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[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 29 points 3 months ago

I've never scratched a digital game too hard to play.

GoG offline installers, my love

[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

I’ve never scratched a disc to make it unplayable.

[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 3 points 3 months ago

Well I've never done it on PURPOSE. But a lot of little scratches add up over time.

[-] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

Seriously? Maybe it's just cuz I was a poor kid who had to play the same games a shit ton but I went through at least 5 different disks in my time that I can think of just from playing them too hard.

Something closer to to 50 for disks that were scratched from other shit, though that'll include music CDs and DVDs too

[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

The only disk that I ever had get destroyed because of my own incompetence. Was a copy of the first season of Stargate SG one, it was actually the first disc of that season. And what happened was I left it outside of its case, in an area that allowed the sun to go across it every single day for about a month and a half.

It discolored the disk, and also made it unplayable , had to buy a new one.

That was fully on me.

Many of my games that I played in the late 90s and early 2000s I would play over and over and over and over again, never scratched them.

[-] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 23 points 3 months ago

All digital games can be physical if you source them properly..

[-] noobdoomguy8658@kbin.social 4 points 3 months ago

They're all physical if you go far enough - they're just not on your phsycial medium (yet)...

[-] Ptsf@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

Physical games are a lie. What you want is drm free digital games! Best of all worlds.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

No no no. I want a bunch of little tiny plastic and cardboard pieces that take forever to arrange and pack up when I'm done. I want text that's too small to read. I want a rules book that I need a degree in to properly interpret. And only ever want to play during the handful of times a year I can get everyone around the table together.

[-] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 months ago

Digital games on console - shit

Digital games on steam - sexy

[-] Ptsf@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Amount of times Steam has made me have any semblance of concern for the continued playability of my library over 19 years: 0

[-] StaySquared@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

LMAO. Thank you for this.

[-] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago

I enjoy the convenience of digital games. I don't like having to figure out which case my kids put a game in because they sure as shit don't put them back in the right one.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Is this about digital downloads vs. physical media for video games, like most seem to be assuming, or is it about video games vs. board games?

[-] greedytacothief@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

That's what I was thinking. Getting together to play physical games with friends > digital games.

[-] Halosheep@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Is this digital vs physical as in video games vs tabletop? Or is it "digital copy" vs "physical installation media"?

this post was submitted on 16 May 2024
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