I've never scratched a digital game too hard to play.
GoG offline installers, my love
this post was submitted on 16 May 2024
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I’ve never scratched a disc to make it unplayable.
Well I've never done it on PURPOSE. But a lot of little scratches add up over time.
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
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.
All digital games can be physical if you source them properly..
They're all physical if you go far enough - they're just not on your phsycial medium (yet)...
Physical games are a lie. What you want is drm free digital games! Best of all worlds.
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.
Digital games on console - shit
Digital games on steam - sexy
Amount of times Steam has made me have any semblance of concern for the continued playability of my library over 19 years: 0
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.
LMAO. Thank you for this.
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?
That's what I was thinking. Getting together to play physical games with friends > digital games.
Is this digital vs physical as in video games vs tabletop? Or is it "digital copy" vs "physical installation media"?