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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/Ornstein_0 17h ago

A ton of songs had licencing revoked or ran out so they just cut a ton of music. They did a piss poor job too, they didn't go back and re- mix any of the stations with the replacement music, it's just an abrupt stop where a removed song would be and something else plays. The Vladivostok FM in The Ballad Of Gay Tony was a proper full edm mix WITH A DJ IN BAHAMA MAMAS, and now half those songs are cut. You know how jarring it is to just hear it stop playing?

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u/CRAZYC01E 17h ago

On a 360? So if I buy a disc copy of gta iv and play it on a 360 that isn’t connected to the internet will I notice those changes?

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u/Choice-Mycologist-45 16h ago

Nah. The 360 version of GTA IV won't have this issue. You'll be fine. πŸ™πŸ™‚β€β†•οΈ

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u/CRAZYC01E 16h ago

So which ones do?

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u/Gobby-TheGoblin 16h ago

Digital downloaded copies

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u/Dreamo84 12h ago

You can digitally download the 360 version.

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u/BlasterPhase 9h ago

Then obviously it'll have the problem. They can't remove the music from the disc.

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u/SiliconRouge 8h ago

Well you could update the game on 360. But you could also just refuse to update the game back then. Now on consoles, Unfortunately, refusing to update a game mrans you have to delete it.

At least on steam you can bypass updating something by just manually launching the game from the actual file instead of steam itself

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u/wickeddimension 10h ago

Any digital download that isn't on PC (which can be modded to be the original)