• taladar@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    they can’t take away a console disk,

    Technically not but you still only own a license and those walled garden platforms of consoles can easily be used to block you from using that disk for anything meaningful.

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      10 months ago

      You can always play the version shipped with the disk with the game unplugged from the internet.

      On PC, you’d have to pirate if a game is taken down.

      • FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        On PC, you could pirate, but you could also buy DRM free games from GOG.com and keep a copy locally backed up.

        It’s also worth noting that optical media will delaminate over time, rendering them unusable.