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• Boost@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • WoodScientist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t know how to make you understand the value of owning your own things.

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    • Boost@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Do you think you don’t own a digital copy of every piece of downloaded digital media?

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      • WoodScientist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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• iamthetot@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They do now, not just in the past. FF7 Rebirth shipped on multiple discs.

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• Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • WoodScientist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So you can own your game.

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    • MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You own the games you downloaded, they’re on your machine.

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      • VerdantTome@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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      • WoodScientist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Are you a time traveler lost from 1993?

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• RaoulDook@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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