
Who’s to say that the license key on the disc wouldn’t somehow end up being tied to the first user’s console and therefore not work on any other console? Some developers would rather have no game on the disc or just digital games only And if you have no internet at all, a physical game should still let you install and play the game, albeit without any patches or updates.Īnd possibly even more concerning is the fact that having only a license key on a disc could potentially mean the end of sharing physical games with friends or reselling or trading them in. This means that downloading games takes a long time.

Most people do have internet access in their homes these days but quite a lot do not and there are still hundreds of thousands with very poor internet connections. Having just a license key instead of the full game on the physical disc copy of a game completely defeats the purpose of physical copies in my opinion. Having no game on the disc defeats the purpose of physical games
