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Smasandian
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Digital gaming is the major reason why PC gaming has flourished in the last 10-15 years. Indie developers are able to make interesting games (or not as interesting)....and sell them on digital platforms. This rarely ever happened before Steam and other platforms came to be.

Console less so....but most indie/small/medium developers and publishers exist because of digital sales.

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^^^

Good observation. thumb up

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Disc rot is becoming more serious, it seems to be inevitable on most discs.

Happened to several of my "The Office" discs, and my Ghibli collection, both are DVDs.

However rot seems to affect UMDs, Blu-Rays, and CDs as well, be careful. This is a serious point against physical media.

However cartridges should all last like 100+ years assuming they aren't treated poorly by ANY of their owners.


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However cartridges should all last like 100+ years assuming they aren't treated poorly by ANY of their owners.


Same sorta deal with Discs too, Depends on how you look after them.


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Same sorta deal with Discs too, Depends on how you look after them.
I took really good care of my brand new, plastic-wrapped (at the time) Ghibli collection that I hardly ever actually watched and it still succumbed to Disc Rot. The Office DVD's were kept in a nice, cool place, with Season 7 barely being touched.

Disc rot is a natural occurence of the chemicals in the disc being exposed to Oxygen among other things, and all discs will rot sooner or later.


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I've had games like Dead Rising since 2006. Not to mention all the used PS1/2 discs I've found that still work to this very day.


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I've had games like Dead Rising since 2006. Not to mention all the used PS1/2 discs I've found that still work to this very day.
Oh no doubt, but check them in another 20 years and see how they work, if you still have them.

Some might expire quicker, others might take a century, but stuff like for example UMD's, LaserDiscs, etc, none of those will work 100-130 years from now.


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Oh no doubt, but check them in another 20 years and see how they work, if you still have them.

Some might expire quicker, others might take a century, but stuff like for example UMD's, LaserDiscs, etc, none of those will work 100-130 years from now.


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Better risking disc rot than putting up with that.


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I've never purchased a movie off the PSN store, If i do buy movies its always physical media.


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I would agree. I don't buy movies digitally.
Though I generally do not buy movies anymore......

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I would agree. I don't buy movies digitally.
Though I generally do not buy movies anymore......


I normally buy the films that i really liked.


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This is a me problem buuut... phones are now required to log into the older PS stores: https://www.playstationlifestyle.ne...ation-disabled/

Let's be generous and say that only 20,000 people in the world where phones are readily available don't actually use phones and still use their PS3, PSP, and PS Vita.

You can't access your purchased games.


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So with just one brilliant stroke, Sony has gotten 20,000 subterraneans to go outside for the first time in fifteen years. Amazin'.


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