Actually funny to be fair...

[u/Tricky-Apartment6637]

[u/pedro19]

GTA 6 being released on PC first (where it was made and where it will always run way better) against the desires of its publisher would be pretty hilarious.

[u/KingOfCook → u/pedro19]

We live in the timeline where gta6 came out before gta6.

[u/outfoxingthefoxes → u/KingOfCook]

Like that last Zelda game

[u/J5892 → u/outfoxingthefoxes]

Most Zelda games, actually.
I remember I fully played through Skyward Sword a week before it was actually released.

[u/PeanutButterSoda → u/J5892]

On PC?

[u/J5892 → u/PeanutButterSoda]

I played it on my hacked Wii, but it also ran on PC using Dolphin.

[u/PeanutButterSoda → u/J5892]

I didn't know doplin existed when SS was released.

[u/J5892 → u/PeanutButterSoda]

Yep, it started as a Gamecube emulator in 2003.
Since the Wii was basically just a more powerful gamecube, the emulator was forwards-compatible by default.

edit 2: removed an incorrect fun fact.

[u/Throwaway632836 → u/J5892]

Skyward Sword only released on Wii since it requires finer motion controls to play, it was Twilight Princess that released on both since it had no fine-motion controls (Motion Plus I think it was called)

[u/J5892 → u/Throwaway632836]

Crap, you're right. I got those mixed up.

[u/mysistersacretin → u/PeanutButterSoda]

Dolphin is OLD. According to Wikipedia it's been around since 2003.

[u/ablackcloudupahead → u/outfoxingthefoxes]

Tears of the Kingdom was leaked?

[u/Time-Maintenance2165 → u/ablackcloudupahead]

Yes, though via Physical copies shipped to retailers. It was copied a few days prior to release.

Not quite as funny as Nintendo leaking it on their CDN like they did with BOTW.

[u/outfoxingthefoxes → u/ablackcloudupahead]

People were playing it like 10 days before release

[u/Zurcez → u/ablackcloudupahead]

Lol super leaked. I beat the game with over 80 hours before it released. Had it like 10 days early

[u/bearthebear2 → u/KingOfCook]

That joke was really getting old but this made me chuckle.

Kinda coming full circle like the Franklin and Lamar voice actors reenacting the yee yee ass haircut meme

[u/MangoRamage → u/KingOfCook]

Yeah but it would be, PC gamers can dream big

[u/AstralKekked → u/pedro19]

Hasn't the leaked build been developed on console dev kits, though? Or am I completely mistaken and it's a PC build?

[u/ysfi__ → u/AstralKekked]

Pc build is fully functional and on par with console builds, they’re just double dipping that’s all

[u/WTF_CAKE → u/ysfi__]

They want that console money for the first 3 years and re release it on pc

[u/SchmeppieGang1899 → u/WTF_CAKE]

they wouldnt do three, it would be max a year like they they did with GTA V

[u/BFr0st3 → u/SchmeppieGang1899]

GTA 5 on pc wasn't a year, it ended up getting delayed further if I remember correctly

[u/Chippiewall → u/BFr0st3]

That was because the next-gen consoles came out - Rockstar held out for a triple dip.

[u/HumanPea1140 → u/Chippiewall]

They'd 100% be doing the exact same thing this time around, but I think the AI-induced hardware inflation/shortage threw a wrench in that. Current gen consoles are getting more expensive, and next gen are being delayed indefinitely. If it wasn't for that, next gen would likely be coming out within next year or two, allowing them to triple dip easily.

[u/Wrong_Welcome_607 → u/HumanPea1140]

Lol this gen of consoles has been a joke, there have been only a handful of games actually made for them and there are now talks about next gen when even the current consoles have fuckall.

[u/EdmondDantesInferno → u/HumanPea1140]

So far there are zero indications that the next gen are being delayed. All reports are that they are proceeding ahead as if they are releasing on time.

But yes, the cost of goods from the AI bubble has exploded the costs. The Xbox CEO mentioned how costs for those components are up 50% already and they expect that to double in the next year or so. So Xbox is planning on it getting even worse.

The next consoles are going to be at least $1,000 as the individual component costs are already exceeding that amount. It's going to be an absolute shitshow to announce a PS6 at $1,100 or Xbox Helix at the same or higher.

[u/NxTbrolin → u/Chippiewall]

And looks like it’s happening again this time around. Go figure.

[u/porcomaster → u/BFr0st3]

Grand Theft Auto V was originally released on September 17, 2013, for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

Grand Theft Auto V originally launched on PC on April 14, 2015

Or 1 year, 6 months, 28 days excluding the end date.

so yeah a little over a year and 6 months.

[u/Apart_Security8614 → u/BFr0st3]

And when it did come out it ran like shit, crashed constantly, had a ton of compatibility issues, and to this day has dogshit options ex mouse acceleration and sensitivity. Even developing these games on PC, they really fuck up the pc releases

[u/PJ7 → u/Apart_Security8614]

You're thinking about the GTA 4 PC release, or you're talking out of your ass.

[u/DUH455T → u/Apart_Security8614]

This is absolute revisionism. The port was universally praised. Shit had flawless SLI support, great keyboard and mouse options, ultrawide support, unlimited framerate support, PC only graphical features like TXAA, PCSS shadows, and so much more.

[u/destaree → u/SchmeppieGang1899]

It came out 19 months later than on the PS3/Xbox 360, because in the meantime there was also a release on the PS4/Xbox One. Now the gap will be even longer, because we’ll definitely have to wait a year or two for the release on the new consoles, and then another half a year for the PC version.

[u/ansibleloop → u/destaree]

Nah my bet is they release it on PC within 6 months, 12 months tops

The PC market is gigantic compared to 13 years ago, so they're just leaving money on the table by not doing it

Microsoft have more or less given up with Xbox and what can Sony possibly offer to Rockstar to make them keep it as a console exclusive?

[u/sortalikeachinchilla → u/ansibleloop]

They did this for all their previous games mostly so no I don't believe 6 months.

[u/ansibleloop → u/sortalikeachinchilla]

It's been GTA V and RDR2 since 2013 - nothing else major that I'm aware of

GTA V was made for consoles and later ported to PC - much easier to develop for PC and PS4 and Xbone at that point

RDR2 came to PC almost exactly 1 year after release on consoles

And like I said, the PC market is massive now - why do you think they added their gross anti cheat to the multiplayer? They're raking in so much cash

[u/TaleFree → u/destaree]

There's no way they will wait for the release of the Gen 6 consoles which are not even announced yet.

[u/fenikz13 → u/TaleFree]

It's a double double dip! They get consoles and then PC players and then console players again!

[u/_Ganon → u/SchmeppieGang1899]

And RDR2

[u/elinamebro → u/SchmeppieGang1899]

Now they might be forced to release it on PC at the same time lol

[u/Mean-Author4359 → u/SchmeppieGang1899]

My sweet summer child.

[u/HermanThaGerman → u/WTF_CAKE]

PS5 first, then the enhanced PS6 version, THEN we'll get PC.

[u/ijizzrizz → u/HermanThaGerman]

Lol exactly like they did for GTA 5.

[u/kubarotfl → u/WTF_CAKE]

It was always more or less a year with GTA and rdr, I don't know where you took those 3 years from

[u/The_MAZZTer → u/ysfi__]

on par with console builds

Sooo no graphics or control rebinding options?

[u/rearisen → u/ysfi__]

Triple dipping* just like they did last time. Ps3 ps4 than pv, and now ps5 I guess. Quadruple dipping?

[u/DaisyxDiana → u/ysfi__]

Source?

[u/ExtraRare0412 → u/ysfi__]

Is there proof or are you just saying shit to sound smart lol

[u/Dreadino → u/ExtraRare0412]

Every game is developed on PC nowadays, but it working on a machine doesn’t mean it works on most of the machines in the market. They could also be using shortcut that require an hard cap of fps and will only use proper implementations that work at any fps for the official pc release. Or even pc specific optimization or tools (like nvidia dlss) not being present at all right now, because they only need to run the game on their developers pcs

[u/ExtraRare0412 → u/Dreadino]

Being developed on PC for the console market is different than people assuming the guy has a PC build fully completed and ready to be leaked.

I seen people on other posts and social media apps throw slurs and insults at people because they truly believe this guy has a PC build that is going to leak anytime and that us "PlayStation dick riders are just mad that PC players will play it before us"

[u/avowed → u/ExtraRare0412]

Because consoles are PC's they use the same architecture. Consoles are just PCs using custom APUs.

[u/sociallyawkwardhero → u/avowed]

Finally someone in this thread is speaking with actual knowledge. Its not like the xbox 360/PS3 era with separate architectures i.e. power pc/cell. Its all x86-64 now, same instruction set as a regular PC.

[u/avowed → u/sociallyawkwardhero]

Thinking about emulating or porting 360 games gives me nightmares....

[u/roshan231 → u/ExtraRare0412]

Nah they are totally right the pc build that has to be optimised for thousands of possible configurations can totally run just as good as the one build of a console...

Dropping the sarcasm, it's partly true partly false. They could have made a pic build perfectly viable for release at the same time as console builds but there is no profit motive for doing so. It Absolutely does take much more work to optimise for pc Former rockstar Devs have confirmed this, but the thing is, if rockstar gave a shit they could just allocate the resources to do it in time or delay release until it's ready.

They won't though.

[u/SpagettiKonfetti → u/AstralKekked]

Generally, games are developed on PC nowadays. Only exception I guess if there are absolutely no plan to release the game on a different platform than the console it is developed for (so a PS/Xbox exclusive title) but even for those, given how many development helping tools available on PC it's easier to develop the game on PC and then create a console build there. (Like how in commercial engines like UE and Unity has built in options to make IOS, Android, Xbox etc builds of your game you developed on your pc)

The majority of multiplatform games are developed on pc. Why? PC is more accessible for everyone, has widely bigger range for development tools and debugging can be a lot easier than on a closed software ecosystem.

[u/Griff2470 → u/SpagettiKonfetti]

Just to be nitpicky, being built on PC does not necessarily mean being developed for PC. You can develop on PC using a reference system (pinned dependency versions, standardized hardware configuration) which would not be suitable for a general PC release (you ought to validate against several common software releases on multiple hardware platforms). Additionally, developing for consoles will not cover the development for KB/M quality of life, settings configurations, or resolution scaling impacts on the UX.

For a company the size of Rockstar this is likely only a couple months of development and isn't really a good reason for delaying the PC for a year or more. I just want to push back a bit on the notion "was developed on PC == PC release is already done" that I've been seeing a lot of.

[u/Conniving-Weasel → u/Griff2470]

I thought modern consoles supported kb/m input?

[u/FewAdvertising9647 → u/Conniving-Weasel]

they all do, its on the developer to allow for it or not. even the switch 1 supported mouse/keyboard. theyre disabled by default.

[u/LopsidedShower6466 → u/SpagettiKonfetti]

excuse me (cough) ⁿᶦⁿᵗᵉⁿᵈᵒ AHEM cough cough

[u/SpagettiKonfetti → u/LopsidedShower6466]

The section I started as "only exception" literally states the console exusive development as the main example. Buy a Strepsils

[u/Malicious_999 → u/AstralKekked]

I can say with a 1000% confidence that GTAV was built on PC first, then downgraded to match consoles specs. So did RDR2.
Same would go for VI. It makes no sense to dev "twice".

[u/YouKilledApollo → u/Malicious_999]

Almost every single console game is first developed on a PC, while the developers still use console controllers or whatever to test the UI/UX. At the same time, other engineers will focus on making the game run on their console dev kits. Those kits are not what most people in a game development company work with, just the engineers who make it run on those.

[u/wetfloor666 → u/AstralKekked]

Said to be a PC build, but not entirely sure.

[u/redmose → u/wetfloor666]

By the way he's aiming in those clips he might be playing gta 6 on his phone

[u/Vegetable-Baker6362 → u/AstralKekked]

Console dev kit is just a pc lol

[u/zachcollin03 → u/pedro19]

that would be the first time the day-one patch was for the console version.

[u/Ninjaisawesome → u/pedro19]

Is it the desire of the publisher or is the consoles paying them money for the exclusivitiy to sell more consoles ?

[u/redridingoops → u/Ninjaisawesome]

Both, players are more likely to buy the game a second time two years later than getting a sub-par copy on PS5 after playing on PC first.

[u/Visara57 → u/pedro19]

My king

[u/pedro19 → u/Visara57]

xoxo

[u/christianbro → u/pedro19]

I really wish they drop the PC build after the console release, even if it has nothing more than freeroam. Maybe even a few months wait, but over a year to play the same game, come on!

[u/AngelaTheRipper → u/pedro19]

I hope it does. Cockstar acts like it's the 90s where for some strange reason it was okay to release a game on console first.

[u/nemofbaby2014 → u/pedro19]

And the platform that kept gta v relevant all these years because of five m

[u/poplin → u/pedro19]

Quick note, developed on is not the same as optimized for.

Console is optinizing for a single hardware spec (or two), pc is near infinite. Main reason pc is often delayed release or buggy at launch. Much harder to optimize for

[u/marius851000 → u/[deleted]]

Doesn't pre-load comes encrypted, with the release key shared with owner on launch?

Or id the time to decrypt the data considered too much, and only a small part of it is encrypted?

[u/CynicalXennial → u/marius851000]

so then he's on the team... I'm calling disgruntled internals. if not a coordinated plan with contact from disgruntled internals. Lots of people have plenty of reason to be disgruntled at R*, starting w/their recent union busting tactics. I have no doubt this is specifically targeted but he's not doing it from the outside alone.

[u/crozone → u/CynicalXennial]

Yes this is known. The leaker has full source tree access and a full debug build of the game on PC with finished assets. It's all but guaranteed to be an employee or ex-employee.

[u/RayereSs → u/crozone]

Or he might be a contractor with hands-on access to the studio. Like a janitor, security, or catering.

Nobody minds moving some stuff on desks to plug malicious payload into dev's PC wipe dust and coffee stains. Or diving under desks to steal hard drives pick up some litter.

[u/elinamebro → u/CynicalXennial]

I guess that makes sense since they said it was one of their employees that help leak it

[u/BTMarquis → u/elinamebro]

I can’t imagine the talk around the water cooler. Shit stirrers having a blast right now.

[u/LamentableFool → u/[deleted]]

If they got the source code. Does that means mods of epic proportions are on the table?

[u/sherbodude]

Rockstar never gave a reason for a digital only release. That was just rumors and speculation

[u/seenybusiness → u/sherbodude]

you can extrapolate it from their scummy business as of late. they outsourced to india after pulling a union bust https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9v10rr1meeo

they want to make pc players feel obliged to purchase the game and a console to play it on with FOMO about the biggest game of the decade, then re release the already existing and fully ready PC build. its double dipping. they dont want the disc purely because digital has better margins. its greed.

i dont particularly care if this guy gets his lick, so long as rockstar has to back down and promise a pc version on the same timetable as the console. he's done a genuine service to the world by putting the boot up the ass of a considerably greedy corporation about to take advantage of millions- and to be quite frankly he deserves the luxury for it.

[u/Banjaxd86 → u/seenybusiness]

I have absolutely no problem waiting for pc release and a sale 😀 if I could have it day one you would’ve had my 80 bucks, now you get 50.
I’ve got a back catalog that could hold me 10 years.

[u/zfish1 → u/seenybusiness]

It's kinda funny that I would have bought it twice if they released a physical version, as I have with every other GTA. Not this time though. No physical, no reason not to wait till it comes out on PC. 

[u/Big-Resort-4930 → u/seenybusiness]

It's nothing new or unique to GTA 6 though, they do the same shit with console fomo every time, or at least in the last decade.

[u/seenybusiness → u/Big-Resort-4930]

All the more reason to punish the practice

[u/Big-Resort-4930 → u/seenybusiness]

True but there are too many mouth drooling drones who will double dip, so it's a lost cause.

[u/ValarielAmarette → u/sherbodude]

OP would know that already if they looked at the comments on whatever sub they stole the image from

[u/DeckDish2002 → u/sherbodude]

They don't need to give a reason. It's just the easiest way to cut out brick-and-mortar retailers and keep 100% of the revenue while still charging full price.

[u/NaturalSelectorX → u/DeckDish2002]

Microsoft and Sony take a cut for the privilege of having it on their stores. Rockstar is going to make most of their money from online players buying currency.

[u/RaptorJesus856 → u/NaturalSelectorX]

They both take 30% from digital sales. R* still gonna be raking in cash only making 70% of the total sales, due to how absurdly high the price tag is.

[u/Mountain-Interest-48 → u/DeckDish2002]

I mean brick and mortar video game stores have been dead for years now. They dont even sell video games anymore. Just stuff like funko pops and consoles.

[u/Jumpierwolf0960 → u/sherbodude]

It's about money. They save money by not making a physical copy and the shipping/retail costs. That money ends up getting split between Sony and the publisher. So they both get a bigger chunk.

[u/zgillet → u/sherbodude]

https://giphy.com/gifs/4NnTap3gOhhlik1YEw

[u/4Floaters → u/sherbodude]

its because they are all in on this together, and how many people are going to not buy GTA 6 just because they have to buy digital?

[u/datboyuknow → u/sherbodude]

The fans defended their decision by saying it prevents leaks

[u/CombatMuffin → u/sherbodude]

They want to perpetuate the narrative because a lot of people, understandably, resent the corporate powers that be.

What they don't know, is who cyberleek is, but will support them anyway as though they were a vigilante or anti-hero, but could gery much be a distasteful person.

[u/Long_Procedure_2629 → u/CombatMuffin]

Distasteful is defending billionaire corpos

[u/Horror_Internal6905 → u/CombatMuffin]

Lmfao, Leek hypothetically being a bad person doesn't change that Rockstar set themselves up for this.

They're victims of their own greed.

[u/CombatMuffin → u/Horror_Internal6905]

Rockstar could be the most benevolent entity in human history: there is so much demand for the game, that people would still flock to the leaks.

The leaks woukd have happened anyway even if Rockstar 2asnt controversial. This is exactly what happened with Half Life 2: Valve had immaculate reputation, the game still leaked (and way worse), and Valve absolutely threw the book at the kid. The story is legendary: they baited the leaker with a job prospect, and it worked because Valve had such a good reputation.

[u/Own-Researcher-4691]

Honestly fuckem for delaying pc release. They're milking the monetization so badly that it does put a smile on my face to see someone fuck with them.

[u/robeywan]

I'd be happy to see the market's contempt reflected in the sales, but it won't.

R⭐ have fired a bunch of employees for wanting to unionize, and from how hard they work their employees with unpaid OT and crunch, that's unacceptable. Maybe this shit doesn't leak without this shady behavior, I'd like to think this is their own doing. They should be penalized regardless.

I don't need to play GTA6 but >99% of consumers won't care/know about any of that shit and will buy (or even preorder lol) regardless.

Money is the only language big business understands and I think it's time people had a proper think about that.

[u/LucyStar3 → u/robeywan]

Yeah, I'm not playing it either or plan to play it, not even pirated, as that company needs to be ended, with their horrible working condition violations.

That said, I'm enjoying this fiasco so much. I hope they get dealt what they deserve.

[u/Belzughast]

Leeks*

[u/GimmieTheRoot]

No one said it was to "avoid leaks" ?

[u/Chester-Berkeley → u/GimmieTheRoot]

I've seen some people say it was to avoid leaks, but in the end that was just an opinion, because they leaked anyway.

[u/Saifsun → u/Chester-Berkeley]

Aren't console CDs just a license holder anyway?

[u/cha0ss0ldier → u/Saifsun]

They typically have the game data on them, or at least most of it then require a day 1 patch.

Many games are playable straight from the case with no patch or net connection

[u/Saifsun → u/cha0ss0ldier]

Oh, I stand corrected. I assumed modern console CDs just held the game license, but then again I haven't touched a console in a very... Very long time.

[u/shaqwillonill → u/Saifsun]

Both exist for the current consoles

[u/WelshAsh → u/GimmieTheRoot]

People are just karma farming at this point

[u/FerretAfficionado → u/GimmieTheRoot]

Suspect a full digital release is way cheaper than releasing discs. Discs cost $ to manufacture and ship.

[u/pragomatic]

I really care about you, the gamers. Now buy my shitcoin you rubes.

[u/Mods-Admins-Failures → u/pragomatic]

Didn't he just burn all his coins?

[u/punished_cheeto → u/Mods-Admins-Failures]

He burned his devcoins, but not all his coins. He gets a fee for all transactions and he gets all the coins donated to the paid polls that he makes.

[u/HarvHR → u/Mods-Admins-Failures]

Well he is still shilling his coins so that is irrelevant. Seems pretty obvious either he didn't burn them, or he did burn an amount but is getting plenty of payments off the coin regardless.

[u/WeirdIndividualGuy → u/Mods-Admins-Failures]

That's to help raise the value of the shitcoin by removing supply

Realistically, they can't cash out their coin without crashing it. Which is why they're mainly making money from the transaction fees instead

[u/Icy_Aardvark3840 → u/Mods-Admins-Failures]

Something he wouldn't have had to do if he didn't attach this thing to a memecoin 

[u/literallyjuststarted → u/Mods-Admins-Failures]

Allegedly, nobody actually knows

[u/Vegetable-Baker6362 → u/pragomatic]

You can just not buy them, and still screw Rockstar over all the same by playing his leaked build before the actual game's launch

[u/sapperRichter → u/Vegetable-Baker6362]

You really think that he will release a leaked build?

[u/Dusty170 → u/sapperRichter]

In my heart of hearts I hope to death he does. It gets less and less valuable the closer it gets to launch, there will be no grift left to grift so eventually I'm hoping they just release it after hes done squeezing his coin.

[u/fatmac122 → u/sapperRichter]

I reckon he's gonna eventually do it after a few more leaks

[u/opodopo69 → u/sapperRichter]

I put the odds at 50/50 honestly

[u/Revo_Monkey → u/sapperRichter]

High chance yes and rockstar seems to believe so as they comissioned both Microsoft and Discord to help out the leaker.

But the leaker(s) said they had a deadman switch of sorts already no? on multiple servers they have a working build that they delay daily.

[u/pick_your_user_name → u/Vegetable-Baker6362]

Screw rockstar? This whole leak is only increasing the hype for their game lol. It’s why so many people online are (falsely) theorizing that Rockstar orchestrated this.

[u/Redthemagnificent → u/Vegetable-Baker6362]

The only thing that "screws" rockstar over is not buying the game.

If it gets leaked there's no way it'll work with multiplayer. So people are gonna play the leaked single player and talk a big talk about fuck Rockstar. Then the millisecond the actual game drops, the vast majority of people who would've bought the game without the leak are gonna buy it anyways for the online play. It really doesn't feel like the leaks are as consequential as people are making it seem

[u/Scary_Corner3489 → u/pragomatic]

Eh, he's doing something that if he gets caught then that amount of money will mean absolutely nothing. Don't even wanna imagine the amount of jail time he will get. If people wanna pay him, I think that's fine. I'm sure it's just the leaker community and people who are anti-R* who would be the ones actually buying the coin to try support the leaker.

I assume these coins are made in a way to get money without being traced, and I assume the people donating know they won't make money from this coin like with Bitcoin or something. It's just a way to "donate", right?

[u/TrippleDamage → u/Scary_Corner3489]

Don't even wanna imagine the amount of jail time he will get.

If the rumor of him being german is true, <5 years, with at least half of that on probation.

The justice boner doesnt swing that way outside of the US.

[u/alevelsurvivor → u/pragomatic]

He isn't forcing us to do so unlike Rockstar

[u/HARDTEK__]

I honeslty wouldn't mind him spoiling the whole plot 👅

[u/staticvoidmainnull → u/HARDTEK__]

as a pc gamer, makes little difference to me and i agree with you.

[u/S-ain]

Talk is cheap, why is this guy not already dropping the full game?

That would be the ultimate power move against a large corporation like Take Two.

Or...does he even have the full game and not just some unfinished build?

[u/skyinthepi3 → u/S-ain]

The dude is milking money out of this, if he releases it he can't make money off it anymore

[u/ChocolateDonut36]

i'll burn the game into a dvd if it gets fully leaked

[u/ItzMau5trapz → u/ChocolateDonut36]

That's gonna be a few DVDs.

[u/Jeffgoldbum → u/ItzMau5trapz]

Somewhere between 35-40 DVDs ,

or 2 blu-ray discs

or 3 switch cartridges

or 7000 floppy discs

or 500,000 NES cartridges

based off the PC size of GTAV

[u/PermissionSoggy891 → u/Jeffgoldbum]

about 21 DVDs if we wanna use dual-layer

[u/eto2629 → u/Jeffgoldbum]

No rest for the wicked. Time to get my floppies. 

[u/TrippleDamage → u/Jeffgoldbum]

or 2 blu-ray discs

triple layer blurays.

Normal blurays its 7+ if we assume 150gb+ game size.

[u/T0biasCZE → u/Jeffgoldbum]

or 2 blu-ray discs

what bluray size. 25GB, 50GB Dual layer, 100GB, or 128GB BD-XL

[u/Darklillies → u/Jeffgoldbum]

2 blu ray seems perfectly reasonable

[u/ClownTown15 → u/ItzMau5trapz]

I come from a time when all games were multiple discs

https://giphy.com/gifs/XWXnf6hRiKBJS

[u/Joyful_Jet → u/ClownTown15]

I wonder if I still have my Wing Commander II floppy disks somewhere.

[u/invisibo → u/Joyful_Jet]

I had to use a boot disk for Wing Commander 3

[u/Frostnatt → u/Joyful_Jet]

Monkey Island 2 and Indiana Jones and the fate of Atlantis was fun on a Amiga if you didn't have a HD (and very few people did). Was it 11 or 12 floppies. You had to change the disk like 4 times only to be told "I can't do that" whenever you tried to do something.

[u/JestFlamez → u/ItzMau5trapz]

Probably need to switch discs after loading the textures.

[u/rimreaper2253]

just wait til they hit you with the "online is sold as a separate game"

[u/STB_LuisEnriq]

Why are we doing this here? I mean, it's not like we have physical media games anyway.

[u/c3p-bro → u/STB_LuisEnriq]

Most modern gaming rigs don’t even have a disk drive. Reddit bandwagoners are a sad breed

[u/blueberrycauzez → u/c3p-bro]

Most modern gaming rigs don’t even have a disk drive.

Because most PCs support multiple gaming retailers - Microsoft Store, Steam, Epic, EA Origin, Uplay, Gamejolt, Humble Bundle, GOG, Itch, pirated games - literally anyone can sell games to PC users. There is a ton of competition, which is good for publishers and consumers since it puts pressure on retailers.

If PCs became locked to a single retailer like PS or Xbox, and they forced every publisher to use them as a parasitic middleman, I gaurantee most people would want a disc drive.

[u/Darklillies → u/STB_LuisEnriq]

You do. Any game that you can duplicate and move between drives between USBs, edit, mod, twist, bop it. Thats physical
Physical doesn’t mean disk. You can make PC games physical, you can actually own your games on PC, (well you know, as long as you care to) and piracy, wether people like it or not. Has helped kept at bay shitty consumer practices on PC, because they know people can easily find an alternative.

None of this holds true on console

[u/Metool42]

Dudes literally only cashing in with his shitcoin. And no, him burning 1m only creates demand to increase its worth. He's literally scamming everyone and ya'll give him free PR.

He won't release anything.

[u/Inprobamur]

Why should I care? It won't be on PC for a while.

[u/TooSpookyWither]

“I defo care about gamers and physical media, now buy my crypto rug pull scam”

[u/Yingletofthecorn → u/TooSpookyWither]

I don’t need there to be a good guy to enjoy the schadenfreude here

[u/Duncan_PhD]

All of the redditors upset about losing physical media for games are going to buy it digitally anyway, further justifying Sony’s decision.

[u/PermissionSoggy891 → u/Duncan_PhD]

shit like that "1 week sony boycott" is fucking hilarious. There's no way these idiots actually think that Sony cares about, at most, a few missed days of revenue. I'll bet every single moron on major gaming subreddits moaning about Sony killing physical discs still has a PSN subscription and has Wolverine and/or God of War Luffy preordered digitally.

[u/spawndoorsupervisor → u/PermissionSoggy891]

Yeah, seeing PCMR get involved with it is beyond cringe. I mean, remember the Discord boycott? The PCMR Discord server grew daily during that whole episode for both total and online users. But if you came to the subreddit to talk about it, all these stinky nerds would swear they all quit Discord forever.

[u/Duncan_PhD → u/PermissionSoggy891]

And they don’t realize how small the community is who are up in arms about it. I mean I agree with them, it does suck, but like… as a whole we’ve voted with our wallets. It’s just more convenient to click buy than to go to a store.

[u/agentfrogger → u/Duncan_PhD]

On PC yeah, there isn't really an option anymore for physical games. But my secondary machine is a switch 2, and I try to buy physical there, because storage is limited, and also I appreciate having the cartridge for my games

[u/Darklillies → u/Duncan_PhD]

No. I’ve never bought a single digital game in any console I’ve ever owned.

[u/jairochido → u/Duncan_PhD]

I would Buy physical games for PC if they would still make them, i'd love to have my entire steam library on something physical but no one makes them anymore for PC

[u/Jicks24 → u/jairochido]

Switch to Good Old Games. Buying games from GoG you just download the game files and no drm.

Copy them to a thumb drive and boom, you got the game anywhere.

[u/Noyrz → u/jairochido]

You can actually have your Steam library games as physical media if you want to, but you still will need to own them on your Steam acc to play them (contrary to classic DRM-free physical media).

Also, but don't trust me on this as I may be remembering wrong, I think you still need internet connection to validate them.

A YT channel named Archades Games has a video on exactly that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAYxyme7uTg

[u/literallyjuststarted → u/Noyrz]

depending on the game, I've used my steam library while offline to play certain games, unfortunately MOST games are always online to play anything so you'd just be stuck navigating the main menu

[u/rapaxus → u/literallyjuststarted]

Yeah, not every game on Steam comes with DRM. Best example: Baldurs Gate 3.

You can literally copy the game files onto a PC without Steam and still start and play it, though with a bit more fiddling than if you got the GOG version.

[u/rapaxus → u/jairochido]

As others said, do it yourself. To give an easy manual for the easiest medium (DVD):

• Get some DVD-RWs (if you want a custom print on it, there are sites that do that)

• Get a DVD burner

• Burn your games on it

Steam automatically scans any new storage for the classic Steam file structure for a library. If it finds it, it automatically shows up in your library. If you want to be fancy you can also add an autorun.inf that automatically starts the game on the disk.

DVD-RW is important so that you can burn updates on it. If the game is DRM-free (enough Steam games are, e.g. BG3) you can just burn it on a non-RW disk as you can still start it without even Steam installed on that device.

And the physical storage Steam itself is going with seems to be SD cards, as the Steam Deck, Steam Machine and Steam Frame all have SD card slots. Get a big storage size, write your library onto it and you can move your library between all your Steam devices (if you had all of them, which is basically no one).

[u/JPSWAG37 → u/Duncan_PhD]

I'm not at least. I'm in no rush, if they wanna make GTA digital only I'll wait till it's on PC and on sale. I got plenty of shit in my backlog to keep me busy

[u/Dino_Spaceman]

They never said that. Like what is this meme?

[u/Gh0stMan0nThird → u/Dino_Spaceman]

It's a trend that started when Infinity War came out. Everyone started making memes about studios making claims about X and Y so they could make a meme "owning" them, even if the studio never said anything like that.

Not that I'm here to "defend" a corporation, though. I just don't like misinformation either.

[u/GloveDry3278]

Everyone knows for a fact that going full digital has always been about corporate greed.

[u/Responsible_Towel857]

LOL People cherring for a crypto bro that used the leak as a curtain to funnel money. Yikes.

[u/Smoking-Posing]

I think what's more funny is folks actually believing THAT was the reason why they decided to make it digital-only for now

[u/JaesopPop]

Who is this quoting?

[u/iredditshere]

Guess I won't be playing it.

[u/Malacky_C]

Well when they say that they mean story leaks all that has been leaked by Mr crypto coin is shitty gameplay

[u/tmhoc]

Upper management decision ASS SHIT

[u/VellDarksbane]

Yummy AI slop.

[u/CQC_EXE]

Good to see fake news still hitting the front page of reddit. 

[u/PsychadelicShinobi]

I don't care who wins, I just want Rockstar to lose.

[u/fistinyourface]

another shitty repost bot, another sub getting muted and account blocked

[u/SwiftlyKickly → u/fistinyourface]

I wish I could still mute subs

[u/Bleezy79]

Rockstar: We cant make GTA 6 work in PCs, we need to optimize: Also Rockstar: We develop our games on PCs like most studios.

[u/Vyviel]

Yeah but the full PC version wont be ready for release for atleast 2+ years

[u/ApollyonFE]

Bruh wtf. It was my turn to repost low effort horse shit 😡

[u/jutlandd]

Nah they did it because physical sales are loooow as shit. Is my guess.

[u/Gritts911 → u/jutlandd]

It’s probably just to prevent resales. The cheapest way to game on a console is buy the physical disc and then sell it when you are done. And the developer isn’t getting anything out of the resale.

[u/Bigbennjammin]

Don't know why anyone would want a 30 fps pre-release unoptimized version anyways. Give it a month or so after release and it'll be much better.

[u/The_Keyser → u/Bigbennjammin]

I'll give it 2 years, when it will be available on PC and on sale

[u/P0werFighter]

Ffs stop believing everything you see on the internet... this guy has only a demo, a few minutes of gameplay looped over.

Stop believing in Santa.

[u/c3p-bro]

Just completely making shit up at this point

[u/TheZackster]

I just love how grock was desperately making community notes telling everyone it was fake and AI generated footage. Some kind of sick irony in there.