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.

  • Anissem@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    Some will never experience the wonder of intensively reading the manual of a game on the way home from a store. Discs are becoming as rare as Manuals now.

    • NineSwords@lemmy.mlEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      Or cool nonstandard boxes. But retail hated them so now we get easily stackable standardized game cases and we better be happy about it or else.

  • Astigma@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    The fact the tweet this information came from has since been deleted could mean it’s false info. We’ll see if Godd Howard clarifies in the coming days.

    • Port8080@feddit.deEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      Even if it includes a physical disk, it will most probably only have the launcher or a downloader on it.

  • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    The only reason they didn’t go down the path of serialized discs was the digital market being on the horizon. They were always going to nuke the second hand market.

  • freakrho@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I recently got a ps3 from a friend and have been buying cheap games and having a blast, this will be impossible with the newest consoles

    • buda@lemmy.mlEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      They are trying to appeal to collectors but also want to squash selling or trading your game. MS has been trying to do this for 10 years.

  • SpacemanZ@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    A lot of games haven’t been released on disks anymore, it’s a real shame really.

    I understand that games have gotten bigger, but they could always ship with a really cheap’O USB stick for the people who really want a true physical copy.

  • impulse@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    I honestly don’t get the obsession with physical media. That’s a thing of the past, my PC doesn’t even have a drive anymore.

    The only benefit I see is a reduced download size, but with day one patches sometimes being 40+ GB that’s also not always the case.

    It’s not like you own the game, just because you have a physical copy of it. Once the licensing servers are shut down that disk becomes a paper weight, and that is if it doesn’t require a constant connection to begin with.

    On the other side you could argue that it’s better for the environment if we finally get rid of all disks. Is it a huge impact compared to everything else? Probably not, but it is a step in the right direction.

    • the_vale@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      I honestly don’t get the obsession

      Selling the game after you’re done is the biggest one I heard. If you’re playing a single player game that you don’t expect to want to do another run of, you can recoup some of the money. Similarly, some people prefer to buy somebody’s copy for 80% of the price they would pay on the digital version.

      • impulse@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        But just you then just buy a worthless piece of plastic nowadays, because the license key was already added to Steam, GoG or whatever?

      • lightstream@lemmy.mlEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        “Selling the game after you’re done”

        I don’t think that’s been possible for years, has it? Games had activation codes since long before downloading games became the norm, and I thought that meant you couldn’t resell them?

  • NineSwords@lemmy.mlEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    Well, isn’t that exactly where Microsoft wanted to go in the first place all those years back when Sony made fun of them in E3?

  • ericflo@lemmy.mlEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    I’m really curious who the target audience for this is. I guess if you have gift cards for Gamestop, although huh, this kind of turns them into a key reseller with extra steps.

    • Arcaneslime@lemmy.mlEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      Mmmmmm my torrents say otherwise. Can’t stop me! Shit like this is why I torrent unless you’ve got tapes or wax for me.

      (This message was brought to you bt Piracy.)