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[kingwingin]

For anyone that wants a proper physical release of Doom the dark ages, forget it. Both the ps5 and xbox version only contain 85MB of data on the disc, you have to download the full game. The full game is 85GB, would easily fit a ps5 disc.

I wont be buying any Microsoft published game anymore because of these practices.

Garbage company.

They need to give up on printing their own physical and just allow a third party to do it. I don't care if I have to pay more for a proper 2 disc release.

 

[Diseased Yak]

I'm afraid Sony will also follow this trend soon, they just want to kill physical with a painful death. I hate this world.

Me too. It really sucks that this is the trend. I don't see physical fully going away, instead I see it becoming more like vinyl is, or one-off art posters, etc, where we'll see bespoke physicals coming for certain titles, particularly indie titles, but the vast major will be digital only, or a case with a code bullshit, etc.

 

[LavitzSlambert]

For anyone that wants a proper physical release of Doom the dark ages, forget it. Both the ps5 and xbox version only contain 85MB of data on the disc, you have to download the full game. The full game is 85GB, would easily fit a ps5 disc.

I wont be buying any Microsoft published game anymore because of these practices.

The only way to push back against this, hard, is to avoid buying it altogether. They WANT you to defer to the digital edition by intentionally limiting the physical one. The only reason they are even releasing a disc is because they saw how hard Alan Wake 2 sales got hit going digital only.


Doom looks great, maybe I'll buy a digital version under $10. No way I'm paying full price for a single player disc key code release. I don't care if I can transfer ownership or not with a virtual game card equivalent, it's an unnecessary incomplete release.


If publishers want us to embrace a digital only future, they can embrace their audience paying next to nothing for the games.

 

[Hypereides]

Big haul recently:

Clair obscur: expedition 33
No more heroes 3
Ultra age
Valkyrie elysium
a.o.

For anyone that wants a proper physical release of Doom the dark ages, forget it. Both the ps5 and xbox version only contain 85MB of data on the disc, you have to download the full game. The full game is 85GB, would easily fit a ps5 disc.

I wont be buying any Microsoft published game anymore because of these practices.

Garbage company.

They need to give up on printing their own physical and just allow a third party to do it. I don't care if I have to pay more for a proper 2 disc release.

I'd wager they're doing it deliberately to nudge people into thinking physical is an unattractive option. Its basically their way of slowly killing off the physical format and push people into their fenced digital domain. Same applies to the rest of the publishers who are doing this. They don't want to cause an immediate uproar so they chose the slow route instead.

 

[emivita]

Finally got my copy at retail price.