In the end it all became the same

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• Monkstrosity@lemm.ee ⁨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.

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  • Whirlybird@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What software aren’t you able to access anymore that you’ve paid for? On PlayStation and Xbox at least even if stuff gets de-listed you can still redownload if you bought it. Same with physical disks

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    • iheartneopets@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I remember it happened to me back in PS3 days. Back then, they had the PS1 spyro games on the online store, so I used my well-saved Christmas money to buy them as an early teen. Then a few months and quite a few hours of gameplay later, I was really confused to find that I could no longer find them on my account anywhere. Not sure what happened with that licensing-wise, but I could never play the games again and I was so bummed :/

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    • rengoku2@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Those SecuRom games I bought. No longer functional.

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    • papyrus@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Idk if it’s happened for games yet, but at least for movies it has happened. I think there was a case with Disney revoking The Lion King license from Apple, and then Apple removing the movie from users libraries.

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    • TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nintendo closing down their gane shops for old hardware

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• tamlyn@lemmy.zip ⁨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.

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  • CluelessDude@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨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.

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  • CubbyTustard@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • Dagnet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      pretty much only way to do this nowadays is buying on gog, downloading the installer then moving it to your preferred media

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    • Whirlybird@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This would just pave the way to rampant game sharing/loss of sales though. 1 person buys a physical copy of a game and then just loans the install disks to 20 friends who all install it too for free.

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  • Xanvial@lemmy.world ⁨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

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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Don’t you remember the time when we used to install shit from those disks?

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  • cole@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• plinky@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There is a third way of just downloading the thing

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  • ThunderChunk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Garrr, plinky!

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• Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If it’s not downloading the game, then it’s the day 1 patch.

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• balderdash9@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Day 1 patch be like

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