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It's been interesting, watching the lag here. This feeling was felt by many who played games on PC 15 years ago when DVDs were starting to become less common and games were expanding in size. I distinctly remember buying a game I was excited for only to learn now I had to spend part of my data cap on downloading it. What had even been the point of buying the boxed copy?
I remember hiring games, and reading the manual inside the case on the drive home. Just feels like everything is lacking soul now in the name of convenience.
Not the convenience of the consumer but rather that of the provider. They don't want you to pirate their games, not even sharing the disk. We don't own what we pay for anymore.
Which is funny, because those are exactly the kind of anti-consumer practices that drive people to piracy.
It's not about convenience. It is about control, and manipulation. There is only one thing important and it is money.
Corpos, are trying their hardest to cut corners on every opportunity. It was promised that digital games where to be cheaper than the physical alternative - but alas that promise was broken when all that did was tie the customer down into a literal monopoly.
In my experience, some indie games still have that "charm". So it's not about convenience, it's caring about your customers.
Steam did pretty much fulfill the promise of cheap digital games. Though we're definitely fucked once they (or the game publishers) decide to fuck up their ecosystem or just not do the really big discounts anymore.
Some publishers have mentioned that the cards available are too slow for their games (the internal storage is much faster).
That's a crap excuse. Load the data into ram on startup or local storage on install.
Exactly. Cards can't be slower than an Internet connection.
Installing from the card would still be slow though 🤷
It would likely be faster than downloading it from the Internet.
What games did you hire? I wonder how good link would be at gardening. I know I’d take Mario as a plumber. Samus as an exterminator?
I prefer my home free of missile damage thanks
Samus who won't kill the baby bug, thus creating a bigger problem.