Blog:Grust's Top 5 Reasons to Hold Onto Your Physical Media

Ever since the arrival of the Google Stadia, people have been speaking about the future of cloud gaming despite Stadia's less than stellar performances. Personally not only do I not see cloud as the future of gaming, I simply don't want it to be so here are my top 5 reasons why you should hold onto your physical media. While I mentioned this topic on my final 10 tips to defeat SJWs, I wanted to go into a top 5 for this.

5. Streaming Games is Not the Same as Streaming Movies, Television, or Music:  While streaming movies, TV, or music is becoming popular, Gaming requires a lot more power to stream. As we've seen with Stadia, the games overheat the modems and input lag is common and framerate and graphics are atrocious in comparison. In addition, you have the save states. Many games require almost 60 hours to beat and not counting sidequests or exploring for collectibles. What happens if you don't renew your subscription should you be unable to pay. Your save state is gone. You'd have to start all over from scratch. Meanwhile, my game saves are battery back upped, saved to hard drives and memory cards. Years from now, I'll pick it up and play again and continue where I left off.

4. Internet Can Go Down: Let's say cloud gaming gets better and internet improves, will that make things better? Well, what happens when the internet goes out or you have to cut it for financial reasons. Guess what, you're not gonna play the game anytime soon. Hell, while we're at it, let's say the internet goes out right now? What am I to do? Walk over and pick up my SNES controller and I'm playing Zelda: A Link to the Past right now. While we're at it, what if something happens to the streaming company. What if say TyrantRex got me so steamed I render him completely immortal and plan to launch him into space to drift for a thousand years to think about what he did. As I launch him, Masson Thief shows off his brand new TurboGraf-X 16 and amazed by the console, I accidentally launch Tyrant straight into the Netflix building, destroying their hardrives and removing every single movie and show they had is gone. No worries, I got VHS tapes and DVDs. To those who got rid of them, well you're screwed.

3. Some Games Get Removed: Going back to the final ten tips on defeating SJWs, the biggest example of this is with P.T. (though SJWs were innocent in this case) when Konami removed it due to canceling Silent Hills. Unless you got thousands of dollars to buy a PS4 that has it, you're screwed. I'll give another example. Let's  say 7 Days to Die is removed from Steam. Oh no, what shall we do. Well I happen to own it physically on my PS4 so I'm solid.

2. Way Too Easy to Get Banned on Some Networks: We live in an age where some people are way too easy to offend. I've even joked SJWs would be offended if I so much as ran my fingers through my hair. And sadly some companies are taking their side, banning people over something any sane person wouldn't be bothered by (seriously SJWs now want to ban clapping). So when you post something on a gaming network that some algorithms are put in to detect "offensiveness" expect to be banned. Seriously there are even speed runs on getting banned on PSN like this. Now to be fair, he did post something even he had to censor, but I've even heard of people being banned for no reason. At least when I own a physical copy I don't have o worry about stepping on eggshells.

A quick honorable mention.

SJWs: I've actually talked about them being a reason to hold onto physical media already on my final 10 tips to beat them, so this is off the list.

Okay number 1 is....

1. You Truly Own the Game: When you pay to stream a game, you're not actually paying to own the game, just for the right to play it. That also gives companies power over you and is a big loss to game ownership. Streaming gives you even less ownership than a downloaded game, because at least if you hold the data in your hard drive, you can play it as much as you want, but remember reason 3 and games require a lot of data so you'll need big hard drives. Meanwhile, look at my collection, I OWN all of them. I can even delete my saves if I want to play something else. They are mine forever.

Some moron: Well you don't own them either it's still just the license. It's been going on since NES.

Me: I'm holding the game in my hand. I'm putting the NES cartridge in my NES, no internet needed, no updates, the whole game. If what you're saying is true, then Nintendo if they wanted could easily barge in and take my game if they pleased. It's my game now. And owning it makes it the biggest reason to hold onto physical media.

Any other examples I missed? Let me know in the comments. And if you're wondering what would make me render you immortal and drift off into space for a thousand years, it's owing me 5 cents.

