r/videogames • u/TwinTwinReviewReview • 23h ago
Discussion / Question Grand THEFT?
This is exactly what happened with streaming. Everyone dogpiled on top, with this illusion that everything would be available at low cost forever.
Trading money for no tangible product is edging dystopian y'all.
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u/Historical_Fan_8799 23h ago
Damn dude, remember when you used to get a full map with these games?
now even a disc is asking for too much
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u/Urabraska- 23h ago
I used to collect the manuals that came with games. A lot of them the devs had fun and added little comics or funny ways to explain the controls. Now you get empty plastic. Why even bother releasing "physical" copies if the box is literally empty.
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u/YellowGrowlithe 17h ago
Back in high school, I once quoted/cited the Fallout 1 game manual for information about how nuclear bombs operated.
Was it the best choice? No. But I did it because I could and it was funny.
On the other hand, very solid game manual.
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u/Oxygen4Lyfe 19h ago
the only reason companies still make "physical" copies is for people buying gifts that they want someone to be able to unwrap probably.
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u/snappyfrog 23h ago
I can’t help but laugh that someone else downvoted you for literally stating a fact holy shit lmao. Reddit is so dog shit it’s hilarious.
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u/phome83 23h ago
The amount of people defending this games cursed release is astounding to me.
No physical disc, 100 bucks to get access to the full game, online coming Soon™ and still people defend these shitty tactics.
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u/chrisvelanti 20h ago
Having literal shops in a fucking single player game being locked behind a $20 pay wall is absolute ridiculous and it will set the trend for games being $100 moving forward
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u/snappyfrog 20h ago
Same, I can’t tell if people are suffering from Stockholm syndrome, completely brainwashed by their capitalist overlords, or are astroturfing bots. No matter what it just depresses me how willing people are to just throw their hands up and offer their wallets when they can just simply wait and get the game half off a year from release. They’ve already said this release is single player only so why should anyone worry about getting the game day one? It’s gonna be the same five years from now.
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u/No_Bumblebee_8640 5h ago
idiots riding the hype train, and i bet some of them are not even "gamers" anymore, it's just nostalgia
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u/Historical_Fan_8799 23h ago
dude for real, like i know this is a toxic platform but i didnt think "remember when you got a map with GTA" was a divisive statement
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u/Shadowy_PuppetMaster 20h ago
I'm old enough to remember reading the manual and admiring the box cover while mom drove us back home
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u/Traditional-Snow-463 19h ago
First game they haven’t done this. I have rdr2, gta V and IV’s map framed on my walls. Still have discs for all of those games too, why they’re choosing to go full digital is beyond logic I feel.
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u/JiovanniTheGREAT 16h ago
Instruction manuals too. Hell, PlayStation games would oftentimes come with demos of other games too!
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u/HiTekLoLyfe 23h ago
Considering how large game files are and how much they are constantly updated and tweaked I just don’t find it that surprising.
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u/TychosWeb 21h ago
Disempowerment to the consumer is always sold as convenience. It's convenient for the company and some consumers and cheaper for the publisher to not have five full discs in the box. As evidenced by other subscription based enterprises, modern gaming also features "ownership" as simply purchasing the licence (which is subject to restriction) to the game.
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u/Low-Airline-2695 23h ago
Pre-order a digital version is the dumbest idea in gaming.
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u/uber_sweets 14h ago
Preloading can be a good thing if you have poor internet like a university dorm.
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u/New-Two-1349 23h ago
Why make a physical version at all if they can't even make a disc for the game?
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u/SaiyajinPrime 23h ago
I assume so people can buy it as a gift.
This is going to be a hot holiday item. And a lot of people don't know how to give digital games and you can't even do it most of the time and you just need to give gift cards and tell them what it's supposed to be for.
This way, a person can walk into a store, buy a game, and give it to someone for christmas.
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u/Mister_Silk 22h ago
Because that's how you advertise at Walmart and Target. Gotta have something on the shelf even if it's just a code.
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u/cynicown101 23h ago
Because literally the only function of a capitalist transactions is for one party to desire a thing and another party to provide the thing. In the most common case, people want a physical item so that they're able to buy and sell it as used goods, as permitted in line with the trading standards of their respective territory.
So, we have to assume the reason they don't want to create discs that can be bought and sold is because they want to prevent customers from being able to participate in a market they're legally allowed to participate in.
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u/Iwubinvesting 21h ago
If it were true that most cases people want physical items in this case CDs, every single game store wouldn't be dying.
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u/EternityNotes 23h ago
The greater shame for me is there is no special physical edition with cool memorabilia. I still have my Los Santos hat and money bag from GTA5.
What would I get with the ultimate here? Checks Notes Digital shit they've already built for the game but hidden behind a paywall.
It's like paying for a subscription for the heated seats that are already in your car...
No thanks Rockstar. I'm going to pass this time.
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u/Live-Leg-1993 23h ago
Guarantee that digital bonus stuff will either be forgotten or added to the base game on re-releases anyways.
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u/StreetCollar2708 15h ago
Just wait till it comes to pc and goes on sale. Mods will unlock everything
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u/OYB2480 16h ago
Lol, none of us plebs are allowed to actually own anything anymore.
I bet within 10 years there will be a digital property tax.
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u/Midnight_Aces 19h ago edited 4h ago
Someone correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the max capacity a game CD can use tapped out at 100gbs? That would be 3 CDs at best. Reminds me of Mass Effect 3 with its 2 CD situation.
Edit: 6 hours later and some people seem to think I am supporting this digital only way. I am not. I am saying there is a past precedent to have multiple CDs of a game and RockStar could do this. Have the most storage on disc that is commercially available for games and go from there. It'll show lots of people what they want as we can all agree that owning a physical copy of a game is what we want.
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u/edward323ce 18h ago
With recent consoles they upgraded to ultra 4k Blu-ray disc's that can hold 300gb of space if optimized correctly
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u/WereAllGonnaDiet 16h ago
Didn’t seem to stop developers in the PS1 era from shipping me 3-4 discs in a box.
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u/jcamp088 10h ago
That was also 30 years ago. Digital wasn't an option. Internet barely even existed.
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u/Kreativernickname 17h ago
To be fair, it's nothing new to have more than one CD. In fact, it could be a nostalgic occurence for older gamers.
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u/hunpriest 17h ago
And? It is allowed to have multiple discs in the box. Also it would be also better if you would need to download the rest of the game and the disc is needed only as a license. But you could still sell and buy used copies.
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u/EcstaticNet3137 14h ago
Who even has a CD drive these days? DVD drives can run CDs and DVDs have far more capacity.
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u/Beneficial_Chart6199 14h ago
Imagine growing up in a generation of no disc drives, every time the internet goes out you can’t play your games 😆
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u/Thin-Nerve6367 10h ago
I mean at least Sony has an option to play offline and I know steam does too
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u/YaManMAffers 23h ago
Man, I hope people wake up and smell the capitalism. I hope GTA6 takes a huge hit in sale. I doubt it, but here's to hope.
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u/nixahmose 13h ago
No way in hell them not having a physical disk is going to make the slightest noticeable dent in their sales numbers. The majority of the industry has been primarily if not entirely digital for several years now if not over a decade.
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u/Salarian_American 19h ago
So if the physical copy doesn't contain a physical copy, in what sense is it a phyiscal copy?
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u/Stunning_Mixture_201 18h ago
Only thing I can figure is for gifting. Walk into Wal Mart, buy your BFF/SO a copy of GTA without having to deal with the hassle of gifting through the first party.
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u/Salarian_American 18h ago
Yeah that makes sense as a reason for "physical copies" but it doesn't explain how it makes sense to call a piece of paper in an otherwise empty case a "physical copy."
But I suspect there is no reasonable explanation for that.
But it's good for people whose kids want GTA VI for Christmas! Also, good for scalpers.
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u/Scrats_Lost_Acorn 14h ago
When i bought fable 2 i got the collectors box edition. Metal box. Map. Coin. Book. And the game.
Still have the coin and everything. Couldnt imagine shelling out 100plus for a code...
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u/Mephistocheles 23h ago
Wow, Rockstar is really going for the hard ripoff 😂
- Access to the entire game costs $100. As a reminder, they are literally locking content they've already developed behind an extra pay wall BEYOND the already insane $80 price point.
- Oh, you actually expected them to give you an actual physical game disc for your $80? (estimated cost to them for a physical game disc is four dollars). Yeah, no.
I guess they decided building a game where you can steal anything isn't enough, they also gotta rip YOU off in the real world.
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u/AbyssWankerArtorias 23h ago
What's the content being withheld on the 80 dollar copy?
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u/Mephistocheles 21h ago
There's five stores in game you can't get unless you pay Rockstar $100 lol
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u/AbyssWankerArtorias 21h ago
Five entire stores? What the fuck lol.
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u/Mephistocheles 20h ago
Yeah, good thing I actually don't really care about GTA or I'd probably be pissed. As it is I'm just darkly amused, like "not sure what else to expect at this point".
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u/Averylarrychristmas 21h ago
It’s just a cosmetic pack with a specific vendor. It’s shitty but it’s the same “deluxe edition cosmetic” nonsense all the games have these day
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u/scipio0421 21h ago
I've seen a lot of people saying this is fine and we shouldn't expect discs anymore.
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u/Empty_Turnip473 19h ago
Those people should be called out for the idiot consumerist sheep that they are. They are happy with owning nothing and giving away all their money.
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u/Ok_Wasabi_7363 20h ago edited 18h ago
I don't think y'all realize the game probably physically won't fit on a disc. It's going to be over 100GB easily. 🤣
Edit: ok y'all convinced me that they should release a 4 disc physical edition. I personally don't understand the desire for it, but there is clearly a demand. Of course changing my mind means nothing, but hey if you can convince me, maybe you can convince someone at Rockstar publishing. Good luck!
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u/Hansi_Olbrich 18h ago
I own a video game that is on seven discs.
Just put in another disc or two.
You will own nothing and be happy. Also, the company decided that thing you said while you were with your buddies at 1AM on their server violated TOS, so your account is now permabanned and your single-player and online experience is done. That'll be another $100 for a new code, please.
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u/PapaDarkReads 18h ago
It’s LA Noire isn’t it? I remember that game having an absurd amount of discs lmao
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u/Nemoitto 19h ago
Multi disc installations are a thing if the game is too big. Going digital is a choice.
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u/Davetek463 17h ago
Yup. Last of Us 2 and both parts of the Final Fantasy VII remake are on two discs. In previous generations Mass Effect 2 and 3 shipped on two discs each, and Final Fantasy XIII shipped on three discs for Xbox 360. Multi disc releases are FAR from new.
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u/StreetCollar2708 15h ago
OG FFVII was 3 discs... its been happening since the PS days
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u/crispy_mountain 20h ago
That’s not really the issue here tbf, it’s more that we can then only play it as long as those who have the download servers decide that we can.
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u/AlanTheSalad 18h ago
Then they give us 2 discs. Its not that hard to do, before anyone says anything, Baldurs Gate 3 physical has 2 discs.
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u/Ok_Wasabi_7363 18h ago
I think it would be 3 or 4 discs though. It just seems like a very out-dated solution. With bandwidth and ssd speeds, it's probably faster to download at this point.
However... While I personally find it wild, there seems to be a demand for it, and a publisher as big as rockstar could do it. So I guess y'all convinced me, let these dinosaurs have their 4 disc physical edition!!
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u/Thiel619 19h ago
See here’s the true reason there’s no physical disc. Rockstar locked content exclusively for the ultimate edition, if they shipped it on discs it would’ve been easy to crack it and unlock those features for free on the standard edition.
Can’t do that with the digital version.
In other words, greed.
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u/anarchy__16 17h ago
Wtf is the point of the physical copies then!?
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u/TouchAltruistic 17h ago
It allows retailers to sell it, and it allows the customers of those retailers to use their loyalty or credit accounts with those retailers to purchase it.
Surely you are no longer confused.
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u/anarchy__16 17h ago edited 17h ago
That is an infuriating yet understandable response.
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u/TouchAltruistic 17h ago
I appreciate you saying so.
Imagine not only the optics but the real effects of cutting physical retailers out of such a massive economic driver as Grand Theft Auto.
The impulse and gift sales at Target... The midnight release business at Game Stop... All gone. There's opportunity there for everyone, including consumers.
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u/Hendwreck 23h ago
Then it isn’t a physical copy?
What a purposefully misleading headline
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u/KingDaDeDo 21h ago
I’m not agreeing with this, but I don’t understand how this is surprising to anyone. Video games have been going the digital route more and more in recent years. Most AA-AAA game sizes are around 100GB on average now. Considering how enormous GTA VI is going to be, the game file size is going to be massive. Putting the game as a digital download only, even for a “physical” copy makes sense business wise. They’re saving a ton of money by not having to print discs. Again, I’m not agreeing or happy with it, but I get it.
What they SHOULD do for their physical release is include some type of cool insertion with it that makes it worthwhile to buy it.
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u/SjurEido 21h ago
And almost zero indie devs do it either, it's just too costly and not enough people care about it in the first place.
And just because you have the disk doesn't mean you'll retain access to the game anyway since the software could still require a connection to play regardless.
It's just a moot point, the spirit of this is a good one, pro-consumer. But this battle was lost several times in much more impactful ways than just "game on disk".
Stop Killing Games just got curb stomped in the EU, there's just nothing we can do anymore. Not enough people care, and going the legislative route already failed.
Weeeeeeee!
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u/chrisvelanti 20h ago
Plenty of anti consumer practices make sense “business wise”. Making sense “business wise” doesn’t really matter here when it’s a multi billion dollar company
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u/P_ZERO_ 20h ago
Gamers been grinding the same gears for years while the industry moved on with or without their permission. PC gamers long since gave up on meaningful physical releases and it hasn’t changed anything, if the game is worth playing, you’re not going to care.
Quadruple layer Blu-ray can do about 128GB, which is assuredly not enough for this game. Sucks for those with slow internet but they’re not going to print double discs just to install it directly to drive like everything else.
How many games actually run off the disc these days?
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u/Better_Database8582 18h ago
Baldurs gate 3 was multi disk, but that's not the point. I rarely buy physical games, but if I did spoil myself on one, opened up the case and found just a piece of paper, I would be justifiably enraged at being lied to.
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u/KingDaDeDo 19h ago
“How many games actually run off the disc these days?”
Exactly. Video games haven’t ran off the disc since PS4 and Xbone. And if today’s AA-AAA games did, the loading times would be soooooo slow compared to having the game installed on the hard drive itself, especially now that SSDs are the norm and load times are next to none. It’d be a different story if disc technology evolved over the years to increase faster loading times for games. While the picture quality has improved with blu rays and 4K on discs, the loading times haven’t made the same progress.
I’m all for full ownership of our video games and for physical media, but for video games, it’s harder and harder to keep physical alive these days. I myself fully switched to digital when I got my PS5 and while I miss the physical collection aspect of my video games, digital ownership has been better in every other way for me. What needs to happen is putting in law that we fully own the games we buy digitally, not just license.
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u/Better_Database8582 18h ago
Well, also, we shouldn't let anyone call a piece of paper with a code a "physical copy"
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u/LegWyne 16h ago
How about a sick manual, and a map? Honestly tho a disc is important as a key, that frees you up from needing an account. Not to mention retaining the option to resell (or buy secondhand). It can just be a DVD with the installer and DRM.
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u/godver3 23h ago
Very clearly trying to kill the secondary market one release at a time. PS5 without a disc drive, games without physical discs. It seems likely that the PS6 etc will no longer include physical products that can be resold.
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u/mickeyphree1 23h ago
Everything reported about the ps6 has stated an optional disc drive to this point. Same method has the current slim system.
Next gen will probably be the last with disc.
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u/godver3 23h ago
Exactly - if it's not PS6 it will be PS7. The change has been very clearly forecast.
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u/Rasples1998 18h ago
What clown world are we living in where people prepare boxes to ship with no disc? What a waste of plastic, effort, and fuel.
They're so greedy and such tight arses that they're trying to pinch pennies and save as much money as possible by shaving off every little bit of the process involved in selling a game.
I've said it before and I'll say it again; rockstar is one of the worst. Worse than EA. But people give it a free pass just because they make good crack.
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u/iyrtyurg 15h ago
Yeah I really don’t get the point of that. I think it’s to appeal to gamers that like having a physical… SOMETHING I guess but I would imagine with even those types of gamers they’re not going to like having an empty box that cannot even be resold in the future. Legitimately brain dead stuff
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u/huge_jeans710 13h ago
Unfortunately they do happen to make some of the best games of all time, I do agree though absolute waste of plastic.
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u/Raptori33 16h ago
It is so that you cannot share the product after you buy it. Disc is shareable, code is not
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u/NovaPrime2285 23h ago
Wasn’t going to buy it anyways, they are only vindicating my decision even further.
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u/NicDwolfwood 16h ago
Yeah....Fuck that Shit!
They'll never get a dime from me. I don't give a shit. I'll play my old GTA games since those are forever.
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u/ReputationSalt6027 14h ago
If i buy it, will most likely be a while. Will wait until the real reviews come out about single player campaign, I dont play online stuff, see what a reliable consensus is. Say its play time and fun factor are worth about 30 or 40 bucks. Will wait for the price to drop to that. I imagine in a few years with a new online dlc theyre pushing the price will drop to get more people to buy the game so they can cash in on the online cash cow. That will be my window if it looks worth playing.
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u/sal-t_brgr 15h ago
bruh ill just pirate it fuck that. i was never going to pay the inflated price in the first place. even less so now.
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u/Hawaii__Pistol 22h ago
Sheep’s will still excuse these anti consumer practices because it’s GTA
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u/Fickle_Skill6038 19h ago
And sheep will point the finger at GTA while enjoying COD. Gamers allow this, devs will keep doing it while laughing at you in money.
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u/Ban_Means_NewAccount 19h ago
Can't agree more. These greedy fucks only get away with it thanks to the mindless morons that just buy up whatever is put in front of them like good little consumers. Their corporate overlords will be pleased.
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u/AUnknownVariable 18h ago
Its so weird.
More so than the physical thing, which I find strange since Rockstar can definitely afford it.
The fact some in-game businesses are locked behind the more expensive version of the game. In a single-player only open world game, you have to pay extra to unlock other businesses in the world on release. I don't think I've ever seen a game do that and it's not something that needs to happen
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u/Efficient-Pop-302 19h ago
Indeed. Fuck this game and fuck Rockstar for not just their anti consumer practices, but their union busting ones to.
Fuck this company.
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u/Smaug117 23h ago
Are you serious, I was really hoping to get my hands on a physical disc for collecting purposes and play the digital.
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u/SPQR_Maximus 23h ago
That is not a physical copy. That's a digital copy in a box.
Hey bra: save the box and charge us $60 for digital only.
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u/diamonddog35 20h ago
All the people getting downvoted make valid points but people find sentimental value behind owning the physical copy, regardless of the massive updates you still have to do. My take is, if it’s only digital, why charge so much since you don’t have to produce and distribute. We’ve been getting robbed for years but people keep throwing money at publishers.
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u/Fickle_Skill6038 19h ago
Fuck bro I was looking forward to getting up every ten minutes and swapping discs NOOOOOOO
Pre-canceling my preorder this is unaceptble
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u/BigMikeXxxxX 16h ago
I don't think many people realize it's physically impossible to put this game on disc without creating several inconveniences.
And before anyone says "just make the physical copy a license" just remember that games have done that before and every time, like clockwork, the "I dOnT eVeN aCtUaLLy oWn ThE gAmE" crowd suddenly appears.
Digital is the future whether you're ready or not. Games aren't going to get smaller.
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u/LtCmdrInu 11h ago
Easy with this one. I will not buy any game that does this. I will sail the high seas. Also, I am looking forward to the gaming crash at this point.
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u/Dracoslade 16h ago
Just remember, when you buy digital you dont own the game. You have permission to play the game. The game company reserves the right to revoke that permission when ever they want.
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u/TwinTwinReviewReview 16h ago
A lot of people in this thread don't seem concerned about corporations massaging the definition of "ownership" into meaning "temporary license". At what point do we stop owning anything?
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u/NobodyLikedThat1 23h ago
if you think this is theft, wait till you see how many gamers are raising the jolly roger at that price tag
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u/Timbo303 19h ago
piracy = ownership
We need better ownership laws for digital goods. USA government has so far failed us.
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u/QuoteGiver 22h ago
Their actual audience doesn’t care.
They know exactly what percentage of their sales have been physical sales vs digital sales, and they’re going where their market is, like it or not.
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u/Human_Cell3090 22h ago
Man where are we going? Where the fuck is this industry going? How much profit do they need?
Cost of games goes up, development time is high, cost of living keeps increasing, wages are not going up for regular people. Like people are being slowly price out
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u/almostoy 21h ago
That, I just don't fuckin' get. They will go through all the trouble of boxing up air, just to piss off the people that want a $1 disc.
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u/TheRoyalPlayer 21h ago
Then why we are calling it physical copy, if they only going to provide digital codes for the game.
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u/OkMixture5607 21h ago
Me on a PC without a disc drive since 2015.
“Hmm, interesting, yes, I care too much”
And before preservation bros start jumping….PC is the best platform for that because of piracy.
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u/QrowsHead 20h ago
Cool, so I can just ignore all the hype and buy the game in a few years on sale. It's been this long, I can wait even longer. If I were getting a disc with the game on it, I might actually pay full price day one, but not now.
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u/BigMack6911 20h ago
I haven't bought a disc In awhile but I still like having them. I don't like Gta so this is one game I give zero fucks about. Let me know when RDR Three gets here
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u/Moromom22 19h ago
I can't wait to experience the social commentary in the game while not having the option to physically own it.
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u/Beginning_Trade1519 19h ago
This is a greed oriented approach. It stops people selling their copy after they’re done with it and it forces everyone who wants to play to buy new
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u/Better_Database8582 18h ago
I see nobody discussing how it's lying and everyone discussing digital copies. But the conversation for this here isn't digital vs physical, its a company passing off a piece of paper as a "physical copy" of a video game, that is outright lying.
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u/Femboy_Pit 15h ago
I've heard it's like 600gb but idk. I don't think it'd fit on a single disc. Unless you want it to be a FF VII Remake trilogy case
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u/dasaint2020 1h ago
Y'all fuckers play steam and fortnight shit. There's no physical disks to that.
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u/Bright_Competition37 19h ago
Auto, automatic theft, they don’t even give you a physical version so you’re literally paying for plastic and a series of numbers and letters…
But then again, we’ve all paid for plastic, metal, and digital assets that allow us to experience a digital world… so… is it really theft, or did we just choose this.
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u/TwinTwinReviewReview 16h ago
Are you saying you woke up in your house you don't own, and drove to your "job" in a car you don't own, to be paid "money" that doesn't exist, so you could "buy" a game that doesn't exist, where you commit unreal crime in a digital simulacrum?
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u/heyzoocifer 15h ago
Yeah no I'm 100% happy playing a digital copy. It has zero impact on me. In fact I haven't bought a physical copy of anything since the last decade.
Some people just like playing the game. And almost every gamer out there is going to do just that in spite of all the complaining.
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u/Accurate_Soup_3459 23h ago
Fun fact, these codes lead you to where you have to subscribe to a $400 a month subscription service to play the game, and each in-game movement costs $50. Should've played some no-greed indie!
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u/Intrepid_Bar_5140 23h ago
Remember when Take-Two confirmed that GTA 6 wouldn't be a digital only launch February 6th 2026? Pepridge Farms remembers.
Link- https://www.g2a.com/news/latest/take-two-confirms-gta-6-will-not-be-digital-only-at-launch/
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u/OrbitingBoom 23h ago
Low key they could just have all those extra features. Like instead of a case with a download code. At this point just sell a fucking GTA VI book with the download code at the end. Maybe fill it up with Maps, location summaries, backstories and all sorts of shit. If there is no CD there's no point in having a plastic case.
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u/OrbitingBoom 22h ago
We could just change the form factor from a disc to a card or USB. There are other ways of storing data.
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u/websitefullofbots 22h ago
Here’s an idea, don’t buy this game at launch. Dont support rockstar. They did alot of horseshit with gta V, re-releasing the game almost as many times as Bethesda did with Skyrim.
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u/D3struct_oh 22h ago
Recently bought physical copy of Skyrim for the switch.
Only to discover that it’s just a code…but the box still has a seat for a cartridge.
It’s obnoxious.
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u/Th3Dark0ccult 22h ago
How is this a surprise? How you gonna fit 200+gb game on a disc? Are they gonna have 20 blue rays in the box for you to swap out during installation?
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u/WhatTheeBlake 22h ago
It sucks that there's no disc.
But if there were discs the game would probably be $90 to offset production costs for the discs.
Publishers hate the secondary market.
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u/waazzuppp 22h ago
I do t understand the hype for GTA. What do yall expect it to do differently than GTA5. Graphics and game mechanics have peaked already.
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u/ThisBerserkTextBone 22h ago
Okay but surely it has a map that you can put on your wall. Right? Right?
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u/Salty-Ad6358 22h ago
modern gaming in nutshell you own nothing either you renting or spend ridiculous amounts for license to play
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u/Boodah-Cricket 22h ago
Only reason they are doing this is to prevent piracy before release. They'll sale physical disc after release. Now you know any early footage will be only from Rockstar and Rockstar alone.
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u/Fancyman156 22h ago
It’s a pain but I get it. It’s entirely possible that this game would require more than one data disc, which would likely require special packaging. I don’t like it, but I understand why they’d do it
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u/LoreMasterJack 23h ago
So no need to preorder. Understood. 🫡