• macniel@feddit.org
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    1 day ago

    How to fricking blur erase the line between physical and digital. DISGUSTING!

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      Discs have just been a physical license key for a long time now. It’s kind of wasteful to even ship discs and the plastic cases anymore, some kind of little card with a chip on would suffice.

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        That’s what they’re doing with Switch games now and people are still getting their panties in a twist.

        Personally I’ve long since switched to all digital downloads. Even if it eventually becomes inaccessible, either I don’t plan on playing it more, or I’ll pirate and emulate it.

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        Optical discs are extremely cheap, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s cheaper than a 128MB chip of storage.

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          I meant enviromentally. I couldnt care less about the monetary cost to the companies.

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            maybe, fabricating chips and soldering to boards doesn’t come without environmental costs either

            obviously the companies won’t care about that enough to find out lol

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        That would be way more reasonable than wasting Blu-ray’s for less than a percent of its storage capacity being used by a fricking stub.