• PugJesus
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    296 months ago

    I’ve never scratched a digital game too hard to play.

    GoG offline installers, my love

    • @andrewta
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      66 months ago

      I’ve never scratched a disc to make it unplayable.

      • PugJesus
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        36 months ago

        Well I’ve never done it on PURPOSE. But a lot of little scratches add up over time.

      • @[email protected]
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        16 months ago

        Seriously? Maybe it’s just cuz I was a poor kid who had to play the same games a shit ton but I went through at least 5 different disks in my time that I can think of just from playing them too hard.

        Something closer to to 50 for disks that were scratched from other shit, though that’ll include music CDs and DVDs too

        • @andrewta
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          16 months ago

          The only disk that I ever had get destroyed because of my own incompetence. Was a copy of the first season of Stargate SG one, it was actually the first disc of that season. And what happened was I left it outside of its case, in an area that allowed the sun to go across it every single day for about a month and a half.

          It discolored the disk, and also made it unplayable , had to buy a new one.

          That was fully on me.

          Many of my games that I played in the late 90s and early 2000s I would play over and over and over and over again, never scratched them.

  • FiveMacs
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    236 months ago

    All digital games can be physical if you source them properly…

    • noobdoomguy8658
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      46 months ago

      They’re all physical if you go far enough - they’re just not on your phsycial medium (yet)…

  • @Ptsf
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    146 months ago

    Physical games are a lie. What you want is drm free digital games! Best of all worlds.

    • @UnderpantsWeevil
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      16 months ago

      No no no. I want a bunch of little tiny plastic and cardboard pieces that take forever to arrange and pack up when I’m done. I want text that’s too small to read. I want a rules book that I need a degree in to properly interpret. And only ever want to play during the handful of times a year I can get everyone around the table together.

    • @Ptsf
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      96 months ago

      Amount of times Steam has made me have any semblance of concern for the continued playability of my library over 19 years: 0

  • @[email protected]
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    56 months ago

    I enjoy the convenience of digital games. I don’t like having to figure out which case my kids put a game in because they sure as shit don’t put them back in the right one.

  • @grue
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    36 months ago

    Is this about digital downloads vs. physical media for video games, like most seem to be assuming, or is it about video games vs. board games?

    • @greedytacothief
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      16 months ago

      That’s what I was thinking. Getting together to play physical games with friends > digital games.

  • @[email protected]
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    26 months ago

    Is this digital vs physical as in video games vs tabletop? Or is it “digital copy” vs “physical installation media”?