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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Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 1 month agoIt’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.
kalleboo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Phelpssan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
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?