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The discs have been a joke for a long time anyway. The first time I put a disc in and then was immediately prompted for a software update, it felt like I was cosplaying. Like what’s even the point? Modern discs don’t do anything anyway.

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Baggie@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
They are a physical token of ownership mainly, which is very important as Sony has demonstrated that will happily remove content you’ve bought because licensing ran out. That’s a huge boundary to cross.

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- artyom@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  What makes you think they can’t take away your license to a physical copy?
  
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  - Baggie@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    They totally could but that’s a hell of a line to cross. Not so much the online only stuff, but like literally everything? Why actually buy things at that point?
    
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    artyom@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Its not just that they could. They already have. Guess you’d better stop buying.
    
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iamthetot@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Well, if you were connected to the internet, it likely had patches it wanted to download.

If you’re not connected to the internet, or refuse the patches (if possible), the disc should install and play. There are some games out there that don’t include the whole game on disc (minus previously mentioned patches, of course) but they are the minority afaik.

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