.. what?Kendarik said:
Who? Where? I wish to avoid these places where people can't withhold the compulsion to slather their mitts all over the shiny shiny.
People still can't hold a disc properly after 15+ years
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Who? Where? I wish to avoid these places where people can't withhold the compulsion to slather their mitts all over the shiny shiny.
From what I've seen, and from what I and my friends do, most of America still uses discs.Funkysandwich said:
We still think it is rather stupid to download digitally if there is an option to get a disc. I feel much better having a disc and a nice box to put it in than some file on a machine.
If people aren't moronic with how they take care of their stuff, having a disc is safer for keeping your games than having them on some machine that can fail and erase all proof that you had or bought said game. Purchase records don't last long, and usually one will have to purchase a game a second time if something happens to their digital copy.
Steam does help if games are lost, but it isn't fool proof and as you said an internet connection can be a problem.
I generally keep my discs in a spindle and they aren't damaged. Though I guess I don't hold discs touching the info part and none of my friends have either. I do remember though having a disc with a massive hole in it (The disc structure was fine it was just the info) and it still worked fine somehow though it did glitch out once in a while and I would just finish a level out of nowhere,
Some people have the unfortunate luck to be unemployed.Das Boot said:
Yes, you could make the argument that such people shouldn't be buying games at all, but if we're disregarding logic in this thread, then so be it.
Middle finger through the middle and...index finger along the edge? Are you like being sarcastic or something? I'm extremely confused. That just feels awkward to hold a disk like that. I either go middle finger through the middle and thumb on the edge or middle finger on one edge and thumb on the opposite.A Raging Emo said:
I'll add to this:tippy2k2 said:
C. No one reads instructions/are taught how to properly handle a disk. They genuinely don't know they are doing anything wrong.
D. They realize that it's wrong, but disks so rarely break down or have problems that the 'risks' are worth the added laziness.
Way to look like a twat, I think you'll find most people use discs, almost no one is digital only. About the only people who are DD ONLY are a small sect of gamers and early embracers; encompassing you and about 10 other people, outside of that the rest of the planet use discs.Abandon4093 said:
Disregarding most indie games (as most of them are DD only);
Most people with consoles? There's barely any benefit to paying cut throat prices for a AAA game on Xbox live or PSN that game out ages ago when the mall is literally over the road from me to get it brand new or the game costs half the price second hand. Even if the disc and the DD are the same price, it's still quicker for me to go over the road, buy it and come back and play than it is to download 11gb of data. Not only that, it's still quicker to install from disc than it is to download.
While yes I will buy AAA games when they go on sale on steam or I get a really good pre order bonus, I personally prefer physical copies to have on my shelf or collectors editions that come with physical things.
Haha I remember those crappy cardboard things N64 games used to come in. They were so cool, all compartmentalized and such, and they always had a few different things in them (I miss the colorful game manuals I would read on the way home from buying the game). Thanks for that bit of nostalgia.Owyn_Merrilin said:
I use redbox and netflix all the time. I have never had fingerprints on a disk. I get a lot of dust, and one time a disk was cracked almost all the way through, but that's it.
I would add unrepentant pirates to the list, but even they tend to have a few burned discs lying around, if nothing else. We're still a ways off from being truly DD only. If we're not fully DD on music, the one thing we've had the bandwidth to reliably transmit over the internet since the 90's, it's going to be a long time before discs are truly obsolete for things like HD video.elvor0 said:
*shudders*
Yes yes yes. This is very near the top of the list of insignificant meaningless things to be bothered about, but dear god in heaven, whenever I see someone touch the bottom of the disc it makes my brain white out for a second.
I have never, and will never, touch the bottom of the disc. Unless its already marked, and only then I will use a very soft cloth.
Ugh, the idea of it... Its freaking me out even thinking about it.
Yes yes yes. This is very near the top of the list of insignificant meaningless things to be bothered about, but dear god in heaven, whenever I see someone touch the bottom of the disc it makes my brain white out for a second.
I have never, and will never, touch the bottom of the disc. Unless its already marked, and only then I will use a very soft cloth.
Ugh, the idea of it... Its freaking me out even thinking about it.
I'm afraid I do know why this happens, because my brother used to do it. Whenever he wanted to use our old PS2, he would find the game he wanted to play and go to put it in the console. But there would almost always be another disk in the drive already. Rather than waste time looking for the box that went with that game, he would just put the unwanted disk into the box of the game he was about to play. Problem solved.A Raging Emo said:
Except, over time every game ended up in the wrong case. So every few weeks I would have to sit down and sort them all out again. I found they were usually in a chain. Crash Bandicoot disk in Ratchet and Clank case; Ratchet and Clank disk in Goldeneye case; Goldeneye disk in PES case; PES disk lost down the back of the sofa...
[/quote]By your logic it shouldn't matter if someone touches and puts their hand-prints all over your cars windows and your houses windows. It doesn't harm it right? It's annoying and there's no need for it, is the point.[/quote]Eri said:
Come on now, do we really have to go over why that comparison doesn't work?
Three paragraphs is far too many para-anythings for a two-line ribbing.elvor0 said:
