• Grass@sh.itjust.works
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    25 days ago

    weren’t there a few titles where the disc was effectively nothing and the whole game just downloads anyway?

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      25 days ago

      Call of Duty was one of them. Disc contained less than 100mb of data. You still had to download the entire game. If you bought it to only play a campaign offline, too bad.

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      25 days ago

      Honestly makes sense since you can then produce the boxes much earlier and ship them and go through all that physical distribution nonsense without worrying about patching from whatever is on disk to the actual finished product. Especially since I bet physical gamers want the game on day one too.