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1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Sep-2023 06:49:24 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   I found one shop (the one shop?) in HK that still sells #BreathOfTheWild .

   Kid asked why not just buy the digital copy in the Nintendo Shop?

   Because it's the same price, and the physical copy is obviously superior! He doesn't get it.

   - The digital copy could be made useless at any time
   - It's tens of gigabytes of local storage, my friend bought an SD card simply because he downloaded BotW
   - If I'm not going to play this any more I can give it to a friend

   His argument:
   - If you sit on it, you could break it

   Fair. Wear and tear does happen. Apparently his friend broke one of his Switch games. But, just treat it right and I'm 100% sure the physical copy will last longer than your access to the digital copy.

   1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Sep-2023 06:53:13 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      in reply to
      Piracy is obviously superior to either option, but I don't have the time and effort to spare to look into that.
   2. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Sep-2023 14:55:31 EDT lnxw48a1

      in reply to
      @clacke I think experience and observation is the difference. When my nephew #Honshu was much younger, he was subscribed to an online music service. One month, my sister couldn't pay the Internet bill, and the service's local client very quickly shut off access to his downloaded music files when it could not check to see if he was allowed to listen.
      
      Lesson learned: buy your music on CDs and rip them to put on your player devices. With no #DRM / #TUR, the files will work even without a subscription.
      
      Likewise, I bought a version of the Sony #PSP for #sonTwo ... the one that used a digital download format for all games. In under a year, he'd lost access to all his games. I went to GameStop and bought a used PSP (the old style with the physical media) and he was able to play for years.
      
      DRM == "Digital Rights Management", a euphemism for TUR. TUR == "Technical Use Restrictions". TUR is meant to restrict and prevent use except in limited and pre-approved circumstances.