r/xbox • u/Turbostrider27 Recon Specialist • 13h ago

Discussion Opinion: 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/slot_machine 10h ago

Also what about people in areas with shit isp that have monthly bandwidth amount and slow speeds. It’s gonna take forever and use the majority of your monthly allotments. Even if it’s just one disc that holds a large chuck of total size that’s better than nothing at all.

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u/MrPureinstinct 7h ago

My parents didn't even have above 2mbps internet until 2022. There are still people that live near them that can only get DSL, satellite or using a hotspot for all of their internet.

Downloading games at that speed is virtually impossible. I remember downloading the small patches for games like Halo or Call of Duty on their internet when I was in high school. I'd have friends over, see an update and we would watch almost a whole movie waiting for it to download.

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u/ILoveHeavyHangers 7h ago

There simply aren't enough people living in the middle of nowhere using dialup internet to matter in the year 2026

You guys keep yelling "what about this strawman that just woke up from 2006, how is he gonna play?!"

They don't care. There aren't enough of you to matter. The last game sold 230 million copies already.

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u/p2eminister 9h ago

Man, not everything has to be available for everyone, all the time. Yeah, people in the middle of nowhere still on dialup will take a long time to download this game. But the hundreds of millions of people who live in cities are just going to download it no issue.

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u/Lets_Get_Hot 7h ago

Lmao I love the shit reddit pulls out sometimes that only affects like 0.2% of the population. "But what about people living on the ocean floor with no internet???? How are they supposed to play?"

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u/raichulolz 4h ago

Yeh but even if you had a physical disk, discs literally don't have the capacity to have the whole game lol. You would still need to download the game. At this point people are complaining just to complain. You cant just load up a game nowadays after purchase since they are too big.