Why do people care about the Phyiscal Disc Situation?

[SaucySomething]

So, apparently the Disc version of Doom: The Dark Ages is 80MB which prevents an actual physical disc to be used. What are your thoughts on this? Do you believe it doesn't matter and that physical copies are dead anyway? Or, do you believe it must upheld and that it is a good thing to still release it despite the fact that online is becoming more widespread?

[SaucySomething]

I personally think physical is a dying trend anyway and that it's inevitable that this was going to, and continue to happen.

[space]

you always gotta download a huge day one patch on those anyway, so really physical copies are just veneer

[bshock]

People care because they want to feel like they "own" the game by buying physically. If you have to essentially download the game even if you own the disc, it's akin to just buying it digitally to begin with.

[Dixon Sider]

I like buying physical copies because I like to have the game case on my shelf. I have 100+ games of each playstation so it looks pretty cool. Now I just need to buy a house with a legit gaming room instead of my living room though lol.

[SaucySomething]

Originally posted by bshock:

People care because they want to feel like they "own" the game by buying physically. If you have to essentially download the game even if you own the disc, it's akin to just buying it digitally to begin with.

But aren't their patches you must download anyway? You're not even buying the game in it's physical sense anymore, it's purely supposed to go online now.

[Dixon Sider]

Also, I hate browsing games from an online library. I much prefer to look through my games when I can hold a physical version of it. It makes it much easier to pick a game I want to play.

[SaucySomething]

Originally posted by Dixon Sider:

Also, I hate browsing games from an online library. I much prefer to look through my games when I can hold a physical version of it. It makes it much easier to pick a game I want to play.

How? You can just click play on an icon and get the game done?

[Dixon Sider]

Originally posted by SaucySomething:

Originally posted by bshock:

People care because they want to feel like they "own" the game by buying physically. If you have to essentially download the game even if you own the disc, it's akin to just buying it digitally to begin with.

But aren't their patches you must download anyway? You're not even buying the game in it's physical sense anymore, it's purely supposed to go online now.

Depends on the game, not always. Sometimes there is enough data on the disk to fit the entire game. Especially if you are buying Switch games. I think its more often than not that you dont need an internet connection with those.

[SaucySomething]

Originally posted by Dixon Sider:

Originally posted by SaucySomething:

But aren't their patches you must download anyway? You're not even buying the game in it's physical sense anymore, it's purely supposed to go online now.

Depends on the game, not always. Sometimes there is enough data on the disk to fit the entire game. Especially if you are buying Switch games. I think its more often than not that you dont need an internet connection with those.

Fair enough but you need to realize that it hasn't only been this way. In the past, their were copies that you had to insert a disk into to validate the fact you had the physical copy. Like with SH3. But nowadays, it's the opposite. You need to validate an ONLINE copy with the physical one.

[SaucySomething]

Originally posted by space:

you always gotta download a huge day one patch on those anyway, so really physical copies are just veneer

Veneer?

[Dixon Sider]

Originally posted by SaucySomething:

Originally posted by Dixon Sider:

Also, I hate browsing games from an online library. I much prefer to look through my games when I can hold a physical version of it. It makes it much easier to pick a game I want to play.

How? You can just click play on an icon and get the game done?

I have a lot more control over my sorting, displaying, and its less work to scan a lot of games quickly. I am really not a fan of any GUI I have tried. I even made my own library gui, but it was too much work. You cant beat physical

[SaucySomething]

Originally posted by Dixon Sider:

Originally posted by SaucySomething:

How? You can just click play on an icon and get the game done?

I have a lot more control over my sorting, displaying, and its less work to scan a lot of games quickly. I am really not a fan of any GUI I have tried. I even made my own library gui, but it was too much work. You cant beat physical

I think you're a bit of a boomer, ngl. I think that physical is slowly becoming eroded and replaced anyway. I mean, who in the world is buying a physical over the newer concertized given online copy? You're not a fan of customizing your cool PC?

[Dixon Sider]

Originally posted by SaucySomething:

I think you're a bit of a boomer, ngl.

I was born in 90, so whichever gen buzzword that is.

Originally posted by SaucySomething:

I think that physical is slowly becoming eroded and replaced anyway. I mean, who in the world is buying a physical over the newer concertized given online copy? You're not a fan of customizing your cool PC?

For PC maybe, but I always hold out for the physical release before buying a game when applicable for the reasons stated above. My physical library is much larger than my Steam library, and that one gets priority.

[tyl0413]

Its actively malicious and literally wastes their own resources to even bother to waste putting only 80MBs on a 100GB disc. It would be more honest to just no have a physical release but console guys are too stupid for the details and ofc MS will take advantage of that.
Obviously its wrong, obviously it should be complete on disc, obviously it should be on disc for PC too and on GOG and DRM-free on Steam.

[Dixon Sider]

Originally posted by SaucySomething:

You're not a fan of customizing your cool PC?

sure I am a fan of customizing my PC. But it takes hours and hours of coding to write my own GUI to facilitate mechanics I can do within a few seconds with physical games.