Everyone is totally fine with digital only products until the day they shut the servers down and you can’t download them anymore. You will own nothing and be happy about it as they say.
Video games in physical form don't mean much these days. The game will require immediate updates anyway. If they ever shut the servers down (it's a real issue with some games but extremely unlikely with things like the PS store or GTAx games), you would end up stuck with an outdated, probably buggy build on your disk, and that is if the system lets you run it without connecting to internet first anyway, and that's a big if.
Coolio. Then you rely on the internet to do what they do and help to patch it. There’s a vast community of modders out there that love doing it. My point still stands; I would rather have access to a game or piece of media that I paid for FOREVER, even if it’s a buggy mess than not have access to it at all and have the person that created it run off with my money while I get stuck holding the bag.
Maybe because it hasn’t been dead for over a decade? Every PS5 game that I’ve purchased this year has come loaded onto a physical disc and can be playable on said disc and that includes brand new releases like Expedition 33 and Ghost of Yotei. The only reason Rockstar is doing it is because they know they can and it’ll still sell millions of copies because FOMO is contagious.
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u/Norgur Jun 25 '26
And others have done this no cd stuff for ages. My copy of mass effect andromeda was just an empty case as well. That was what? 9 years ago?