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by Maxatar 2 hours ago
This doesn't track with actual game releases, on the contrary it tends to be smaller/simpler games that release exclusively digitally and the big triple A games continue to release physical discs.

As far as bugs go, the solution for this has been and continues to be that after you install the game from the disc, you download a patch to update it. It's been this way for almost 20 years now (XBox 360 and PS3 both launched with explicit support for this).
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Arainach 2 hours ago
> big triple A games continue to release physical discs.

Technically correct, but not really correct. It's hard to think of a game in the last decade where I've inserted a physical disk an been able to play without having to download a giant update first. Sometimes literally impossible - the installer disk isn't a complete game until you download an update

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Maxatar 1 hour ago
My post contains two sentences... for some reason you completely disregarded the second one.

For the sake of participating in a discussion, avoid doing that in the future.

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