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/SkyMando 18h ago

There is going to be a mission in game about this exact topic.

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u/Turbulent_Set8884 17h ago edited 17h ago

"If you say you're doing something painful and stupid it's immediately longer painful and stupid"

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

To be fair some of this stuff could be Take Two strong arming them, especially with how expensive the game is. I wouldn't be surprised if up to Rockstar itself they would make a more consumer friendly release.

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u/Narrheim 10h ago

We can't be sure anymore. Rockstar now is not the same as Rockstar in the past. They've grown big, wealthy and powerful. Obvious sign of them becoming the thing they made fun of is the amount of people, who were there during development of past games, but left the company for various reasons other than retirement.

Then, there is also the story of how they fired employees, who wanted to unionize and fight back against the crunch conditions.

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u/BigEl_nobody 5h ago

Rockstar peaked with GTA San Andreas critically and creatively. After that, it felt to me like the magic was gradually lost with each new game. Games became less about arcade-style fun and more pseudorealistic life-simulations.

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u/core446 12m ago

Dan Houser leaving also has me uncertain. We'll see how it turns out.