The problem is that in the future historians will have the game disc but not all the day one patches that made it playable, amirite?

I mean, think about Fortnite. We'll never really ever be able to play the game as it was played when it exploded in popularity . There was another f2p game called Battlefield Heroes that never had anything physical. I loved that game and it's gone from the universe. Kinda sucks

by Accomplished_Cry 1 week ago

Also you can't play the original over watch

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Crazy that you can't play a Game of the Year winner less than a decade after launch.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Worth it for canceled pve and over-monetized store system

by Temporary_Loan 1 week ago

There is a program called Rift (I think, it has been a long time since I used it.) that records all of the maps and live events so they can be saved for the future

by AfraidSpeaker667 1 week ago

Historians: Am I a joke to you

by Kobetorp 1 week ago

Idk man Call of Duty devs could learn something from Nintendo's absolute insane file compression techniques

by aylin58 1 week ago

CD-Keys of yesteryear send their regards

by Disastrous_Deal_8305 1 week ago

Yes, this is truly THE problem.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

So I can sell it or buy it cheap. Easy to understand.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Well I can either buy old games for a few bucks or pay for a digital version for 50 bucks.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Nintendo and Super Nintendo for the win.

by dhickle 1 week ago

Doesn't matter, you generally can't play games these days without the servers being active. Every game has a networked component involved.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Sometimes not even the disk

by Anonymous 1 week ago

That first version of Cyberpunk 2077 on PS4 is extremely rough and the disc is still out there lol

by Deep-Environment 1 week ago

Even if they even have something that could have read it, the disc itself will deteriorate and won't be readable in the not-to-distant future

by Repulsive_Article 1 week ago

‘I'm from the future, I have a PhD in Fortnite.'

by Shanondickinson 1 week ago

Yes really, yes. There are probably already thousands of games with this exact problem. You are downloading those patches from a server once that server is thrown away those patches are gone. I have a feeling you have absolutely no understanding of how any tech you use actually functions.

by Forrestwunsch 1 week ago

Well damn I don't know everything either, do I? As someone who is mainly a console player, dumping my ROMs included being able to dump the patches and DLCs as well. No need to come up with accusations like these because I do not download any dumped games on my PCs and mostly just use Steam.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

We don't know if any digital archives will still be around 10, 000 years in the future. But there might be physical copies preserved, even if nuclear warfare destroys the internet.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Physical media degrades as a function of time

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Most physical storage has a pretty short life time. Optical discs only last like 50 years max. A NAND flash SSD sitting on the shelf without power is more like a 1 year lifespan before data is lost.

by Anonymous 1 week ago