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Yes, and the games you "buy" also shrink into nothingness if the distributor goes bankrupt or you are accused to violate somebody's ToS. I wish back for the phy
by ge0rg 11y ago
Yes, and the games you "buy" also shrink into nothingness if the distributor goes bankrupt or you are accused to violate somebody's ToS. I wish back for the physical distribution of game media and offline validation of serial numbers, if only to be able to play my old games in 20 years.
- jhasse 11y agoBuy at gog.com :)
- gh02t 11y agoTrue, though half the time nowadays all the physical copy does is link to a download. The last game I can remember buying a physical copy of was Civ V and basically the only thing in the box was a link to download it on Steam. With the onerous always-on DRM that seems so prevalent in many games today I'm not optimistic that I'll be able to play many of the more recent games I "own" in 20 years anyway.
- derefr 11y agoI have a feeling that people like 4am (http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4630 http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4630) will still exist 20 years from now, taking DRMed games from today and figuring out how to convince them they're running on today's hardware and talking to today's servers, when it's really all stuffed into a twee little emulator running on your VR nosering.