“It would be great if people had to buy more of the thing,” says guy who makes money selling the thing.

  • @[email protected]
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    121 year ago

    Discs don’t have the capacity to store modern games anyways. I mean, how many disc would it take to store Starfield? Its’s not going to work.

    • eleanor
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      111 year ago

      They do. sorta. It’s definitely possible to put something like Starfield on a dual layer BDROM, probably even uncompressed! But then load times would be fucking crazy because BD is an order of magnitude slower than an SSD.

      Distributing install files for a day 1 version of a game and using the disc as an auth key, (which is what they did last gen iirc) is still possible.

      • Irina
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        51 year ago

        Still possible, but why would that be useful to anyone?

      • @[email protected]
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        1 year ago

        Transfer the BDROM to my SSD. Literally the same thing as downloading it online. I don’t need it to read off the disc while I play. 360 did this and it worked perfectly fine.

        • Harrison [He/Him]
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          11 year ago

          The same thing except you then have to pay for the disk, distribution and worry about stock and so on.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        I guess I haven’t been keeping up to date with the latest compact disc technology. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            Cool stuff. I’ll probably get into that in the future, only so many external drives one can have lying around.