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.

    • nameisnotimportant@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I never thought I’d write something like this but by pirating it and downloading it on our hard drives, we come closest to what we used to know as ‘own’

      • ValiantHobo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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        1 year ago

        this is why i dont spend money on games anymore. the network of pirates will always be stronger than steam’s network of business men.

        • neo@lemmy.comfysnug.spaceEnglish
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          1 year ago

          It’s more a combo of “Gabe doesn’t care” and “Steam makes it really easy to add pirated games to your list”