Video Games Plus, a gaming retailer based out of Canada, and an independent gaming retailer known as Loot Box Gaming have both stated that they won’t be selling GTA 6.
Not huge retailers in the grand scheme of things, but interesting to see at least some taking a stand especially when they are almost certainly losing out on money by doing so.
No physical, no purchase. Period. I guess I’ll need to wait.
nah, if it’s good enough I’ll give 'em $5.
I fear they’re the trendsetter and physical copies will become a thing of the past in the next couple of years.
Should they sell you an SSD? 20 Blu-rays?
y…yes. I would like a free SSD with my game please. That sounds like the best promotional deal.
I don’t even want GTA6 but i’d buy the fuck out of that.
Blu-rays can store up to 128gb so you need only 3 disxs for a 300gb game…
And if 3 discs are too much for ya, they can put in there even a modern storage device
I don’t care if it’s just one disk and you have to download most of the game, the important thing is being able to give the disk to someone else, allowing them to play the game.
Games would ship with multiple discs if required in the past. The issue with no disc at all is that the license cannot be transferred.
HL2’s original release came on 5 CDs, so yeah, games used to be multiple disk. its no big deal. Course, thats in the before times, from the long long ago… When gamers werent so spoiled with broadband internet and instant gratification.
That’s an interesting example.
HL2 controversially required you to sign in to a new online service upon installation even though you had a physical disc. Everybody was super pissed about it at the time.
But now most PC gamers act like that service is the one good thing on earth.
Oh no, no no no. HL2 was far worse than that.
HL2 made you install the full game, off of 5 CDs, and it installed steam as well.
Then after the installation was complete, you had to register a steam account, and log in, so steam could decrypt your installed game, Which if you had a computer that wasnt bleeding edge in 2004, that your computer would be locked up and unusuable for a very long time. Mine was locked up for almost a full day processing the decryption.
And I still say, to this day, that steam is bullshit. That I shouldnt be forced to run steam for single player games, but back then at least steam was just a server browser/matchmaker. It wasnt the big pseudo-wannabe digital walmart+facebook that it is today… so you at least had an excuse to run it to play multiplayer games like HL2 deathmatch and CS:Source.
But requiring it for any single player game is the height of bullshit.
I wager most the people you find eagerly sucking off Valves cock as if its gods gift to gaming, are people 21 or under, who did not know a world before digital downloads, and who didnt know valve at their worst, before lawsuits and countries forced them to be marginally better.
Finally, a kindred soul. Valve is the worst thing to happen to PC gaming in decades.
It annoys me how people whine about exclusives on epic when valve were the ones who forced steam down our throats in the first place with HL2.
True, but, and I dont want to be in this position, but its a little bit different having their game on their service, and epic going out and paying other companies to drop their games off steam before release so they can have timed artificially exclusivity on epic.
Those are two entirely different piles of bullshit.
The disc is still an issue for me even with the licensing issue. I like to resell and gift my console games and you can’t do that without a disc.
It’s one of the things that makes me sad about PC gaming. Steam killed physical PC games and it sucks.
If it is on 20 blu rays they better start shipping it on SSDs instead.
But let’s be honest, it’s not going to be 2TB for the compressed installation. Probably around 100 to 200gb that will be needed, meaning it would need 2 discs at most.
Now, I am pretty old, so I have played a fair few games that came on multiple Disks, CDs and DVDs. Some of my favourite games are on 4 discs.
Somebody said that the game is 300GB, BluRay XL4 can hold 128GB, so that would be 3 discs. Of course if the game console can read XL4.
Yea, but someone saying that and it being true are very different beasts. Rockstar have not said anything about install size. And that also ignores that compression is applied as well, which would make it smaller.
Also… Oh no… 3 whole discs? What ever would they do!
20 blurays?
If the game is 500gbs in size, and costs 100 fucking dollars, then goddamn yes it better include a fucking dedicated SSD.
In the current economy people would buy the $100 game preinstalled on the SSD, then format the drive to use it with something else
i doubt very seriously hordes of people are gonna pay 100 dollars for a 128gb ssd thats read only, to try to make it usable, when they can go on amazon and get one for 20 bucks