I was more or less accepting of the age where PC games are going through distribution platforms instead of being available in stores, especially since piracy is so easy. I like my consoles to have physical games so they're their own entertainment gardens independent of DRM. My world consists of PC and Vita, with occasional trips to older consoles where I have physical copies, and I don't get why people are so willing to give up the near-eternal physicality of actually owning a product instead of a license to said product.
Also, those physical games which just come with a fucking code, and aren't able to be played independent of a DRM service? They and those making those decisions can lick my ass after a hot diarrhea shit. If it wasn't for the Asia English games for Vita, I wouldn't get or own half the games I have.
Christian Phillips
Consoles are their own form of DRM even if you don't consider it that way. Locked down OS, proprietary hardware, separate online services, etc. You could claim compatibility or something with cartridge based systems but seeing as PCs and perfectly capable of playing almost any console exclusive imaginable (even accounting for specialty hardware) through emulation or the games just being ported later the only thing stopping people from playing a PS4 or Vita exclusive natively on a PC is console DRM and exclusivity deals. In an ideal world there would be a choice between physical and digital but producers are generally looking from a cost standpoint: why spend money producing and distributing disks/paying fees for stocking and making 15$ per game when they could just make their own digital distribution service for pennies and charge full price? The best thing would be console manufacturers being unable to sustain "research" costs into converting shitty ten year old PC hardware into DRMboxes and just becoming software developers but that would just open another can of horseshit with them all trying to compete with some retarded form of DRM there. The future is digital only and digital only is cancerous.
