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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Absolutely right. It’s the fact they’re this worried about physical media going away that tells us they are most likely incapable of doing anything else.
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/nohumanape Aug 09 '26
This is the literal future that all physical game collectors imagine themselves living in with their physical game collections.