This isn’t strictly true because most games do still have a playable version on the disk
At least on my Xbox, there’s games where it wouldn’t let me play them unless some updates were installed. “day one patches” are very common in the video game industry these days.
legally transferable due to doctrine of first sale as I understand it.
The first sale doctrine applies to physical goods. The game companies are moving towards the games always being digital goods, and the disc simply being a physical license key for the digital games. I’m not sure if the doctrine would apply in the same way in this case.
At least on my Xbox, there’s games where it wouldn’t let me play them unless some updates were installed. “day one patches” are very common in the video game industry these days.
The first sale doctrine applies to physical goods. The game companies are moving towards the games always being digital goods, and the disc simply being a physical license key for the digital games. I’m not sure if the doctrine would apply in the same way in this case.