WB Won’t Stop Reminding Us Why Physical Media Matters

Опубликовано 23 марта 2024, 16:16

Adult Swim Games will soon be no more, as delisting or deletion is imminent at WB Games. Adult Swim Games indie developers got confusing warnings from Warner Bros Discovery that soon their games would be removed from Steam, and they might not be able to recover or get control of the soon to be delisted games. Is this yet another sign that physical media dying out is the opposite of what we need, with streaming assets being impossible to own. Maybe the physical media vs streaming war isn’t as clear cut as it was once seen, with the Christopher Nolan physical media commentary in mind. The fact that we own nothing is disturbing; lost media is more rampant than we thought in the digital era. IS there a way to prevent digital indie work from becoming lost media? Is your old  DVD collection more important than you thought? In the case of cost cutting measures from WB Discovery and David Zaslav: maybe yes. Coyote vs Acme was shelved by Warner Bros and we never get to see Wile E Coyote and John Cena on the screen together. We don’t even have hope of a Coyote vs Acme movie trailer of the erstwhile Looney Tunes movie. So, make sure you own the movies and games you buy: physical media still has its place.

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