EA goes all digital in the GSA region

[Achtung Englander]

https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/20 ... itzerland/

Bold move !

[Snowy]

Is it? I have not bought any physical media for years, but then I am not a console gamer where I believe there is more reliance on it.

[Alan]

Just because you can trade in on console. Physical media these days is just a key to say you own it since every game plays off the hard drives these days. Some discs don’t even have the data on them they just trigger downloads.

This does suck for people that rely on tradeins to afford more games but I’m always going to be for less plastic junk in the world.

[Animalmother]

I rarely buy physical copies of games now as well and I'm a console player. Stupid thing is the boxed copy of even some newer games is cheaper now even on day of release but less plastic in the ocean is always better.

[Raid]

The only machine I've really bought physical media for in the last ten years is the Switch, and only because that console has such a piss poor storage solution for digital content, and digital versions of games were more expensive than physical ones. At least in the Switch's case the packaging and media itself were significantly smaller than those used for optical discs, although they contain actual circuitry rather than just plastic. I've had an XBox One X for three years and don't own a single piece of physical media for it. I'm still fairly surprised that the industry hasn't moved entirely to download codes rather than producing discs - it'd surely be far cheaper for them, more environmentally friendly, and would barely have an impact to the consumer given that the physical media for large numbers of games is basically pointless anyway as Day 1 patches have become standard.

I had a look at my Amazon history and the last PC game I bought with physical media was Starcraft II back in 2014, and I wouldn't have had an optical drive in my PC at the time, so all of that transportation (twice; once from the manufacturer to the retailer, and then the retailer to my home), packaging and material was all entirely wasteful, because all I did was open the package, read the CD key, and type it in to a piece of software to download the data that I couldn't otherwise access. I know my situation doesn't match everyone's, but it feels like this change could have been made a decade ago, and the losses would have only been short term.

[Lenny Solidus]

Spoiler

I was (still am) such a one trick pony genre whore. Out of them all, I do believe Call of Duty: Black Ops III was the very last boxed game I ever purchased back in 2015.

[Achtung Englander]

https://www.eurogamer.net/ea-confirms-i ... witzerland

[Achtung Englander]

[Animalmother]

EA must stand for Elastic Arms now they bend that much..

[Achtung Englander]

https://www.eurogamer.net/modern-warfar ... mb-of-data

Phsycial discs are becomig licencing keys
what a joke