I am also upset they are ending disc production.
I don’t understand why they need to be phased out or ‘replaced’ as a medium other than greed.
You’ve said in other posts that physical media can often have a 30 year lifespan, but that’s more than Sony’s digital lifespans. You typically only get ~10-15 years for Sony’s digital services (upfront: I asked gemini about this) which is half the lifespan.
Why does optical need replacing with something else if that something is worse?
there is no modern physical medium to replace 30 year old garbage optical discs.
So then don’t replace them :)
Why do they need to be replaced?
Excuse me but Satan shoves pineapples up Nazi arseholes.
If anything you are saying the mixes and mastering for vinyl are best.
That’s the ticket. It’s really because vinyl is worse that it’s become better, since it can’t do the brickwalling CD is capable of. A well mixed CD will always be better than a well mixed vinyl but well mixed CDs are in short supply.
Because of Stargate.
AI was definately hurting supply before that, but it wasn’t ‘unlimited money’ hurting supply, they could only buy up at a reasonable rate.
Trump’s Stargate project and China’s instant response has eaten all the ram.
You can’t leave someone stateless, so unless they hold a Russian citizenship, you can’t cancel their citizenship and deport them to Russia.
We have to deal with our own trash, even if it’s polluted from afar.
no one on Steam is allowed to price below Steam.
That’s not true at all.
Too bad they’re still the best.
Loudness war is STILL killing CDs and digital.
Vinyl is still unable to deal with stupid brickwalled tracks without making a 12" 2-3 tracks, so until the loudness war ends, Vinyl is still going to be the best format.
In one way, he’s right, but that’s probably not what meant either.
What he probably thinks: AI could have done most of the creative work for a new expansion.
What would have actually helped: AI could have helped convert the old expansions and main quest to the new formats used, such that the WHOLE DAMN GAME was actually available to everyone again.
wonders what happened to the skills required to program efficiently enough to make that work.
They all got bought by Three Letter Agencies and big tech. Games don’t really pay.
64GB ~400MiB/s is $15 for Nintendo.
In 2019 a 32GB Switch1 cart was around $9 (or ‘double the cost of a 50GB PS4 BD’ according to Daniel Ahmad)
So it’d be plausible, but would increase the cost of physical games and games would need to decrease their sizing (or require and install and compress the hell out of everything, decompressing on installation - maybe ask FitGirl for some tips!)
Also killing 500 movies.
Maybe they should get AI to do the AI prompts so they can cut down on costs XD
couch fucker and annoying orange are left
mamdani is right
rrriiigggghhhttt…
They’re not dropping it, they’re hoping you take it.
But leave them with the L.
The opposite, with Switch1 there were a bunch of games where third parties cheaped out and just put a code in a box.
Switch2 added game-key cards to replace the code-in-a-box with a license dongle in the shape of a cart.
It still requires the eshop to download the game, but it’s not tied to an account, it’s tied to the card, which can be resold or lent out.
Solves a few of the issues with digital while doing nothing for preservation.
IT said no
Affected exactly zero people ever, just ask a manager higher than the service desk manager. Then suddenly whomever said no will be doing the work with a fake smile of their face.
USA is awful but France still exists…
Skyrim > 4 years > Fallout 4 > 4 Years > Fallout 76 (yes, it was Todd’s team that made the map and original quests) > 4+1 years > Starfield