# Game-Key Cards FTW [Ex-Far Cry lead says ‘lame’ Nintendo Switch 2 Game-Key Cards lose what makes gaming ‘special’, but ‘Nintendo is going to get away with it’ anyway](https://www.videogamer.com/news/nintendo-switch-2-game-key-cards-lose-what-makes-gaming-special-far-cry-lead/)[^1] by Lewis White for VideoGamer via [VGC](https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/nintendo-is-going-to-get-away-with-game-key-cards-due-to-nostalgia-says-developer/) > "'I hate it,' the developer said. 'I think it’s sort of lame. I don’t know, I just feel like it’s getting away… we’re losing some of what made the business special. Trading Game Boy cartridges at school, or, you know, DS for the modern audience. There’s something nice about that.'" You can trade a Game-Key Card at school. You can trade them in a box. You can trade them with a fox. You can trade them in a house. You can trade them with a mouse. You can trade them here or there. You can trade them anywhere. Are we losing something by not having the media available offline, out of the box? Yes. We are gaining so much more though when compared to the current system of a one-time-code in a box. Game-Key Cards are progress, not a setback. [^1]: Good God, the headline slop that has to be written to play the SEO advertising game is horrendous these days. It's not Lewis' fault, it's Google's fault.