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The Xbox retail version of Baldur’s Gate 3 will indeed have 4 discs, since we’re 500mb over the limit for 3. Only option would have been to cut some content out but that didn’t make sense... (twitter.com)
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[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

It'd be cool if, ya know, digital releases came with transferable, irrevocable licenses, and the freedom to create your own physical backups for your games without needing to "check in".

But we won't get that. We'll never even get close to that.

So in lieu of that, we have to stick with the discs, because that's the last distribution method where there were proper consumer protections in place.

We're stuck with this dated format and it's low storage space because these businesses have utterly refused to provide us the same benefits in the digital space as we got from the discs, and the trade-off for the convenience is unacceptable.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

"Cartridges" which are just SD cards in reality are a thing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I do not own Xbox ever, how does disc media work if you do not connect the console to always-on internet presumably for patches?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

BG3 is available DRM-free on PC. I'd say that's better than any sense of security offered by physical media.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

But we won’t get that. We’ll never even get close to that.

Not for money, anyway.