I don't think you understand economies of scale. It doesn't make sense for me to pay retail price for a single unit, especially if I have no other use for it. These costs are trivial at scale, and would also hopefully provide some impetus to optimise the code and texture storage.
bandario
joined 2 years ago
I've got a better idea. You want to make your game stupidly large? Ok fine, sell me a physical copy pre-installed on a fast USB stick. Job done.
They just don't have any stock on any of it and it isn't coming back.
Please crawl back into the weird hole you crawled out of.
Try getting parts for the original fairphone or fairphone2.
I always had a vision of doing the same but with SD cards, complete with album art in a little booklet. I never found a suitable player that would lend itself to the project. They do exist but they tend to be garbage.
Giant blunt. More human than human.
I had one on the very cusp of MP3s becoming mainstream. One of my first purchases when I had my own income.
It was a random Chinese "discman" with MP3 playback functionality and ID3 tag support. I also owned a CD burner.
It was pretty slick. It would only read the disc until the track was loaded to memory so coming from a cheap knockoff discman the anti skip was next level. I could actually run with this thing! I'd have to stop and let it load between tracks but no big deal.
It didn't rock my world as hard as minidisc did, which I completely fell in love with but it was still pretty cool. I still struggle to believe that we no longer have physical media of any kind. I'm an album guy and it still feels kind of wrong.
You have just been unlucky. I've never had any such issue. Were you using stock CPU cooler? I'll admit the CPU cooler that comes in the box with AMD is atrocious.
Where do you even come up with this stuff? People who give a single shit about raytracing: buy Nvidia. Anyone else with half a brain...
Alright I'm in. What do we do for the world?
I am happy to pay whatever extra it costs to have the experience of actually owning a game on a lasting medium with some artwork. My experience with digital downloads is that I just never care as much. Often I won't even finish the game unless it is beyond amazing. I like to receive tangible things for my hard earned money I guess.