Have we stopped caring about really owning our games?

[mjs warlord]

i briefly spoke about this on another thread about buying a game on a physical disc.

Excuse for not getting refunds is because you buy it and become the licence holder ...

The cynical person in me asks does that mean 200 clever people worked for 2 years on a game and gave it me for free and i just paid for permission to use it.

 

[Frag Maniac]

With most games nowadays, regardless of whether you own a physical disc or get it from Steam...

But the thing is, even with discs, you just owned the disc itself, not the game. You've only ever bought the right to play the game, not the game itself.

 

[mjs warlord]

Hi frag .. with regards to your comments .... thats why i made a tongue in cheek comment about paying just to use it.

 

[Frag Maniac]

Hi frag .. with regards to your comments .... thats why i made a tongue in cheek comment about paying just to use it.

Yeah I saw that and understand MJ, but it's more a literal than tongue in cheek thing unfortunately.

 

[Zimbaly]

I'd rather own something on disc. When Steam or other programs go down/get bought you'll lose access to the games you rent...... oh I mean bought. My bad.

Why I also miss IP play for games that have multiplayer. Servers go down... well you can still connect that way.

 

[JarlBSoD]

I care, that is why i buy all my games on GOG first if they are avaliable there and Steam second if i can't find what i want on GoG. Then i download the install files from GoG and put on my NAS so even if internet die i have access to my GoG library.

 

[Brian Boru]

i buy all my games on GOG first

Same here up to a couple of years ago. Recently I have to compare the mod support on Steam Workshop v Nexus / ModDB etc. If a game is good, I'll be replaying it for many years—if not good, doesn't matter whether I own it or not.

i download the install files from GoG and put on my NAS

I should do that—started ~5 years ago, never continued.

 

[Alm]

I used to be all for digital for convenience and with backwards compatability on newer consoles. But after the whole drama of losing playing rights for some video content that people went through on PlayStation I'm thinking twice in future.

 

[Frag Maniac]

Have we stopped caring about really owning our games?​

I'm actually WAY more concerned about the condition they release in these days than whether I can get them on disc. I feel like anything else pales by comparison to the shoddy performance, stability, and bug problems that have been hitting us hard for a while now.

 

[Rolfil]

I think discs are pretty irrelevant these days, pc games don't even have physical discs anymore. For both PC and consoles there is normally always a huge day one patch when a game releases.

For games that can be played offline the best you can try and do is install it and then copy the installation to a backup/NAS drive.

 

[Frag Maniac]

I think discs are pretty irrelevant these days, pc games don't even have physical discs anymore.

The entire thread is pretty much irrelevant, and why I pointed out that the only thing you ever COULD own was the disc the game came on. You were only given the right to play, not own, the game itself. So discs in this context were ALWAYS irrelevant.

I also feel the more relevant discussion these days is the condition games release in. Have we become so overwhelmed by it that we think there's nothing we can do about it?

 

[Brian Boru]

the condition games release in. Have we become so overwhelmed by it that we think there's nothing we can do about it?

Oh gosh no, the BFGs [Brighter Few Gamers] know exactly what to do about it