This means you can’t pass the game around to your friends or sell it afterwards, which completely ruins the purpose of physical media imo. I mostly play PC these days so this doesn’t affect me, but it’s a disappointing direction for console games. At least they could’ve used an empty disc that has proof of ownership.

  • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I’ve not heard of this before, what does physical edition usually mean? I would have thought that meant it was a physical edition, so just a code would be false advertising

    • rangeCheck@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Nowadays even with the disc you still need to either copy the game to your console’s SSD and/or download the latest patch from online service, as the optical disc reader is not fast enough. But at least the physical disc is still a (roaming) key to allow you to play the game (instead of the digital key that’s tied to your account).

      Also obligatory https://youtu.be/kWSIFh8ICaA

    • simple@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      This isn’t the first game to do this, usually “physical edition” means you just get a box. What’s inside depends on the publisher. Usually digital-only cases have a giant warning on it that there is no CD inside.