r/GamingSecret

Not every icon needs to be cleared.

For me, The Witcher 3 is way more fun when I follow the quests I care about instead of treating the map like a job.

What gaming habit made games fun again for you?

Kojima made a good point about the future of ownership.

Physical discs going away is sad, but at least with digital downloads, the game data is still on your own hardware.

If gaming moves too far into streaming, that changes everything.

Then you do not really have the disc, the download, or the files. You only have access while someone else keeps the tap open.

For me, that is the bigger fear.

Are digital downloads the real problem, or is cloud gaming where ownership gets much worse?

Source: VGC, July 5, 2026, reporting Hideo Kojima’s comments at Il Cinema in Piazza.

Digital games are convenient, and nobody is saying they should go away.

But players should still have a choice.

Physical games matter for ownership, collecting, trading, lending, resale, gifts, preservation, and keeping gaming affordable.

A box with only a code inside is not the same as owning a real game.

If you care about keeping physical PlayStation games alive, this petition is worth signing and sharing.

Famitsu asked 5,400 people which game they would erase from memory and play again.

Breath of the Wild came out on top.

I get it.

That first time leaving the cave, seeing the world open up, and realizing the game was not rushing you anywhere was special.

For me, it is still hard to choose between Breath of the Wild, Skyrim, and Red Dead Redemption 2.

What game would you want to experience fresh again, and why?

I keep seeing people blame one company for the death of physical games, but I think it is bigger than that.

Younger players grew up with phones, downloads, streaming, accounts, and subscriptions.

PC and mobile already trained people to accept digital libraries.

Older players care more about discs because they remember lending, trading, collecting, and actually owning the box.

So maybe this is not just Sony, Xbox, or publishers being greedy.

Maybe it is companies seeing where player habits, technology, and money are already going.

The real question is simple.

Are physical games dying because companies are forcing it, or because most players already moved on?

Sony ending new PlayStation discs in 2028 feels bigger than just physical games going away.

Digital is easy. I use it too.

But once discs are gone, players lose used games, lending, resale, collecting, and one of the few ways to buy outside one locked store.

That is why this feels less like convenience and more like control.

If consoles go digital only, what should players get back in return?

Lower prices?

Better refunds?

Real ownership?

A way to resell digital games?

Or is this just the future and we already lost?

Not the big obvious chaos.

I mean the small guilty stuff.

Stealing a nice car just because the color looks good.

Following a random NPC to see where they go.

Starting drama at a gas station and then pretending you were just passing by.

Parking badly on purpose.

Walking into rich areas dressed like a complete menace.

Mine is probably stealing the first normal car that feels like mine and acting like I worked hard for it.

What is yours?

Play one clean hour first.

No guides.

No reviews.

No build videos.

No best settings from someone else.

Just play and see if the game actually feels good to you.

A lot of us ruin games before they even get a fair chance.

For me, it was the shift from feeling helpless with Grace to feeling in control with Leon.

That balance made the horror hit harder instead of turning the whole game into just another action game.

What was that moment for you?