Xbox goes down. You can’t play games you own on disc

Xbox 服务宕机：你甚至无法游玩已拥有的实体光盘游戏

Jay Peters: Xbox’s huge outage even blocked games on disc Jay Peters：Xbox 的大规模宕机甚至导致实体光盘游戏也无法游玩

An extended Xbox outage that began Sunday evening hasn’t just caused issues for people trying to play digital games — it blocked people from playing their disc-based games, too. 周日晚上开始的一场长时间 Xbox 服务宕机，不仅给试图游玩数字版游戏的玩家带来了困扰，还导致玩家无法游玩他们的实体光盘游戏。

When Sony announced that they were discontinuing physical discs for PlayStation, I was less outraged than many. The reason I felt this way wasn’t because I loved what Sony was doing. I think it came from an understanding that physical media ain’t what it used to be. 当索尼宣布将停止为 PlayStation 提供实体光盘时，我并没有像许多人那样感到愤怒。我之所以有这种感觉，并不是因为我支持索尼的做法，而是因为我明白，现在的实体媒介已经不再是过去的样子了。

I got an analog pocket a couple years ago, and I think it’s an awesome product. I was able to insert my Game Boy cartridges from 20 years ago and was able to play them immediately, just like I did back then. Well, on a backlit screen with 10x the pixel density, but still. 几年前我买了一台 Analog Pocket，我觉得这是一款很棒的产品。我可以插入 20 年前的 Game Boy 卡带并立即开始游戏，就像当年一样。好吧，虽然是在像素密度高出 10 倍的背光屏幕上玩，但本质是一样的。

The impression I get is that a lot of people have this vision in their head for what physical media still is today, and it simply isn’t. Sure, I technically didn’t own Golden Sun on the GBA. I technically had a license, but for all intents and purposes, I owned that game. And the evidence is, without Nintendo authorizing anything, I’m able to play it on a new piece of hardware, and it works great. No network downtime is gonna prevent me from doing that. 给我的感觉是，很多人脑海中对“实体媒介”的认知还停留在过去，但现实早已改变。诚然，从技术上讲，我并不“拥有”GBA 上的《黄金太阳》，我拥有的只是一个授权，但从实际意义上来说，我确实拥有这款游戏。证据就是，无需任天堂的任何授权，我就能在新硬件上游玩它，而且运行良好。没有任何网络宕机能阻止我这样做。

But owning a game on a disc today isn’t really the same thing. It’s still just a license, and Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo can either intentionally or, in this case, unintentionally prevent you from playing that game, even if you own the physical copy. This isn’t even to mention the fact that when you pop the disc in your drive, you’re not playing from the disc. It’s installing it to your internal hard drive and is probably installing a bunch of updates that are required to make the game actually work at all. 但如今拥有一张游戏光盘已经完全不同了。它依然只是一个授权，微软、索尼和任天堂可以有意（或者像这次一样无意）地阻止你游玩该游戏，即便你拥有实体拷贝。更不用说当你把光盘放入驱动器时，你根本不是在从光盘上运行游戏。它会安装到你的内置硬盘中，并且很可能还需要下载一堆更新补丁，才能让游戏正常运行。

All I’m saying is it’s all digital on the PC side of things, and has been for ages, but we have means of maintaining access to the games we love over here, and it’s one of the reasons I’ve gravitated to the PC for quite a while now. 我想说的是，PC 端早已全面数字化，这种情况已经持续了很久，但我们在 PC 上有办法保持对所爱游戏的访问权限，这也是我长期以来倾向于使用 PC 的原因之一。