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The only question I have is what’s gonna happen as game discs are just becoming an access token to download the game and its updates.

That’s a big concern. There’s communities trying to document which games are complete on the media and can be played from start to end without updates (so no major game-breaking bugs or huge performance issues) like this one:

www.doesitplay.org

I’m also part of a Facebook group that collects cartridge information for Switch games, to document if there’s revisions with all updates included.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/…/edit#gid=0

This community doesn’t test the games, just tries to figure out if there’s a “100% complete, all patches” version for each game available as physical media.

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Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
It’s good that people are worrying about this. Although, I haven’t heard of any disc game not being able to be played. I guess it would only happen if Sony/Microsoft go bankrupt or decide to close PlayStation/Xbox game updates servers.

It ain’t likely to happen but it’s important to be able to preserve games for the future as they are part of history just like paintings.

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- Phelpssan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  
  I haven’t heard of any disc game not being able to be played.
  
  There’s a number of games that don’t come with the whole thing on disk/cart, usually including only the early stages and the rest needs to be downloaded.
  
  Hogwarts Legacy and Jedi Survivor are two fairly recent examples.
  
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  - Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    As long as you have a way to download the data that ain’t a problem for me, but if one day Sony or EA closes without giving the update data to be available for everyone that would be a problem.
    
    Still I don’t see the advantage for them to only put the early stages on the disc. Are they saving money this way?
    
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- kalleboo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Tech Tangents did a video on disc games where either the DRM server is down, or the content is just not on disk www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZYy9KzFT2w
  
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