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Someone made physical media for their digital games. Do you find that cool, or just cumbersome? (www.youtube.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Blaze@piefed.zip to c/askgaming@piefed.social

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That person created NFC tags that can be scanned to automatically start a game when the tag is scanned.

The tag is added to a physical small box, cartridge-sized

Regarding ownership of the games files, they made a point about it at some point in the video, saying that they now only buy games from GoG to be able to just store the .exe files, DRM-free.

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[–] mohab@piefed.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

Hmm… I never really saw digital media as an issue. Problem is the lack of ownership that comes with it.

If the choice is between the GOG installer or the GOG installer on a desk, I'm taking the GOG installer every time, TBH.

I can copy it and back it up without using up much resources or space IRL, unlike physical media, so I don't see any downside to it.