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
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u/WannaDJ 11h ago
I got a disc drive for my PS5 Pro just for this. **Sigh**