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Kaan Serin

Crimson Desert blocks spoilers by locking down the RPG's physical copies that shipped early, but some players worry it's a "slippery slope" for game preservation

Kliff rides on horseback downhill in Crimson Desert towards a town, through lush greenery.

Open-world RPG Crimson Desert is finally on the horizon, launching on March 19 after several delays and trailers that looked almost too good to be true, but the game's getting around pre-release spoilers in a rather controversial way.

As is common with pretty much any major release nowadays, physical copies of Crimson Desert have been delivered to some players a full week before the game officially breaks containment. But unlike other such cases, Crimson Desert's disc is literally unplayable until the RPG's release date.

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