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  • I wouldn’t, it’s not technically “physically” on your drive.

    Like, the real benefit of physical media is that it is separate from the medium you use to view it on. If your blu-ray player breaks, you still have your disks. If your computer breaks, you might not be able to recover those files and then they would be lost forever. Maybe if you have an external backup that can be disconnected from your system? That I’d be closer to considering physical media, since it can be disconnected from the medium.

    If you really wanna fall down a rabbit hole though, what’s the difference between an installation server being taken down, and a disc you own getting smudged and becoming unreadable? In both cases, your access to the media you “own” was lost due to factors outside your control.



  • djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoGreentext@sh.itjust.works•Anon makes games
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    3 months ago

    there have been a pretty large number of live service disasters in recent memory. from CA’s Hyenas being so terrible that it got shelved after a playtest, to Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League (blech) crashing out within a year, to Concord getting pulled off the Sony store within months, to most recently Highguard lasting a mere 45 days… and that’s just what I can remember off the top of my head. Every single one of those games was a flop, with Concord famously losing Sony millions of dollars.

    all this amidst a sea of studio layoffs happening year over year, I think it’s fair to say that the western AAA scene is currently floundering.