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‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ Going Digital-Only Is a Car Crash for Physical Media
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I'm sympathetic, I think media that can be borrowed, lent, sold and otherwise transferred is better. But I've given up on video games being that way years ago. I don't have a "collection" of video games any more than I'd have a collection of used chewing gum.
The other side of that coin, though, is that I never pay more than $20 for a game. Almost everything I buy is even under $10. (I think the Orange Box was the last time I paid anything like a retail price for a game. And that was three games.) The games are ephemeral, they could stop working at any moment for any of a million different reasons, and I'd have no recourse. So I'm not going to pay crazy archival prices.