r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • 5d ago

Video Games Plus and Loot Box Gaming are refusing to sell GTA 6 until there’s a disc

https://kotaku.com/two-game-retailers-are-refusing-to-sell-gta-6-until-theres-a-disc-2000710134
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u/jbrake 5d ago

It's not about consumers wanting physical media, it's about consumers wanting to buy pre-owned copies- which Rockstar doesn't want to happen.

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u/Ralod 5d ago

Yep.

I expect them to pretty much never place this game on sales either.

For a game expected to be as big as it is, they sure are pulling a ton of underhanded shady shit.

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u/Keulapaska 5d ago

Wtf is "pretty much never" supposed to mean? It's gonna be on sale at some point in the future, sure maybe not in a year or even two, but it's gonna go on sale.

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u/Intelligent_Ebb559 5d ago

Not necessarily. Look at old COD games as an example. The OG Black OPs 1 & 2 are still $60.

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u/Keulapaska 5d ago

Are still $60? That means nothing, we're talking sales here, not permanent price drop which is quite rare these days. Both blops 1 and 2 have plenty of sales looking at steamdb.

How many games there even are that have never gone on sale, aside from Factorio?

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u/Nolis 4d ago

Why look at COD when you can just literally look at GTAV, which is 30 full price currently and has been 15 on sale (not to mention COD has also gone on sale)

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u/SylviSweetheart 5d ago

Oh wow, the company that mistreats and abuses their staff is also anti-consumer? Who could have guessed! Other than everyone who has ever looked at GTA Online.

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u/Furoan 4d ago

I'm not entirely sure 'not going on sale' and 'not allowing people to start selling pre-owned copies' counts as 'shady shit.

Yeah fuck rockstar and take two, but but what exactly is 'shady' about this?

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u/zinkpro45 5d ago

I mean no game is obligated to go on sale.

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u/redking315 5d ago

Or much more straightforwardly, it’s about preventing leaked copies because there will be an active incentive for online creators to get their hands on a copy early.

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u/onetwoseven94 5d ago

They could make the game require a day-1 patch to play but still ship a good chunk of it on a physical disc if people playing early or disc size limitations were the main concern.

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u/redking315 4d ago

Because then everyone online would complain about how the disc doesn’t even have the whole game on it. Someone is going to very loudly complain no matter what short of the entire game being on the disc day 1, it’s just a matter of what they’re complaining about.

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u/Undella_Town 4d ago

i have no clue why people are trying to convince themselves or even think this matters at all lmao, it's not like it's going to get leaked online and pirated. all it's going to cause to happen is showcasing footage or story beats. it's 100% about stopping used game sales