• tempest@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    So you can actually ‘own’ the game. Right now if you have the key card but Nintendo is inaccessible you don’t actually have a game you have ewaste

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      2 months ago

      But why should the publisher spend the money on it? They can’t really increase the price just for that since many games already push what the market will tolerate for a single game, and even if they’re below that price threshold, not many gamers will tolerate paying a premium for the physical media that has been standard for so long. I understand why we as consumers want physical media, but from a business perspective, particularly the suits’ perspective, it’s just a waste of perfectly good money.