Comment on Ubi, it's $70 and people are vary of your mile wide puddles that drop 75% in price after half a year

• emb@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yep! And it’s really surprising to me that so many people are OK with that sort of defective-by-design anti-feature. It’s a single player game, why would it have any dependence on networks or servers of any sort?

  Not to say that I’m against digital distribution altogether, I think that’s a perfectly valid preference w/ pros and cons.

  But if you are going to sell the video game on a disc? Shipping a whole playable game seems like a pretty low bar to meet. Most games (that get a physical release) in [current year], for every year that exists so far, don’t have a problem managing to do this.

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  • Halosheep@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    … Are there discs that can contain 123GB of data? Should they just start distributing tiny solid state drives you plug in to your pc and play from?

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    • emb@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Fair point, some games are very big. FFVII Rebirth and Baldur’s Gate 3 shipped on 2 discs though, it’s not unheard of.

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    • keyez@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The highest capacity blu ray disc can hold 128GB

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    • Rin@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They fit GTA V on a single disk on launch. Sure, textures were blocky and effects looked like piss but you could play the entire game offline.

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