This means you can’t pass the game around to your friends or sell it afterwards, which completely ruins the purpose of physical media imo. I mostly play PC these days so this doesn’t affect me, but it’s a disappointing direction for console games. At least they could’ve used an empty disc that has proof of ownership.

EDIT: Bethesda has confirmed that only the PC version won’t include a disc. Physical versions of Xbox will include a disc. Whew.

  • feral_hedgehogEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    I haven’t bought a physical copy of a game in a while but don’t they all come with a key that you must associate with an online account nowadays?

    • simple@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Nope, most of them do have a disc inside where you can just plop it in. You have to install the game from the disc and usually download a day-one update, but at least you don’t need to download the whole game.

      • feral_hedgehogEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Yeah but OP is upset about not being able to share or resell the game, which isn’t possible after using the key, even with the physical copy…

    • InFerNo@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      When there’s a disk you can use it to preload a large chunk of data so you don’t have to download everything. Useful for remote areas or areas with low bandwidth.