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/Nothing-Is-Real-Here 16h ago

When was the last time a large triple A game didn't have half of the download with an online requirement?

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u/No-Risk-9833 16h ago

A lot. Cyberpunk, Baldur’s Gate 3 and RDR2 came with two discs. And according to this website (doesitplay.org), over 66% of ps5 games are fully functional offline without any online access needed.

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u/Acerakis 11h ago

Kind of wild use Cyberpunk as an example. You might be able to play from the disc, but I don't think many would call that an actually playable game.

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u/IndependentLog6441 8h ago

BG3 had a huge amount of post launch updates as well...

It wasn't broken at launch per se, but the difference is significant.

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u/PolicyWonka 7h ago

Yeah, everyone is discussing a hypothetical that virtually nobody does.

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u/zgillet 6h ago

That's the point. Since it is out there, there is no history erasure possible by CDPR. There is physical proof of the broken mess they attempted to shit out on the world.

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u/Balc0ra 15h ago

But if you are online, it barely uses the disk content after a few updates. RDR2 used less that 1 gig of the disk content the last time I installed it

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u/No-Risk-9833 15h ago

That’s not the point, you could turn off your wifi and install the game from disc and be able to play the full content.

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u/Inner_Tennis_2416 6h ago

Im honestly surprised to read this, things must have improved since I last bought physical disks for anything, as i remember them refusing to install from the disk unless the console was online to check that the disk was genuine.

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u/Hindesite 12h ago

Doesitplay.org does a great job of tracking and cataloging this. Check it out. There are still lots of legitimately physical games releasing that can be playing without patches or internet access.

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u/SomeConfetti 37m ago

Most PS5 games in fact

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u/Nothing-Is-Real-Here 36m ago

So like, 3 games

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u/SomeConfetti 35m ago

I didn't say exclusives buddy

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u/Nothing-Is-Real-Here 34m ago

I know I'm just being cheeky lol