'Preserving the Value of Physical Game Ownership' — Two Game Retailers are Refusing to Sell GTA 6 Due to the Lack of a Disc
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Two retailers have announced that they will not be selling Grand Theft Auto 6 due to the game not releasing on a disc.

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.

  • Voytrekk@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    18·
    3 个月前

    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.

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      3 个月前

      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.

      • chiliedogg@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        3 个月前

        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.

        • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          3 个月前

          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.