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People want retail games and if the big 3 can't cover that market a new and more sustainable subject will fill that space. Maybe it's time to bring back physical media to PC, a more open system where publishers could make profit selling their retail games similarly to vinyls for music.

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[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

similarly to vinyls for music.

This one sucks so much. Vinyl coming back is awful.

  • It is heavy, it costs a lot and takes a lot of energy to transport
  • it is made of plasticizers, usually phthalates with lead as a stabilizer
  • it degrades from every use
  • the waste chemicals are often dumped into rivers and streams in poor populations
  • a lot of energy is used in the steaming and pressing
  • the sound quality is not as good as people think it is (inner distortion anyone?) and the "warm" and "feel good" sound are easily replicated in other ways. I don't want to dwell on this one. Lets just say mastering and your equipment have a lot to do with this.
[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Too bad they're still the best.

Loudness war is STILL killing CDs and digital.

Vinyl is still unable to deal with stupid brickwalled tracks without making a 12" 2-3 tracks, so until the loudness war ends, Vinyl is still going to be the best format.

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They really aren't the best, for a lot of reasons, but I should not have brought that up. If anything you are saying the mixes and mastering for vinyl are best.

Anyways my point still stands. These are incredibly environmentally nasty. The music industry loves them because they can sell the same music to you yet again.

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If anything you are saying the mixes and mastering for vinyl are best.

That's the ticket. It's really because vinyl is worse that it's become better, since it can't do the brickwalling CD is capable of. A well mixed CD will always be better than a well mixed vinyl but well mixed CDs are in short supply.

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

To your point:

Tiny sample size: but there is a cool test where a person played the CD and the Vinyl of a song to a group of friends. They choose the Vinyl as best sounding. So he then digitally recorded the record and tried again, playing the vinyl and the recording of the vinyl. Nobody could tell the difference!

Which means one of two things: the vinyl setup was better and/or the CD was not mastered in a appealing way. Likely is number two.