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

  • 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.