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What's the point of buying the physical edition then?
There hasn't been one for more than ten years now.
Games stopped fitting on disk media during the PS4/XBOne launch, you've had to download 90% of the game (it's almost like the disc is a product key ๐ค) ever since then. Had they decided to, you could have been fucked out of your DRM even WITH A GAME IN YOUR HANDS ever since then.
People are really out here a decade after the death of physical copies acting like NOW it's finally being killed. Shits been dead for years, you just couldn't see it until the game companies finally stopped giving out discs due to it incurring costs with no real value.
That's always been a great detriment to preservation but this stops even trading in or borrowing games, akin to the XboxOne idea which was widely panned. They severely damaged the long-term aspects of physical media by shipping incomplete discs but now they're damaging the short-term benefits too.
I've been almost exclusively PC where physical media died long ago, but there will be piracy and much longer time to buy a product legitimately (look at GoG). Console losing physical copies means a near monopoly on the pricing and distribution of games with no means to recoup costs by selling, rent a game (outside of their first party service) or share with friends. It all sucks.