• PattyMcB@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1 hour

    I kinda hate how I had to scroll through so much “article” before they actually named either of the stores, and even further to get to the second one.

  • plantsmakemehappy@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3 hours

    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.

  • Cherry@piefed.socialEnglish
    4 hours

    If it’s a code you don’t own it. If this slides you will never own a game going forward.

    • akilou@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4 hours

      Even when it’s a disc you still need to download a shit ton of data. It won’t just play on its own without an internet connection. They can always just decline to let you download the necessary data. You don’t own it either way.

      • Onyxonblack@piefed.socialEnglish
        3 hours

        Unless it’s on GOG and you can download the Offline Installer. Then you actually own it and can use the 3-2-1 data archival rule. I rip my games onto M-Disc media that is said to last 1000 years.

      • Lemming6969@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1 hour

        All games should come with a tag that explicitly says if it supports offline play, which would require no updates if you don’t want to.

    • jacksilver@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 hours

      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.

    • dudeface@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 hours

      Would it be better if it was on a piece of cardboard with the code behind a scratch off section?

  • Ech@lemmy.ca
    English
    3 hours

    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.

    • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      1 hour

      A bluray can hold 100 GB. They could fit it on one if they only put low resolution textures on the disk and made the high res textures a download.

    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2 hours

      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.

  • einlander@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4 hours

    Are these cases going to have collectables? Are manuals, maps, sound track CD’s, and other swag included? If all I’m getting is a case for my shelf and a piece of paper, I would rather not get physical anything.

  • TheFogan@programming.devEnglish
    4 hours

    I mean, selling codes in a box is such a silly concept to me to begin with. I want to know it’s marked up a bit to deal with the cost of keeping employees, be unable to trade it in or give it to a friend after I’m done playing it and have to wait to download it, but I’d also like to drive and wait in line to get it.

  • kobra@lemmy.zipEnglish
    4 hours

    I hope bigger retailers jump on board with this too 🤞

    • Scratch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3 hours

      Maybe. But if Rockstar hold firm this could be the beginning (middle?) of the end for physical retail.