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Is there any way to legally acquire Scott Pilgrim vs. The World?
- Thread starter Chrno
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Congratulations, welcome to our digital-only future!
(This is why I still buy and support physical and why I'll argue for physical media until my dying breath)
(This is why I still buy and support physical and why I'll argue for physical media until my dying breath)
Is buying a console with it on it even technically considered a "legal" way of acquiring it? I didn't think the digital licenses were transferable either?
More or less legal. There's a grey are in that, since you sell the system which has licensing holding over digital games... That's why GameStop and so ask you to format your consoles before trying to trade in them.
What a shame.
That's one of the shit things about the indies from the late 00's...they didn't forsee the licensing issues.
It's why Super Meat Boy is forever tainted.
That's one of the shit things about the indies from the late 00's...they didn't forsee the licensing issues.
It's why Super Meat Boy is forever tainted.
This game would have never been made if not for digital-only distribution, so what is even your point? Like I could understand if you were clutching a Scott Pilgrim jewel case to your chest, but you aren't so...
Licensing is the problem, but if there were physical copies of the game available people would still be able to acquire and play it.
I doubt that Anamanaguchi would have any issue allowing the use of the songs again, but that would be up to Ubisoft(?) I believe.
As for the license for Scott Pilgrim itself, has Bryan Lee O'Malley even been contacted about it?
They just mean if it had gotten a physical release we wouldnt be having this problem. Far more indie games are opting for a physical release in addition to digital releases, so the barrier to physical release is far lower than it used to be...but that came too late for Scott Pilgrim.
I have a PS3 with this little awesome brawler, Outrun Online Arcade and Afterburner Climax. 4000$
I'll throw in english copies of Hakuna Matata and Aquanaut's Holiday too!
I'll throw in english copies of Hakuna Matata and Aquanaut's Holiday too!
Pretty sure their point was that this can and maybe will happen more in the future. Amazing Spider-Man 2 got pulled from digital stores a while back, but that game is still available if you can find it on disc. But if the future is all digital, that wouldn't be possible.
But we wouldn't have gotten the game at all if there were mando physical releases. These types of games just weren't being made anymore for consoles until XBLA became a thing.
The only legal way is acquire someones PSN account that has the game.
Or you can come to my house to play it.
Or you can come to my house to play it.
Licensing is a problem for tons of games getting re-releases from all generations and platforms, but it's not a problem with physical copies of games. I can't play a digital copy of, say, SNES Goof Troop on my PS4 or Switch, but I can still pop it in my SNES because the physical copy exists.
There's plenty of games that were developed as digital downloads that have had physical releases like DuckTales Remastered, Axiom Verge, Shovel Knight, etc. When the day comes I can no longer download those games, I'll still be able to pop in my physical copy and play them.
From what I understand, the real roadblock isn't Anamanaguchi, Bryan Lee O'Malley, or even Ubisoft, but Universal Pictures.
Digital (ideally) would be available at all times, but licensing crap or companies not giving a shit prevents it from happening.
Physical still limited by number of copies produced. At one point companies also stops re-releasing them.
Truth.
Also i was looking for this. Want to play it co-op with friends.
You cherrypicked the most successful digital titles. Like of course they get the limited run physical releases. That's not the case for the vast majority of small budget digital titles, however.
Damn, having to license specifically the movie as opposed to the IP itself is sort of a drag, though I guess there is some sort of contractual issue here.
Which is why physical media should always be an option, that's the whole point. The physical copies of games exist regardless of licensing or a company not keeping a game on their servers.
Did you know a game collection can be destroyed in natural disasters like floods or fires?
Why do some of you argue so vehemently against physical media and want a digital future? Why are you okay with massive companies deciding what you can and can't play a few years down the road?
The point is that one can still get copies of those games should they so desire.
I can't buy a copy of After Burner Climax anymore, but I can go buy a copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga, a game that's been out of print for nearly two decades, right now if I wanted to. Yes, it's several hundred dollars, but it's still far more available for purchase than Scott Pilgrim is right now.
Isn't disc rot more of an issue with burned discs? Though to be fair, some small batch physical releases and reprints do use burned discs...
Modern cartridges (Switch, 3DS, probably Vita?) are mostly mask ROM, which should have very long lifespans based on my understanding and a quick web search. Older carts with EEPROM or battery backup RAM for saves could have problems of various sorts.
Yeah, but then you just get the problem of discs of select games becoming incredibly rare and going for fucking outrageous prices. Also physical media is prone to eventually rotting and becoming non-functional. Your just trading one set of problems for another.
It's such a great game.
A fucking shame it never came to PC.
Is it still downloadable if you have it on your psn/xbl account?
A fucking shame it never came to PC.
Is it still downloadable if you have it on your psn/xbl account?
You wont be able to play any of your physical games when the day 1 patches are taken off the servers. Or it asks you to login to psn before being able to access the main menu.
Its a shitty future and both ways suck now
I dont recall anyone suggesting that physical releases should be mandatory, just that this is a potential downside of not having them and that more devs should do physical releases now that it's feasible for small devs to do.
Personally, I just feel like this is all beside the point. It was a $10 release for home consoles in 2010. There's no version of reality where this would have ever released as a retail disc.
Oh yeah I don't disagree with that, AFAIC games with a physical release that are reliant on digital downloads or being connected to the network are part of the problem.
Discs dont just spontaneously rot. You can absolutely preserve physical media if kept in good conditions. We still have books from hundreds of years ago, you know.
For ridiculously high costs.
Look at something like Rule of Rose or Haunting Ground that got limited release stateside; an indie game like this surely would have also had a very limited physical run.
I agree with you that physical ensures more playability through the possibility of circulation, but both distribution methods have their pros and cons.
Earlier CD games are more prone to it, so think like Sega CD or Turbo CD.
But you can still buy them, which one can't do with digital only games that have been delisted.
And yes, a piece of physical media will eventually succumb to the ravages of time, like most things, but then you're gambling as to whether or not the services that will let you redownload your digital game will still be available 10, 20, or 30+ years from now. We've already seen the Wii Shop Channel go down, how much longer will the PS3 store, or Wii U eShop last?
The game would have never existed physically. So enjoy it digitally or just wipe it from your memory
I actually do still have this on my PS3, and as purchased in my PSN account..
BUT, I would still love to try the poorly reviewed Turtles in Time remake. I know it wasn't supposed to be great, but STILL. Love that they tried. (Yes, I'm also aware of the soundtrack being garbage lol).
BUT, I would still love to try the poorly reviewed Turtles in Time remake. I know it wasn't supposed to be great, but STILL. Love that they tried. (Yes, I'm also aware of the soundtrack being garbage lol).
