What's that thing the internet insists you be outraged about but you just can't bring yourself to care? (sh.itjust.works)

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[-] gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 hours ago

Same here. In fact I own almost no physical media anymore except for a few rare CD’s and vinyl. All my games are digital.

The argument that this damages the preowned game market is valid to a point. Though anymore any time I shop for preowned games they’re close enough in price to new games that I don’t see the point. And if that level of greed has infiltrated that market, maybe it deserves to die.

I know someone is going to yell at me about that but that’s kinda how I see it.

[-] AskewLord@piefed.social 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

tbf i buy physical mostly because it's cheaper than digital. typically a big realse will get a 50% discount on the physical while it's only getting like 20% on digital stores.

esp for AAA and AA games. typically only for indie titles is the physical more expensive.

I do think that once they get rid of physical you will no longer being seeing massive discounts on digital games. or you might see stuff where new releases come out at triple digit prices.

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