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.
FYI: The Xbox version will still contain a physical disc. It is just the PC versions which will not.
Not that you should preorder in the first place, but before someone cancels their Xbox preorder over the news, figured some clarification would help.
So it's like Fallout 76. Welcome to the future, gamers.
It's funny how this is never an issue when people are buying their latest favorite indie game that's only available to download.
Because it's commonly understood that they simply don't have the resources to do so.
I haven't bought a physical copy of a game in a while but don't they all come with a key that you must associate with an online account nowadays?
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