Fact is, current software licensing laws needs to change. Doesn’t matter whether I own a physical copy or a digital copy, a company shouldn’t be able to decide that I can’t access the product I paid for anymore.
this post was submitted on 26 Oct 2023
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I know it's a joke, but that's not completly true. There are a lot game that are playable without downloading something. Does it play is a website that shows you, if your pysical version is able to play a game without downloading something.
I agree but it's getting more and more predominant unfortunately, also that's a neat website to know ty
People keep saying that they want to have the whole game on physical disks -- but I wonder how they'd react to the likes of RDR2 running from optical disks.
You are about to enter Saint Denis. Please insert disk #8. And then you have to wait for the world to pop in because rotational media is inherently slow.
FF7 Rebirth planned to comes with 2 blu-ray disks. It should copied to SSD though, no need to run it from disk all the time
Don't you remember the time when we used to install shit from those disks?
a 128 GB USB drive these days is like $9 so I don't know man
If it's not downloading the game, then it's the day 1 patch.
Day 1 patch be like