Many physical releases of games now are just for show. Games as a service means you're required to connect to a 3rd party server at some point.
You can hold a disk in your hands all you wish, but you can't actually play it because the server that hosted 90% of the actual game was shut down years ago.
An increasing number of physical discs don't even have the actual game written to them. Only a few lines of code to tell your Xbox or whatever to start downloading the game from the store. Buying a newer game might be meaningless if you don't have an internet connection.
Many physical releases of games now are just for show. Games as a service means you're required to connect to a 3rd party server at some point.
You can hold a disk in your hands all you wish, but you can't actually play it because the server that hosted 90% of the actual game was shut down years ago.
An increasing number of physical discs don't even have the actual game written to them. Only a few lines of code to tell your Xbox or whatever to start downloading the game from the store. Buying a newer game might be meaningless if you don't have an internet connection.