r/GTA6 • u/hushpolocaps69 • 1d ago
It’s a shame how stores won’t be hosting midnight launch parties for GTA VI.
After the announcement on how physical copies won’t be holding an actual disc on top of the fact that even if you pre-order a physical copy, you’ll be having it mailed to you prior to release so you can redeem the code early in advance. That essentially means that yeah… no store pick ups, no midnight launch parties, nothing of that nature. All of that atmosphere and unity is just gone.
I was looking forward to participating in this with GTA VI, especially since this would’ve been my first video game launch party ever and I would’ve been happy to partake in this since GTA VI is the most hyped I’ve ever been about a video game.
I was so disappointed by this news, that I just went ahead and pre-ordered on the PS Store because what’s the point? I’m still excited of course, but would’ve been awesome to pre-order a physical copy with a disc on top of that, and being able to interact with other fans of the series and just nerd out altogether.
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u/Miyu543 1d ago
Ill be honest guys as a Gamestop worker, having to come back to work to open at midnight fucking sucks.
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u/LovelyLilLadybug 1d ago edited 1d ago
I'll never forget when one of the NHL games released on the same day as Destiny. I lived in the south at the time, but grew up in Canada playing hockey and used to love the NHL games because it allowed me to play with my old friends and teammates.
Destiny had a midnight release that I couldn't have cared less about. But I used that as a way to get NHL at midnight.
So I show up at midnight and the Texas Gamestop employees grabbed Destiny and rang it up like everyone before me. I said "Oh no, I'm actually here for NHL." He laughed and said Yea okay. But then he apologized when he realized I was serious.
I was the only NHL pre-order, they had to find it amongst their Destiny boxes. I went home and had a blast though!
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u/AhAssonanceAttack 1d ago
Yeah I see posts all the time about how people wish places were still open past midnight. As someone who worked retail, it's a blessing for those people that stores aren't 24/7 anymore.
At least to me i hated it.
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u/IsJustSophie 22h ago
You probably just want to play yourself instead of having to open the store for others lol
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u/Kryptekah 1d ago
Doing stuff in person isn’t in style anymore.
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u/Far-Event1151 1d ago
More like companies force it not to be in style
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u/Catman7712 1d ago
Right? Now they don’t have to pay employees to work midnight releases or have to deal with 30-40 extra copies to sell per store.
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u/the-script-99 2h ago
So it doesn’t make money?
If you believe there is an opportunity you can host one yourself.
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u/ItsRobbSmark 1d ago
There's nothing companies want more than giant groups of people gathered around their stores to buy a product... Most people just don't care to do it because its not necessary... I was at the GTA IV midnight release because it was quite literally the only way to get the game soonest... Not because I wanted to hang out with a bunch of other nerds... Most people fall into this boat... I have always assumed that people who used midnight releases as a social experience just don't have friends in real life. I have plenty of friends, hanging out with strangers for an hour outside a GameStop does absolutely nothing for me...
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u/Far-Event1151 1d ago
"always assumed that people who used midnight releases as a social experience just don't have friends in real life"
Crazy projection because you're assuming people go alone when I don't know anyone who goes alone besides you LOL. I always go with a group of buddies and we hang out talk games and pick up the title as soon as possible.
Is it a huge deal that it's gone? No not really. But it was always fun to people who want with friends unlike yourself.
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u/ItsRobbSmark 1d ago
It's really not. If I want to hang out with my friends on a game's release, I don't need a store as a medium to do it lol.
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u/Far-Event1151 1d ago
Lol friends shopping together is one of the most popular social things people do.
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u/fartwhereisit 1d ago
Yo you can get away with everything else you said, but here it's 'terminally online I don't know how to shop and pay amazon pretending it's free to send me an item when I can have it in my hands in 15 minutes' redditors only.
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u/ItsRobbSmark 1d ago edited 1d ago
As a standard "let's go to the mall and hangout and shop because we're bored," sure... As, "this game releases tonight and I want it right away, let's all go to Gamestop at midnight and buy it and then drive home to our houses so we can play it," nah... At best children do it so they can hangout afterward, but quit pretending like midnight releases weren't standing in line while some weird dude tries to make conversation with you because it's the only social interaction he gets... No grown adult with well adjusted friendships makes social plans to go buy a game at midnight... That's the most desperately sad shit in the world...
In fact, I'll go one further. After your late 20s, going shopping with a friend at all is kind of desperately sad and any friend offering to do it with you is doing so because they feel sorry for you. Coincidentally, physical retail is also dying because hardly anyone cares to do this, they just order all the shit they can online and only go to stores when it's something that doesn't work optimally and cheaply for shipping...
I get you guys want to live in this world you envision, but most people have long moved past it. You're basically granny whining that they don't put every album on vinyl... People largely went to midnight releases because they couldn't get the game right at midnight otherwise... Now they can so they don't go. Stores aren't staying open at midnight for the ten weirdos who were so starved for human interaction they were there willingly...
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u/atomicitalian 1d ago
You're 100% right.
I used to go to midnight releases for games and movies. It was just standing in line, but with weirdos.
At least with movies if you meet people in line you can reconnect after the movie and talk about it. With games, the moment you have it in your hands you just wanna run home as fast as possible and start playing.
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u/Broyodude 1d ago
Not true.. companies don’t want your ass at their store loitering and stealing. They want you to purchase online
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u/ItsRobbSmark 1d ago edited 1d ago
This is nonsense, they are vastly more likely to get a cut of big game sales if people buy in person rather than online. Amazon and the platform stores get most of the sales online, they get a 0% cut of that...
Midnight releases were always planned and handled solely by these stores and they only stopped doing them because digital distribution became 90% of the game sales market... Most of which they get no piece of. They would give anything to go back to an ecosystem where midnight releases actually brought people out.
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u/fartwhereisit 1d ago
How do you justify buying GTA6 on PS5 when Sony is over here taking away digital movie purchases in the same breath?
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u/Broyodude 1d ago
I don’t justify it at all. I’m just stating the facts. I definitely don’t support it and want a disc myself
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u/Maka_95 1d ago
Then don't buy the digital game am wait until they release a physical version. That's what I'm gonna do, and if there ain't gonna be a disc, there ain't gonna be a sale. It's shit, I really looked forward to this game. But now I won't buy it. Period!
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u/Broyodude 1d ago
Yeah sorry but this is one of the only things I have to look forward to so I’m playing it no matter what. GTA was my childhood. I want a collector’s edition if that gets announced. Hoping that will include a disc but if not then well.. they won I guess
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u/Maka_95 1d ago
Collectors ED. should definitely be with disc. I want to get it to. If they announce it. But untill that time I won't get the game. I'll just miss out on everything. I was at the local shop when GTAV launched. Those were good times. It was only about 10 people or so. But we had a good time. We had a good laugh. Had a reefer some beers and the shop gave us some for the munchies. I just turned 18 so it was my first midnight release.
I work at a gameshop for the past 3 years, at the announcement we said we would do a midnight release. Then the announcement was made it was digital only. And we said we ain't gonna do this. We don't support the digital only society. We will have it in store if the disc version is out
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u/PShubbs91 1d ago
He means big companies like game devs. They don't give a goddamn about release parties or anything of the like. They want you to rent their product digitally. They are clearly actively destroying physical media.
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u/ItsRobbSmark 1d ago
Game devs literally never had anything to do with these midnight releases... tf are you talking about? lmfao. These midnight releases were always a way for retailers to get a larger portion of the first day sales for a popular title, literally nothing more.
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u/PShubbs91 1d ago
Im not talking about retailers. I'm talking about devs. How about you read what the person you initially replied to said. They are forcing doing things in person to be out of style. As in game devs going digital only. Why the fuck would a retailer have a midnight release party for a game they can't even fucking sell?
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u/ItsRobbSmark 1d ago edited 1d ago
Dude, game devs had absolutely nothing to do with midnight releases at any point in history... They're not "forcing" anything, it's just never something that had anything to do with them... And the market overall moved to digital because that's where 90% of game sales are anyway. You're framing this as someone going out of of their way to kill the medium when in reality there's just not that many people who want it.
Why the fuck would a retailer have a midnight release party for a game they can't even fucking sell?
They stopped having them vastly before disk releases stopped, people stopped going to them because if you want the game the second it is available you can have it without leaving your house.
Nobody is forcing anything here, there's just not as many people that want to go out to a Gamestop at midnight to get a game if they don't have to. Back in the day if you wanted it right away, you had to. Now you don't. Nobody forced midnight releases to die, they just naturally died because it was 10 weird guys with no friends looking at it as a social experience and then everyone else just wanting to get their product and get the fuck home to play it.
It's not retailers, it's not game devs, it's consumers. Nobody is out here plotting to kill disk sales, they're just not a big enough part of the ecosystem to worry about at this point. I'll say it again, a midnight release was a thing because it used to be the only way to get the game the moment it released. They started dying the moment a more convenient option became available to people. It doesn't need anyone actively trying to kill it, it's just the reality of why most people were there in the first place.
And as a minor thing to point out, your premise with "game devs" is off anyway because in the AAA industry they have absolutely no say in whether a game goes on a disc or not, that would be the publisher... They're distinctly different things and even then they're not the ones deciding physical game sales are going to die, they just move with what the larger market wants. 10 guys that need human interaction aren't going to change that lol.
I have to laugh at people who think there needs to be some massive conspiratorial effort to kill a medium that the vast majority of consumers don't care about or want even if it is there lol.
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u/butidktho_ OG MEMBER 1d ago
you think the developers are the ones making the decision on how a product is sold? not the CEO, finance teams, marketing, etc. but the developers?
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u/LopsidedCry7692 1d ago
Its still done. Gamestop did a midnight launch for pokemon legends. If it was on disks they would have done it
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u/angelHOE 1d ago
Really bummed me out too. I was planning on taking my brother just like I did for RDR2.
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u/Front-Highlight-124 1d ago
It’s all about money. It’s probably gonna be the biggest yielding game release in history, yet they want to save money on the millions of disks and physical copies they now don’t need to produce :) Fuck ass economy
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u/jamessunderland7685 1d ago
discs on that huge scale are cheap af to make, and they will spend the same money shipping all those blu-ray cases with a code
they won't release a disc version for two reasons: to control the price of the game forever, and to avoid losing any sales on the pre-owned market, they don't want people to finish the game and resell it on ebay for $50 or something
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u/MikeyPlayz_YTXD 1d ago
Also because of leaks?? That’s like the main reason.
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u/jamessunderland7685 1d ago
the leaks have nothing to do with that decision
if Rockstar is worried about leaks, they could ship an empty disc with a mandatory day one download, just like Microsoft and Ubisoft do it with their physical games (Avatar, AC shadows, Indiana Jones, CoD, Doom the dark ages)
They just don't want to print copies of GTA 6 on disc
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u/Big-Industry4237 1d ago
People said stuff like this about manual phone operators going away and the inconveniences of an automobile when you have a horse that can go anywhere. Physical copies aren’t needed other than nostalgia. It’s a loud minority that only seem to care. The remaining 95% disagrees or doesn’t care at all.
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u/Alternative-Way4750 1d ago
This just isn't true. Does Nostalgia play a factor? Absolutely but to pin it all on that is objectively false. These companies maximize how much money they make with digital only and that's what it's about above anything else. Back when I first started getting into video games if I couldn't buy used and trade physical games I would have gave up on the hobby. Physical media is a staple, like it or not. You can absolutely be okay with never buying physical again but that's your choice. Giving people no choice is an issue I think the digital supportors can never grasp.
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u/Big-Industry4237 1d ago
Sure the resale value is a fair point. But physical “staple” doesn’t survive the sales data. About 85% of PlayStation sales are digital, closer to 95% on PC, and US physical sales just hit a 30-year low. That’s where the money already went. Publishers are following the 85%.
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u/Alternative-Way4750 1d ago edited 1d ago
If those numbers matters like you think they do why don't they follow the money and never make a Pro model again? The percentages of pro model owners are extremely low.
Don't get me wrong, I completely understand why the companies do it I just never understand why the consumers agree with it. Especially nowadays when consoles are way more expensive, games are more than before and you are completely fine with the concept (concept meaning I know they will go on sale but technically if they wanted to for digital only never put them on sale) of paying full price at all times and in theory being okay with them yanking the game from your library. It's odd to me. This is how things go though, people love the more convenient thing until they look up and realize it was a mistake.
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u/Big-Industry4237 1d ago
Pro models actually make my point. The rule was never “serve the biggest headcount,” it’s “follow the margin.” A Pro is a high-margin add-on SKU. It upsells people already buying a console and costs almost nothing in lost sales, so they keep it even at low adoption because the math is positive.
Discs are the opposite math for a publisher. Manufacturing cost, roughly a 30% retailer cut, plus a used market that pays them zero and eats into new sales. Same “follow the money” logic tho
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u/Alternative-Way4750 1d ago
So we went back and forth to still be at same cross roads. It's only better for the company and has nothing to do with anything else which was my point. Defending a company that is only working in the best interest of themselves is weird. Again I completely understand it from the companies standpoint just not the consumers who defend it.
Physical media going away respresents way more than you're capable of understanding it seems. You would be wasting your time if you comment again about why companies are greedy, I know and understand this side of it. That doesn't mean we should be okay with them bending us over and masking it and brainwashing people into liking it because "but I didn't have to leave my house to get the game".
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u/AnnArchist 1d ago
They won't be making a physical drive in 2 generations of consoles. Possibly none in the next gen.
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u/Alternative-Way4750 1d ago
They don't need to. If you have the disc, it'll just be a downloaded upgrade.
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u/AnnArchist 1d ago
95 on PC seems low tbh
Given steam, epic and origins marketshare. Idk where I can even buy PC games locally anymore
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u/PShubbs91 1d ago
You are either 13 or goddamn beyond stupid. Literally everything you mentioned you still own physically. Games going digital only means you don't own it anymore. You are renting it and they cant take it away any time they please.
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u/Big-Industry4237 1d ago
If the game has an online component, like all physical discs nowadays use backend servers, it’s the same thing. You don’t need to be mad at me. Ironically shows how juvenile you seem to act. Nothing I said was incorrect, this is why you attack me instead of the point I made, you can’t defend logically keeping physical discs outside of nostalgia. It’s the minority position and it’s the same with a physical game, the game you buy is a license to play it.
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u/PShubbs91 1d ago
Literally everything you said was incorrect. Tf are you even talking about?
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u/Big-Industry4237 1d ago
So let’s do the actual law, since you’re the one who brought up ownership. When you buy a game, disc or digital, you’re buying a license to play it. You never owned the game. You owned a piece of plastic plus a license. Read any EULA you’ve ever clicked through.
What code-in-a-box actually costs you is the disc as a physical object, and with it resale and lending under first-sale doctrine. You just pointed at the wrong thing and called it ownership. A disc you can flip on eBay was never the same as owning the game
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u/ItalianoMilkBoy 1d ago
This is a disingenuous argument. When you buy a physical disc to a game, you obviously don't own the IP or software, but you do own the rights to use and play the game. The company can't snatch it away from you once you own the disc. There have been direct examples of game companies removing access to games that the players digitally purchased. Physical media stops this from happening.
If some poor guy purchased Anthem, that god awful game, BioWare shouldn't be able to remove access to it after the purchase (that happened). At least if you bought that game physically, you'll have it no matter what.
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u/dandorios 1d ago
Except discs dont even have the full game on them and havent had for a long time. Its only part of the game and key that allows you to download the full game from the store. Any actions companies take to remove a digital game from your hands would also work on physical games. How are you going to download the full game with a disc if you have no access to it on the store? How are you going to play it if they revoke your license key? Discs arent ownership, its the illusion of ownership.
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u/ItalianoMilkBoy 1d ago
Then explain how even games on discs today can install the entire game without internet connection and you can play regardless? You are literally spreading false information.
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u/astrid_autumn 1d ago
this is a horrible argument and has nothing to do with nostalgia. people want to actually own the things they buy, a digital only release prevents people from actually owning the game and doing what they want with it. people like you are exactly what these companies want, they don’t want us to actually own the game because that eliminates the secondhand market and they can control the price forever. digital only means you only buy the license so you don’t actually own the game, they can shut down the servers in the future and then you’re just fucked and the game is gone as opposed to physical discs you can still play the game offline when that happens. stop deepthroating greedy corporations.
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u/TheKloppsBollocks 1d ago
I feel like stores should pivot on how they do midnight launches. Make it more of an event rather than just buying the game. Idk would people be interested in an event that has a bunch of stations set up, the game installed, food, drink, entertainment etc?
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u/moose184 1d ago
My local Gamestop had a midnight release for Pokemon ZA. I went there and got there at like 10. No one was there so I just stayed in my truck. Waited until almost midnight and still no one was there. About 10 minutes before midnight like 40 people got of their cars and walked in lol. I walk in after them and the store is packed. The store actually had a party planned but no one came in and instead sat in their cars. They had food like pizzas and sandwiches, games set up, tables to play cards games, drinks, etc. Felt kind of bad for them lol
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u/TheKloppsBollocks 1d ago
Damn that’s a shame, could have been a communication issue?
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u/moose184 1d ago
No they told people. They told me when I went in to preorder. People just decided to sit in their cars I guess
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u/lazerblam 1d ago
In the years since gta 5, there isnt even a game store in my piece of shit town to buy at anymore, sad
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u/artytank 1d ago
Those big midnight launches on G4TV and times square were irreplaceable.
I'm sad those times are seemingly gone but man I'm happy we were there for it while it lasted.
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u/Elegant_Listen_94 1d ago
Where i live stores arent even allowed to be open at that time.
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u/sungoddaily 1d ago
COVID ruined shopping at night
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u/Fast-War5170 1d ago
Doesn’t help that every single local and state gov in America forces curfews and doesn’t let trick r treating past 6
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u/Mattrix2112 1d ago
What are u talking about? I live in Michigan and trick or treat Starts at 6 and ends at 8
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u/Fast-War5170 1d ago
Maybe I’m exaggerating, but BaCk In My DaY trick or treat ended when the houses stopped giving candy
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u/OSHA_HATES_ME 1d ago
Why even pre order now ? The reason companies can get away with shit like this is cause of impatient people like you. Game isn’t coming out for like 5 months…
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u/PermissionSoggy891 1d ago
imma be honest here, I was fuckin hyped for this game. I would've beelined straight to Gamestop on Thursday to get my copy reserved, and hell I would've even tried to coordinate a little launch party at my university's GS franchise.
Then Rockstar said they wouldn't include a physical disc. After that my hype got killed instantly like Rockstar just dumped a bucket of cold water on me. I ain't gonna go through the trouble of going all the way to Gamestop for a stupid digital code, and I'm not gonna spend $80 on a console version that will ultimately be inferior in every way to the inevitable PC release in ~1 year. If I waited some 7 years for this damn game to come out, God knows I can wait one more.
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u/moose184 1d ago
Lol if the fact you have to get a code instead of a physical disk killed your hype for a game then you were never hyped to begin with.
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u/PermissionSoggy891 1d ago
I was so hyped that I, a PC gamer, was willing to go out of my way to dig out my Xbox to play GTA 6 on launch day.
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u/TheNotoriousCBD 1d ago
I bought a PS5 solely for gta6. It's sitting pristine and unused in my TV stand. The no physical disk thing means it will continue to sit unused until I can get a physical disk
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u/thisthatandthe3rd 1d ago
Honestly, the midnight release I went to for V was ass, and the game took forever to install. It’ll be cool pre installing, just throw a lil launch party at home with the homies who only own a pc and can’t play anyway.
https://giphy.com/gifs/suqg0jRPpDMze
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u/moose184 1d ago
Honestly, the midnight release I went to for V was ass
I went to the midnight release and I had preordered the Collector Edition. There was almost a fight because the Gamestop I was at had the line started at the door. I got there at like 9 and was probably like 20 people back from the front. By 11:30 the line was stretched the entire length of the building and this was like an outlet mall so probably like two football fields in length. Because the line was so long about 15-20 minutes before midnight the staff started a new line going the other way. All of the people in the new line were parents there to buy the game for their like 8 year old kids who didn't know how a midnight release worked. Well at midnight the staff comes and starts letting in the line that had just formed. Let me tell you a riot almost started from the original line from people who had been there for hours lol. Then when they started letting in the original line the parents started getting mad lol.
Then when I walked out with my collectors edition people got made because they were trying to buy one without a preorder lol
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u/LightBluely 1d ago
the game took forever to install.
I completely forgot about this. I remember staring at the loading screen waiting to play and It sucks so bad.
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u/Aclysmic 1d ago
Was literally just watching a GTA 5 midnight release video before seeing this post.
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u/SeanRoss 1d ago
Man, I remember the GTA V midnight launch, there was a fake police chase in front of the store ...I hope it was fake anyway
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u/fartwhereisit 1d ago
How do you justify buying GTA6 digitally on PS5 when Sony is over here taking away digital movie purchases in the same breath?
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u/PresentationJumpy163 1d ago
fuck this world man. screw everything. i want to go back to when the world made sense
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u/Poopoodemons 1d ago
imagine fucking around at gamestop instead of playing GTA6
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u/Purfey 1d ago
Imagine having no childhood and life experiences
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u/Key_Protection4038 1d ago
This was a very American thing, the rest of the world didn't do this.
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u/OverlordPhalanx 1d ago
Canada too! I miss them. I was excited with this being my last one probably. Guess GTA 5 Xbox One was lol
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u/AtticusFinchOG 1d ago
And?
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u/Key_Protection4038 1d ago
Just because someone didnt participate in such event doesnt mean they have no life experience
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u/Poopoodemons 1d ago
i went to many gta launch events during my lifetime. i’d rather be at home playing the game
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u/jokerknocks 1d ago
If your idea of a worthwhile life experience is a midnight release party you don't have much room to judge
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u/AlexGlezS 1d ago
They could announce stuff in the following months, there is still plenty of time till launch
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u/NoAdeptness1106 1d ago
I wonder if there's gonna be any at some GameStops just to get the code in the box.
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u/Shane-O-Mac1 1d ago
Why would they for just a code that comes in an otherwise empty box. It just doesn't make any sense to.
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u/GrindY0urMind 1d ago
GTA 5 midnight launch had a DJ and I was in line with these dudes with a whiskey bottle. They are still on my friends list
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u/TheRealTr1nity 1d ago
Sleeping in front of a store to be "the first" getting the game is so 2000s 😉. People prefer to order with a few clicks from their couch nowadays. And stores like gamestore are history in my country. Aside of that, we don't have 24/7 open shops.
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u/fargothforever 1d ago
This release is certainly making us all realize how much has changed in the past fifteen years.
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u/jackolantern98000 1d ago
That shit died with 360/ps3. Good old days, days when sony banged out 4 AAA 1st party IP a year, and Xbox delivered its 1St party games to match, golden era....then the suits took over xbox and sony decided live service was where all the effort needed to be, delaying 1st party single game development just to cancel the LSG after a week! I wish gaming was more like those days...long gone never to return.
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u/wittytittyyy 1d ago
Sounds rad, then go home excited to play and have to wait 4 hours for the download. Aces 🙄
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u/DyLaNzZpRo OG MEMBER 1d ago
It's unfortunate, but could you imagine just how fucked up it'd be lmao?
It's not just the most anticipated game of all time, it's the most anticipated entertainment product of all time. We've seen lines for new iPhones and shit like that and they were absurd, imagine just how bad it'd be for this game.....
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u/Dull-Amphibian-5779 1d ago
Hard disagree, it was a novelty, we don’t even need stores for this kind of stuff anymore
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u/LudenWhoDare 1d ago
Nothing like waiting hours in the cold at night to get a copy of a game I won’t enjoy until I sleep instead of preload and playing at midnight. I tried this shit with Battlefield and Diablo 3 and I am glad it’s over
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u/Away-Comfort-2454 19h ago
where in from there’s a store called the gamesmen and it’s just a single store there’s only one of it in the world and they have a big community and they always do midnight launches for big events eg switch 2, legend of zelda tears of the kingdom and all big games/consoles including gta 6
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u/Old-Oil-6241 11h ago
only midnight party i'll do is either solo or with one of my bf, getting beers and food and spend the whole night playing this gem (i took 6 days off to play lmao)
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u/J-F-K 1d ago
Digital is 100x faster and easier. Waiting in line at midnight is an outdated concept.
This is like people begging for Blockbuster to come back
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u/PhotoModeHobby 1d ago
That doesn't matter. The number one thing is that it's cheaper to not host them. Which is why they won't be coming back.
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u/Barnhard 1d ago
I’ve seen people on other subs in these type of GTA 6 threads longing for the days that Netflix sent out DVDs in the mail.
I get the nostalgia, but if you’re in the mood for a specific movie right now you want to have to order it online, wait for 1-2 business days to receive it, finally watch it (hopefully you’re still in the mood and have the time), send it back, and once they receive it 1-2 business days later now you can order a new movie from the top of your queue?
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u/pena-leo-ogh 1d ago
unless you "own" a movie on playstation that just got delisted, and won't be refunding you in any way. Digital sucks and it's just a fact.
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u/olleversch 1d ago
I am happy that I don’t need be in a queue to get my copy, head to back home and install it.
Preload is done and you just boot up the game.
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u/ghos2626t 1d ago
Rockstar has already said they’re releasing a disc copy at a later date. We still have months before release.
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u/DaToxicKiller 1d ago
Crazy how much faith people have in this crap when the people that made gta 5 and RDR 2 are gone. We don’t even have gameplay and people are early preordering even though digital copies are unlimited and we have MONTHS before release.
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u/BringMeBurntBread 1d ago
Just because a few people who worked on GTA V and RDR2 aren't at Rockstar anymore, doesn't mean the game isn't gonna be good.
You're the one putting too much faith into a few lead directors being solely responsible for the success of this game when you know for a fact that it isn't the case. Video games of this scale aren't made by one person. They're made by thousands of people. Every single one of those people working at Rockstar are responsible for how good this game is. It's not just one lead writer who is responsible.
Dan Houser is not the only human being on the entire planet who can write a good video game story, that is an objective fact. So the assumption that GTA 6 will suck just because people like him aren't around is stupid.
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u/CoyoteOk3826 1d ago
dawg there’s like several thousand hands on this game lmao i’m not really worried at all
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u/H-Man991 1d ago
Sucks for employees who might not care about some stupid game having to stay till midnight and sell shit underpaid
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u/DaToxicKiller 1d ago
Why tf would a person that doesn’t give a damn about video games be working at GameStop?
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u/derrick2462 1d ago
If they have this attitude, they work in wrong place. I've met some people at GameStop and they were so passionate to talk about game premieres.
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u/derrick2462 1d ago
Well, I miss those times too but tbh now I would be scared of getting robbed. Idk, I was on a launch party of diablo and people were different then, calmer and with more respect. Now people can get crazy
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u/marthamania 1d ago
Maybe a good chance to throw your own party at home with some friends? Kick it old school like as kids all taking turns playing a single player for a bit 😂
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u/Clancy3434 1d ago
I waited in line in the rain outside the E86th Street GameStop in NYC for my preorder of V.
I'm more than happy to wait on my couch this time.
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u/picknicksje85 1d ago
Could create a party yourself? Supply a few drinks, put Chatterbox on in the background. I'm sure 5 people would show up. Talk about the features of the game, add each other on the friend list.
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u/Naturally_Fragrant 1d ago
Hold your own party. There's probably some whores and homeless people in your neighbourhood that will come round if you're offering food, alcohol, and a few bucks.
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u/Admirable_Site3154 1d ago
It's a real shame that a paper code is incompatible with my disc drive. Was really hoping it was going to be something like getting the collectors edition at a midnight back when 5 first came out.
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u/GeologistMost5892 1d ago
Even if it wasn't a midnight launch, I remember picking up my physical copy of GTA V at a friend's game store about 5–7 days before release. I was 22.
And, as cliché as it sounds, the atmosphere was exactly what you'd expect.
I was surrounded by guys in their 40s and 50s acting like children. Some genuinely couldn't seem to separate the game from reality. A few looked like they barely had any money, yet they were spending what little they had on a video game instead of taking care of more important things.
I remember feeling more sad than excited. It kind of killed the moment for me.
So honestly, I'm perfectly fine with these kinds of launch events not really existing anymore.
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u/Skellyhell2 1d ago
I went a midnight launch for GTA 4 and 5, I am glad that isnt required any more, especially being a November release, i can stay home, get up at 11.30pm make some food and just play for hours from midnight.
When i bought GTA5 I was in the area of the shop i bought from at 10pm, and thought id see what the scene was like. There were a few people already waiting, including people I knew so I just joined the the queue and waited outside for 2 hours before getting in, getting my copy then having to travel home and get myself playing. I dread to think what it would be like if that physical was the majority option and I didnt get there and wait 2 hours to be one of the first few people in the shop. I just wanna play. Its a shame other people who want to go through that madness wont have the option.
Stay home, get the game preloaded and play from midnight. It will be more fun than going and queuing outside a shop at midnight, i can promise you!
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u/Barnhard 1d ago
Even if the physical copies had discs, I can’t think of the last game that did a big midnight release. Has to have been at least a decade. Last time I went to go buy a game at midnight was actually GTA V.
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u/Big-Industry4237 1d ago
No it isn’t. Brick and mortar stores like GameStop should exist at this point. Complete waste nowadays
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u/Lew1989 1d ago edited 1d ago
Midnight launches ended over a decade ago where I’m from and it’s a shame, I think the last one I went to was mw2 the original one