If it’s a code you don’t own it. If this slides you will never own a game going forward.
This isn’t the first game to do this, this has been happening for a while. Switch had a number of games where you only got a digital download code and PC games were doing that for years before they stopped having physical releases.
Would it be better if it was on a piece of cardboard with the code behind a scratch off section?
Exactly. They’re effectively killing off the used market.
On Wednesday, Video Games Plus, a North American chain that has been around for over 30 years, confirmed in a statement on X that, despite GTA 6 being one of the biggest launches in entertainment history, it will maintain its existing ban on selling games that don’t have a hard copy.
Meanwhile, Loot Box Gaming, another video game retailer focused on physical media, has also revealed that it won’t be selling GTA 6 at launch if it isn’t available on a disc.
I hope bigger retailers jump on board with this too 🤞
Nice, but wake me when it’s Gamestop or Best Buy.
Anybody else remember publishers trying to push the idea that games needed to be digital only because packaging and shipping games was too expensive?
a disc
Considering the size of the game, it would need at least 3 discs. Doubt they’re gonna redesign every case to accommodate that.
TDK had 320GB BluRays ready in 2009. I don’t think GTA VI will need more than that.
No, see, you include a disk but all that disk has on it is the installer for the launcher with a “download gta6” command thrown on the end.
This is nowhere near the first “doesn’t contain a disk” game and choosing gta as the one to throw a fit over feels performative. This has been a thing for over a decade.
Reasonable really. If you’re a bit outside the city, there’s no shot you’re getting the GTA6 download (which I presume is 100GB+) in under like, 12 hours.
Two of my favourite game franchises are Civilization and The Elder Scrolls. I played them since the first game, and I still play them. The original Civ and Daggerfall are always with me on a USB stick, in case I feel like playing them, even when the computer doesn’t have them installed.
The last games from the franchises I played were Civ IV and Oblivion. The next games required a download, and to this day I refuse to pay for a digital copy only. I have a huge backlog of older games on discs, so I don’t mind that my recent game purchases are largely limited to collector editions on Kickstarter.
