Yeah but you're missing the forest for the trees: expectations and prices. A physical ticket of a digital game makes sense in a different way than a disc. Comp

Yeah but you're missing the forest for the trees: expectations and prices. A physical ticket of a digital game makes sense in a different way than a disc. Complaints about day one patches would subside. The second part is the cost. Those disc drives are getting more and more expensive, and less and less used. Every game on current consoles installs from the disc on the drive and does nothing else but validate the disc afterward. Why spend so much on an old technology that isn't used efficiently? Sony and Microsoft should look to add physical keycards to their next console to validate ownership.