They do now, not just in the past. FF7 Rebirth shipped on multiple discs.
Games came on multiple disks back in the day. Why not now?
iamthetot@piefed.ca 16 hours ago
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 17 hours 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 12 hours ago
So you can own your game.
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
You own the games you downloaded, they’re on your machine.
VerdantTome@programming.dev 9 hours ago
If you buy DRM-free, then you own the games you downloaded. But if your downloaded game has to phone home to ask if it’s OK to run or install, you don’t own jack. You’re renting.
WoodScientist@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Are you a time traveler lost from 1993?
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 16 hours 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.
Boost@lemmy.world 16 hours 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 12 hours ago
I don’t know how to make you understand the value of owning your own things.
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Do you think you don’t own a digital copy of every piece of downloaded digital media?
WoodScientist@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
No. You don’t. A copy that can be remotely deactivated is not something you own. If you can’t use it if the company were to go bankrupt, then you don’t own it.