Kotaku - I grew up, like many, blowing cartridges and spending hours reading through game manuals. Then came the boxy jewel cases and CDs. The more I loved a game, the more scratches and nicks the back of a game would suffer.
Skewed and Reviewed have written an Opinion Piece covering issues in the gaming industry, how current issues were issues years ago, and what can be done to help restore consumer trust.
Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.
How do you know if you agree with it or not unless you play it? Which without conventions forces gamers to rely on trailers. Perhaps Demos should be made more frequently. But companies need to do better as well.
But is that not what they have now? Tons of gameplay or are you talking about watching actual gamers play it versus the trailers and streams? The big issue is that some companies pay streamers and influencers and they create content but for me; that is hardly a fair, unbiased, and factual look at a game.
They usually are attached to the money sadly. It would be nice to have gamers in charge but you have so much money invested that business people are needed. Hence the issue; you need people who know business but are also gamers who know have an eye to the community. It sounds simple in theory that if you give gamers quality games that they want to play; money will be made. But that is not always so.
Marie Dealessandri speaks to Borislav Slavov and Gustavo Santaolalla about “the new golden age of games music”.
A famous actor from Starship Troopers has showered praise on Helldivers 2 and said he is open to the idea of playing General Brasch.
My discs used to get scratched, when I was a kid. None of my games have gotten scratched since I started playing xbox. The only way my discs would get scratched now is if I'm stupid enough to lend my game out. I did that with Bioshock. The disc is unrecognizable.
Never again.
I still opt for physical-based media over the cloud or digital space any day. Scratching was never really an issue for me and I just feel more comfortable having the actual game disc with me to play whenever I want, wherever I want. Though that doesn't mean I do not purchase any digital games or wouldn't prefer cloud-based gaming if it became more convenient and reliable.
Well, take care of your discs then.
I have games from years ago that look practically new.
I guess Kotaku have never heard of Blu-ray
On PC I purely digital now. PS3 is about 50/50. Less about getting physical copies and more about not having the game fast enough on PSN.
I was very skeptical about digital in the past but once I lured in with the Steam discounts I found out I prefer digital.