In the end it all became the same

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.

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
- 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 :/
- 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.
- Nintendo closing down their game shops for old hardware
- Those SecuRom games I bought. No longer functional.

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.

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

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
- 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.
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

There is a third way of just downloading the thing

Garrr, plinky!

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

Day 1 patch be like