This means you can’t pass the game around to your friends or sell it afterwards, which completely ruins the purpose of physical media imo. I mostly play PC these days so this doesn’t affect me, but it’s a disappointing direction for console games. At least they could’ve used an empty disc that has proof of ownership.

EDIT: Bethesda has confirmed that only the PC version won’t include a disc. Physical versions of Xbox will include a disc. Whew.

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We don’t own media anymore

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I never thought I’d write something like this but by pirating it and downloading it on our hard drives, we come closest to what we used to know as ‘own’

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this is why i dont spend money on games anymore. the network of pirates will always be stronger than steam’s network of business men.

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Idk, feels more comfy if the Games just work on the Steam Deck or Linux PC without needing to tinker.

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It’s more a combo of “Gabe doesn’t care” and “Steam makes it really easy to add pirated games to your list”

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Mmmmmm my torrents say otherwise. Can’t stop me! Shit like this is why I torrent unless you’ve got tapes or wax for me.

(This message was brought to you bt Piracy.)

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True, that’s why I only buy at rent price.

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Pirate -> burn to disc

Congrats, you own a physical copy.

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