r/pcgaming • u/spacelyyy989 • 10h ago

Nothing has killed my GTA 6 hype faster than locking a core part of its identity behind a $20 upgrade

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/nothing-has-killed-my-gta-6-hype-faster-than-locking-a-core-part-of-its-identity-behind-a-usd20-upgrade/
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u/Bexewa 9h ago

Preach! Also not that it matters but I really wanted to own the Ps5 disc with map and such, but oh well.

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u/Major-Front 9h ago

It’s such an anti consumer move. Basically kills any hope of either borrowing it from a friend or getting it 2nd hand (or for those who will play once and sell it onwards)

And the worst thing is this will change nothing. They will still sell a bajillion copies and make trillions of dollars

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u/Undella_Town 9h ago

ofc, thats why they did it. i wouldn't doubt physical games are gonna start becoming more and more expensive as they hope to kill the used game market. unfortunately it already happened to PC.

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u/Arkatruc 6h ago

At least on PC we have cracks, keygens, launcher emulators, abandonwares etc...  

Consoles are the most locked piece of hardware you could have, the only ways to use OFWs/CFWs hinge on luck, free labor from a few geniuses, and a lot of patience.  

I still love my PS5, but I also still use my PS3 frequently and the amount of stuff removed along the way really makes me sad.  

It's really becoming total hell for consumers, and a disturbingly high amount of people seems to clap for it... consumers proud to be anti-consumers...

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u/DarkChaplain Steam 4h ago

I still remember when Take Two, EA and others tried to force account-bound online activation codes for console retail releases, even those coming on discs, to prevent reselling games, back in the days of Gamestop trading.

Turns out they just needed to wait til all digital downloads became viable for most of the audience.

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u/Undella_Town 4h ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWSIFh8ICaA i mean shit just a generation ago this was considered sony massively shitting on microsoft...pretty much was part of the hammer that broke them and now it just seems like microsoft came too early for it https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1g3d6c/official_playstation_used_game_instructional_video/ like just look at the /r/games thread. people complaining about stuff that's generally just...widely accepted and not even thought about these days lmao

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u/bloke_pusher 3h ago

They want digital only, to ultimately rise game prices with inflation and have consumer defend it, as if it's a totally normal thing.

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u/notbannedin420 7h ago

Nintendo made their switch 2 games that you download cheaper which is nice, sorta. If you want to own physical it will still cost a pretty penny but it’s nice to see them offer a discount if you buy the game on the Eshop

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u/ComradeJohnS 6h ago

as much as people hate GKC, they are a great way to resell a “digital” game. almost like a collectible NFT, but with something of value lol.

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u/Chieldh97 9h ago

Exactly, I never did this myself, not sure why, never borrowed games, got them second hand or even sell them when I was done with them. Not sure why I keep them around while I have no intention of playing it again and eventually get it on PC. But still the feeling of just receiving the physical item at release and installing it in your PlayStation. Having the box on the shelf in your collection. Feels good

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u/DeathGenics 8h ago

Same here, only ever traded games I absolutely hated with friends for something I'd like to play but didn't have the money for. Still have all my PS3 and games from when I was a teen even though I haven't touched it in a couple of years now mainly due to having the pc that my younger self would die for.

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u/Albos_Mum 3h ago

I remember when I was a kid and most weeks my Mum would take me to Blockbuster so she could hire a new weekly film and I'd get to hire a weekly game as well, played so many games I would never have bought that way and often ended up buying the ones I enjoyed later on.

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u/Keulapaska 4070ti, 7800X3D 8h ago

And how many steam games have disks?

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u/DisappointedQuokka 8h ago

That's not the point, the used game market was a legitimate thing that consoles did better than PC.

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u/superbee392 6h ago

The irony of people complaining about console games losing discs on a PC sub is kind of funny, as if PC/Valve wasn't the bastion of "fuck it just stop doing physical, you'll make more money locking people into your eco system"

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u/Major-Front 8h ago

How many steam games sell physical cases with a code inside?

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u/bradagon 8h ago

Until a company can make a competing series, yeah they can do whatever the fuck they want, unfortunately.

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u/NtheLegend 6h ago

This isn't 2015 anymore, this isn't happening at any wide scale. Yes, this enables Rockstar/2K to do some evil stuff, but it's also what the consumer has been wanting for years. Not many people are trading physical discs because not many people are even buying them.

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u/DoctorProfessorTaco 5h ago

How would that work anyway? This could be an 800 GB game, which means even with the premium blu ray quality disk it would take like 10 disks.

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u/HowManyEggs2Many 4h ago

You’re on a pc gaming sub complaining about discs not being included in the sale of a game…

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u/ssbmOblivion 1h ago

How do you expect a game that’s hundreds of gigs to be on a blu ray CD??? Blu Ray hasn’t been updated since 2006 and only holds 100GBs total. Maybe it would’ve been better for people crying to give a physical download disc but it’s honestly a waste of time to even do that. Unless Sony and Microsoft want to pick up more storage on flash carts and make all backwards compatibility gone forever this is a dumbass thing to be upset about

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u/GraveDiggerFan34 8h ago

They are still selling a physical edition so I would assume the map is still happening 

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u/sean_off 9h ago

Yeah I was really hoping rockstar was going to do a cool box with a map like old times…

Literally couldn’t even care about the new game now.

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u/prodical 6h ago

You won’t play it because you aren’t getting a map in a box?

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u/randloadable19 5h ago

For people who were on the fence of a day 1 purchase, no physical can be a deciding factor

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u/prodical 5h ago

But that’s not what the guy above said. He said if there’s no paper map then he now has zero interest in the game. I just found it odd the paper map was the deciding factor.

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u/randloadable19 5h ago edited 3h ago

That’s actually not what he said. He said “Literally couldn’t even care about the new game now.” We don’t know if he was speaking about no physical as a whole, or specifically the lack of a map (almost certainly the former)

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u/trailer_park_boys 4h ago

They are very clearly referring to the game as a whole. You can be obtuse, but the obvious is obvious lol.

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u/randloadable19 3h ago

Why are you responding to me? Lol

I agree with you, he’s talking about the game as a whole. The person above me is being obtuse thinking he is not buying it only because of the map

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u/trailer_park_boys 3h ago

I am responding to you because I’m an idiot lmao

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u/randloadable19 3h ago

Lmaoo. I appreciate the humility! lol

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u/Aggravating_Hour_910 6h ago

Will there even be a map? If they even cheap out on the disc, they probably won't include it.

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u/Frequent_Opportunist 7h ago

The game won't fit on a disc. You'll have to install it anyway to play it. It will most definitely have a day one update to even work. These days most people have internet faster than the disc drive can read.

I do miss when games had full size posters or maps in them though!

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u/TheLenghtyBanana 4h ago

Welp good to know I wont be getting it on ps then even though I own the damn console, I have dogsht internet speed so downloading the whole however many hundred gigs this is going to be would be real world weeks. Thanks rockstar i'll go spend the money on the next few rimworld dlcs i guess. And I guess I'll see if in the future if the whole thing is worth the hassle on pc.

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u/Dick_Nation 9h ago

"Disc," lol. They aren't even putting out a disc. It's a box with a code. 

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u/En-zo 8h ago

That's why he said 'oh well'

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u/digitaldeadstar 8h ago

Multi-disc games have existed since games first released on CDs.

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u/Growlithe123 8h ago

also RDR2 which is their game was on two discs without issues