• shinjiikarus@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      This has been an ongoing trend for years now. Microsoft wants everyone to rent GamePass instead of buying a game physically forever.

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        1 year ago

        Remember when this was like a big deal though during the XBone launch?

        And then they just…quietly introduced this new way of killing physical copies. And hardly anyone cares.

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          1 year ago

          Physical copies were dead in November of 2013.

          People just can’t accept that the moment a game needed a day 1 update of 40+GB that their physical game disk is just a product key you can hold.

          You haven’t been getting the full game on disk (and by extension, owning your full game) for literally a decade now. DRM isn’t even a question anymore, hasn’t been for a long time.

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            1 year ago

            I’ve known this for a long time. I just think making a fucking game case and it having a literal code inside is just worse.