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Several European retailers are reportedly no longer stocking physical Xbox games (www.videogameschronicle.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Unpopular opinion, but I'm fine with this. I only buy games digitally these days because who has the patience to put in a disk these days. And I pirate cracked copies of PC games to ensure I have a copy forever.

[–] _sideffect 23 points 11 months ago

That's what you do and that's fine, but if this becomes the norm then we lose our second hand discount market and the console companies will control the market and pricing completely.

I don't want to see that happen

[–] SpaceMan9000 7 points 11 months ago

Last time I checked most games were cheaper when bought physically in comparison to digitally.

[–] Omegamanthethird 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Intentionally buying digital makes a lot of sense for games you might play on a whim.

But I'm going to be honest, if you're playing through a full campaign, that's just lazy. If I'm going to be playing a game for the next couple weeks or month, putting a disc in affects me negligibly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Nah, it's easy to put games on an external hard drive and keep them there for future use. Takes up a lot less shelf space, too.

Losing the second hand market hurts though. But there also haven't been any box PC games in at least a decade.

[–] echo64 0 points 11 months ago

You pirate pc games that /have/ been cracked.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

I agree but oof is that going to be an unpopular opinion lol