inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 hours agoFormer Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital"www.gamesradar.comexternal-linkmessage-square179fedilinkarrow-up1297arrow-down120
arrow-up1277arrow-down1external-linkFormer Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital"www.gamesradar.cominclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 hours agomessage-square179fedilink
minus-squareblackbeans@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 hours agoHow about we ship a box with both a digital download code and a disc? Would you classify it as digital?
minus-squareGoatSynagogue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-26 hours agoI’d classify the digital copy as digital, and the disc as physical if it has the game on it. This is pretty straight forward man. Did you download the game from a server? Digital. Did you play it or install it from a physical medium? Physical.
minus-squareblackbeans@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·5 hours ago Did you play it or install it from a physical medium? Physical. So you agree that it’s related to the medium then. Not to the distribution. As you mention, a distributed box without a disc counts as digital. A distributed box with a disc counts as physical.
How about we ship a box with both a digital download code and a disc? Would you classify it as digital?
I’d classify the digital copy as digital, and the disc as physical if it has the game on it.
This is pretty straight forward man. Did you download the game from a server? Digital. Did you play it or install it from a physical medium? Physical.
So you agree that it’s related to the medium then. Not to the distribution.
As you mention, a distributed box without a disc counts as digital. A distributed box with a disc counts as physical.