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.

  • InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    17·
    1 year ago

    What I don’t get is why even release a physical edition if it doesn’t have the physical media.
    I own a lot of digital games through Steam, but releasing a physical copy of a game that only has a key in it is just weird.
    Might as well be a gift card.

    • hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      yeah that’s that part that sounds almost like fraud

      like wtf this sounds like they are trying to sell this edition for a marked up price to ppl who thought they’d buy a physical disk. That’s fraud 101: deceiving customers. On the list of scummy things it’s somewhere between macrotransactions and Nigerian prince.