Posted October 01, 2017
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I'm guessing as this is a community for a digital storefront that I'll be in the minority here; but does anyone else collect physical games.
I've been collecting physical games for a while now; my Sega Saturn and Dreamcast collections are small but fun looks back to my teen years, while my current PS Vita collection is becoming something I genuinely have a passion for. I also casually collect for PS3 and PS3 though my collections are all curated collections. I don't buy games just to have them, I buy games I actually want to play.
Recently I relented and started to use GOG more because there where games I missed out on. I still hate digital only games, but with GOG I get a DRM free game, so I can literally write it to disc or put it on an SD card, print off some cover art, and have my games physically represented on my shelf. I can't do that with PSN, Origin, or Steam and I resent paying for games that have DRM where a company can effectively take my games away if they decide they want to... and it's happened to me before.
My PSN account was hacked and someone bought a FIFA game at £54.99 digitally. I would never do that, I don't like football, I don't buy digitally, I certainly wouldn't buy a game that has the shelf life of a pint of fucking milk at full price. So I called Sony, told them I never bought this game and haven't downloaded it and they treated me like a goddamn criminal. So I called my bank and ordered a charge-back. Sony didn't like this and banned me... I don't care, all my games are physical so I just set up a new account. But imagine if they where digital. I currently have 106 games across PS3, PS4, and PS Vita... at the time, I probably only had half that, but still that's a lot of games. Even at only £30 per game and 50 games, I'd be looking at £1,500 worth of games. Currently my playstation collection is easily worth £3000-4000. I would have to be an absolute moron to let Sony have the power to reclaim that collection whenever they want.
This is why, while I prefer physical media, I like GOG... I buy a game and it's mine. I have a file that they cannot take away. I could copy that file and give it away to 50 people and there's nothing they could do to stop me. They trust me to respect their licence laws and respect my property rights. They don't lock my games behind DRM and treat me like a criminal before I've even done something wrong, and that gets them my respect.
Still, I do still love to collect physical games and I wonder, who else shares that passion here.
I've been collecting physical games for a while now; my Sega Saturn and Dreamcast collections are small but fun looks back to my teen years, while my current PS Vita collection is becoming something I genuinely have a passion for. I also casually collect for PS3 and PS3 though my collections are all curated collections. I don't buy games just to have them, I buy games I actually want to play.
Recently I relented and started to use GOG more because there where games I missed out on. I still hate digital only games, but with GOG I get a DRM free game, so I can literally write it to disc or put it on an SD card, print off some cover art, and have my games physically represented on my shelf. I can't do that with PSN, Origin, or Steam and I resent paying for games that have DRM where a company can effectively take my games away if they decide they want to... and it's happened to me before.
My PSN account was hacked and someone bought a FIFA game at £54.99 digitally. I would never do that, I don't like football, I don't buy digitally, I certainly wouldn't buy a game that has the shelf life of a pint of fucking milk at full price. So I called Sony, told them I never bought this game and haven't downloaded it and they treated me like a goddamn criminal. So I called my bank and ordered a charge-back. Sony didn't like this and banned me... I don't care, all my games are physical so I just set up a new account. But imagine if they where digital. I currently have 106 games across PS3, PS4, and PS Vita... at the time, I probably only had half that, but still that's a lot of games. Even at only £30 per game and 50 games, I'd be looking at £1,500 worth of games. Currently my playstation collection is easily worth £3000-4000. I would have to be an absolute moron to let Sony have the power to reclaim that collection whenever they want.
This is why, while I prefer physical media, I like GOG... I buy a game and it's mine. I have a file that they cannot take away. I could copy that file and give it away to 50 people and there's nothing they could do to stop me. They trust me to respect their licence laws and respect my property rights. They don't lock my games behind DRM and treat me like a criminal before I've even done something wrong, and that gets them my respect.
Still, I do still love to collect physical games and I wonder, who else shares that passion here.