You buy a physical disc. It will not play until you update the console. This is a hard coded minimum version that is on the disc.
This has also happened in the reverse: a physical disc quit working after a firmware update, but the digital version worked fine, meaning the license transferred to the digital version after the update. Would the physical disc keep working? only if the dev thought it should.
The only answer is: you dont own the hardware. You have no control digital or not. Do not buy hardware you cant own.
You buy a physical disc. It will not play until you update the console. This is a hard coded minimum version that is on the disc.
the data is still available, somebody needs to figure out how to extract it and patch out the check, and it’s playable again. the patch becomes easier to distribute than the full game, both because of its size, public judgment and maybe the legal situation too. the fact that you have the disk is effectively proof of ownership.
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You buy a physical disc. It will not play until you update the console. This is a hard coded minimum version that is on the disc.
This has also happened in the reverse: a physical disc quit working after a firmware update, but the digital version worked fine, meaning the license transferred to the digital version after the update. Would the physical disc keep working? only if the dev thought it should.
The only answer is: you dont own the hardware. You have no control digital or not. Do not buy hardware you cant own.
the data is still available, somebody needs to figure out how to extract it and patch out the check, and it’s playable again. the patch becomes easier to distribute than the full game, both because of its size, public judgment and maybe the legal situation too. the fact that you have the disk is effectively proof of ownership.