This is yet another nail in the coffin of physical media. Or, in other words games you actually own instead of long term lease.

It’s not like physical media makes any difference anyway these days.

Actual disk often gets just a glorified installer, and even if it includes the entire game you’re likely to have to activate it online anyway.

The “own your games” ship has sailed long ago, unless you only buy no-DRM and your own backups.

This in my opinion is one of the valid use cases of a blockchain/NFTs: they provide provable ownership of digital goods. This means that if implemented, in the future we could actually own games music movies ebooks etc. The only remaining step would be a decentralized torrent-like system that allows the users to download the licensed content that they own via their nft.

If you can’t modify it, sell it or know what it’s even doing then calling that “ownership” of software is rather lacking. I mean in terms of traditional ownership, not the modern definition: “page 69 of the EULA defines “purchasing” (the software) as a limited, non-transferable lease which can stop working at any time due to dependency on a proprietary server code we will never share I fucked your mom”.

You could sell the NFT and lose access to the game just like a disc

You wouldn’t be able to modify it as the nft would just allow you to download the game.

As long as the network exists

If it’s a networked fame, but there’s no reason a offline game shouldn’t work other than incompetence.

Also since the NFT is the DRM the game could be available for download outside of the publishers purview, such as a public torrent site.