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NoXPhasma@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoYou never own any game, unless you code it yourself. You might hold a CD in your hands, but the game is still owned by someone else. You only have the right to use it as noted in the license you agreed by purchasing it.
You have no idea what you are talking about. You can own and resell any physical piece of game media. If you have a gameboy cartridge, nobody can take that game away from you. If you have DRM free game files from gog, nobody can take that away from you.
The only case where this disgusting lincense shit is possible, is when games require being online and logging in to unlock the DRM.
Your physical media will degrade over time and you will eventually lose access to their fame you bought physically. There’s no correct answer in this, unfortunately, and is fully your opinion. You can own and resell your physical media until it no longer functions and then where are you? You’re in the same boat as the person who bought digitally and lost access to their license. Even DRM free games from gog are only around until they stop hosting your download. If they stop hosting it and the hardware you own with your copy on it fails, you will again own nothing.
Although, at least with DRM-free games you’re given all the tools to preserve the game yourself if you want to.
This argument applies to almost anything that’s possible to own, though. What happens when your bike degrades to the point that it’s not usable as a bike anymore?
1000% it does. But if your tires wear out you can buy new tires. If a chip wears out in your game boy color cartridge, are you going to replace it? Is there a shop you can bring your old disc to that can restore lost data?
DScratch@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It’s true. Every book, movie, game or piece of software you’ve ever used (unless you made it yourself) has been subject to some kind of licence, that can be revoked.
egonallanon@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Sure but no one is going to come I to my home and take my physical books away in the same way that can happen with online digital services.
Philote@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
You can reverse this logic though. If you lose or damage your physical copy it’s gone forever, digital copies can mostly be redownloaded/recovered anytime.
Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I had never thought about this but this is a great argument in favor of digital vs physical.
Still I prefer owning my games when given the choice.