This means you can't pass the game around to your friends or sell it afterwards, which completely ruins the purpose of physical media imo. I mostly play PC these days so this doesn't affect me, but it's a disappointing direction for console games. At least they could've used an empty disc that has proof of ownership.
EDIT: Bethesda has confirmed that only the PC version won't include a disc. Physical versions of Xbox will include a disc. Whew.
The fact the tweet this information came from has since been deleted could mean it's false info. We'll see if Godd Howard clarifies in the coming days.
I hope so, but part of me thinks they deleted it to try and curb the backlash as pre-order sales are really high.
Yeah I wouldn't be surprised honestly. I'm just huffing copium until official confirmation. It doesn't affect me anyway as I'm on PC but it's a huge disservice to the console players if there isn't a 1.0 build on a disc they can own forever.