What’s wrong with the disk being a license key? That’d work just fine for my plan of reselling the game and console when it comes out on PC.
Games like that don’t really fit on discs anymore when they are probably over 100GB. So you get a disc and put it in the console and then it downloads 150GB more content onto the console, that means the disc is just a license key anyway.
What is a bigger issue is that they want to charge $80+ for a game. I’m not going to pay that much for any game.
Joelk111@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
When the studio stops hosting the game to download, the license key is worthless.
Joelk111@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I suppose I should clarify that I’m not advocating for it, but it’d be better than a digital key that’ll be tied to your account forever.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Nothing wrong with that, except that it’s weird. Reselling games is not important to me though, I just keep what I get and add to the collection. Still have a physical boxed copy of Halo for Mac OS X in my attic even.
Being able to share the game with family or friends would be a plus. I can do that with my Steam library without discs too.
forestbeasts@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Two discs. You put in one, it installs half the game, you put in the other, it installs the rest of the way. Or three or even more discs if the game is THAT big.
WoodScientist@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Games came on multiple disks back in the day. Why not now?
Boost@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
To what end? The reason games came on multiple disks back in the day is because Internet speeds were slow (if they were there at all.) it was way faster to load via disk, and companies couldn’t even count on users to have a stable Internet connection anyway.
That’s not true anymore. The only reason physical disks exist at all now is more out of tradition than anything practical.
WoodScientist@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t know how to make you understand the value of owning your own things.
Boost@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The fact that whole game isn’t on the CD isn’t some conspiracy to deprive you of ownership. Putting it all on CD isn’t going to defeat an always online requirement. It’s solving a technical problem. Long term game ownership is a problem solved through legislation or piracy.
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Do you think you don’t own a digital copy of every piece of downloaded digital media?
iamthetot@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
They do now, not just in the past. FF7 Rebirth shipped on multiple discs.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Why even? I stopped using discs when CDs were the thing. Skipped DVD and bluray completely. Don’t even had a drive for over a decade now.
WoodScientist@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
So you can own your game.
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You own the games you downloaded, they’re on your machine.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They could do that, but it would cost them more money to provide that convenience to the customer. Since they are high AF on their own hype for that release, they have no motivation to do that.