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Starfield physical release won't include physical disc (szmer.info)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/gaming@beehaw.org
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[–] 13 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Boxes should come with branded USB sticks (who even has a disc drive these days?), and if the physical version isn't a box why even bother. Random swag is the point.

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  • [+] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)
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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Well, my previous PC still had disc drives -- two in fact, a DVD reader and a CD-RW. Only because I didn't get a new case and didn't have any replacement front panels, though, they were never connected because PATA doesn't work well on a SATA-only board. Also still had a 3.5" floppy drive, also not connected, for the same reason.

    Now my case doesn't even have a bay to put a drive into.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Well, the PS5 and XBOX Series X still use disks as their physical media... but yeah, the Series XBOXes in particular could switch over to those storage modules you can slam into the back of the consoles. At least for exclusives - the XBOne has no port for those.

    But for PC... I reckon most people buy games on Steam there anyway.

    And while I would appreciate swag... I think most developers would only go with cheap non-brandname USB sticks with the logo of the game printed on it, that's built just good enough to not spontaneously combust if you look at it funny.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    No, they would spend way too much money on custom USB drives. There would be 20 different kinds, with the super premium gold edition* only being available as a preorder bonus that costs $20 extra.

    *does not contain real gold

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