- 3 days
It’s meant to stand for “digital download”, but that’s what you get from trying to shorten everything to one word or less.
They’re actually all analog, because they all get processed by your senses, which are analog.
- village604@adultswim.fanEnglish3 days
But your senses are electrical impulses, which would be digital.
- 4 days
don’t worry, it will vanish soon and everything will be “in the clouds”
aren’t you excited?
Brother, I have those 40tb raid arrays at home. None of this crap will affect me. Oh and for games I don’t play those. But if I did I would stop buying Sony crap.
- 2 days
Mindustry, Friday Night Funkin’, Xonortic, Luanti(former minetest), doom
There is an awesome list too whivh has a ton of stuff that would take me ages to list https://github.com/michelpereira/awesome-open-source-games
- aloofPenguin@piefed.worldEnglish3 days
Wouldn’t that still be digital though? Just not on your computer and not in your direct control?
3 daysBluray is still alive and well because its the only format that has full quality basically 1:1 media encodes which ironically make up the backbone of full quality media piracy.
No streaming service will ever support 70Gb+ file sizes because they never bothered to implement multicast so it would shred their bandwidth or rely on predownloading which would shred the tiny local storage included on most smart TVs.
You could of course use jellyfin or any other file share protocol to DIY, but you’d better have a stable 100Mbps minimum upload/download speed lol.
I don’t have a source, but I do believe I’ve already seen articles about multiple studios reducing their bluray releases. I think there was one studio which wanted to completely stop all of them even.
It’s still pretty good…but yeah lossless is like 1GB+ for 30 seconds.
Boy does it look good though.
Turns out pressing PVC into the shape of a sound wave is so cheap and so easy that people won’t stop doing it
- 4 days
I was thinking of having a vinyl backup of my current favourite playlist but it’s ten hours long so it could take some time
You’re going to have forearms like tree trunks by the time you’re done.
Only ten hours? Nice. I’m having trouble getting mine below 24.
I want it a nice even 17 hours, but I don’t want to change anything. Yes, I know that doesn’t work.
- 3 days
I don’t doubt that digital is more accessible and readily available than other formats. The biggest problem is that few services allow me to download locally what I’ve purchased.
So, for me, you’re not buying anything, you’re just renting for the long term.
Honestly, I’m tired of buying digital only to suddenly find out I can no longer use what I purchased. For these services, I prefer self-hosting or any method that allows me to have a working copy locally. At least I can decide what to do with the digital content.
- 2 days
Just make sure, that you don’t buy anything with unbroken DRM. If you ever lose access, you can just get it back from the pirates.
Then become gog costumer number one, you could say we pay with our wallets and for the change, Gog is right there.
but honestly, I like valve enough, me, personally, not to worry that much.
- 3 days
Steam seems to be one of the very few services (perhaps even the only one I know of) that hasn’t transformed its product by following the trend of enshittification. I have many games on Steam, purchased years and years ago, many of which are no longer available, but I can still download and play, having purchased them back then.
I really appreciate Steam, but from what I read every day, I don’t think “forever” exists, especially online. If we think of it in terms of “everything’s in the cloud,” well, the cloud costs money, so unless they somehow dispose of data, I don’t know if a company can actually keep every single piece of data “forever” while maintaining a good price and not losing out or burdening consumers.
The same goes for physical copies: I could lose them, break them, my house burn down, and I’d lose everything, whereas if they were in the cloud, I wouldn’t have any problems. The point is that consumers should be allowed, where possible, to export what they’ve purchased. Honestly, I think that anyone who bought movies or other content on some platform and then years later discovered that the company had removed them and they could no longer use them (or worse, the same content was on another paid platform) would honestly bother me.
- 2 days
You’re forgetting the two most important words:
I can still download and play
… so far.
- 3 days
UMD you mean, i don’t think MiniDisk were ever used to distribute games or even general software.
Not sure it was even used to distribute music. Was decent for copying a CD to it though…
- 3 days
No, music (unless you count Hi-MD) but except for cartridge i see no direct correlation between “games” or “general software” and the picture posted.
- 4 days
They still make CDs and Blu-Rays you know. The others are obsolete technologies.
- 4 days
And DVDs (movies get released as DVD, BR and UHD4K) and Floppies (New Amiga releases with a physical release) and Cartridges (evercade)
- 3 days
I think all games, even those in physical media, are licenses to play them, is what OP means. You might be thinking of download carts, which doesn’t contain game data, but makes you download games.
- Chronographs@lemmy.zipEnglish3 days
Well yes that’s what I assumed they meant, a non-download cart wouldn’t be just a license, it would be the license and the game data
- corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish4 days
I miss HDDVDs. Their better error correction will be missed more, soon, as this stuff degrades a bit.
- 3 days
Bluray is higher quality than all the streaming bullshit that’s usually lower than default settings x265. Also for anime the bluray is a great way to support the creator and used as a metric for deciding if a series gets picked up for more releases.
Both of those are dying unfortunately
I like blurays but at some point we need go acknowledge the truth
- 3 days
My personal conspiracy theory is that Sony is trying to kill Blu-ray before it enters public domain. (2028-2030 or so). Single-layer Blu-rays are invaluable for my cold storage backups. So I’m going to keep buying them. And thanks to them, entering public domain, innovation will be possible once again. So, in all honesty, I don’t have that much to fear, as mega corporations also use blu-rays heavily for backups, together with tape.
- Soggy@lemmy.worldEnglish3 days
How’s the long-term stability of Blu-Ray? I know we’re running into problems with magnetic tape and CDs degrading.
- 3 days
Magnetic tape depolarizes over time. CDs were organic and they would literally rot away. But as long as your Blu-ray discs are high to low (HTL)/inorganic Then you’re really set for at least 30 years as well, just like professional tape, but at a fraction of the price.
- 3 days
I also have CDs that are this old. There’s a big difference between CDs that you can burn yourself, because those are using organic materials and the weak laser in your disk drive to burn them and professionally made disks, which are usually using inorganic materials and molds. The molds then are embossed into the datalayer of the CD, making it significantly more durable than organic discs.
- 2 days
Physical mediums aren’t gone - they are just all HDD and SSD now.
I switched from CDs to HDDs two decades ago. HDDs are still great as physical long-term storage.
Your digital is just HDDs and SSDs in someone else’s computers. - 2 days
I feel sad Radio Shack ran out of business bc now you have to be at least 30 years old to know you can still acquire rippers for $10 to rip/burn dvds, cds, and games. I still use my first Xbox and my latest PS5 as DVD players. The most expensive part is storage atp.
Go to your local used game shops! There’s a treasure trove of good shit there.
You know, I haven’t tried requesting a video game through interlibrary loan and now I kind of want to just to try it. I love inter library loan
Hell, I want to try it now! Especially if you can find games that are generally rare at shops.
- 3 days
I have never been to a game shop with prices based in reality. They upcharge the hell out of their stuff and it’s insane.
- 3 days
Thrift stores used to be pretty good. It was a flat few dollars per game the last time I looked at them.
- realitaetsverlust@piefed.zipEnglish3 days
Yeah, used to. But people figured out years ago that old copies of pokemon go for 100€+ on ebay so they are basically hunting every thrift store or flea markets for elderly mothers who sell their sons stuff who moved out 10 years ago and hasn’t bothered picking his old stuff up.
You get lucky sometimes, but you’re right. Some shops are insane. It really depends on what you’re looking for.
- OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish3 days
… all of them priced like brand new games. Some more expensive than their original retail price, thanks to inflation.
At least that’s the case in my local used game shops.
But that’s okay. I can find plenty of booty to plunder on the high seas.
Yeah, a lot of shops have gone off the rails with prices. The same thing happened with the vintage clothing market. All these folks started selling old shirts on eBay for like $50 minimum, and now all of the thrift stores are picked clean, or are selling those items at crazy prices themselves.
I tend to get games that aren’t in the sought after list and get lucky sometimes. You can still find games at thrift stores if you’re lucky. You just have to hunt and be okay with disappointment lol.
- Chronographs@lemmy.zipEnglish3 days
Less thanks to inflation and more due to scalpers who will buy them and flip them on ebay if they’re not
- 3 days
Cartridge is alive and well in the Nintendo ecosystem.
- TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish3 days
Many are just Game Key Cards.
Which are like Carts, but they need to download digitally. The worst of both worlds :D
- 3 days
Well at least Nintendo themselves still releases full game cartridges and it’s not like you buy a Switch for third party games anyway. Nintendo only introduced the Gamekey card because third party publishers, especially Acti and Ubi, were releasing their own version on Switch 1 and not using consistent packaging labels to tell a gamekey from a full game cartridge apart so probably confused many consumers. Hence why Nintendo created an official version.
- OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish3 days
With storage redundancy, of course. Because eventually, your hard drive will fail.
- 4 days
At some point does it make sense to use Blu Rays?
I have a No Man’s Sky disk. Like 5% of the code on that disk is in the production game today. It’s online only, so I couldn’t even play it with the disk.
Cartridges do kinda make sense, you could patch the game on them (in theory), they can come in much larger sizes than disks too.
Side note: modern gaming is shit.
I bought Spyro and couldn’t even play it without agreeing to a privacy policy. It’s a single player offline game from the PS1 era. I installed The Sims 4, I can’t even play without an EA account. I tried Assassin’s Creed and you need an Ubisoft account to open the game.
Shit is fucking stupid.
Blu ray for data is also fucking nice. I used to use those for data backups before thumb drives got decent capacity
- OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish3 days
Cartridges do kinda make sense, you could patch the game on them (in theory), they can come in much larger sizes than disks too.
If AI wasn’t making SSD prices so outrageous right now, an SSD-based cartridge system would make a lot of sense. They could be made in a variety of sizes, to accommodate games with different filesystem footprints, and if the SSDs in them have tolerable performance, they could be played directly off the cartridge, without needing to ‘install’ anything – just insert and go.
- 3 days
Pretty sure it has the 2016 version of NMS on it. Booted up a ps4 install with it to try and couch co-op only to look around and ask why the UI was so different from what I was used to. It had internet access we thought but it can’t have or it would have installed whatever the latest patch is. It was surreal seeing pillars of Emeril again.
But you point yes, gaming single player offline is a joke now with DRM requiring single player online. We ripped EA Simcity for this. Simcity died to City:Skylines because it became such a movement.
