Sure, with games that make you connect to play them. That's its own can of worms. Maybe it's just me but the vast majority of the games that I play don't do that.Because it makes no bloody difference. If someone selling a disk copy of a game forces you to connect to the internet or make an account in some service, you'll run in the exact same issues you'd run into if you bought the game digitally anyway.
This discussion about losing games or being locked out of them is a software issue, the medium isn't really important.
That's being extremely optimistic. Has it been so long that people forgot what it was like before Steam and standardized digital distribution? The height of the DRM Wars against piracy? Discs sold with asinine hardware-locked DRM schemes, online validation, limited activations, and obnoxious intrusive driver software that could break your PC if something went wrong?That is straight not true. I already told you I can install and re-install all my games without the need of internet. Theres no "autentication", the only thing that can occur is them asking for an update, which I can decline from the PS4 warning menu and only occurs when I'm with the internet on.
Because it makes no bloody difference. If someone selling a disk copy of a game forces you to connect to the internet or make an account in some service, you'll run in the exact same issues you'd run into if you bought the game digitally anyway.
This discussion about losing games or being locked out of them is a software issue, the medium isn't really important.
It’s amazing that Sony didn’t cop more flak for introducing online passes for all their games.Devs can lock you out of parts of your physical games if they so chose anyway, remember online passes for used games? I remember buying used games when that was a thing and I would never play them online to not pay the online pass. To pretend disc copies cannot be messed with in this day and age is naive.
The vast majority of my digital games don't do that either.Sure, with games that make you connect to play them. That's its own can of worms. Maybe it's just me but the vast majority of the games that I play don't do that.
Until you storage breaksNobody can take away the backups on my pendrive either
I'll just get another pendrive and re-copy from my HDDs backups.Until you storage breaks
What do you do with your physical games when their discs break? Tape them together and pray?Until you storage breaks
What do you do with your physical games when their discs break? Tape them together and pray?
How long have you been collecting games? I've got cartridges and CDs/DVDs that no longer work from all the way back to my 2600.I dont want to disappoint your weak argument.....
i never had something like this happening to me in my life but i had to replace a lot of storage hardware
Still perfectly playable, since all those patches were about multiplayer.And it's most likely 200 patches behind the last version available of Quake, anyway.