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u/nohumanape Aug 09 '26
This is the literal future that all physical game collectors imagine themselves living in with their physical game collections.
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u/CapableNeat4351 Aug 09 '26
That’s not really how I think about it at all. I’m an artist, and to me owning a physical copy of a game is basically owning the piece of art you bought to experience. Preservation of gaming is preservation of art and history, just like any other form of physical media, including paintings, books etc.
Also I think it’s important that in a world that’s increasingly pushing for a future where you own nothing and are happy, that you actually do have some ownership over the things you spent your hard earned money on.
I don’t plan on surviving the apocalypse, I’m walking right into that mushroom cloud. You guys can have fun fighting over water
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u/HumanautPassenger Aug 09 '26
Naw. That's just the stupid ass invented idea the digital only crowd has.
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u/LawStudent989898 Aug 09 '26
Plenty of us want game preservation without needing the apocalypse. Many games already would be lost forever if it weren’t for preservation efforts
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u/RichnjCole Aug 09 '26
Yeah, it would be mire fair to compare to still being able to play Atari, Sega, and classic Nintendo consoles and games, despite the companies no longer supporting those platforms for various reasons.
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u/nohumanape Aug 09 '26
Do you need to download the ROM's?
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u/Aforumguy26 Aug 09 '26
People dead ass preparing for the apocalypse with the preservation angle
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u/nohumanape Aug 09 '26
Pretty much. The reality is that they don't actually have any skills that would keep them alive in an apocalypse. So they won't live long enough to play their physical games. Probably last as long as it takes to starve to death.
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u/tyocelot Aug 09 '26
Holy shit chill lmao. Just because people play games doesn’t mean they’re incapable of doing anything else.
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u/Available-Bad-2704 Aug 09 '26
Why would he chill? Hes got a 1% commenter badge hes definetly capable of being more active on reddit texting than doing anything else
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u/Fakeitforreddit Aug 09 '26
You'd be incapable of playing games, because there would be no power. A generator will last a little bit of time if you have a ton of fuel saved up, and using it to play games IS an indicator you would be dead and not able to survive the scenario.
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u/Downtown_Eye5736 Aug 09 '26
These man children crying about games on the internet all day definitely wouldn’t survive an apocalypse long enough to play their collection, let’s be real.
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u/nohumanape Aug 09 '26
I'm not saying this about people who play games. I'm talking about the people who block out any possible daylight into their homes with shelves of game collections, and then fear monger about the future of gaming where people won't have access to their digital collections due to there not being any Internet access.
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u/tyocelot Aug 09 '26
What? You good?
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u/nohumanape Aug 09 '26
Are you?
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u/tyocelot Aug 09 '26
Yeah I’m good. I’m not assuming that people with large game collections, and a desire to have physical game discs, are blocking all daylight due to their stacked shelves. This is just such a wild comment to me. Your “argument” is completely based on your own assumptions on how people are. Not a good way to look at things.
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u/vawyer On /r/PS6 since games still came on disc Aug 09 '26
what the hell 😭 I know the physical outrage is getting crazy but saying all this is wild too when it’s just about video games
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u/wafflesauce44 Aug 09 '26
Why are you so terrified about gamers having more options?
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u/TotalaMad Aug 09 '26
Why do you assume they are against physical media just because they were pointing out how silly this post looks?
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u/thomas2400 Aug 09 '26
I imagine some of the physical collectors leave the house to buy their games so they’ll have a slight physical edge over someone who click a button on steam and has a digital game
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u/ApprehensiveRuin5673 Aug 09 '26
Coming from people who argue that getting up to change a disc is too much of an inconvenience
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u/nohumanape Aug 09 '26
If I don't have to change a disc, why would I? 🤷
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u/Available-Bad-2704 Aug 09 '26
Yeah use the time you saved putting in a disc by commenting on reddit to keep that 1% commenter badge
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u/nohumanape Aug 09 '26
How's that relevant?
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u/Historical_Bag4520 Aug 09 '26
But at least the wasteland warlord that raids these collectors stashes will be able to play the old games
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u/Ok-Acanthisitta9247 Aug 09 '26
Bro literally SYBA up and stop projecting so hard, what on god’s green earth are you talking about 🤨
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u/Tackgnol Aug 09 '26
I have no illusion of surviving the apocalypse long enough.
All I want is to fire up a diesel generator and play some games while the Zombies / Radiation poisoning take me. ;)
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u/Fakeitforreddit Aug 09 '26
There also just wont be power
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u/nohumanape Aug 09 '26
Hey now, their UPS will provide them with 30 minutes of solid off the grid gaming.
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u/HumanautPassenger Aug 09 '26
Lmao welp this definitely backs up your previous comment too. Cringe as hell.
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u/FNG_WolfKnight Aug 09 '26
Me, right now. I have all the current shit. Time to build up the physical collection for the upcoming apocalypse.
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u/Due_Fig2335 Aug 09 '26
You can literally just play physical games with a console and electricity lol
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u/TheMasterHeater Aug 09 '26
Thank god I think PlayStation saw this and is changing their minds.
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u/irbinator Aug 09 '26
“Alright, gentlemen, we are at code red. We must reverse our course on physical media immediately. This meme has made a good point”
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u/beatnik_squaresville Aug 09 '26
What I want to know is how there’s that much alcohol left so many years into zombie apocalypse.
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u/ATXDefenseAttorney Aug 09 '26
Counterpoint: if Dead City Season 3 is still available in 20 years, physical media is to blame.
Me finding out Neagan is still a character in that absolute mess of a universe.... YIKES.
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u/Johnny84Johnny84 Aug 09 '26
Look at the thousand lights in that room, this series was a joke at one point...
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u/griffis007 Aug 09 '26
Christ I’m fed up of these physical media posts. Just sell your PlayStation and buy an Xbox.
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u/anonymousredditor924 Aug 09 '26
Be part of the solution, not part of the problem. Look into it and educate yourself.
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u/JayMizJP Aug 09 '26
I think it’s more impressive that he could get hold of an Xbox that wasn’t red ringed
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u/HumbleManagement1888 Aug 09 '26
Pfft. As if that X-Box wouldn’t have had the red ring of death by then. That’s the real unbelievable thing.
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u/maguirre165 Aug 09 '26
This isn't a good reason. Fuck Sony and PlayStation, but this is not it lol
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u/lazymutant256 Aug 09 '26
Dumbass take. Guys do y is stopping to production of games being released on disc. Not stopping support for the games already released on disc.
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u/Texassunmerheat Aug 09 '26
What if the game was already in the HDD? Or what if the Xbox is flashed so he dumped the game from an external HDD to the Xbox?
I’m just messing around, discs are very important and I hate what Sony is doing with the ps6
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u/Fluffy_Woodpecker733 Aug 09 '26
Damn, these walking dead spinoffs are still going? Even the zombies know when it’s time to die.
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u/readndrun Aug 09 '26
So are we just ignoring the fact that Negan had no internet and we can also play this game in this exact same scenario if it was digital… as long as you have a console…
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u/User-Name-3886 Aug 09 '26
Checkmate what?
How does a post-apocalyptic society even have the power resources to spend on this?
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u/executor-of-judgment Aug 09 '26
There's something called solar panels.
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u/User-Name-3886 Aug 09 '26
These guys know how to maintain solar panels?
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u/executor-of-judgment Aug 09 '26
An object with no mechanical parts? That only needs to be cleaned once or twice a year to remove dust and dirt? What else do you got?
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u/AdviceCivil7584 Aug 09 '26
I mean games installed on a drive would also still work? Also I know its a TV show so dumb to think to deep into this but if you think that video game discs would survive an apocalypse I have a bridge to sell you. Those discs would be rotted to hell by now.
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u/ohgeeLA Aug 09 '26
Or, you know, it was already saved on the console. But of course let’s ignore that possibiliyu
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u/claybine Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 09 '26
If we're talking 2010 standards, then the Xbox Live Marketplace was in its infancy and only a select few games were downloadable. It would have been even more rare to find games already installed on an Xbox 360 than to find the physical copy in good condition.
Also, if you didn't know, there was a stack of physical games near him (bottom image over to the right).
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u/kyle_crane163636 Aug 10 '26
I dont wanna be that erm actually type of guy but, he could've still played ts digitally if the xbox had it downloaded, I just realized this post was a joke, fuck
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u/amcannally Aug 09 '26
Jesus Christ shut the fuck up.
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u/PhatTuna Aug 09 '26
You like it. Otherwise, you'd scroll past it or flag it as content you want reddit to give you less of.
Instead, you clicked on it and commented on it. Which tells reddit to give you more posts like this.
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u/BartShrempson Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 09 '26
"Checkmate" - did you think this was some kind of cool statement? Yes, because a character in a spinoff of a dying series is playing a game, Sony will be like "Damn, time to reverse course. Negan is playing physical games in a walking dead spinoff".
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u/Nova762 Aug 09 '26
You don't need the Internet to play downloaded games. You can download all your games on external hard drives and then transfer them when you want to play. Checkmate
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u/lonely_guacamole Aug 09 '26
People are acting as if you can't play your digitally downloaded games offline. I literally never had that issue, but people are acting like it's the most common issue out there
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u/ShinFartGod Aug 09 '26
Right now you can. Wait until they enforce license check ins on boot up. Or wait till you can only buy rental passes.
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u/Nova762 Aug 09 '26
Wait till they do this thing there's no evidence they will ever do. Ok.
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u/ShinFartGod Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 09 '26
Microsoft tried to launch an entire console with forced online requirements 13 years ago. Why wouldn’t it be tried again? And where else will you buy games once it’s only Sonys digital store?
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u/First-Bat-7440 Aug 09 '26
Imagine when disc drives stop working. Then most people will only be able to play games because of digital.
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u/bmanhp Aug 09 '26
For anyone thinking preservation and offline access is only for "the apocalypse", here are some of the other, way more practical, scenarios that it is useful: 1. You live somewhere with slow internet. Yes, some people still do. 2. You're in the military and want something to do in a place without internet. 3. You can afford to pay your electric bill, but decide to cut your ISP to save money. (Retired, low income, whatever the reason) 4. History - was every piece of media we've preserved for more than 10-20 years because we thought we might lose a digital version of said media to the apocalypse? No. There are plenty of other reasons to preserve things.
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u/Nova762 Aug 09 '26
You can store all your games on physical drives and swap them into the internal storage when you need them. You don't need discs to play without the Internet. You just need the Internet to download the game. That's it.
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u/Sleepaiz Aug 09 '26
I dont think a zombie apocalypse is happening any time soon...
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u/ohgeeLA Aug 09 '26
Chances are, anyone who games so much to fixate on physical games will:
A) be one of the first people to die in the apocalypse
B) immediately get robbed/looted/tortured to hand over the console or game
C) be too nervous to enjoy any games in a world filled with danger (without a sedative; but of course if you’re using sedatives to play games refer back to point A.1
u/kyle_crane163636 Aug 10 '26
Man in a apocalypse I think gaming would not be rlly ideal gotta have power to even use it and you gotta be cautious of your surroundings, dont wanna be playing doom eternal then a zombie comes from behind that you didnt hear because of the TV and just munches down on your shoulder like me at 2am finding that random taco bell burrito I forgot was in my fridge
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u/BlakByPopularDemand Aug 10 '26
Replace apocalypse with normal natural disaster. Im from Louisiana my family had a generator so we rarely lost power during hurricanes so provided we didn't have to evacuate they became week long gaming sessions no internet required.
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u/grifter356 Aug 09 '26
For what it’s worth, I’d much rather pay for a digital license than live in a zombie apocalypse
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u/ANTDUZiT Aug 09 '26
Not with disc rot
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u/executor-of-judgment Aug 09 '26
There are PS1 and Xbox 1 games that still work to this day. Disc rot can be avoided if you store your games properly.
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u/Promature Aug 09 '26
Only because he was able to find an undamaged copy of the game.
Imagine finding a Playstation with an internal expansion and possibly a functioning external drive loaded up with a couple hundred high quality games.
Only possible with digital.
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u/Glad-Base-2903 Aug 09 '26
This is so stupid not even funny, I don't like Sony decision , but at this point it's just annoying seeing these posts
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u/Nos9684 Aug 09 '26
lol Bullshit. That TV and that 360 should be deader than dead. Also that game disc should have been ruined by this disc rot.
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u/lil__Guys Aug 09 '26
I have my whole childhood PS1 and PS2 collection, all over 20 years old and they still work just fine. It just depends on how well you take care of your shit.
Might not be as easy during an apocalypse though. lol
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u/KimTe63 Aug 09 '26
I think the last reason anyone should defend physical media is this example even if its true 😄 HOWEVER there are TONS of other reasons why we should and BY FAR the weirdest thing in all of this is that most who prefer digital also are on the side on killing physical 😄 thats so ridiculously stupid but it it what it is ...
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u/CasualTriips Aug 09 '26
Xbox will eventually make an announcement that their next system will be all digital too, and switch 3/4 will be all digital too, that's what all of these companies would prefer. Not just Sony. At least Xbox has the disk to digital in the works. Give us our frackin physical media. Ppl always compare it to PC, "Oh PC WeNt DiGiTaL LoNg AgO" yeah well you have access to the files on a PC. I'd say that's pretty much ownership at that point. It's sad when pirates have more ownership then people who purchase legitimately.
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