I honestly don’t care. I understand why we moved away from it. My only issue is that we don’t actually own it. It’s a license that can be taken away whenever that company wants. I wish people would stop pushing for physical media when we’ve hit a real limitation there and instead push for regulation to get rid of this god awful licensing bullshit that has plagued the industry for over 10 years now.
You’re not wrong but I feel like getting rid of discs helps move things in the opposite direction. Yes it was licenses even with discs, but now we truly can’t resell or trade.
What I’ve preached time and time again is that optical discs are a dead technology for AAA titles. Even if you use quad layer discs it would take over an hour to transfer to your consoles hard drive, and they max out at 128GB. Games are only getting bigger and bigger. Plenty of titles surpass that. Most games that do ship on disc are dual layer due to quad layer being rare and expensive. So of course they’re phasing that out.
We really need a successor to optical media but unfortunately I doubt that will happen. However with regulation we could actually go back to owning games and not worry about big corpo delisting at their choosing.
As for used games, well……I don’t think we’ll ever go back to that in a digital format. Unfortunate circumstances all around.
That is a contributor yes but you’re going to get large game sizes regardless due to high resolution textures being so prominent nowadays. 4K gaming is what really started all this. A lot of games are still 80GB+ and that’s only going to rise with each generation. Ultimately it’s unavoidable.
That said Activision with COD is a good example of poor compression and unoptimization. Particularly with the stupid ass high bitrate audio that they use and don’t bother to properly compress it.
I honestly don’t care. I understand why we moved away from it. My only issue is that we don’t actually own it. It’s a license that can be taken away whenever that company wants. I wish people would stop pushing for physical media when we’ve hit a real limitation there and instead push for regulation to get rid of this god awful licensing bullshit that has plagued the industry for over 10 years now.
You’re not wrong but I feel like getting rid of discs helps move things in the opposite direction. Yes it was licenses even with discs, but now we truly can’t resell or trade.
What I’ve preached time and time again is that optical discs are a dead technology for AAA titles. Even if you use quad layer discs it would take over an hour to transfer to your consoles hard drive, and they max out at 128GB. Games are only getting bigger and bigger. Plenty of titles surpass that. Most games that do ship on disc are dual layer due to quad layer being rare and expensive. So of course they’re phasing that out.
We really need a successor to optical media but unfortunately I doubt that will happen. However with regulation we could actually go back to owning games and not worry about big corpo delisting at their choosing.
As for used games, well……I don’t think we’ll ever go back to that in a digital format. Unfortunate circumstances all around.
One of the reasons they are so big is that they are poorly optimized no?
That is a contributor yes but you’re going to get large game sizes regardless due to high resolution textures being so prominent nowadays. 4K gaming is what really started all this. A lot of games are still 80GB+ and that’s only going to rise with each generation. Ultimately it’s unavoidable.
That said Activision with COD is a good example of poor compression and unoptimization. Particularly with the stupid ass high bitrate audio that they use and don’t bother to properly compress it.