I will buy Like a Dragon from Play Asia physically. I refuse to buy Alan Wake 2 until it gets a physical (or I can get it for <5 USD from Steam).
Same and same.
Fuck em.
I really believe that consumers need their own law to protect their rights regarding this. This is nothing to do with any real legitimate issue on why they're releasing digital only this has everything to do with trying to purposely limit the market to a digital platform to try to hurt consumers to have them have only one method to purchase to control something.
This is no benefit to the consumer.
The fact that it's more expensive on console doesn't even help their efforts or arguing point.
So in my opinion I believe consumers need a law to protect their rights, any AAA game above a specific budget and deciding to market itself as a AAA game should have a physical release on console and I would even go as far as to argue that on PC as well.
When an online games servers are put offline and decommissioned the rights for users to then use their own servers to continue to play online should be permitted and the game should enter a sort of public domain. (they after all still bought a game)
So I want to make clear I'm not anti digital, I'm simply against a Industry purposely trying to eliminate a market to try to remove consumer rights.
Their entire purpose of trying to go digital only is to take away from the consumer the right to sell that game or to purchase it used or to have a market that they actually have to compete against and for them to have the ability to at any time pull the plug on a video game that you legally purchased to try to support some sequel that might be coming up in the future.
So trust me there are some publishers out there salivating over what they're seeing with overwatch 2 and they're probably trying to figure out how can we fucking do that with single player games, With gamers spending hundreds of hours playing some old game for all you know they're going to try to purposely remove those games to get you to buy the sequel like you saw with Overwatch 2 lol
I think with how expensive the game industry is becoming if anything people should be demanding physical releases cause if I'm going to be paying $70 for a fucking game I want to get the works.....
Even as much as you guys know I dislike CD Project Red at least they got it right with the packaging of Cyberpunk 2077 because it's presentation regarding the box art along with all the extras at the very least felt like what a AAA release should actually provide on physical.