Technically... (Gaming)

by Claude Errera , Wednesday, March 07, 2018, 13:24 (2250 days ago) @ Cody Miller

...plus whatever cost the manufacturer feels like adding to discourage you from ordering replacements. I've had to buy $20 bits of plastic for my refridgerator - pieces that I can now have made for me in a 3D printer for a buck (and THAT allows for a profit margin), but for which there were no alternatives 20 years ago. That's not a 'replacement value', that's a 'we don't feel like dealing with your shit' value.

I don't think that would fly if you had just paid thousands of dollars for AutoCAD. Maybe people just think 60 bucks is not enough to worry about then? Clearly it is since nobody seems to want to pay more for games.

Even so, physical replacement parts for machinery is very different… the Disc is only for transport of the data, not for a functioning use in the contraption.

These guys offer replacement disks for $10 for most of their games:

https://www.herinteractive.com/2016/12/replacement-game-discs/

Both Nintendo and Microsoft offer free replacement discs for products bought in the last 90 days, if they're not working with your system. (Nintendo says this doesn't apply if you damaged your disc, only if it failed for manufacturing reasons.)

Every manufacturer gets to set their own rules on this, and most say "screw you" to the consumer. That has nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that you've licensed, not bought, the actual CONTENT on the disc.