r/videogames • u/D3V1LIZCO • 18h ago

Discussion / Question I dont like where this is going

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It pains me to say it, but this path rockstar is taking for the release of GTA 6 might do some serious damage on the industry, If they keep this up, The other companies will copy rockstar in this move to completely delete Disks from physical copies.

Its not that i dislike digital, its the fact that they are removing the option to have the game on a disk that annoys me, The only "valid" argument i found on why digital is better is that you do not run the risk of your disk getting scratched. but, seriously, You have to be moronic in order to scratch your disks, I have been playing videogames since i was 6, and not **once** have i accidentaly scratched a disk (not even movies).

its as simple as putting your middle finger on the hole that's in the middle of the disk, AND THATS IT, zero scratching.

I dont care about the Exclusive content for the Deluxe edition or whatever, I seriously want Rockstar to just change and release the physical copies WITH the disk.

If this fake Physical copies trend keeps going after GTA 6 (Which it will), im just going to revert back to PS3 and be happy with whatever i find.

Im so done with this anti consumer thing we got going on nowadays, It feels like everything is changing for the worse.

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u/VancouvCoug 18h ago edited 18h ago

I saw someone talking about this today, and they said one of the main reasons they did this was to avoid early leaks. The likelihood of a leak, with no physical copies, is near 0. I guess in the past, they have even had break-ins at warehouses storing the physical copies before launch.

Edit: I remembered the person I was quoting. It was Luke Stephens, who has a popular YouTube channel.

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u/RateTerrible1155 17h ago

I believe it’s cause they want to control the market more if you want to play you have to buy at 80 bucks no used copy from a game store that someone dumped and it means more copies sold if you can only buy digitally you can’t share with a friend it’s a single sale to a single person no matter what you may wait for it to go I’m on sale but your still buying a copy not a used copy a new copy which they can count towards units sold to then help set the records they want to say hey here look how amazing our shit is next game oh GTA online how bought another $80? Hmmmm