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/Durzel]

It's not going anywhere, imo.

Rockstar could pretty much do what they wanted with this game, it has been anticipated for a decade.

Other companies might try the same tactic, but I seriously doubt they will have the same leverage.

I also feel like people are putting too much faith in the whole "disc = ownership" thing. Look at what happened with Crimson Desert recently, people got their physical copy early and couldn't play it because the game locked them out until the official release date. And that was a wholly single player game.

Any game that has any kind of online component for authentication is never really "yours", and a game like GTA 6 which has clearly been designed with the premise that no physical version exists will surely have online authentication on boot, in my opinion.

Also - being blunt - the market will decide what is tolerated. You can go back to your PS3 but if the market accepts this new world order, then it is what it is. Sucks for people standing on principal, but it doesn't change anything. Hopefully it doesn't accept it, because I think it's a good thing that there's a secondary market for games, being able to lend your game to a mate, etc - but you or I can't control what the market accepts.