Please Save Physical Games
Hearing the news that Sony officially stop making physical games is terrible news for our community. For us, buying physical discs isn't just about collecting; it's the only way we can actually play.
To give you some background, I live in Vietnam. It is a really frustrating situation here: Sony officially sells their PlayStation consoles to us, but our country is not supported by the PlayStation Network (PSN) at all. So, they are happy to sell us the machines, but we are completely locked out of their digital store.
Sony does sell a few official physical games here, but the choices are very limited. Even so, buying physical discs is the only legal way for us to play high-quality console games and actually own what we pay for. If physical games disappear, we will be forced to rely on a digital system that doesn't even officially recognize our country.
Game piracy has been a big problem here in the past, but I won't talk too much about that right now. What I want to say is that physical games—especially the used game market—have been a huge help. It allows gamers here to play big games at a price they can afford. Most importantly, it lets people trade, share, and build a healthy, legal gaming culture instead of going back to pirated games just because they have no other choice.
So, I am asking gamers in bigger, fully supported countries: please keep buying physical games. When you buy discs, you are not just protecting your own right to truly own your games instead of just "renting" them digitally. You are also keeping the gaming communities alive in places like ours. Your choices tell these big companies what to do, and right now, we really need your help to save physical games.