Disney Dreamlight Valley's "Cozy" Physical Edition Is Just A Download Code

At least they included some stuff to justify the “physical” version but I’m still gonna wait until the F2P version comes out.

I don't really have a problem with the code-in-box thing (especially for a live service game like this), but that big white banner at the top always ruins the boxart.

you do not own digital games that is why if possible i will always get physical versions of games..

I wonder whether I can pay for it with an empty piggy bank?

What an environmentally conscious thing to do. Simply wonderful. So consumer friendly too.
Thanks be to corporate overlords for this blessing.

I'm so tired to see this BS code in box treatment. 🙄
Don't support this scam product, guys.

Leave it to Disney to cheap out on this.

It's just cheapskate is what I call this. Physical buyers would gladly pay for Physical.

This crap isn’t for gamers or physical collectors. It’s for Grandmas and Grandpas looking for a “wholesome” game to give little Chris and/or Pat for Christmas for his/her/their new Nintendo Xboxstation.

Why am I'm not surprised...this has been a thing for the Switch more often than compared to the WiiU's lifespan. Only a handful of games got this treatment on the WiiU. Ducktales: Remaster is one notable game. Can anyone tell any WiiU game that got this treatment?

That said...I even saw Rayman Legends: Definitive Edition as one...despite...you know...being a FULL RETAIL GAME??? Though that was months ago...i think. Very bizarre...

This really defeats the purpose of a physical release.

Standing ovations for being cheap, hollow and disposable af.

These are so stupid. Just extra plastic waste...

I hope this "physical version" bombs. What an insult and slap in the face to the consumers to call this a "physical copy". This kinda crap needs to stop.

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

I think I’m better off playing this on Game Pass.

Is this game even playable without crashing every 5 minutes? It wasn’t the last time I played it.

Then may I ask, what be the purpose of buying it physical, when I can just get the thing during a digital sale! Like come on!

@Friscobay Nailed it, best comment so far

Lol no thank you

Wow, this is depressing for many reasons, most of them mentioned in other comments. If anything, this must mean that the F2P version is even further away than I assumed it would be...

One born every minute, Gameloft's supporters.

So it's just an empty box with a download code? I don't call that physical

Disney Magical World 2: Enchanted Edition might be the last hurray from Disney, that I bought.

Really missing the Disney from the 90s.

Nothing "cozy" about that at all.

Even worse is Fortnite, which is up to its FIFTH "physical" release (that I know of).

Imagine allocating room for FIVE cases on your shelf for a single game for which there are no physical discs/cartridges. Insanity.

I am only against this because the bonuses are mostly digital, so you could just, ya know, wait 20 days for a free version… So, no I will not be buying for the same reason I didn’t but the Early Access.

@ATHFjman18 I read that as “for Chris and/or Pratt” and I thought “…aren’t they the same guy…?” Lol!

I’ve been hanging on for the F2P… can’t stand the idea of paying for something that will be made free… 🤣 when is it due?

This kinda illustrates my point with being against things like Gamepass. You can vote with your wallet for single games. Codes in boxes is just nonsense. A fool and their money are soon parted and I can only see fools buying this lol.
But imagine if Gamepass (or a subscription service) was the defacto way to play. The company has your whole hobby basically at ransom lol. Besides that, they can use aggressive market strategies to promote growth (instead of the old fashioned way of y'know, making more games!) Microsoft has already glipsed at what they can do (not talking about the game Starfield - just the practices.) Charging 30 quid to play the game day one (I mean, they call it early access but you can't kid a kidder.), temporarily halting introductory offers to the service. They can do anything. Heck, I dare say there will be pop up adds eventually. So much stuff to increase their revenue that is NOT being creative. And then they buy more studios to tighten their grip. It's too good to be true when they are trying to grow their position. But look at Playstation Plus following Gamepass with a price increase. Like it's the last time it's going to happen. And I dare say another common practice is to increase the price for a month (to legally establish it) then they can introduce a never ending cycle of offers so that folk are conned into thinking they are saving money...when infact, the company is making exactly what they wanted.
Anyhoo. Back to codes in boxes. Unlike actual cartridges, this is nothing but landfill. I dare say it will contribute to some exec's stats and figures to convince the public that physical media is wrong and everyone should be digital. Yeah...they would love that...

That’s a rather expensive sticker sheet and poster. This game was supposed to be free. I’ve lost hope and interest in it now and moved on to much better games on switch. Never bought it, never will.

Why? Just why??

All this is doing is wasting a retail case!! If you're just gonna sell the code, do it on a paper card and leave the game cases for actual cartridges!! And even then, why the f**k would anybody want just a case if they're getting a physical copy of the game to begin with?! You completely missed why people buy physical in the first place!!

HARD. PASS. JUST LIKE OVERWATCH ONE, JUST LIKE FORTNITE.

@GrailUK yeah... I didn't get to use GamePass for more than a week, as I don't get good internet at home, but the moment gaming discards physical entirely I'm done. I already know I won't be going past the PS5/Series X (sorry Series S and PS5 digital edition, you've always been e-waste to me). GamePass already has gaming at ransom, the domino effect is apparent.

@Snatcher why even buy it on sale?? Disney is already a sinking ship, why support it?

@Aiodensghost Pretty much all I’m saying is that making these a code, no matter what the game, is stupid.

@Bizzyb this kinda crap shouldn't have happened to begin with, but if iirc Blizzard is the one that started it with Overwatch 1. It's one thing to pull a DOOM and have to download a mode of the game, I don't mind that. Single player was on cartridge, and you need internet for multiplayer anyway.

@Snatcher it's always been stupid. What's worse is this sets you up for an Overwatch 2 situation (you can't play Overwatch 1 anymore because of it).

@Aiodensghost They suck for doing that btw, I wish I could go back to one so much.

@Snatcher I just don't get why you'd go through the hell of making a sequel if all you're gonna do is overwrite your original. So much wasted time and effort, both on the developer's end and the player's, and to add salt to the wound Overwatch is the only IP I've seen Acti-Blizz do that with. Sure, I played the crap outta StarCraft: Brood War when I was 12, I can go back and play it again (just like Wings of Liberty/Heart of the Swarm/Legacy of the Void). It's just that shareholders view video games as disposable

@DiamondJim ty.🫶 u2.

@Aiodensghost To play devil's advocate here as someone who always wanted to play OW1 but never wanted to plunk down $60 for an online game I may suck at (which would have then required me to give Nintendough $20 a year just to play it on their scam service), I absolutely love (for the most part) that Blizzard took it f2p. Not only does it expand the games lifespan GREATLY with the huge number of new players like me who are loving it. Sure the way they handled PvE blows and removing loot boxes and pushing 20 dollar skins is the epitome of scummy, but at the same time, they do not effect the game at all and you do not need them to play on the same level as the guy who spent a few hundred.

But this is the internet, which is one giant echo chamber of repeating things and it sure is popular and cool to hate on Blizzard (even though the devs are not making these decisions).

Perfect sense from Gameloft, a 50 euro empty box with a code to download a free to play title (what they've said will be free to play when people stop paying for it...)

Free version soon??????

@GunValkyria Just because Microsoft tells you digital is the way doesn't mean it is so. Trashy, horrible games like this bomb anyway - enough of them bomb - THEY go away - not the reverse.

@LadyCharlie Your sarcasm has been noted and placed on your permanent record. M. Mouse.

I hate it when companies do that. Lazy. And manipulative. If I get a real physical copy, we can share the game in our house. Not if we get the download (at least not across all switches). Dumb.

Clearly, non-gamers are making these ridiculous decisions.

@GunValkyria Saying physical games are going away is only true because people accept it like you're admonishing us to do. We get hung up on it because collecting physical games is a huge part of the fun of playing games to some of us. If your preferred method of gaming was being ravaged, you'd probably also be a bit hung up.

Still I no choice but did PreOrder to get the Bonus and if Physical even comes ugh.....

@theModestMouse you've never had a skin give you an advantage, have you? Even a redesign can be a major advantage (think different scopes/harder to spot).

I've already thought about what Blizzard has done as possibly being good, but when you experience a skin that you have to pay for shrinking a player model down in such a way that it ruins the game, you'll understand why I still object to Blizzard doing what they did.