies and emulating. Stuff is very rarely worth 60 to 70 bucks at this point, let alone 20 something dollars a month (I'll sub to the rare good MMO though). There's actually kind of a sense of peace in just sticking to a lot of retro stuff you grew up with; feels simple, and there's an endless sea of classics you never had the chance to check out as a kid.
😊
This totally makes sense 😢
Physical Media Forever
This is a great video, but stop spreading the bs propaganda that most physical disk is just a key to access the game, absolutely not true, most disks carry the entire game inside (without future patches obviously) its only the extreme minority or mostly AAA online only games that doesnt have the game playable on physical.
Also yes, even without patches alot of these games work fine, ignore the AAA slop and test it out yourself. Most games work and are fully playable on disk without an internet connection
So one thing Sony didn't announce with their attachable disc drive is that it has an always online drm. What happens when servers inevitably shut down? Will you have access to your physical games? Xbox is also notorious for the discs not being able to hold very much data. Also, games don't run entirely off of disc; they have to be installed to the consoles. I don't claim to have all the research and knowledge on this topic. Like most people, I'm just an average consumer. Whether it's digital or physical, I'd like to own and do whatever I want with those files, and I see a future where this no longer exists. I appreciate your insight, though, because you're able to offer me further perspective in order to research more. The last thing I want to do is to hop on this platform and act as if my word is definitive, and my words 100% should be held to scrutiny so that we can all be as informed as possible
People want convenience over everything else. Soecially in something like games. Look what happened to movies and music.
vanquish was such a good gears clone.
Yes!
Best vid I have seen all year
I feel the advantge of physical media has the same advantages as video games that are online play optional.
Once i have all achievements im done theres only a small handful of titles i go back to can't take the games with you when you die 🤷♂️
Old the fuck on I never played vanquish, and it's time to fix it
If you use a pc or laptop you can own it digitally
Im just waiting for the crash. I lost my physical collection twice now after two moves. So the digital only is for my series S and I get physical games for my ps5.
Personally I'm going from console pc primarily just going to use a steamdeck, but I personally felt the 8th and 9th gen consoles were unnecessary and didn't really bring much to the table, like I have a series x and I had a ps4 but I spent more time playing n64 and ps2 games during the 8th gen and 9th gen I'm basically doing the same thing other then some remasters and new indies I use gamepass to try new games because to be honest most are not worth buying like if its not atlus or nintendo it tends be garbage, so im going with the steamdeck and I'll just use the wide array of sites to get cheap steam keys like humble bundle and visiting is there any deal ill gladly take free games from epic and cheap bundles for steam or gog keys because there is a way to play all of them on the deck
the matrix is here everyone has become computers nobody is real anymore i will never go digital i'll always stick with physical copies because digital comes and goes but physical is forever plus all my game collection are old school games i despise modern gaming