Wow. This three decade old movie is perfect for our times.

Here’s a disk that will trigger a download, how’s that sound

What, you don’t want your Nintendo cartridge key? Which gives you permission to download the thing you already bought to have a physical copy of in case Nintendo servers go down at any point???

What people are going to do about this? If you don't boycott or protest in a way that will effect the companies in large scale, you will get a download code. Same thing goes for switch 2, that people complained and still bought, and this goes for any gaming device or not. Call me crazy, call clown, call me communist, but people should cut them off, stop, stop buying, its your voice, our voice, we pay and the do hear us.

Me: "One game please."

Retail Salesperson: "Here's a QR code to download the game."

Me: "If I didn't want physical media, I could get it without your QR code."

Retail Salesperson: "How would you manage that?"

Me: 🏴‍☠️

Game is 2TB 🤷

disk

Optical disc, not a magnetic disk.

Mate. So many disks I got with games since assassin's creed black flag were corrupt and required a download anyway, or required an online login and forced update to be able to play, making offline use of the physical media impossible. And when they decide to stop supporting the game, online servers are shut down and the physical disk is nothing more than a beer coaster. Even when you purchase a physical game you need to register in Steam or any other gaming platform, you still just bought the rights to play their game instead of owning the game. When they don't rant you to have these rights anymore, they can remove the game from your library whenever they want. Again, disk is just a coaster. Even physical products are not really your ownership. BMW hiding car features ON YOUR CAR behind a paywall, phone companies selling you the right to use their phone with their service, bloatware and restrictions on there. A fridge YOU BOUGHT which stops working if you do not update or have it constantly online, which uploads gigabytes of your data daily, which force shows ads. Like, what the fuck. You don't own shit anymore, even if you paid for a physical product.

"$80?

In 2007 it was $50, then $60.

grabs baseball bat

Let's slash prices back to the 1995 Sears catalog. Link to the Past. Price..."

...ss..sixty dollars!

"...bullshit"

no, really, look

"No, that's... what?!"

Howd you get my husband in a meme? 😉