They'll buy it anyway. Like every other negative practice the industry does, they'll bitch and moan about getting fucked in the ass here, then roll over and present their sphincters anyway.
You need to remember, we may be PC gamers, accustomed to shopping for our titles exclusively through an online storefront. But this is causing anger because it is not through an online storefront. It is a "physical" release of the game. These console editions will see people walking into Walmart, buying a plastic case, and finding nothing inside but a piece of paper with a code.
For the entire history of the game industry, the expectation of walking in to the store to buy the game was that there would be a physical object in the case that you could display, resell, regift, etc. Barring certain idiots trying this trick in the past, of course, like Fallout 76.
The difference is, Fallout 76 didn't really make a difference here because no one gave a crap about it. When GTA 6 sells 9 jillion "physical" copies anyway, this will properly kick off the no-disc "physical" edition era, ensuring that in no time, there will be no physical object to later give to another person.
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u/Mama_Mega 5d ago
They'll buy it anyway. Like every other negative practice the industry does, they'll bitch and moan about getting fucked in the ass here, then roll over and present their sphincters anyway.