Yeah, it's been on its way out for a while now thanks to boxes with nothing but download codes or discs with basic setup files w/ the same. Meanwhile saw these after doing this post:
Someone else sent a me similar article, and yeah that sounds pretty neat. I wish more companies let us do that. There's been just a scant few. Like I remember when
Unreal Tournament 3 showed up on Steam years after it came out standalone for PC, and Epic let you put in your physical copy's serial key to get a free digital version on Steam. That's what I did with my copy. Awesome sh1t.
I also appreciate it when devs let you duplicate games across stores.
Witcher 2 on Steam let you register the game on GOG to get a free backup copy there. I remember for a while GOG was doing this thing where it would scan your Steam library and then add GOG versions of some of those games to your GOG library.
I've had consoles since 2nd-gen and I think 8th-gen was my last one, so I don't have any of the current 9th-gen consoles and don't plan to get any. But if I
were looking to buy such a console, I sure as f*ck would NOT get the ones that are missing optical drives. Would suck if there were no more physical copies of games. Already happened with PC, consoles are the last holdouts. There are some people who prefer to buy games on console just cuz physical copies are still around. They'll be screwed like us PC gamers come 10th-gen, it sounds like.
As for movies, how the f*ck are we supposed to get quality BD rips if BDs don't exist anymore? Even when people gank the digital files for the streaming versions and run them locally, those things don't have anywhere
near the bitrate and quality of BD movies. I don't do streaming. The only streaming I do is from my local internal HDDs, my optical drives, or my NAS.
