• Monkstrosity@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • Tamlyn@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • CluelessDude@lemmy.zipOP
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      1 year ago

      I agree but it’s getting more and more predominant unfortunately, also that’s a neat website to know ty

  • rtxn@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • Xanvial@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      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

    • cole@lemdro.id
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      11 months ago

      a 128 GB USB drive these days is like $9 so I don’t know man