Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch

NONE_dc@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• halcyoncmdr@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Some people like to still have the box for collection purposes. Personally, I agree. I think the only physical option at this point should be something like a collectible steelbook if all they’re going to have is a redemption code.

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  • NONE_dc@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, Steelbooks and the like make sense, but wanting to buy a piece of plastic that’s just a waste of space… It’s the worse of physical and the digital format, the worse of both worlds.

    (The anti Hannah Montana!)

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    • dalekcaan@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      But does it run on Hannah Montana Linux?

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  • BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    i like starfields steelbook. the code is on a real version of the in game credits. its heavy and fun to hold

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    • Skunk@jlai.lu ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      its heavy and fun to hold

      BigBananaDealer - 2026

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• lorty@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  To sell in physical stores so parents and other people can buy them as gifts.

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  • NONE_dc@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    OK, but why an nearly empty box!? Why not, idk, a card with the code or something? Why a goddamn box with a little piece of paper in it? At least Nintendo’s key-cards are something (shitty, but something nonetheless)

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    • lorty@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It needs to look as much of as a game as the others, that’s why they make a box for a code.

      Which is a stupid reason but sales people are like this so.

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• thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m not entirely sure, but the game disc can still be sold. Isn’t it? If it is just a code you enter and then don’t need the disc anymore, then you cannot sell it. Its basically a digital code only, like on Steam / PC. But if the game disc acts as a license, then it will download the rest of the game and you still need the disc to play. In that case you can sell the disc and no longer play the game. Similar to how game key cards work on Switch 2.

  Another reason why big publishers want to have a physical release is, that they have a presence everywhere where “normal” games are also sold. Maybe your mom buys it for you, or a friend gives a gift.

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  • NONE_dc@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    But what’s the use of the box in “code-in-a-box”? It’s so fucking useless is insulting.

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    • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I just told you a few reasons from both sides. Another reason I can think of is, game cannot leak before official download day. The biggest reason probably is, because its cheaper to produce.

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• SolarPunker@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Many retail games still allow you to have the full game without any account to a service or internet connection.

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  • NONE_dc@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How does that work with a “Code-in-a-box”?

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    • SolarPunker@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oh sorry, I missed that part,. No disc means you don’t own it, that’s a big red flag for me.

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• MurrayL@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  To play devil’s advocate: physical disc releases are a security nightmare.

  Pirate groups pay big money to get access to disc images before release so they can have a crack ready on day 1, and leakers would love to get early access so they can drip feed information for social media cred. The bounty for an early iso of GTA VI would be astronomical.

  I do however agree that releasing a ‘physical edition’ that’s just a code in a box is a waste of everyone’s time and money, not to mention materials destined for landfill.

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  • NONE_dc@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My problem isn’t so much that the box is empty (though that’s part of it), but rather: Why sell an empty box in the first place? Why not focus on digital and stop wasting everyone’s time?

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• socsa@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So people can give it as a physical gift. That’s really it.

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  • NONE_dc@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Gift cards exist. Why not gift cards shaped videogames? Why a nearly empty box?

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