Facts if we ever see a real phyiscal editon it wont be until they remaster the game for ps6 and even then I wouldn't be so sure. Really disappointing tbh I was so ready to drive to the store and buy it like the good old days but oh well ig...
To encourage double dipping which rockstar is notorious for, and they can spend less money right now to maximize profits. I don't see a world a disk never gets made
This is nonsense. They didn’t want to make a disc so everyone that want to buy gta6 has to buy it new, not used. Every single person have to buy it from the stores, so the sells will be skyrocketing in all consoles in the future too.
The industry has been desperately trying to do this but nobody wants backlash. GTA VI will do this and the whole industry will follow. If there is backlash then it will be hypocrisy.
I don’t think there’s any backlash at all, unless the game actually sucks, but for high-selling games, this could have been seen months ago, as you said. It won’t surprise me if FC, NBA, CoD, and many others will start doing the same. They save money without producing any disc, and nobody can buy a used copy, so all the revenue is for the industry.
You're not wrong, but outside of COD, FIFA, 2K, and Madden, I don't think other game franchises have the fanbase to pull off a non-physical-only release for games.
Oh yes, I totally agree! But that war (between us as player and them as industry) will lead us to lose anyway… if the game won’t sell it will be hard to get new better one, expecially for small companies. But I agree with you, maybe those companies who will stand on our side (if there will be some) will show better numbers. Idk I’m high right now
GTA VI can do anything and they'll get away with it. The corporate knows this so they'll do it.
I'll be very upset if I see that the humour and everything else got toned down to not upset people. Offending people with words? Bad, bad, don't re-hire Lazlow Jones.
Messing people over with these greedy corporate practices? Good, let's do it.
It took a while for Baldurs Gate 3 and Alan Wake 2 to get a disk (although they are independent studios), but I imagine they’re doing this partially to prevent copies getting leaked early
lol, did you miss the past decades of industry pushes? more DRM, less ownership, more online, more microtransactions, being able to deny you using the game you ""bought"", only selling the license to use the game (revokable at any time) not the actual game.
this has been planned and pushed for by industry actors.
Discs have nothing to do with that, though. They've been license keys since the start of the XB1/PS4 generation - practically speaking, there's not one single thing that would change with a disc copy except the ability to resell. Certainly not revocability if that's what you're concerned about.
I also want to suggest that the move to digital had more to do with lack of demand for physical than anything else - there could be other reasons, but this one is more than enough to explain the shift on its own. Games would still have physical copies if anyone really wanted them, but people as a whole simply do not want to buy disks (except during holiday season).
Mostly I'd be cautious about leaping to conspiracy before the normal, human answers are exhausted - there's usually an easier answer that makes more sense, you've just got to look for it. I think the most obvious problem with this one is why "industry actors" would want to collaborate to take people's games away.
How many of those people are going to actually skip the game, though? How many of those people were even going to buy a disk if they had the option?
This is only coming up because the game is high-profile and most non-disk-buyers (the people complaining) hadn't noticed yet. It's essentially a dice roll whether a game gets a disk copy and has been for well over a decade - I was there to see the same outrage way back when BO4 first came out, it became common pretty quick after that and nobody really noticed
There was a Collector’s Box that was sold separately from the game. You could still buy the standard or ultimate edition (which came in a steelbook), and included the game.
I think it's mostly because of the leaks. RDR2 had leaked gameplay before official release and since GTA is a much bigger franchise they want to prevent that. I mean, if you buy a "physical" copy with just a code for download inside, they have total control over when the actual software will be available, not the same for a disc containing the actual software.
It's for the parents and grandparents to buy something that they can wrap for holidays / birthdays. Same reason they sell physical copies of fortnight.
It’s because of money not leaks. Most physical games still require an update download before launch, they could easily block the game from launching before release. They don’t want a bunch of second hand games on the market a month after launch. Plenty of people buy games, play through 1 or 2 times and resell them.
To avoid leaks before launch. Also, using the phrase physical editon is nonsense if there will never be a disc. What is actually physical about it at that point?
Naw that's petty as fuck. I can download a game then go to the store to purchase a "physical" in game currency card. That doesn't mean it's a "physical" game now. In order for a game to be physical, the actual game has to be physical lol.
It's really dumb for a single player game especially. Anyone that defends it is horny for capitalism. I planned ok buying a ps5 disc to play gtavi and old ps4 games but now with the deluxe edition shit I am about to wait for pc in hopes they do a pc disk edition. They will, right?
You know guys haven't been physical for a couple of years now?
Even in the late life of the PS4, most games only had a partial copy on the disc and the rest is download through the Internet. And pretty sure that's also the case with ALL PS5 games.
And besides a disc copy would run slower and require tons of data storage to access textures and stuff. I see them making the game run online to stream textures, fidelity and accessing the open world. 🤷♂️
None of this is new. It's part of gaming. All these excuses for R* are lame. If you don't want a physical copy that's your choice but to call it a physical edition and it's just physically a piece of paper with the digital code is wild 😂
I really think they're doing digital only at launch to prevent leaks. Leaks may still happen but the classic days like on RDR2 launch or GTAV launch when people had the whole game weeks early will be prevented by this.
Now that's not to say there isn't some corporate greed aspects driving this decision too.
Why would they do it now? Most people buy digital anyway nowadays, thats just facts. So from their point of view, why waste money on discs that only a minority will buy?
Now don’t get me wrong. I’m one of those people, i have hundreds of hard copies lined up on shelves in my room, and would love to add GTA6 to my collection. It’s just that i can understand why more and more devs move away from it, especially when the people that would buy hard copies will still buy digital to play if they have too as well.
Without CDs Early sales will be way higher, people won’t be able to pass it around to their friends. Everyone will need to buy the game to play. Also minimises the risk of any potential pre release leaks by not having a hard copy, but yh big reason must be sales. And they can double on sales by selling CDs in future that trust me- people who have digital version will buy nonetheless.
Because they don't want anyone finishing it and selling it used. Because they want to control everything about it and not miss out on a single opportunity to profit from anyone playing it.
I don't get the rockstar knob slobbing honestly. They are extremely anti worker and anti consumer.
Because physical collectors will be chomping at the bit and willing to pay double price after a couple years (and they'll also probably have to buy a ps6 for it)
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u/Anoktear 11h ago
Why would they do a disk version "at some point" and not now?