Digital is beginning to dominate the gaming and other media formats today thanks to methods such as streaming from Netflix®, music from iTunes® marketplace, the popular e-books and kindle® and Steam store®. This has changed peoples opinions over the physical product and those with great internet are taking advantage of this life change.
First I will start with the pros of the digital format. First off now there's no need for going to the store for your products since there directly downloaded to there computer or streaming to there computer or game console. Another great feature that many favor is safety of scratches to the products since its downloaded it cant crack, break, or stop working from spill of water or a moved console. A great fact is how it affects mother nature since there's less plastic from discs and paper from books wasted and this will have a positive impact on the environment.
Now with the cons, digital may have made life easy for consumers but not for media store like video stores(Hollywood and blockbuster® movie stores, bookstores(Borders® and B&N®) and many local music stores. Many have gonna bankrupt and lost their stores and chains of business's others have modernized with the B&N nook. Also people are paying more for what there getting. First of all your not getting the disc, the box, or all the paper and ink from the book, does this still change to price? No it doesn't your still paying the physical price and that isn't right. Now my last and most hateful con is nothing to do with it in the future, how would you feel if all that digital media has no resell value or no being able to share or trade it with friend so every purchase is a permanent purchase
Now I'm still not all the way with digital media but this is just the beginning and some of those cons may be fixed in the future but the permanent damage will not be. Are you with or against digital media please comment below
We were expecting problems with mod support, but there are a lot of other issues.
This is why you get the GOG version on gog you can select the version of the game to download.
On pc fallout 4 fallout new vegas and skyrim are all broken on steam because they all got the same "next gen" update.
Skyrim dec 2023
https://www.pcgamer.com/sky...
Can not find new vegas but anyone that modded it knows the script extender there was also broken
Not accidental, they want modders to stop modding their older games to force them to mod Shitfield.
There doing the same on starfield with a mods store and blocking mods
There goal is like blizzard and what they did with fallout 76 you make mods they can sell and you become a slave.
On skyrim they have "trusted" mod devs now basically a badge that lets your mod on the store you get a crumb of the sale when someone buys it.
lol to the disagrees, the last Skyrim update broke mods too. They've been trying to kill mods to monetize them in creation club for years, it's not a stretch that they purposely put out patches just to break free mods.
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
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Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer discs. I like to be able to physically touch and hold what I buy. Also, if they have nice boxart, they can make the best of a shelf :)
I will always buy disc because I am as much a collector as a video game player, movie watching or music listener. If sales eventually go totally digital there's a chance I may just give up many of these hobbies.
Disc. If you take care of your discs they'll last forever and you never have to worry about it. But hard drives crash, bugs happen that make digital content unplayable, hackers can potentially ruin things for you. Digital may be convenient, but it brings all sorts of issues along with it. Not to mention bandwidth costs. The big telecom companies are really trying to crackdown on bandwidth caps and bringing them way down.
It is all about to be moot anyway as we "return" to solid state storage. No more moving parts.
For consoles I prefer the hard copy, not only for the sense of ownership, but because I can always trade the game in later on. For PC though, I go digital all the way.
From the crazy deals Steam runs periodically, to not having to have a disk in the drive, digital seems the way to go for PC games. After all the biggest plus (imo) for disc based console games is the ability to trade it in, which just isn't possible for PC games (outside of ebay, and even then publishers are beginning to require linking the license key to a specific account... like that bunch of Nazis over at EA.)