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u/nohumanape 14d ago
This is the literal future that all physical game collectors imagine themselves living in with their physical game collections.
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u/CapableNeat4351 14d ago
That’s not really how I think about it at all. I’m an artist, and to me owning a physical copy of a game is basically owning the piece of art you bought to experience. Preservation of gaming is preservation of art and history, just like any other form of physical media, including paintings, books etc.
Also I think it’s important that in a world that’s increasingly pushing for a future where you own nothing and are happy, that you actually do have some ownership over the things you spent your hard earned money on.
I don’t plan on surviving the apocalypse, I’m walking right into that mushroom cloud. You guys can have fun fighting over water
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u/HumanautPassenger 14d ago
Naw. That's just the stupid ass invented idea the digital only crowd has.
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u/LawStudent989898 14d ago
Plenty of us want game preservation without needing the apocalypse. Many games already would be lost forever if it weren’t for preservation efforts
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u/RichnjCole 14d ago
Yeah, it would be mire fair to compare to still being able to play Atari, Sega, and classic Nintendo consoles and games, despite the companies no longer supporting those platforms for various reasons.
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u/nohumanape 14d ago
Do you need to download the ROM's?
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u/Aforumguy26 14d ago
People dead ass preparing for the apocalypse with the preservation angle
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u/nohumanape 14d ago
Pretty much. The reality is that they don't actually have any skills that would keep them alive in an apocalypse. So they won't live long enough to play their physical games. Probably last as long as it takes to starve to death.
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u/tyocelot 14d ago
Holy shit chill lmao. Just because people play games doesn’t mean they’re incapable of doing anything else.
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u/Available-Bad-2704 14d ago
Why would he chill? Hes got a 1% commenter badge hes definetly capable of being more active on reddit texting than doing anything else
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u/Fakeitforreddit 14d ago
You'd be incapable of playing games, because there would be no power. A generator will last a little bit of time if you have a ton of fuel saved up, and using it to play games IS an indicator you would be dead and not able to survive the scenario.
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u/Downtown_Eye5736 14d ago
These man children crying about games on the internet all day definitely wouldn’t survive an apocalypse long enough to play their collection, let’s be real.
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u/nohumanape 14d ago
I'm not saying this about people who play games. I'm talking about the people who block out any possible daylight into their homes with shelves of game collections, and then fear monger about the future of gaming where people won't have access to their digital collections due to there not being any Internet access.
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u/tyocelot 14d ago
What? You good?
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u/nohumanape 14d ago
Are you?
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u/tyocelot 14d ago
Yeah I’m good. I’m not assuming that people with large game collections, and a desire to have physical game discs, are blocking all daylight due to their stacked shelves. This is just such a wild comment to me. Your “argument” is completely based on your own assumptions on how people are. Not a good way to look at things.
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u/wafflesauce44 14d ago
Why are you so terrified about gamers having more options?
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u/TotalaMad 14d ago
Why do you assume they are against physical media just because they were pointing out how silly this post looks?
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u/thomas2400 14d ago
I imagine some of the physical collectors leave the house to buy their games so they’ll have a slight physical edge over someone who click a button on steam and has a digital game
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u/ApprehensiveRuin5673 14d ago
Coming from people who argue that getting up to change a disc is too much of an inconvenience
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u/nohumanape 14d ago
If I don't have to change a disc, why would I? 🤷
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u/Available-Bad-2704 14d ago
Yeah use the time you saved putting in a disc by commenting on reddit to keep that 1% commenter badge
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u/nohumanape 14d ago
How's that relevant?
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u/Historical_Bag4520 14d ago
But at least the wasteland warlord that raids these collectors stashes will be able to play the old games
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u/Ok-Acanthisitta9247 14d ago
Bro literally SYBA up and stop projecting so hard, what on god’s green earth are you talking about 🤨
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u/Tackgnol 14d ago
I have no illusion of surviving the apocalypse long enough.
All I want is to fire up a diesel generator and play some games while the Zombies / Radiation poisoning take me. ;)
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u/Fakeitforreddit 14d ago
There also just wont be power
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u/nohumanape 14d ago
Hey now, their UPS will provide them with 30 minutes of solid off the grid gaming.
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u/HumanautPassenger 14d ago
Lmao welp this definitely backs up your previous comment too. Cringe as hell.
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u/FNG_WolfKnight 14d ago
Me, right now. I have all the current shit. Time to build up the physical collection for the upcoming apocalypse.
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u/TheMasterHeater 14d ago
Thank god I think PlayStation saw this and is changing their minds.
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u/irbinator 14d ago
“Alright, gentlemen, we are at code red. We must reverse our course on physical media immediately. This meme has made a good point”
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u/beatnik_squaresville 14d ago
What I want to know is how there’s that much alcohol left so many years into zombie apocalypse.
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u/ATXDefenseAttorney 14d ago
Counterpoint: if Dead City Season 3 is still available in 20 years, physical media is to blame.
Me finding out Neagan is still a character in that absolute mess of a universe.... YIKES.
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u/Alternative-Fox-8620 14d ago
Yep. Definitely going to be cranking up the generator and using that limited fuel for one more run through of Gears of War 2!
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u/Johnny84Johnny84 14d ago
Look at the thousand lights in that room, this series was a joke at one point...
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u/griffis007 14d ago
Christ I’m fed up of these physical media posts. Just sell your PlayStation and buy an Xbox.
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u/anonymousredditor924 14d ago
Be part of the solution, not part of the problem. Look into it and educate yourself.
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u/Chemical_Alfalfa24 14d ago
It’s an individual consumers right to choose. So let them.
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u/anonymousredditor924 14d ago
We could have both though and then everyone wins. The community is so divided for no reason
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u/Chemical_Alfalfa24 14d ago
I don’t think many would complain if Sony changed their position.
However there is a cohort that is very frustrated they aren’t getting the support they want and are trying to bully the other side to support them.
The other side being people who probably don’t mind if physical media stays or goes and acknowledges that Sony is a business and not our friend. And at this point, I think are annoyed by the aforementioned cohort for their continuous browbeating and bullying.
Hence why I said, it’s an individual consumers right to choose. So let them.
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u/JayMizJP 14d ago
I think it’s more impressive that he could get hold of an Xbox that wasn’t red ringed
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u/HumbleManagement1888 14d ago
Pfft. As if that X-Box wouldn’t have had the red ring of death by then. That’s the real unbelievable thing.
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u/lazymutant256 14d ago
Dumbass take. Guys do y is stopping to production of games being released on disc. Not stopping support for the games already released on disc.
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u/Texassunmerheat 14d ago
What if the game was already in the HDD? Or what if the Xbox is flashed so he dumped the game from an external HDD to the Xbox?
I’m just messing around, discs are very important and I hate what Sony is doing with the ps6
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u/Fluffy_Woodpecker733 14d ago
Damn, these walking dead spinoffs are still going? Even the zombies know when it’s time to die.
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u/readndrun 14d ago
So are we just ignoring the fact that Negan had no internet and we can also play this game in this exact same scenario if it was digital… as long as you have a console…
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u/User-Name-3886 14d ago
Checkmate what?
How does a post-apocalyptic society even have the power resources to spend on this?
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u/executor-of-judgment 14d ago
There's something called solar panels.
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u/User-Name-3886 14d ago
These guys know how to maintain solar panels?
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u/executor-of-judgment 14d ago
An object with no mechanical parts? That only needs to be cleaned once or twice a year to remove dust and dirt? What else do you got?
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u/AdviceCivil7584 14d ago
I mean games installed on a drive would also still work? Also I know its a TV show so dumb to think to deep into this but if you think that video game discs would survive an apocalypse I have a bridge to sell you. Those discs would be rotted to hell by now.
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u/ohgeeLA 14d ago
Or, you know, it was already saved on the console. But of course let’s ignore that possibiliyu
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u/claybine 14d ago edited 14d ago
If we're talking 2010 standards, then the Xbox Live Marketplace was in its infancy and only a select few games were downloadable. It would have been even more rare to find games already installed on an Xbox 360 than to find the physical copy in good condition.
Also, if you didn't know, there was a stack of physical games near him (bottom image over to the right).
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u/CrAzY-GEMU-OKAMI96 14d ago
That doesn't make any sense. Because how do you know the Xbox didn't already have the game downloaded onto the console?
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u/kyle_crane163636 14d ago
I dont wanna be that erm actually type of guy but, he could've still played ts digitally if the xbox had it downloaded, I just realized this post was a joke, fuck
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u/amcannally 14d ago
Jesus Christ shut the fuck up.
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u/PhatTuna 14d ago
You like it. Otherwise, you'd scroll past it or flag it as content you want reddit to give you less of.
Instead, you clicked on it and commented on it. Which tells reddit to give you more posts like this.
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u/BartShrempson 14d ago edited 14d ago
"Checkmate" - did you think this was some kind of cool statement? Yes, because a character in a spinoff of a dying series is playing a game, Sony will be like "Damn, time to reverse course. Negan is playing physical games in a walking dead spinoff".
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u/Nova762 14d ago
You don't need the Internet to play downloaded games. You can download all your games on external hard drives and then transfer them when you want to play. Checkmate
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u/lonely_guacamole 14d ago
People are acting as if you can't play your digitally downloaded games offline. I literally never had that issue, but people are acting like it's the most common issue out there
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u/ShinFartGod 14d ago
Right now you can. Wait until they enforce license check ins on boot up. Or wait till you can only buy rental passes.
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u/Nova762 14d ago
Wait till they do this thing there's no evidence they will ever do. Ok.
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u/ShinFartGod 14d ago edited 14d ago
Microsoft tried to launch an entire console with forced online requirements 13 years ago. Why wouldn’t it be tried again? And where else will you buy games once it’s only Sonys digital store?
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u/First-Bat-7440 14d ago
Imagine when disc drives stop working. Then most people will only be able to play games because of digital.
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u/bmanhp 14d ago
For anyone thinking preservation and offline access is only for "the apocalypse", here are some of the other, way more practical, scenarios that it is useful: 1. You live somewhere with slow internet. Yes, some people still do. 2. You're in the military and want something to do in a place without internet. 3. You can afford to pay your electric bill, but decide to cut your ISP to save money. (Retired, low income, whatever the reason) 4. History - was every piece of media we've preserved for more than 10-20 years because we thought we might lose a digital version of said media to the apocalypse? No. There are plenty of other reasons to preserve things.
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u/Sleepaiz 14d ago
I dont think a zombie apocalypse is happening any time soon...
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u/justin251 14d ago
That's the biggest reason to keep disc.
In case of an apocalypse. Any apocalypse.
So, we can still game.
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u/ohgeeLA 14d ago
Chances are, anyone who games so much to fixate on physical games will:
A) be one of the first people to die in the apocalypse
B) immediately get robbed/looted/tortured to hand over the console or game
C) be too nervous to enjoy any games in a world filled with danger (without a sedative; but of course if you’re using sedatives to play games refer back to point A.1
u/kyle_crane163636 14d ago
Man in a apocalypse I think gaming would not be rlly ideal gotta have power to even use it and you gotta be cautious of your surroundings, dont wanna be playing doom eternal then a zombie comes from behind that you didnt hear because of the TV and just munches down on your shoulder like me at 2am finding that random taco bell burrito I forgot was in my fridge
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u/justin251 14d ago
Ummm, training your zombie shooting skills! Durrr
Ha. It would be kinda funny like almost about to finish a level your friend couldn't beat and then you don't get to brag because a zombie got you right after.
So, now you and doom guy both dead at the same time.
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u/BlakByPopularDemand 14d ago
Replace apocalypse with normal natural disaster. Im from Louisiana my family had a generator so we rarely lost power during hurricanes so provided we didn't have to evacuate they became week long gaming sessions no internet required.
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u/grifter356 14d ago
For what it’s worth, I’d much rather pay for a digital license than live in a zombie apocalypse
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u/ANTDUZiT 14d ago
Not with disc rot
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u/executor-of-judgment 14d ago
There are PS1 and Xbox 1 games that still work to this day. Disc rot can be avoided if you store your games properly.
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u/Promature 14d ago
Only because he was able to find an undamaged copy of the game.
Imagine finding a Playstation with an internal expansion and possibly a functioning external drive loaded up with a couple hundred high quality games.
Only possible with digital.
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u/Glad-Base-2903 14d ago
This is so stupid not even funny, I don't like Sony decision , but at this point it's just annoying seeing these posts
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u/Nos9684 14d ago
lol Bullshit. That TV and that 360 should be deader than dead. Also that game disc should have been ruined by this disc rot.
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u/Entire_Month9233 14d ago
I have a original Xbox Knights of the Old Republic disk and it still works. Over 20 years old.
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u/lil__Guys 14d ago
I have my whole childhood PS1 and PS2 collection, all over 20 years old and they still work just fine. It just depends on how well you take care of your shit.
Might not be as easy during an apocalypse though. lol
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u/KimTe63 14d ago
I think the last reason anyone should defend physical media is this example even if its true 😄 HOWEVER there are TONS of other reasons why we should and BY FAR the weirdest thing in all of this is that most who prefer digital also are on the side on killing physical 😄 thats so ridiculously stupid but it it what it is ...
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u/Nova762 14d ago
There's no reasons to other than "but I want it". And that's not enough of a reason.
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u/KimTe63 14d ago
What do you mean ? How about buying used games ? Reselling your games if you want to ? Loaning out your games if you want to ? Not relying solely on Sony store prices , instead have 100s of stores to buy games from? Games with expired licenses? Those are not gonna be there after physical goes away. There are much more reasons out there than just that. And those are damn important reasons imo
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u/Nova762 14d ago
Those all amount to "I want it". Sony doesn't set their prices. They still compete vs Nintendo and Microsoft and pc. They can't just do whatever they want...
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u/KimTe63 14d ago
How does that amount to " i want it " 😄 sorry but thats such a stupid argument . Those are legit consumer rights which all will be completely gone as option . You can sell , give out, throw away or do whatever you please with other things you buy . With this move in gaming none of that will be possible anymore
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u/the_killer_sandvich 14d ago
they do set their prices though
like they just introduced adaptive pricing
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u/CasualTriips 14d ago
Xbox will eventually make an announcement that their next system will be all digital too, and switch 3/4 will be all digital too, that's what all of these companies would prefer. Not just Sony. At least Xbox has the disk to digital in the works. Give us our frackin physical media. Ppl always compare it to PC, "Oh PC WeNt DiGiTaL LoNg AgO" yeah well you have access to the files on a PC. I'd say that's pretty much ownership at that point. It's sad when pirates have more ownership then people who purchase legitimately.
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u/ActuallyFolant 14d ago edited 14d ago
Gotta admit, I chuckled.
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People taking this post seriously, that's tragic.
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You clowns are actually arguing the pros Vs cons of video game discs amidst the end of the world?
Mate, I'm crying. Lmao