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.

  • Anissem@lemmy.mlEnglish
    17·
    1 year ago

    Some will never experience the wonder of intensively reading the manual of a game on the way home from a store. Discs are becoming as rare as Manuals now.

    • Stefen Auris@pawb.socialEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      most people rarely read the directions (and it shows), but I recall loving reading the manuals to my Nintendo64 games

      • Anissem@lemmy.mlEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Remember the little note section at the end of some manuals to scribble your tips and codes?

    • NineSwords@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Or cool nonstandard boxes. But retail hated them so now we get easily stackable standardized game cases and we better be happy about it or else.