It's going to vary by game (Gaming)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Friday, March 14, 2025, 10:11 (15 days ago) @ CyberKN

There's always a day one patch, so what's on the disc is never the game you can or want to play. What can I do with my Destiny and Des2ny discs? Nothing. Nothing at all. Except listen to the music on the main menu.

It's true, always-online games don't have any way for you to preserve them via physical media, but that's just their nature. There are still a lot of other games (that don't ship broken on day one) that I can feel good about buying physical.

Sure, but you can't play the latest patches that inevitably fix issues and add features. Nobody wants to play version 1.0.