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Used physical copies degrade and are an objectively inferior offering to new copies. Digital copies don't degrade unless artificially made to do so. The copies
by hekdev 7y ago
Used physical copies degrade and are an objectively inferior offering to new copies.
Digital copies don't degrade unless artificially made to do so. The copies can be traded for infinity without ever degrading or lessening in value. Which essentially mean that with time the demand for any game would be vastly outnumbered by the supply of cheap "used" copies that never ever degrade.
It would be very hurtful to indies since they will be the first ones to have their games dumped on the market, even if they're good.
- falcolas 7y agoI have old physical copies of Nintendo Entertainment System games that are still perfectly usable. I have playstation 1 games that show a few scratches, but which are still 100% usable. I have some PS2 games that got scratched all to hell, used a CD repair device on them, and they still work just fine. They are a digital product, not analog. They don’t degrade with time, for all practical purposes. You’d have to physically destroy the media, which takes quite deliberate effort in most cases. When it comes to videogames on CD’s, DVD’s, BluRays, and Cartridges, the age of the media means effectively nothing when it comes to a playable game.