Without physical games:
- Midnight launches are dead
- Collectors Editions lose half of their value
- You can’t share, trade, or sell your games
- You can’t buy used games
- If there’s a server outage, you’re shit out of luck
- YOU OWN NOTHING
I think the most insulting part of the recent game discourse is how it assumes that gameplay is just a surface level aspect of a game and not a major part of the experience. That's why game developers made a game for an interactive medium and not a book!
No matter how much I might’ve soured on the whole twitter experience there’s just nowhere else in the world where you are going to see a collection of words like this 😭