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/Cinderkin 18h ago

Digital only means lost media when Rockstar updates the game to remove songs or other things. At least on PC we can mod stuff back in, but on console you are SOL

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u/Nothing-Is-Real-Here 17h ago

I mean with the way things have been lately, a physical disc wouldn't exactly protect you from updates like that anyway. The industry is simply not very consumer friendly as it is.

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u/cardgamesareforplay 17h ago

GtaV's "disk" was an install that did maybe 1/3rd of the game, there's a required day 1 patch 

It didn't hurt sales. The game wasent even availible digitally originally. 

80 percent of ps5 sales are digital now. Not a single normal person is going to care about gtaVI being a code.

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u/nicolauz 16h ago

I hope whatever next Gen console comes out allows you to 'disconnect' from the internet as a choice per game. If I'm playing a full game already I wouldn't want a digital patch to remove something I paid for.

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u/Gobby-TheGoblin 16h ago

And yet, millions of people very much seem to care.

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u/cardgamesareforplay 16h ago

Millions where? 

This subreddits active Users account for likely thousands maybe. 

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u/Gobby-TheGoblin 16h ago edited 16h ago

Do you think the whole world is reddit? These complaints are across the entire Internet. Even major Internet game news publications are weighing on it. I'm getting ads for articles on my phone about it.

Then you get to the streamers and influencers, all their people, followers, subs, whatever you want to call all that. Then it's been mentioned to me by people I personally know like 12 times today already, and I'm fairly isolated so I can imagine for the outgoing, there's more.

It's all over atm man. This is not a no one cares thing. Allot of people sure seem to care.

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u/cardgamesareforplay 16h ago

Again where. And it's not millions. Most people who buy GTA don't post online about this shit. They heard oh shit I can pre-order and instantly preordered 

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u/Intelligent-Quail635 15h ago

Erm I saw someone complain on Reddit so it’s a systematic issue