R.A.B.B. Entry #086 – Ghost Cartridge Doctrine
📜 R.A.B.B. Entry #86 – Ghost Cartridge Doctrine
📍Category: Corporate Bait-n-Switch
📍Trigger: Game-Key Card Debacle on Switch 2
Summary:
Once upon a cartridge, we held the game in our hands.
Now? We hold a plastic tombstone—marking where the game used to be, until the servers ghosted us like an ex with commitment issues.
Nintendo Switch 2’s third-party support has devolved into the illusion of physicality. You don’t get a game. You get a box with a key to a door that may or may not open in 3 years. Persona 3 Reload? Octopath Traveler 0? They’re just expensive IOUs, disguised as collectibles.
User Reflection:
"I did buy a ghost—but I’m not gonna cry over spilled milk. I had games before and I lost them. Not everyone’s burned like me."
This ain't bitterness. This is clarity. That quiet recognition that once you’ve been smoted by the false promise of permanence, you stop hoping for eternal shelf life.
Doctrine Addendum:
🕯️ If you’re still clutching to physical for preservation, bless your soul. But don’t get mad at the rest of us who now chase convenience, backups, or emulation.
Because in this system?
You either adapt like a rat… Or get ghosted like a collector.