• Death_Equity@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Aluminum cases need to become standard for physical copies. Not plastic with an aluminum veneer, all aluminum.

    They can be cool and do aluminum tubes holding a flash drive with the game on it if they want so they can laser engrave the sides and screw on top with the title and art.

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      9 months ago

      So your take on an environmentally unfriendly and resource-intensive way to package games would be to make it worse?

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        9 months ago

        It’s a tough one. You’re not wrong by any means, but equally the environmentally unfriendly bit is why people buy physical media. The memory card holding the game is mostly superfluous because of day 1 DLC or patches, but it’s the box; art; manual; and physical tangibility that matter to a collector of the media.

        Ideally there would be a middle ground - sack-off the normal physical edition and purchase the memory cards themselves - and push up the price and pay for a premium edition of the copy made from better materials.

        I suspect we’d only get the worst of both worlds though, the cynic in me thinks.

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          9 months ago

          There’s also the ability to lend or re-sell physical game-card editions of Switch games.

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            9 months ago

            Ah yes, there is that. Is that still a thing these days? I remember EA’s Project Ten Dollar a few years back gating a lot of extra features or multiplayer behind a single use code being fairly widely adopted.

            I’ll admit to being a bit behind the curve now, I still predominantly use my Xbox Series S, One, and 360 just to play Doom in different rooms so maybe I’m not on the cutting edge of news!

            edit: it wasn’t five dollars at all, more like ten!

    • VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      I remember getting Prince of Persia 2008 in a steel case for a birthday or maybe Xmas and loved the design of it. I haven’t seen my steel case editions recently.