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Cyberpunk 2077 PC physical will not include disc with game, only code

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bell_hooks

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Source in polish
https://www.komputerswiat.pl/gamezi...elku-znajdziemy-tylko-kod-aktywacyjny/rxyecb6
Translation:
According to one of Polish retailers (RTV EURO AGD) Cyberpunkt 2077 (PC) will not include game on disc, only code
Box (of this particular version) includes
1. Game (activation code
2. Night City Map
3. Postcard Night City
4. Game world comedium
5. Steelbook (pre order bonus)

KomputerŚwiat (source) reached to Cenega (polish distributor) for comment, will update
edit:
ok. this is actually on their official website , the source made it sound as it was a leak
 
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Relix

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I genuinely didn't know physical disc games for PC were still being sold.
 
DrEvil

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Fallout76 did this. It was a CD-shaped cardboard print with the code on the front inside a DVD Case.
 

DemiOrpheus

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the number of people who still buy physical PC games is probably too small to justify the expense of printing the disks
 
MatrixMan.exe

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Genuine question, how common place are disc installs on PC these days? I thought this would have been a given but I honestly don't know enough to say for sure.
 
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This is the most common way used to sell PC games.
 
Rosenkrantz

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Um, how many people still have dvd-drives in their PCs? I had to buy an external one just to watch my movie collection.
 
Tora

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Not exactly a shocker is it, Titanfall 2 did it, almost every PC game does it

Doom had a cardboard print out with the game on it
 
Dest

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This has been a thing with PC games for a while. No surprise here.
 

Raigor

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This is a common thing.

Cyberpunk 2077 will most likely need 10 DVDs on PC, so yes.
 
EduBRK

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The physical release should be a GOG executable. You could just download it and put in your preferred storage solution (pen drive, microsd, discs, etc). It would be nice to have a space to store in the box, maybe one of those big boxes from old PC releases.

I don't think it's a problem because there is no DRM... at least in my point of view.
 

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this is GTA 5 on PC, a seven year old game


now try to imagine how many a current game at the scale of Cyberpunk would need
 
empo

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MatrixMan.exe said:
Genuine question, how common place are disc installs on PC these days? I thought this would have been a given but I honestly don't know enough to say for sure.
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Buying F1 2019 physical was the cheapest way last year for me and it came on like 4 DVDs. I mean that's not a very large game either. GTA V was on 7 DVDs.
It's just unreasonable when BD never really became a thing on PC. Maybe add a $5-10 premium and put it on a USB stick?
 
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bell_hooks

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EduBRK said:
The physical release should be a GOG executable. You could just download it and put in your preferred storage solution (pen drive, microsd, discs, etc). It would be nice to have a space to store in the box, maybe one of those big boxes from old PC releases.

I don't think it's a problem because there is no DRM... at least in my point of view.
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It will be code for GOG version
 
JCLShay

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Curious.... anyone here who has a rig that can handle Cyberpunk but also is furious that they aren't getting CD roms to install?
 
Jedi2016

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Physical PC games haven't been a thing for me for a long, long time.

The GTA example is on point, too. The simple solution would be to release the game on Blu-ray, but most PC disc drives are only DVD drives. And a lot of computers don't even have disc drives any more.

I do plan on getting the game on PC myself, but I'll be buying it digitally through GOG.
 
Martinski

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I can't recall last time I got a disc with my game when buying a game for pc. Haven't gotten a disc in ages not even in collectors editions of Sekiro and RE 7 had discs just empty steel books lol.

Won both CE's from PC Gamer swe.
 
Mukrab

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MatrixMan.exe said:
Genuine question, how common place are disc installs on PC these days? I thought this would have been a given but I honestly don't know enough to say for sure.
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Most people who build PC's these days don't build them with disk drives. In fact, a lot of modern PC cases don't even have physical drives slots where you could put one in.
 
Midas

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I don't know a single person that has a blu-ray player in their PC. Not even a external one.

I think almost everyone just uses their console for that.
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Likely. I don't know anyone with a DVD drive in their PC either, so. But I were a physical collector - I would probably go for a BD drive when building a PC. I'm not trying to argue that they really should make it on Blu-ray, but it could be a thing for collectors. :)
 
Keyouta

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I have Witcher 3 physical on PC and while it comes with disks, my PC has not had a drive in a decade. It redeems with gog though so I've never needed the physical disk again either.
 
Previously on Lost

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Not surprising. Keeping in mind nearly all enthusiast PC case manufactures have long abandoned 5.25" drive bays in favor of saving space and/or having front mounted radiator support.
 
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Sectorseven said:
Why don't physical PC games use Blu-ray discs yet?
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Very few people bought a Blu-ray drive.

The big reason for this is that movie studios put in some really restrictive DRM into movie blu-ray discs, so you must buy some separate blu-ray playing software to play the movies, and the player software will also have limits hardcoded into it (for example making sure that those annoying antipiracy warnings are unskippable).

By the time Blu-ray started making sense for game distribution, Steam took over and nobody still had a Blu-ray drive.
 
Mozendo

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I'm fine with that. Unless it's an indie game I don't really see the need for this.
Gaming PCs with optical drives are rare, and even if they did have them it'd probably would require a blu-ray to keep costs down which is even more rare.
 
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