first, I don’t even want physical media. I’ve broken/lost a ton of physical media through just moving around.
second, this can’t even be fixed with physical media, because the problem is the digital media is locked through a service that can take the content away as it pleases. That’s the actual problem and is only fixed if there is no online verification component that can arbitrarily restrict access.
The physical media would still be affected by this.
So the answer is piracy. It’s the one circulation of digital copies where corporate decisions have little no influence on the accessibility or activation of those cracked games.
Or GOG. Seriously, if people rather pirate than support GOG, we’ll lose it. Over half of my games are from GOG and nowadays I don’t buy new games from elsewhere. I’ve also written a tool to download all your game installers. If you’ve got the money, support GOG.
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first, I don’t even want physical media. I’ve broken/lost a ton of physical media through just moving around.
second, this can’t even be fixed with physical media, because the problem is the digital media is locked through a service that can take the content away as it pleases. That’s the actual problem and is only fixed if there is no online verification component that can arbitrarily restrict access.
The physical media would still be affected by this.
So the answer is piracy. It’s the one circulation of digital copies where corporate decisions have little no influence on the accessibility or activation of those cracked games.
Or GOG. Seriously, if people rather pirate than support GOG, we’ll lose it. Over half of my games are from GOG and nowadays I don’t buy new games from elsewhere. I’ve also written a tool to download all your game installers. If you’ve got the money, support GOG.