Discs situation is crazy, and we don't need discs
You know that Sony and Xbox announced that they won't be supporting discs anymore, it most likely means that new gen consoles will be without CD readers as well.
Big part of the community freaked out, but I am convinced we don't need discs at all.
What was the purpose of CDs?
- Play and install your games offline
- Share them with your friends
- Keep the game after it's delisting
- Physical token of ownership
But discs are pretty much useless as of now. You can't install it offline, you need internet connection to do it. CDs are not immortal, and most likely will fail to read after 20 years or so. They are pretty bad for ecology, it is pure plastic. And generally speaking not many people buy them.
But they don't fail at one point: Token of ownership. Corps cannot come to your house and take your discs, they can do it with your account tho. We don't need discs, we need a way to own games, and share it's ownership.
This is what GOG does on PC. Unfortunately platforms like GOG are not possible on consoles, cause Xbox and Sony monopolize market on their platforms, and I think it is fair. But if we want to have real ownership, which is better than CDs, and can live together with store monopolization by corps on their platforms, what options do we have?
I'm not the man who likes to put crypto in every hole, but I think it is perfect for this. Cut off trading, coins and other scam crap. We talk about ledger, about blockchain. Personally I would love community to force corps to consolidate ownership on blockchain. They can't take it from you, you can share it with others, no one can duplicate ownership, everyone is happy.
I would love to hear community reaction on this, and I would love to have ownership of my games, without useless piece of plastic in my house.
