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‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ Going Digital-Only Is a Car Crash for Physical Media
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Is that still possible with modern games? The last time I bought a physical game it came with a Steam key that locked it to my account. And that was 15 years ago. (Granted, it was Portal 2, so obviously it was on Steam. But I still couldn't give the disc to someone to let them play it.)