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Disc Editions Make Up 82% Of All PS5 Console Sales (insider-gaming.com)
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[–] [email protected] 57 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Sony would have more digital sales if they didn't fuck with people's libraries. The only way to be sure that you can still play some PS games is to have a physical copy.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

You have to be a dumb to trust digital "library"

Even steam tbh all that shit is has its day numbered

Maybe gog but still got to habe your own media back up

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 weeks ago

Naive would be a better adjective than dumb, imo.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

It is dumb to trust physical media with copy protection. Those discs don't last nearly as long as you think they will and you have no way to make a proper backup. You are trying to solve a legal/societal problem with a technical workaround, that never really works out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I got a few decades left. Leave me alone 🐸

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I’ve had properly stored, professionally pressed, official DVD and CDROM’s suffer bit rot, become in playable and in one case explode into shards in my DVD-ROM drive. And it didn’t take decades, most were <7 years old. Don’t be so sure you have decades.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

I buy thrift store dvds, they still seem to work... Mostly

I see your point. I was mostly cheekey few comments up. I aint that commented to back up but i prolly shoulf start while these things can be had physical with a license

Otherwise gonna be a lot o yarring into the high sea winds.