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>Physical is best!!!
>disc gets scratched, pet or sibling breaks it, housefire or natural disaster destroy entire collection in one go
>Digital is best111!
>Steam closes down in the future, therefore no more games
Well?
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>>737140994
>buy a decent sized good quality 20-40TB HHD for the price of ~3 games
>[Steal] games
>have a permanent copy for eternity
>every few years, buy a HDD (probably even more space for cheaper) and make a backup, then put it somewhere safe from random explosions
Piracy is best.
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>collection
Why are people such fags nowadays? You buy physical used games and sell them after, borrow them from friends, get them at the library. You pirate digital games. You don't need a collection, you need to play games.
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>>737142390
All it takes is for Gabe to get compromised. Mentally, emotionally, or if he's found in certain files. The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
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>>737143643
I've played and sold more games than you've ever known buddy, I've been here for 20 years. I have like 4 discs in my house Halo 3 ODST, the second disc from the Oblivion collector's edition, a Spider-Man 2 Songs Inspired By The Movie, and a copy of Spyfox in Dry Cereal I got out of a cereal box. Kill yourself, you don't even play video games.
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>>737140994
No matter what we do our games will disappear forever eventually.
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>>737142390
>Steam has been running for 24 years
That's not even a lot. And nothing lasts forever. Gabe won't be around forever. Investors and richer people out there can just take Steam. Rebrand it or change it to something else effectively resulting in it dying.
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>>737140994
I've never had a disc get scratched so badly it doesn't work and I once let my cousin borrow Call of Juarez Bound in Blood and he loved it so much he passed it around to his friend group I was kinda friends with. In total it was months and like 6 households before I saw it again and it still worked perfectly
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>>737140994
3 words:
Ruggedized local storage.
I have redundent local storage in different locations of every game I have ever truly cared about, and because I grew up when games were smaller in size and designed around local play this is very easy for me.
Physical-only or service-only idiots scream and shit their pants at the idea of actually owning your files locally in an easy backed up manner for some reason. I only point out the superior method because I want to help them preserve their experiences but they get defensive about it.
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>>737144539
My friend swapped my 360 from sitting to standing while it was running Command and Conquer 3 and that was a reliable way at that time to scratch it in a way that makes it unreadable. That was the only time for me.
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What's more likely to happen, your game disc gets lost or gets scratched. Or Steam becomes permanently offline?
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>Steam closes down in the future
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>>737145803
I think steam going offline totally is incredibly unlikely, but the idea of your steam library existing and being just as accessible at the same level of user-friendliness for the next 5 decades of your life is also in itself very unlikely. How will they make it worse? I have no idea, but things do typically get worse for this sort of thing as people die and new greedy blood enters the game. Always have a local backup for this reason, don't depend on steam like it will always be there for you in the same capacity because that's how you get burned.
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>>737146167
How do you know it's not gonna happen?
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>>737146182
>How will they make it worse
Every single update steam had to it's UI has made it look worse and work slower, so I expect these to continue until we're all forced to use Big Picture 2.0 for maximum suffering
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>>737146302
Anon has no power to keep it from happening. He would be sitting on the sidelines watching whatever court case or legal battle determines the fate of the games he bought a license to but does not have independent access to. It's a whole lot harder to take away something you have than it is to get back something you don't.
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>>737140994
That's why I just pirate most of the games I want, unless it's something I really want or friendslop.
Also because I'm poor.
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Don't mind me. Just collecting Megumin reaction images.
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>When the fat kike dies the steam will be compromised as if it wasn't always compromised noooooo
You'll still keep buying steam games and start shilling Gayben's retarded sons. And stop posting Megumins or I will kiss you on the lips.
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>>737147208
Obligatory.
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Imagine
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Physical is great. You can frisbee the disc out the window when you get pissed off at Tony Hawk 2.
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