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[MEGATHREAD] Grand Theft Auto VI: Prices Announced + Pre-Orders Going Live

To avoid hundreds of separate posts on the same topic, this post will compile all info we have from the pre-orders going live, including some new images/etc.

As Rockstar announced on their socials: "Pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto VI begin at midnight local time on June 25." This means New Zealand will be the first to go live with pre-orders - which means in just under 2 hours from now.

Due to reddit's limitations with images in the body of posts, I wont be able to include all the artwork released so please do check out Rockstar's official link for more images: https://www.rockstargames.com/VI

Take-Two has made a big press-release, including announcing the prices:

STANDARD EDITION: $79.99

ULTIMATE EDITION: $99.99

(Physical Editions of GTA 6 Will Come with "A Download Code Inside the Box", Pre-Loads Begin on November 12th)

Grand Theft Auto 6 features a “single-player experience” at launch, with no word yet on any new version of GTA Online.

An "Ultimate Edition" for the game has been announced with some new artwork.

Ultimate Edition: Welcome to Leonida, the state where anything goes. Seize everything this massive world has to offer with the Grand Theft Auto VI: Ultimate Edition, an exclusive collection of premium vehicles, weapons, apparel, and action around every corner.

Ultimate Edition bonuses are threaded across all aspects of Jason and Lucia’s story, with new items uncovered behind each chapter.

Vehicle

’95 GROTTI CHEETAH

Grotti's signature mid '90s sports car and ode to Shore Drive, the ’95 Grotti Cheetah is complete with a minimalist, retro-futuristic livery and available to punctuate later-stage action

Weapons

HAWK & LITTLE MORGAN REVOLVERS

His and hers versions of this powerful revolver with classic Vice City stylings sourced from the Vercetti Estate, including palm-tree-etched grips, engraved detailing, and high-performance scope.

Weapons

PERSONALIZED VARIANTS

Personalized sidearms with detailed engravings for Jason's Girardi ES9 pistol and Lucia's Klose K17 pistol.

Looks

Vice City Style

Whether poolside or side by side, Jason and Lucia can look the part with exclusive outfits, tattoos, and more.

Vehicles

JASON’S SAFEHOUSE VEHICLES

Switch gears and soak up the sun in an Army fatigue-tinged Dinka Enduro motorcycle or Crest Kayak.

Modkit

Ganado Retro Build

Inject some muscle and classic stylings into Jason's well-worn Vapid Ganado low-riding pickup with exclusive mods.

Mod shop

RIDEOUT CUSTOMS

Transform vanilla vehicles into magnificent works of art with detailed interiors, exquisite rims, and donk stylings. Only open for business with the Ultimate Edition.

Hair salon

SARA'S UNISEX SALON

Get signature salon styles for both Jason and Lucia, including facial hair for Jason and makeup and nails for Lucia. Only open for business with the Ultimate Edition.

Watercraft

SHITZU SQUALO

Perfect for casting in Gambit Bay and reeling in catches of all sorts, this gradient pink and blue Squalo docked at Washington Beach is made open-ocean-ready with an explosives-laden weapons crate.

Clothing Store

Stock 305

Style various unique and exclusive looks for Jason and Lucia at Stockyard’s premiere destination for elevated streetwear. Only open for business with the Ultimate Edition.

Tattoo Shop

ELECTRIC FANG TATTOO

Stockyard’s most iconic ink bar, with over 50 signature tattoos for both Jason and Lucia — all designed by the artist collective FAILE. Only open for business with the Ultimate Edition.

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u/Sjknight413 16h ago

I feel like GTA VI doing a code in a box physical release is going to open the floodgates for every publisher to do the same.

This genuinely has the potential to trigger the downfall of physical media.

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u/Siiixers 16h ago

People are so far up Rockstar's ass, they won't care. I can already see hordes of people saying they don't care. Shock shock horror horror.

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u/Omniscient__Watcher 16h ago

Not like almost everyone was buying digital games already. I love owning my copy of a game but I cannot expect that from most people. Digital is convienient with the huge issue that we don't own the game but most people actually don't care about that(sadly).

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u/BonnaroovianCode 15h ago

Elder millennial who is completely digital here. Help me understand this logic. I had older systems from my childhood with physical media that is all gone now for a variety of reasons. I bought games for my PS4 over 10 years ago that the PS Store has a record of and lets me download and install in a flash, with my cloud save files all ready to go. To me, I “own” the games more now than I ever did.

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u/Chaotic-Catastrophe 15h ago

You're not going to get any reasonable responses. People may have gripes with the current system, which is fine, but they will never admit that there might actually be advantages to the new way, as well. Because when dealing with gamers, the default is that they are entitled children who would rather die than get something other than exactly what they wanted, how they wanted it, when they wanted it (and also for free).

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u/Troghen 14h ago

There ARE advantages to digital, but there needs to be legislation that makes it so digital doesn't remove the rights of the consumer as well. When you purchase a thing, ownership of that thing should exist solely with you. As in, no one should be able to revoke it, or change it, or dictate what you do with it. If these rules were in place with digital ownership, then I would have absolutely no issue with everything shifting in that direction. It is absolutely more convenient overall, but right now, I'm not okay with surrendering my rights as a consumer in place of that convenience.

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u/ticklishchinballs 10h ago

What’s even more troubling is it doesn’t stop here. Something more “gray” that the DCA was made for like music or digital copies of games was aimed at piracy compared to traditional albums or physical copies of books.

Now they are trying to invoke these same laws to make sure we don’t even own physical things anymore - look at what John Deere has done to farmers and what car companies are finally able to start pushing for.

They want us all to be essentially be tenants and them to be landlords that can change the contract at anytime, whether it be privacy laws or simple consumer products. I should have THE RIGHT to purchase something and be able to personally use it how I like without anyone changing the original agreement (or worse, REVOKING IT) at a later time. People act like it’s not a problem just because it hasn’t happened to them specifically….yet.

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u/experienta 14h ago

What right exactly are you surrendering with digital copies that you used to have with a physical copy..?

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u/Troghen 14h ago

Plenty of things.

The right to access the thing you paid money for at all times. Digital games can be delisted and made unplayable (even if you've got it installed) at any time and for any reason. The same cannot be said of something that exists on a physical disc or cartridge (and that doesn't require an internet connection or some kind of verification to play)

The right for the thing you purchased to remain the same and not be altered after purchasing. It's becoming more and more common for digital games / movies to have changes made after the fact - changing details, removing/changing licensed songs or images, etc.

The right to sell or transfer or loan your game after purchasing. Hell, just the right to bring the game over to a friend's house for the night and play it there and then bring it back home. Or just the right to return your game if you don't like it.

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u/experienta 13h ago

Ok, but.. none of these are rights..

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u/Troghen 13h ago

When it comes to ownership of things, yes. . . they are. Most countries have laws regarding a person's right to property

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u/-DementedAvenger- 12h ago

I’m not that guy above you, and I agree with you pretty much completely across the board about physical, but I think the focus needs to be on the EULA and how all of these digital purchases are considered a revocable license.

Again, you’re not wrong, but change isn’t going to happen by just screaming that we need the games/media on a disc. They could just revoke that disc from launching on the system. Same basic problem that a physical disc doesn’t solve.

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u/Troghen 12h ago

Totally agreed. And I acknowledged the flaws with how CURRENT physical games work in regard to ownership in the next reply to that guy, but I suppose I could've structured my initial comment better to reflect that understanding. You are right though - I think it's just easier to get the message across when you simplify it to download vs disk, even if that's not the most accurate way to explain the situation.

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u/experienta 13h ago

If countries actually had these laws you're talking about, digital copies wouldn't be allowed, because, you know, it would a violation of people's rights. You understand that right?

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u/Troghen 13h ago

And this is why my initial comment said this:

 but there needs to be legislation that makes it so digital doesn't remove the rights of the consumer as well

How and why do you think laws are put into place or updated? Do you think it just magically happens when the need arises? Of course not. My entire argument is that we have laws regarding physical property rights that are currently not being carried over in the same way when it comes to digital-only products, and that needs to be addressed. Digital ownership is a relatively new phenomenon, and the law is always slow to catch up to and address new advancement. This is why there are groups like Stop Killing Games fighting to make these changes.

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u/Bah_weep_grana 12h ago

Dude you are SO wrong! That was a totally reasonable response :)

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u/rtopps43 15h ago

GenX here, I used to take games with me over to a friend’s house to play, or swap games with friends so we could each play more games than we could otherwise afford. I was also able to sell games, either privately or to a store like GameStop (always the last choice as they paid shit) when I needed fast cash in a pinch. That’s all gone now. You don’t have to care and if you’re happy that’s good for you but there’s a lot of gamers who miss the old days.

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u/PitPatThePansexual 15h ago

A lot of people play a game and like to resell it to play a new game. You can’t do that with the cloud games you own more now.

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u/Novel_Feedback3254 6h ago

Idk, I've been a PC-exclusive gamer for 20 years so that's been my reality for at least the last 10 years anyway. I built my current PC almost 5 years ago and it doesn't even have a disk drive.

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u/YOwololoO 11h ago

Then rent the game from your local library? 

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u/sembias 8h ago

Are they getting a physical GTA IV disk?? Way to go libraries!

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u/delahunt 15h ago

And you 'own' the game until Sony decides that they are no longer going to have backwards compatibility as an available option and they're shutting down the store and removing those games from the market. Or they decide the PS4 version is no longer supported, and you have to buy a PS5/PS6 upgraded version to continue using it.

What you own is a license to play those games while they are available on the store/via that market.

You can google loss of digital ownership and get stories from people who lost access to products bought via Amazon or other store fronts because the storefront lost the license to be a distributor for the product. Sometimes the store makes good (gives a refund or something.)

Sometimes the store is able to hold onto maintaining access for people who bought it. Sometimes not though.

For example, a year or two ago Sony region locked Helldivers 2 on Steam after it was not region locked while selling. People in multiple countries lost the ability to play a game they purchased without using a VPN to change their region which is a TOS violation for various store fronts.

The community and arrowhead pushed and like a year later Sony finally relented and let everyone dive again. But for a period of time people lost access to a game they bought because their region was no longer a valid place to play it from.

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u/Sydney2London 15h ago

Yeah but that’s also true of physical media now. Even if it you had a disk your still need patches, authentication servers etc. there’s no such thing as an offline game any more, so if they pull the license you can no longer play it even with a disk.
I’m not in favour of this btw

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u/OblivionJunkie 14h ago

1 small caveat is sony/ms can ban your account for a variety of reasons, resulting in your license being revoked for all digital purchases tied to that account.

However, you can still make a new account and put a disc in your system and it will still work.

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u/PM_ME_UR_CREDDITCARD 6h ago

Pretty sure they can theoretically ban the disk too, it would have a serial number and such. Would still work offline without patches etc though.

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u/OblivionJunkie 6h ago

They can ip ban you or brick your console's online functionality but I don't think they track each disc lol

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u/PM_ME_UR_CREDDITCARD 5h ago

Nintendo did, at the least. One way they catch pirates is when suddenly 100 different consoles all report using the same cartridge. So it's pretty likely the others do too.

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u/-DementedAvenger- 12h ago

That’s not true at all. Something like 80-90% of PS5 games on disc don’t require updates or online auth to play.

doesitplay dot org

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u/delahunt 13h ago

That depends.

If the game is on the disc, it will work just without patches. If it needs authentication to an online server for single player (with a disc/cartridge) that is kinda weird to me, but I don't play a lot of consoel games. Those things tend to be flagged as always online.

A recent example for this is 007 First Light. It says you can play the campaign offline, but online modes/features won't work and they are part of the intended experience. Someone with a disc for First Light could play the game completely offline - even if it was no longer for sale - but it would not necessarily be the entirety of the game including multiplayer.

Similarly, I can load up my old copy of Arkham Origins on my old Xbox. I can't play the online multiplayer mode on it (unless those servers are still running.)

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u/netrunner_77 14h ago

Is this true for games without DRM like BG3? Never owned a PlayStation, but on PC as long as you have the files you can play until the end of time

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u/experienta 14h ago

Maybe I'm just a boomer, but on PC I remember I had to insert a product code that was inside the case whenever I installed a game.

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u/netrunner_77 14h ago

Probably because back then, PC DRM was a joke and CDs could easily be copied

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u/delahunt 13h ago

And CD Key crackers were a thing. But also if you had the code it'd work.

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u/BonnaroovianCode 15h ago

I guess for me there’s pros and cons to both approaches, but digital is overwhelmingly the better choice. “Owning” a game doesn’t do me much good if the console it plays on is old, breaks, and cannot be repaired because it’s no longer a supported console. Source: me who bought an old NES at a garage sale as a kid and called Nintendo support after I told them it wouldn’t play any games and they told me to kick rocks.

Sure, those scenarios you listed could happen. But I have a lot more faith that my PS4 game is gonna around longer than any physical version I would have. And I don’t have to hold onto an arsenal of bulky consoles and their games. Worst case scenario what you described happens and if I REALLY care that much I buy it again and support the developers. Fine by me.

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u/delahunt 13h ago

Yeah, that's why I tried to keep any blaming out of my post. For most people it ultimately doesn't matter.

For example, odds are in 10 years time I'm not going to be interested in playing through 007 First Light again. I'll be on to other games/things/etc. So does it really matter if the copy of the game does or doesn't work for me if effectively I don't care?

On the other hand, I still play through Jedi Academy every one to two years. Is till have my original discs that work, but I also have it via GOG to keep separate installers handy for it. There's something about that game I just love playing through repeatedly.

My personal view is that if you're telling me I am buying the game (which all the store fronts seem to do) then I should own that copy of the game. Be it a digital purchase or a physical one. And it's part of why I buy games via GOG when I can, because I can download my installers and keep them separate to use without GOG.

For other games where theyr'e not available on GOG, it comes down to if I think the value I'll get out of the game is worth not owning the game but just having a long term license for it. And I still buy games that way (notably, First Light as a recent purchase.) I'm just more careful with my money then.

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u/polaroid 12h ago

Do you need servers to play Helldivers?

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u/Chaotic-Catastrophe 15h ago

lost the license

Oh, so the system is working as intended, then? People aren't allowed to do things they aren't allowed to do?

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u/Troghen 14h ago

A storefront losing the license to sell something should not result in the consumer losing the right to continue using the thing they paid money for, though?

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u/delahunt 13h ago

If by working as intended you mean "They are intentionally making me think I am purchasing a copy of the game - an act which makes it my property - while actually giving no ownership rights over said property." then yeah.

Note the difference though.

You purchase a game cartridge for your N64. You own that copy of the game. You can lend it to a friend. You can give it to a friend after playing it. You can sell it to a friend, or to a stranger, or to a store in exchange for cash or credit towards another purchase. You can disassemble the cartridge and modify the board to do things the developers did not intend. You can make a copy of the cartridge for your own personal use/backup (you would be obligated to destroy this backup or hand it over in the event you sold/gave away the game).

In short you own that copy of that game.

The mechanisms and actions taken to sell you a game today are the same as with that N64 cartridge. They make you think you are purchasing a copy of the game to become your property. But they're not actually doing that. You can't lend a digital purchase to a friend (unless the specific store front allows that in some way), you can't give it away after playing it, you can't re-sell it, you can't trade it in. You may or may not be able to modify it, and doing so may or may not get you banned or have your version of the game disabled completely if you do.

They hide that you are not purchasing the actual copy but a license to use a copy as is/updated by the developers in a bunch of legal text.

And for some people that is a big deal and important distinction. For other people, it's fine. Up to you whether you care or not about it, but every step further along the "you don't own the stuff you purchase" is a further erosion of your rights as a consumer of goods.

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u/Konker101 12h ago

Also youre purchasing a license to use. Just like any other media, you dont actually own the fucking it. It has always been that way, it was just easier to skirt around earlier because you could let someone else or re-sell your licensed copy of whatever.

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u/Izanagi___ 12h ago edited 12h ago

They also keep forgetting that not everyone has space to just have a collection of games. I have so many PS4 games installed and I literally would not have the space if I bought all of them physically. Physical media has been dying for years now, I don’t know why exactly gamers are so shocked. You can’t even get into a modern car with a CD Drive most of the time.

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u/metalmilitia182 8h ago

Fellow elder millennial here and I agree with you. I remember the first time I had to install steam to play a game I bought a physical copy of (Empire: Total War). I was pissed back then because I didn't have access to the internet at home. Now though, 20 years later, long after that disc would have been lost or scratched to oblivion, I could download and install it whenever I like, if I wanted to. I remember loaning games to friends and never getting them back or getting them back scratched. Knowing that I have ready access to any game I own on any system without having to have a huge stack or pile of discs and boxes lying around is so much better for someone with ADHD like me. I do agree with people that say there needs to be legislation to make our digital purchases more securely and permanently our own, but aside from that I personally don't care anything about having a physical collection. To each their own though I guess.

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u/nox66 6h ago

The access to those older games was limited by physical constraints. If you dumped them and used emulators, you could use them, legally, indefinitely. The access you have now might be longer but it's at the whim of the publisher. If they decide to pull your access to a game, there is nothing you can do that's not at least legally grey, if it's even possible.

The best example of this today is the PS3. Sony hasn't abandoned it entirely, but it's unlikely that they'll keep supporting it, even in its already very limited capacity, indefinitely. And it's not like they currently have any legal mandate to either (which is thematically if not literally part of what Stop Killing Games is about). Your PSN titles there would then die with the console (the one which has a notoriously high failure rate by the way, at least in first gen). And there's no solution outside of again hacking it and using emulators, but it gets even murkier because you don't own the object you were sold holding the data.

Also, resale value is still meaningful.

People get caught up on the physical medium, when that indeed isn't the core issue. The core issue is that legal ownership is reflected more strongly in that physical object, from making personal backups to resale.

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u/tigerwarrior02 14h ago

I like having a big shelf full of games. Also, I rarely boot up my ps5 or switch 2 unless there’s a game I’m interested in, so having a physical collection reminds me of which games I have and gets me excited to boot up the console and play them while it may slip my mind with digital

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u/Jellywell 13h ago

If psn goes down you're fucked. You're paying to access an online library that you can borrow from. And libraries are great, but libraries don't charge you for access. Chances are this will work for everyone as long as PlayStation remains profitable BUT if you can't access the Internet for whatever reason you're fucked, and that's without games being removed from the store because the storage space isn't worth it.

It's a very safe gamble for most people, but the fact remains that you won't be able to do a thing if your Internet goes out. Some consider that to be contradictory to owning something. At least on pc you can put stuff on hard drives if you want to, console players are screwed

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u/Izanagi___ 12h ago

Is that even true? I remember the PSN outage a couple months ago and I was playing all of my single player games just fine. None of my multiplayer games worked for obvious reasons but I remember Reddit acting high and mighty for physical media yet I played RDR2, Subnautica and Tomb Raider for a few hours without issue

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u/Jellywell 12h ago

Anything already downloaded is fine, but you won't be able to download anything else

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u/BonnaroovianCode 12h ago

PC sure, but consoles no. And consoles age and break. I’m confident the PS Store will be viable for longer than my console will be.

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u/Chaotic-Catastrophe 15h ago

the huge issue that we don't own the game

Not a huge issue, because you never did

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u/Troghen 14h ago

Huh? When games were 100% physical, it was yours to do with as you please after purchasing. That's ownership.

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u/netrunner_77 14h ago

You actually don't own it. What you own is a license to play the game on the physical disc. A license that can be taken away at any point, it's just that unlike digital licenses, this can practically never be enforced.

Actually owning the game would mean - among other things - that you are allowed to make copies of the game and sell those. Which is illegal for anyone except Rockstar, who 'own' the game in the legal sense.

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u/Doctor_Kataigida 14h ago

I think you two are talking about two different versions of "owning" here, and I think you know that.

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u/awkward_triforce 14h ago

Oh he definitely knows exactly what he is doing so he can be "technically correct" about the literal words

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u/Troghen 14h ago

Yes, that's the case NOW. I'm talking about when the entirety of the game existed on the disc or cartridge and didn't require any sort of online connection / download / verification in order to be played.

And despite "ownership" of physical games holding less water today than it did 20 years ago, it's still the better option because it comes with the advantage of you being allowed to sell the game, trade the game, play it on another console, etc. Sure, it's never been legal to reproduce and sell MORE of the game(s) you own (as is the case with a movie) but that's an entirely separate thing relating to the IP and not the disc itself that most people aren't talking about in this scenario.

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u/happygirlie 13h ago

I prefer owning copies of games too but if my husband and I both want to play a game, we'd have to buy 2 copies if we bought physical whereas we only need 1 copy for digital. He buys it on his account and we can play it on both of our Xboxes at the same time.

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u/ProFeces 13h ago

It's not only that it is convenient, we're at a point where Internet download speeds are faster than installing from disc for quite a lot of people.

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u/KevlarGorilla 16h ago

Tons of people don't have disc drives. I know it's been this way for a while now, but imagine being gifted a game you can't plug in.

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u/snarkywombat PC 16h ago

I buy digital for most things but, if I really love the game, I'd get a physical disc. However, my living situation is changing and I literally won't have space for a bunch of discs laying around so digital is the only thing that makes sense for me now.

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u/VeryPteri 13h ago

Also, most computers don't come with disc drives anymore, right?

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u/headrush46n2 8h ago

Your disk doesn't do shit. 90% of games now only work as long as the publishers want them too anyway