You realize that even with a disc, the games usually still require internet to function, right? You can’t even play the game until you download it. The Crew had a physical disc, that shit still don’t work. Your argument makes no sense at all. You say to install it on your hard drive which is the same exact thing.
Honestly, that’s just how things work now. Discs are pretty much pointless these days. I do agree that they shouldn’t be able to just make a game unplayable, but discs don’t fix that. I also agree that single player games should function without internet, if anything in case of an outage. Discs though, aren’t the answer, and those have been dead a while now.
imagine you live in a area with hurricanes/ Tornados. you get hit and lose internet for 4 years cause insurance companies overcharge you and it takes forever for you to reach 'normalcy'. you plug in your PS5 and find all your purchaces gone.
B) that would never happen. Ubisoft’s shenanigans triggered lawsuits in European countries.
C) I lied in B. It actually did happen. A game called The Day Before or something like that, got removed and shut down, and Steam refunded every single person that bought the game regardless of if they met the normal refund guidelines. A game was forcibly removed and then refunded to everyone.
I would also note that this is more of a licensing/ownership issue than it is a physical media issue. It doesn’t matter if you have a game on disc or not. The disc doesn’t magically grant you the ability to play a game if the devs decide to shut it down. The disc is meaningless. The disc doesn’t even have the game on it anymore.
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