On April 8, 2027, Square Enix will place a box on retail shelves containing something that is, in the oldest sense of the word, incomplete — a disc for Final Fantasy VII Revelation that authenticates ownership but delivers almost nothing playable without an internet connection to follow. The gesture toward physical media remains, but the substance has migrated entirely to the cloud, marking another quiet threshold in the long transformation of what it means to own a game. For an industry built on the romance of cartridges and discs, this moment asks a question that extends well beyond gaming: