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.

  • @simple@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    This isn’t the first game to do this, usually “physical edition” means you just get a box. What’s inside depends on the publisher. Usually digital-only cases have a giant warning on it that there is no CD inside.