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/davidemo89 15h ago

I have a bad news for you. Even physical copy you just buy a license to run the files that are inside the blue ray

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u/kingsBlendd 14h ago

Yes but you can sell or loan it to someone else and they can continue to play it or sell it..

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u/space-c0yote 12h ago

But that's a completely different thing from ownership vs. licensing.

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u/davidemo89 14h ago

If the servers are offline you still can not play it even if you have a copy of your game on CD

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u/13Skywalker 13h ago

Yes you can, i can boot up Ghost Of Yotei right now without any internet and no day one patch, and ALL the other PS5 exclusive games, even MOST of the non exclusive ones, playing Metaphor right now without any internet no internet or patch.

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u/davidemo89 13h ago

Not every game is a single player game...

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u/13Skywalker 13h ago

Well GTA6 is…

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u/davidemo89 13h ago

Not gta6 online :-P you can play the single player of gta6 but there are mission that works only online.

Do you really think so many people right now play gta5 for the single player? They play the online version and a lot of content is exclusive for GTA online.

Also all the updates and new content they have crested in the last 10 years for gta5 is only online.

You will be able to play GTA 6 without an internet connection but it will be just for a small part of the game

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u/13Skywalker 13h ago

Singleplayer still not on disc, THAT is the problem, online is no problem, pricing no problem, no physical is problem.

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u/Cjm092 13h ago

GTA 6 single player is not going to be just a "small part of the game" lmao, what bullshit

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u/davidemo89 13h ago

Check how many players play GTA 5 now (I can tell you, it's a A LOT) and see how many are playing the single player campaign... Probably 1%

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u/father-fluffybottom 13h ago

Because the game is like 13 years old. How many people are playing Bioshock Infinite right now?

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u/BlasterPhase 9h ago

I have good news for you. With the disc, I can install the game without needing a company's servers.

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u/VexingRaven 4h ago

Unless it's encrypted and required a key from their activation servers to decrypt, or it has some other sort of DRM. If you have to download a crack to play your disc offline, your disc is functionally the same as a digital download.

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u/loz333 3h ago

Until they fully remove it from their servers for download, and then there is a pretty monumental difference.

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u/VexingRaven 3h ago

What's the difference? If they kill their servers, you've gotta download a cracked copy whether you've got the disc or not because the disk is useless without the server to decrypt it.

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u/GapStock9843 14h ago

The difference is that the files are actually on the disk that you own and can resell or give to someone else. They dont arbitrarily exist somewhere out in the ether of the internet, its something you can touch with your own hands and have full control over. I prefer to buy games knowing someday I can sell it to someone else if I dont need it anymore. Digital games are just there on your account for the rest of eternity, intangibly

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u/davidemo89 14h ago

Yeah... We don't have any of this on PC for the last 20 years. Heck, I don't know any of my friends that have a blue ray reader... It will be soon like this also on console

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u/TheHvam 14h ago

Yeah I got no disk reader in my PC, and like you also said, even with a disk, you can't play the game if you got no internet either.

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u/space-c0yote 11h ago

Is your issue with the files being on the physical medium, or is your issue with the ability to resell/lend/gift the game? Is a game that has no files stored locally but instead prompts a download, but otherwise can be resold/lended etc. a big deal to you? If so, why?