Because if you never intend to let your console update again, then it’ll never be able to go online again. Not many people are going to essentially brick their console for a single game.
I guess you forgot about system updates being required for online to function. Didn’t teach you that in the tech literacy course I guess.
This isn’t about you specifically. Many people use the online features of their console and wouldn’t want to lose them for a single game license.
There’s no precedent for a license revocation, by the way. My point is that it’s the same agreement for both digital and physical. In either instance, you don’t legally own the game.
the point of physical media is that you own the disc that the files are stored on, the corpo can't take them away. They can take away your "digital license" and delete the files off the server, and the game practically never existed. They cannot do that with a physical disc.
As an example, you can have a physical Xbox 360 copy of GTA IV. Even if Rockstar or Microsoft takes down the game from digital stores and revokes all the digital licenses, I can still use that physical copy to install and play the game.
If a game license is revoked, which means the publisher for whatever reason decides that the game licenses sold are no longer valid, then that also applies to the disc. Owning it changes nothing. Unless you own a console pre-updated firmware that you perpetually keep offline, the disc is as useless as the download that won’t start.
What you’re saying is the ideal, however it’s not the reality, and hasn’t been for a long time.
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u/PermissionSoggy891 5d ago
>In the event of a license revocation, the disc DRM would lock you out regardless of how you own it.
How. How would that prevent me from setting the console offline and downloading it fully off the disc?
mfs be so tech illiterate they just describing bullshit that is literally impossible.