Starfield is currently one of the most highly anticipated games on PC. However, it appears that the PC physical copies will not have any game discs. Instead, all PC physical copies, including the premium versions, will have a game code.
Now the good news is that you can choose whether you want a Windows Store or Steam key with your physical copy. Or at least that’s what Bethesda’s official website implies. So, that’s at least something good as you can at least choose your favorite store.
The fact that you will pay $300 for the Constellation Edition and still won’t get a game disc is a bit troublesome. On the other hand, this is pretty common for most PC releases. This trend of game codes started almost ten years ago with NBA 2K. Or at least that’s when I got my first physical PC copy that only contained a game code and nothing more.
Anyway, we thought it would be best to inform you about it. So, if you plan to get a physical copy, know that you won’t be getting any game discs.
Starfield releases in September. As we’ve already reported, the game will support native 4K and 60fps only on PC. You can also find here the game’s official PC system requirements.
Stay tuned for more!
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Most AAA pc releases are utterly broken on release and need patches that need to be downloaded. Having a physical disc is pretty pointless if you still need to download several gigabytes of data just to get it working.
Well, maybe you could save 100GB with this one. But that is not the reason, it’s a collectable, like buying music on vinyl discs, you are not going to actually use the disc to install the game.
Fallout 76 day one patch is 52 GB, bigger than the 45 GB game
For better or worse, truly physical PC games have been dead for well over a decade by now. Even with games like GTA V, you got physical discs but still needed to be activated via Rockstar Social Club (now Rockstar Launcher).
RIP ownership. Wait, who am I kidding, we are not in 2004 anymore.
Considering the amount of additional and modified data you get post-release, i’ll say that real ownership was dead on PC since the first ever patch , if you have to go online to get the optimal experience for your game, then a disc doesn’t grant you ownership. What’s the point of having a disk if internet is still mandatory ?
Ironically, The only real ownership on PC are pirated games
Exactly.
You can find a way to back up 50/60gb games by splitting the iso into parts to burn on dvd’s. But where are you going to store games with over 90+gb (it’s annoying to have more than 6 discs for a backup).
I prefer an external HDD for that
Me too i’m using HDD to save my backups, cause right now it’s the only viable chip solution i found, it’s a good alternative, but it fill quickly and it’s risky cause you can loose data without warning any time.
“you can loose data without warning any time”
Same can be said for DVDs, storage has never been 100% safe
You can loose 3,4,10 dvd’s, but in hdd you can loose eveything, and good luck restoring files without error. I miss the old days, nothing can beat the original high quality game on the pretty box.
Good. PC’s barely even come with disk readers anymore.
I haven’t had a PC with a disk drive since 2015
Loll, your Ferrari will only come with the keys, not the Ferrari . The Ferrari you wait till its ready.
Thanks for the the informative news john. It is good to know .
I have like 15 years without any type of external drive on my PC. My last was a DVD, it’s basically new, not used.
All interest in this game quickly faded when I realized planets are AI generated and most have no life on them.
This is typical of Microsoft games like Flight Simulator and Forza, they’re not games, but lifeless simulations.
They won’t create 1000+ planets just by hand, no one is capable of, and even on the real side of it, there is a very small percentage of habitable planets in our galaxy.
Even though i hate procedural levels, i ended up accepting the fact that games having space exploration on a relatively large scale must relie on procedural levels whether we like it or not.
Now if we talk about the real potential issues of this game well let’s begin with the fact that it’s a Bethesda game before talking about anything else
They won’t create 1000+ planets just by hand, no one is capable of, and even on the real side of it, there is a very small percentage of habitable planets in our galaxy.
Even though i hate procedural levels, i ended up accepting the fact that games having space exploration on a relatively large scale must relie on procedural levels whether we like it or not.
Now if we talk about the real potential issues of this game well let’s begin with the fact that it’s a Bethesda game before talking about anything else
Look at that console pleb…
psst, hey mate… your idiocy is showing!
psst, hey mate… your idiocy is showing!
If i was any publisher, I would have saved on the logistics cost of an obsolete format and DOA software builds and would have gone digital-only 10 years ago, even more so on PCs (who even has a disc drive lol), but maaaybe kept the physical copy only for collector’s editions (if the customer cares so much about physical ownership) purchaseably only on my own website that I’d still have to ship anyway.
Makes business sense in this days of nearly ubiquitous internet, and sorry for the % living in the edge of the world or on metered connections. I’d tailor to the 99%. Hate me.
If people wanted this in a physical form the answer is on a read only usb3 drive, 128gb ones are not much anymore and at scale cost the pubs even less. With a code in the package for some real ownership. Your average sp game doesn’t need that much so even smaller in most cases. Then release patches online only. This would make sense for only the largest franchises and games of course.
wtf do people want on PC? like 12 DVDs ?
I don’t think PC games ever got made on Blurays and even today almost no PCs have bluray drives anyways.
I do want physical copies on PC for whoever wants to pay for them but then again most PC games are busted on release and require a lot of day 1 patch
Standard version will come with a disc. But still… it’s useless since the game basically needs 3 discs because of it’s size. Will still need to download the entire thing
True GOTY game doesn’t need such retrograde things as a disk or a pre-release build, players will immediately receive the latest beta build directly from Todd PC.
as long as it doesnt have denuvo and i will make my own copy disc of it.
This will look perfect next to my steelbox copy of Fallout 76.
I appreciate they don’t have discs or booklets in them so they are nice and lightweight.
They gave me the plastic box as well for 76 so I could choose where to put my non existing DVD into.
i was thinking PC didn’t have physical since like 15 year….
the most recent computer i had with a CD/DVD player, was a 2004 packardbell….
are you telling me there are still pc game with physic support in 2020+ ?
i was thinking PC didn’t have physical since like 15 year….
the most recent computer i had with a CD/DVD player, was a 2004 packardbell….
are you telling me there are still pc game with physic support in 2020+ ?
The same thing is going to happen on consoles next, games over than 100gb is no go on Blue-ray (even on triple-layer disc). Lady’s and gentleman this is the end of the ownership. Always remember…
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/26b00f9e63f15fa7a7cd11e5d4dc76f4378152178bbb6e9bef9999634550aad4.jpg
Good thing too since I haven’t had an optical drive for the past 10 years in my desktop.
f*k Bethesda and Todd Howard , i’ll pirate this sh*t when the GOTY will come out , not gonna give a dime to an anti-consumer company !