• R0cket_M00se@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      There hasn’t been one for more than ten years now.

      Games stopped fitting on disk media during the PS4/XBOne launch, you’ve had to download 90% of the game (it’s almost like the disc is a product key 🤔) ever since then. Had they decided to, you could have been fucked out of your DRM even WITH A GAME IN YOUR HANDS ever since then.

      People are really out here a decade after the death of physical copies acting like NOW it’s finally being killed. Shits been dead for years, you just couldn’t see it until the game companies finally stopped giving out discs due to it incurring costs with no real value.

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    1 year ago

    The decisions Xbox have been making are constantly poor. Why even waste time printing the cases then?

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    1 year ago

    I’m just gonna say, I have never in my life been one to buy the “deluxe edition” or “ultimate edition” for games as it always seemed like a cash grab. But as someone who was legitimately considering buying the constellation edition, after YEARS of major fucking hype for this game…this one decision is making me hesitate. Why even sell a physical case then?

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    1 year ago

    I believe my last experience with physical discs was GTA V PC, it had like 6 DVDs and several discs were partially bad. I had to polish them with toothpaste and stuff to get them to work. IIRC it took like 12 hours to install 60GB and then I still had to download a ~20GB patch before it would let me play. I had like 3 megabit internet at the time, so it was pretty annoying.

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      1 year ago

      This has been an ongoing trend for years now. Microsoft wants everyone to rent GamePass instead of buying a game physically forever.

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        1 year ago

        Remember when this was like a big deal though during the XBone launch?

        And then they just…quietly introduced this new way of killing physical copies. And hardly anyone cares.

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    1 year ago

    “We’re physically sending you a code to download the game. The servers you’ll download the game from also physically exist.”

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      1 year ago

      At this point we should have had game copies with little read-only USB drives in them.

      Read-only to the end user, but companies can update them with their unique keys.

      But because of anti-consumer fucking everything all we have is this live service shit.

      The only way anyone will be able to play this game in 20 years is through piracy archives.

      And that’s how I’ll be playing it this year. I just don’t care to pay $70 for something I can’t own in any way.