Can’t use the word “buy” if you can’t actually buy the thing.
I understand the sentiment here and I am the kinda gamer that rarely buys games on release date and waits for deep discounts, but the “renting” it aspect of the argument seems pretty hyperbolic. I try to think of the value as entertainment hours per dollar. I usually only get a game if I think I’ll get at least 1 hour per dollar or two, and I bet I’d get at least that with this game at $80-100. I’ll probably still wait for a discount but I doubt they’ll be removing the rights to the game before you can get decent value out of it. Hell I bought GTA 5 on multiple consoles and still got my money’s worth.
I wonder why nobody complained as much about Crimson Desert on ps5 that have physical release but it’s drm protected, so you can’t play from disk and you need day one patch from internet. This is bizarre to me. It was in March this year so corporations just moved forward in their agenda.
Those complaints are back in the 2010s or so when most physical games from AAA devs/publishers became nothing more than links to the download and a DRM check rather than actually contain the whole game.
For the betterment of all gamers,
For the enrichment of our hobby,
For the expansion of the Indy Renaissance,
Buy no AAA games from multimillion dollar companies.
(Pirate them if you want, tho)
I agree! There are way better games out there with more affordable prices
I would call it leasing before I’d call it renting tbh.
Honestly, I can’t justify spending $80 (or actually $95 in my country) at all, period.
Even if you keep your machine offline, many discs have required updates included.
Any one of them could brick your console.
If its not running freedom respecting software and standard hardware, you probably didn’t own it anyways. (Unless you airgap everything and risk assess all new software with a test machine, like the feds.)
many discs have required updates included.
Some do, most don’t. You can check here. I see this “physical media is unusable without an internet connection anyway” statement bandied about a lot and it’s simply not true.
I guess but having DRM free installers does more for ownership than a proprietary (currently) impossible to duplicate disc.
I don’t think physical media is the end-all to physical ownership is all I’m getting at.
Relax and wait for pirates, especially when PC launch comes 😏
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/488/
That comic was uploaded in 2008. More true today than ever before.
This is why I jailbroke my kindle.
Kobo’s are much better
Yeah, well, I have a Kindle and I don’t have the money for a kobo, especially when my Kindle still works
Your kindle won’t work for very much longer.
why should a jailbroken Kindle stop working?
It won’t! That’s why I jailbroke it! It also has 10x the functionality now too.
I can’t justify spending $80 on a game I won’t own.
I can’t justify spending $80 on a game I won’t sell.
I can’t justify spending $80 on a game I won’t share with friends.
Why pre order? Would they run out? It makes no sense without a physical copy
Pre-orders usually let you download the game data before the release date and time so you can play it instantly when it releases.
How else are you going to get meaningless cosmetic bonus items!!!1!?!
If the authentication servers can keep up ofcourse.
So they signed up for that subscription right away! (I do believe if you pre-order your auto enroll for the subscription)
I don’t like the GTA, but this “new Business” is bad for all…… The game no is launch in CD/BD and not is you own….
i cant justify spending 80 usd for a game when there are so many amazing games that are free or are under 5 usd
Saw an article a few weeks back that said something about how Rockstar was ensuring availability for the game. Availability? For a download?
Also, why bother pre-ordering? The whole idea of pre-ordering is so that you can ensure you have the game when it comes out because there are limitations on supply meeting demand on the printing of a disc. Again, this is a download. Other than some artificially limited exclusives (which, again, are downloads and will probably be made available again at a later date) there is no reason to pre-order. Unless you want the game to just automatically install for you, I can’t think of a real reason for pre-ordering this. (Disclosure: I am old and I practically never download big games–not at launch anyway)
Bro, you don’t get it.
My preorder tells Rockstar that I am okay with them charging the most for the opportunity to rent the game from them while I pay them additional money for multiplayer. It also means that I can preload the game, because I have been conditioned to have 0 patience, and the thought of waiting to give Rockstar more of my time and money hurts me physically.
Let me have this bro. Please. If I spend the equivalent of a weeks worth of groceries on a game that is going to essentially be the same game as the last game, I can finally feel something for a brief moment.
Had me in the first part, ngl
Didn’t forget, on PlayStation if you download (even pre-orders) you can’t refund it!
So if you buy it and download it now, you don’t have to deal with those pesky reviews.
I also don’t understand what pre-ordering means nowadays. sometimes they offer you some sort of extra thing, which makes sense. but why would you preorder if you get literally nothing for it
To pre-download and have it playable the second it goes live, I guess.
Even if you’re old, those are solid arguments.
Even if your IQ < 1 those are solid arguments.
If I were going to make an argument for pre-ordering digital games, the only one I can think of is basically that you can pre-download the game.
Instead of waiting on a 300GB download when the game launches, you simply get a quick patch (probably a few KB in size) to actually activate the game files that you have already downloaded ahead of time. It means your wait is only a minute or two, instead of potentially hours (depending on your local internet speeds).
Maybe if it allowed access to an open beta ahead of the official launch date. I’ve seen a few games do things like that, where the full game releases on {date}, but pre-orders can play the open beta starting like two weeks ahead of time. If it’s something like a competitive game where familiarity with the in-game systems will matter, having access to that beta could be valuable. Even if the systems get updated for the final launch, you’re simply reading patch notes and adjusting your play-style accordingly. But everyone who didn’t pre-order is starting from 0.
That’s literally the only justification I can think of. Because yeah, the pre-order bonus content stuff is almost always artificially gated (it could just be available for everyone right from the start) and will almost certainly be made available to everyone at a later date anyways.
If I were going to make an argument for pre-ordering digital games, the only one I can think of is basically that you can pre-download the game
Sure but that leaves no valid reason to pre-order a few months before launch, instead of a few days.
Sure but that leaves no valid reason to pre-order a few months before launch, instead of a few days.
Ok, I got one! You’re in the process of declaring bankruptcy, your credit card is about to be revoked, and if you pre-order the game now, the cost will be included in the credit cards that get zeroed out. Even better, unlike a physical game, there’s nothing for the court to seize!
A fringe benefit of digital games - they have no monetary value, therefore they can never be seized by courts to pay debts and fines! They’re bankruptcy and judgment proof!
Or really, any scenario where you have the ability to pay now, won’t have the ability to pay later, but can still get some benefit from it in the future.
😅
But the thing you want to play it on can get seized.
Not sure if it’s the same where you live but where I live, there are high interest rate bank accounts that require a minimum spend per month. A pre-order could help you hit that maybe. I don’t know that’s the only thing that comes to mind. Plus if it’s on Steam, you could refund if it turns out bad anyways. If it’s not on Steam, however, welp.
GTA6 doesn’t even have a PC release date, correct? Just funny because of the publisher in the screenshot.
Any word on Linux desktop support? Last time I played a Rockstar game was RDR2 on Win10 and somehow my cloud saves through their platform got corrupted.
Open to trying it but wondering if the platform I have will even be an option.
RDR2 got cracked by Empress a year after release. It worked fine on Linux
And this is a mere part of why great game developers don’t give a shit about Linux.
*publishers I think you mean. Game devs are more than happy to have a captive audience, since they know that the publisher will pay them the same regardless of the outcome of the game with the only success metric on their compensation side being whether or not they’re employed for 1 more year
they probably havnt figured out how to make it digital only the PC, without it get pirated somehow.
PC has been digital only for at least 15 years.
Mostly digital only. Some indie devs will occasionally release disk versions of their games. I’ve got one on my horrid fucken book shelf right now.
Likely the same as GTA 5. Single player only
Yeah I’m just looking for single player. Never played online with any of their titles
I used to play GTA5 online, and it was overrun with hackers and shit. Rockstar didn’t give a shit about how many people were hacking their game either. You’d join a game, and IMMEDIATELY get blown up every time you spawned. fuck rockstar. you can bet I won’t be buying GTA6
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Tell you what: Finish making the game, patch out all the bugs, add some DLC, and I’ll consider paying you $5 for the GOTY edition in a few years. Best I can do.
add some DLC
cries in GTA5
DLC is shit and ruins game balance in GOTY editions.
Welcome to the game! Here’s all this amazing loot you bought! Now your first quest is to kill that rat over there with your brand new Fire Sword. Oh yeah, here’s your Anglic Armour and your Awesome Horse Armour. You’ll have to lug that around in your inventory for a few hours until you find the horse quest though.
Chet watching the brain damaged mailman sell a bunch of random shit to him.
lol this exact thing happened to me in Dying Light.
I was used to DLC being a new world to explore at an appropriate time like in Dark Souls. I didn’t expect to be given items that invalidate the first 15 hours of the game. (I didn’t use them, but still, it’s unpleasant to have to exert that much willpower when starting a new game…)
I’m going to disagree with you. Things like Shivering Isles added replay value to Oblivion and, to my memory, didn’t include anything that would overpower you in a new game.
I agree with both of you, I think it comes down to the scope and type of DLC. An expansion size DLC like Shivering Isles tends to fit in nicely with the rest of a game because the developer needs to plan out when and where you can start to access the new stuff, but a lot of smaller DLC like bonus weapons can be integrated pretty poorly because they want you to get the cool little thing you paid money for and it’s easier to put it in a hard to miss chest or just give it to you early on.
Rogue Trader handles Twitch Drops and preorder shit pretty well. It’s in a chest in the captains quarters and a lot of it is outclassed early on, that which isn’t well it’s a CRPG with Russian devs they probably grew up playing classic fallout and arcanum they expect you to break the game once you know it IE Fallout 2 Navarro rush.
I’ve never played a game that was ruined like this. so I’m gonna say it’s an issue of shitty games doing shitty game things
Fallout: New Vegas is like this. With all of the DLCs you start with some overpowered weapons that makes the first serious quest silly
Eh, depends on the game.
Plus, you don’t have to use it if you don’t want to.
One counterpoint to that argument is that you might not know what’s OP, what’s a normal balance level, and what’s gonna be cosmetic when first starting a game.
Very possible but if it’s something that mattered to you, you could probably look it up.
Maybe, but I would be worried about spoilers personally. You can only experience a game freshly once, once you know what’s coming it’s never the same.
I absolutely hate it. I always have to try and remember all the random crap that was thrown into my inventory and avoid using any of it for an authentic experience.
I still havent played GTA5 because I never found the disc cheap enough, at some point I quit looking for it, really sucks GTA4 was the last game from that franchise I’ll get to play, but ending physical discs means I will not buy your console game.
I found GTAV at a thrift store for $4.99 several months back. Bought it. Still haven’t played it lol
Pretty sure I paid $5 for GTA5 and not much more for 4 and San Andreas. I think GTA 3 was the last time I paid MSRP.
Maybe if Epic gets desperate enough after their plan to chase Roblox and slop crashes they’ll let you download it from them for free like they did 5
preorder what?.. what are you reserving anyways?
I assume the standard “I didn’t wait to see the reviews” cosmetic that all pre-orders seem to give people these days
You’re preordering your bytes, duh! It’s well known that companies run out of bytes when there’s massive demand and have to order more from the byte farms. If you don’t preorder this, the company might not have enough bytes for you and your download could have to wait a long time until they replenish byte stock!
If it’s anything like Forza Horizon 6, they are reserving the ability to play the game five days before everybody else.
I doubt they will do that because they’re releasing a story focused single player game, they don’t want spoilers out
Even better for Rockstar, they can say:
Oi if you don’t want spoliers you better lock in and preorder right now (you scum).
If it is yes, but afaik they won’t do that for gta
The ability to have it all downloaded and ready to go at launch, I guess. Wouldn’t be so bad if the price weren’t raised out of blatant greed while simultaneously removing the option to get a sellable license via a disc.
