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This could be the case, or could not be. They shared a post on Reddit 19 hours ago from their official account, and I thought it might be nice to share that here, at least to spark some discussion.
They simply shared a post titled:
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With the following image:
Link to the Reddit post is here if you want to see what others are saying about it!
For what it's worth, an external disc drive is not very expensive and they are quite small.
Why not just sell it in a cheap little thumb drive? Most games like this are very modest in size, would save people the cost of a disc reader.
Optical discs can store data way longer than nand flash storage.
Then maybe EP/ROMs instead of flash.
Do they need to?
5 years vs. 80. I'll leave that up to you.
Ideally we'd get to keep both around. I can see a world where we're trading digital media around on discs deep into the next century, but I can also see how currently there's also room for more transient media to serve less preservation-conscious people who don't go out of their way to own a disc drive.
You make it sound like they are hard to get and not just able to be purchased online like everything else.
Either you genuinely think it's realistic to expect any better from the average person, or you don't care about the average person. Either way I don't think we're working from the same notes
So the next question then becomes: does the average person even care to buy boxed games in the first place? They can just buy them online (along with that ever elusive disc drive).
I'm noticing a bit too much circularity in this dialogue tree. We both know how each other feel, why keep banging on about it?
What would be the priority from a business perspective? Saving customers the cost of a disc drive, or saving the company the cost of shifting production over to a proprietary thumb drive, most likely costing several times the price per unit of a disc?
I think the priority for the business is what people will buy. PCs don't have disc readers as standard anymore. Now the barrier to entry for physical media is either pay more for a thumb drive or pay a lot more for a disc reader.
What if they adopted the C02 canister model. Slightly joking here, but why not treat the thumb drives as a recoverable container you can get a rebate for reusing?
they cost about the same though. An Asus slim external 8x DVD usb 2.0 writer costs $50. a 256gb thumb drive costs $50. And i'm using 256GB as an example for modern games that can potentially be well over 100gb. Add to the fact said DVD drive is going to last a lot longer than a USB thumb drive. those thumb drives have a lifespan of like 5 years.
In this specific case, that's not apples to apples since most of the games on GOG are very small.
It's kind of hilarious to imagine, but I can imagine doing a "BYO thumb drive" sale for physical media. They could even mail it back in the big box
I know but that doesnβt change the reality. Most PCs donβt come with disc readers anymore. Anyone who does have an external disc drive can already burn a GOG game to disc if they so choose. Or put the game on a usb-stick/SD-card/external drive all of which are more convenient options than using a disc. Shipping boxes for an outdated technology is a purely wasteful exercise for a company like GOG because most of their games are older releases and have no DRM. I see the benefit of discs for new console releases because it allows people to offset the cost of a game by trading it in. That has always been one of the aspects of console gaming. But that doesnβt hold for GOG
The way to go. I have two of those haha.