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Time to bring back physical media on PC? (slrpnk.net)
submitted 20 hours ago by SolarPunker@slrpnk.net to c/games@lemmy.world
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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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[–] Dookieman12@piefed.social 2 points 8 hours ago

No. Optical media bad.

The issue isn't the copy being physical. The issue is the included license being too limiting.

Licenses aren't new or necessarily bad. Even physical retail copies of movies with a license. You know that FBI and InterPol warning at the very beginning? That's your license. It basically just limits you to personal use. If you charge people money to come to your house and watch it, or if you charge money to rent it, you need to purchase a copy that comes with a license which allows that.

If you were around during the days of movie rental stores, if you ever lost a rental movie and had to replace it, it would often cost $100 or more because you were replacing a copy that came with a rental license.

An ideal purchase would be a digital copy with a license similar to the one included with physical retail copies.