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GTA 6 leaks prompt Take-Two to subpoena Microsoft for Windows device IDs of everyone in three Discord servers — daily gameplay leaks shatter cloud of secrecy around the much-hyped game (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Read what they wrote. These things have happened:

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.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works 1 points 17 hours ago

Some disks don't even contain the game, they're basically big circular CD key, it's really stupid.

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 1 points 17 hours ago

somebody needs to figure out how to extract it and patch out the check, and it’s playable again.

Maybe. There are sometimes system calls and graphics optimizations that wont work, it isnt always just a patch out the check to fix situation.

I am not sure if you would even be able to get the system to install the software until the patch was implemented, which means you would have to extract the full disc in the first place and then be able to write a new one, and hope the machine would read it.