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.

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[–] 10 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Games came on multiple disks back in the day. Why not now?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    They could do that, but it would cost them more money to provide that convenience to the customer. Since they are high AF on their own hype for that release, they have no motivation to do that.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    Why even? I stopped using discs when CDs were the thing. Skipped DVD and bluray completely. Don't even had a drive for over a decade now.

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    You own the games you downloaded, they're on your machine.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    To what end? The reason games came on multiple disks back in the day is because Internet speeds were slow (if they were there at all.) it was way faster to load via disk, and companies couldn't even count on users to have a stable Internet connection anyway.

    That's not true anymore. The only reason physical disks exist at all now is more out of tradition than anything practical.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    I don't know how to make you understand the value of owning your own things.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    The fact that whole game isn't on the CD isn't some conspiracy to deprive you of ownership. Putting it all on CD isn't going to defeat an always online requirement. It's solving a technical problem. Long term game ownership is a problem solved through legislation or piracy.

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