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JTWrenn Physical editions with no actual disks are pretty lame. That said I never was a fan of the series. Just not my cup of tea. I am sure people will play it to death but feel like they went a bit far on the price, spend, and the whole no disk in a physical box thing. AAA games are less and less my thing. Reply
usertests You need Ultimate edition for vehicle customization. Maybe people care about that idk. Given inflation and the sheer scope of a game like this, there's not much room to complain about $60 shifting to $80. If it is in fact a good game. Meanwhile, PC gamers will have to wait a year to see the game running natively on their systems and will have to drown their sorrows in one of the literal thousands of games that never make it to consoles. It would be funny if this led to increased hacking or emulation of the current-gen consoles. A good project for the agentic coding era? Reply
adamboy64 So.. as has been mentioned by JTWrenn, there's no physical media. Are you like.. putting in pre-orders for a game case..? Or pre-orders for a physical game code inside the game case? So it's releasing on PC a fair bit later, hey..? The amount of double dippers is going to be immense. That's a great way to make stacks more money. Reply
derekullo JTWrenn said: Physical editions with no actual disks are pretty lame. That said I never was a fan of the series. Just not my cup of tea. I am sure people will play it to death but feel like they went a bit far on the price, spend, and the whole no disk in a physical box thing. AAA games are less and less my thing. Game CD's are nice, but we have gotten to the point where triple A titles don't fit on a 100 gigabyte triple layer Blu-ray and if they did the access times and limited bandwidth would make games have inexcusable load times if they weren't simply installed to disk. Reply
Neilbob derekullo said: Game CD's are nice, but we have gotten to the point where triple A titles don't fit on a 100 gigabyte triple layer Blu-ray and if they did the access times and limited bandwidth would make games have inexcusable load times if they weren't simply installed to disk. They could do like Windows did and place it on a USB storage device, though perhaps that may add a little to the price (only a little – small USB flash drives, particularly if for read-only content, are not that expensive). When it comes to the game itself and AAA titles in general, I'm in very much the same boat as JTWrenn. Partly why I no longer care much about upgrading my system. And what, truly, is the point of pre-ordering? Reply
JamesLahey I know my opinion is just a wisp of smoke on the breeze, but I think we need to try to convince as many people as possible to stop preordering games. It made sense for limited edition bundles for the fans, when they included plenty of swag, along with physical backup/media, but in the era we find ourselves, I can’t see how it does anything except subsidize the business. I don’t much care to tie up my cash on a piece of software at risk of delays, and with zero feedback on quality or performance. If we want to see something of value, there should be a kickback – a cheaper deal to preorder at minimum. Reply
usertests Neilbob said: They could do like Windows did and place it on a USB storage device, though perhaps that may add a little to the price (only a little – small USB flash drives, particularly if for read-only content, are not that expensive). NAND prices are way up. The price you pay for a 256 GB drive (likely needed to hold the whole game, but size unconfirmed) is probably $40-50, about twice what it used to be. Bought in bulk it would be cheaper, but a lot more than what pressed discs cost. Might be a $150 Super Deluxe Ultimate perk. But it would be something to look nice and a means of copying the game onto your SSD, and then removing and forgetting about it. Since flash drives would bottleneck loading times severely in GTA VI if you had to read from them during play. Big companies do not want to deal with physical media anymore. Reply
Moonstick2 derekullo said: Game CD's are nice, but we have gotten to the point where triple A titles don't fit on a 100 gigabyte triple layer Blu-ray and if they did the access times and limited bandwidth would make games have inexcusable load times if they weren't simply installed to disk. There have been games released on multiple optical discs in the past, and I guess if the game could be downloaded to a drive over the internet it could be installed on a drive from discs. If they had the will, there'd be a way. Reply
bolweval What exactly is the benefit of pre-ordering? Reply
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