segagamer said:beastwhitedude said:Ugh digital only means I'll have to grab this on another platform... why do people hate producing physical games for the xbox?
Because we're at a time where we should be reducing our plastic.
...he said, sitting on the his Ikea couch made of acrylic fibers, wearing shoes and clothes made of polyester, while sipping his coke out of a PET bottle and chewing fast food, packed in PP and styrodur.
Come on guys, that argument simply is ridiculous, exactly like "you won't get any more manuals in the game boxes - just for environmental reasons."
All that counts for companys is money. Digital only means not to share that money with retailers and to have better control of the market, e.g. no used copies.
A huge amount of online traffic produced by digital-only-downloads isn't any better for our planet, as the gigantic server parks consume a lot of energy. Streaming and downloads produce massively CO²!