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[-] IcePee@lemmy.beru.co 138 points 1 month ago

This is yet another nail in the coffin of physical media. Or, in other words games you actually own instead of long term lease.

[-] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 136 points 1 month ago

It's not like physical media makes any difference anyway these days.

Actual disk often gets just a glorified installer, and even if it includes the entire game you're likely to have to activate it online anyway.

The "own your games" ship has sailed long ago, unless you only buy no-DRM and your own backups.

[-] criticon@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

It does if you rent

I've been using gamefly for a while, I can't rent digital only games

[-] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

Sure you can. wink wink 🏴‍☠️

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