No, it is not. It’s a reason to not buy Ubisoft games, physical or digital. Physical games usually still have a code that’s linked to an account and you have to download the game from an server online. Physical games now are just as digital as digital games, but they come with added plastic waste.
The reason to buy physical is for the collection of physical games. Don’t illude yourself into thinking it’s actually on the disk though. That hasn’t been the case for a while now.
For PC games, no, they’re not actually on the disc. For console games, they generally are the full game, albeit sometimes buggy without the day-one patch.
I said “generally.” There are a few publishers that ship empty discs, and some games that are completely broken without a day-one patch, but most still have a playable game on the disc, at least on PlayStation. On Xbox, for games that have backwards compatibility with One, they often couldn’t fit both game builds on one disc, so they made one version download-only instead of shipping two discs.
Not only that is not always the case, but with the locked down nature of consoles it would be way more difficult for a console owner to override any online DRM even if he had the whole software on disk.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
No, it is not. It’s a reason to not buy Ubisoft games, physical or digital. Physical games usually still have a code that’s linked to an account and you have to download the game from an server online. Physical games now are just as digital as digital games, but they come with added plastic waste.
The reason to buy physical is for the collection of physical games. Don’t illude yourself into thinking it’s actually on the disk though. That hasn’t been the case for a while now.
EveningNewbs@lemmy.world 1 year ago
For PC games, no, they’re not actually on the disc. For console games, they generally are the full game, albeit sometimes buggy without the day-one patch.
magic_lobster_party@kbin.social 1 year ago
Even console games are just shipping empty disks now. Call of Duty did that last year if I’m not mistaken.
Karza@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
This isn’t the case. Many console discs download up to 60 gb worth of stuff
EveningNewbs@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I said “generally.” There are a few publishers that ship empty discs, and some games that are completely broken without a day-one patch, but most still have a playable game on the disc, at least on PlayStation. On Xbox, for games that have backwards compatibility with One, they often couldn’t fit both game builds on one disc, so they made one version download-only instead of shipping two discs.
azuth@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not only that is not always the case, but with the locked down nature of consoles it would be way more difficult for a console owner to override any online DRM even if he had the whole software on disk.