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.

  • @rangeCheckEnglish
    5•11 months 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