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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.Games used to come on dozens of floppies or few cd's but you could still install them to the hard drive before playing them once hard drives got big enough.
I think that's what people mean about owning physical copies, the ability to install them offline from media you own not necessarily play them from that media.
pretty much only way to do this nowadays is buying on gog, downloading the installer then moving it to your preferred media
Spider-Man 2 can be played fully offline from the disk https://twitter.com/insomniacgames/status/1714325690173083971
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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Yeh but none of that would work now in the internet age. There is literally nothing short of requiring the disk in the console/PC as DRM that would work.
well dongles do still work and are probably one of the few actual anti piracy methods that does. But yeah the code wheels and such didn't survive the net that's true.
nothing works, that's why software piracy still exists
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
Don't you remember the time when we used to install shit from those disks?
a 128 GB USB drive these days is like $9 so I don't know man