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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    I honestly don’t get the obsession

    Selling the game after you’re done is the biggest one I heard. If you’re playing a single player game that you don’t expect to want to do another run of, you can recoup some of the money. Similarly, some people prefer to buy somebody’s copy for 80% of the price they would pay on the digital version.

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      But just you then just buy a worthless piece of plastic nowadays, because the license key was already added to Steam, GoG or whatever?

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        I mean, sure, but the discussion isn’t only about PCs, the question in the screenshot was about the series X. You can find pre-owned discs for consoles sold on gamestop, for example.

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          Ah, I get it now. I was so locked into PC gaming that I wasn’t aware we are talking consoles.

          Yeah, the argument gets a lot better on consoles, but I guess physical console games are a dying breed as well.

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      “Selling the game after you’re done”

      I don’t think that’s been possible for years, has it? Games had activation codes since long before downloading games became the norm, and I thought that meant you couldn’t resell them?

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        Sure it is, just Google “pre-owned games” and you’ll probably have hits from whatever the main game supplier js in your country (GameStop, GAME etc.).

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            Ah, hadn’t realised you were on about PC gaming.

            Physical editions for PC gaming for me died a long time ago as I pretty much exclusively use Steam.

            Consoles however I always try and get physical where possible.