The shift in console games from purchasing physical discs at GameStop to downloading has only reified the “gratuitously long tutorial area, esp. for a franchise I’ve played 8 times before” trend, cause now there’s a reason to set up a bit playable halfway through the download that’ll occupy you until the rest finishes

I wonder how far optimizing for that pushes back the release of the physical gold master

Is “gold master” still a relevant term, or has it been superseded by the language of “commit”s and “push”es?