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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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[–] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Not only is this cumbersome, it feels really... commercial and antithetical to the point of physical media.

Digital only media is a problem because your ownership of something you paid for is tied to a service that may or may not exist in the future, just to name one issue.

This is just adopting an aesthetic of physical media without addressing any of the problems of digital media while also making that media more tedious to access. It's not actually physical media at all. It's just digital media with extra steps and a bauble to purchase too.