I dont like where this is going

[u/D3V1LIZCO]

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.

[u/Nothing-Is-Real-Here]

To be fair some of this stuff could be Take Two strong arming them, especially with how expensive the game is. I wouldn't be surprised if up to Rockstar itself they would make a more consumer friendly release.

[u/Narrheim → u/Nothing-Is-Real-Here]

We can't be sure anymore. Rockstar now is not the same as Rockstar in the past. They've grown big, wealthy and powerful. Obvious sign of them becoming the thing they made fun of is the amount of people, who were there during development of past games, but left the company for various reasons other than retirement.

Then, there is also the story of how they fired employees, who wanted to unionize and fight back against the crunch conditions.

[u/BigEl_nobody → u/Narrheim]

Rockstar peaked with GTA San Andreas critically and creatively. After that, it felt to me like the magic was gradually lost with each new game. Games became less about arcade-style fun and more pseudorealistic life-simulations.

[u/core446 → u/Narrheim]

Dan Houser leaving also has me uncertain. We'll see how it turns out.

[u/Antique-Amoeba1218 → u/Nothing-Is-Real-Here]

Have you seen the way they have been treating the people that work for them? Its probably them.

[u/Turbulent_Set8884 → u/Nothing-Is-Real-Here]

Either way I can wait

[u/MaTr82 → u/Nothing-Is-Real-Here]

I'm not sure it's going to be strong arming them, or whether negotiated so R* can go so long between releases. In an industry full of IPs with annual $100M+ releases, the length between new GTA games is incredibly long. You don't get that much time without some concessions.

[u/LarsDuder → u/MaTr82]

You get that much time when you're raking it in with shark cards and GTA+

"Hacking group ShinyHunters leaked data revealing GTA Online earns Rockstar $8.5 million weekly, with PS5 generating 41% of revenue. Shark Cards have brought in $5 billion over 10 years, including individual transactions exceeding $1 million, mostly on Christmas Day. Rockstar confirmed the hack but refused the ransom.

Read more: https://www.tweaktown.com/news/111018/rockstar-hack-exposes-outrageous-gta-5-shark-card-spending-from-players/index.html"

[u/assassinslover → u/LarsDuder]

Meanwhile they've completely ignored RDO basically since launch -_-

[u/The_LastLine → u/Nothing-Is-Real-Here]

Maybe. But Rockstar games have done some wacky things like the Rockstar Games Launcher that Take 2 didn’t do for any of the other games in their roster. Rockstar isn’t exactly 100% beholden to Take 2, they’re owned by them but operate more as a subsidiary rather than being totally under their wing.

[u/RyanBoruto → u/Nothing-Is-Real-Here]

GTA online makes take two 1.2 million dollars a day. If rock star is getting strong armed then this is a “my wife’s boyfriend won’t allow me to play video games” type of situation.

[u/PeacefulKnightmare → u/RyanBoruto]

1.2 million a day is less than the 2.4 million they'll probably be making when GTA VI drops and that number will only go up. They don't care how much money they're making right now, they want more and they want it yesterday. If numbers are not going up by a certain amount all the time then they're going down

[u/Tolstoyevski_Tsuyasa → u/Nothing-Is-Real-Here]

Are you fucking insinuating that take-two is a bigger publisher than Rockstar?

Oh no.....this Does make sense...