Should they sell you an SSD? 20 Blu-rays?
If it is on 20 blu rays they better start shipping it on SSDs instead.
But let’s be honest, it’s not going to be 2TB for the compressed installation. Probably around 100 to 200gb that will be needed, meaning it would need 2 discs at most.
Now, I am pretty old, so I have played a fair few games that came on multiple Disks, CDs and DVDs. Some of my favourite games are on 4 discs.
Somebody said that the game is 300GB, BluRay XL4 can hold 128GB, so that would be 3 discs. Of course if the game console can read XL4.
Yea, but someone saying that and it being true are very different beasts. Rockstar have not said anything about install size. And that also ignores that compression is applied as well, which would make it smaller.
Also… Oh no… 3 whole discs? What ever would they do!
I was actually thinking that 3 disks isn’t that much in used to 12 floppies during Amiga games
y…yes. I would like a free SSD with my game please. That sounds like the best promotional deal.
I don’t even want GTA6 but i’d buy the fuck out of that.
20 blurays?
If the game is 500gbs in size, and costs 100 fucking dollars, then goddamn yes it better include a fucking dedicated SSD.
In the current economy people would buy the $100 game preinstalled on the SSD, then format the drive to use it with something else
i doubt very seriously someones gonna pay 100 dollars for a 128gb ssd thats read only, to try to make it usable, when they can go on amazon and get one for 20 bucks
I don’t care if it’s just one disk and you have to download most of the game, the important thing is being able to give the disk to someone else, allowing them to play the game.
Blu-rays can store up to 128gb so you need only 3 disks for a 300gb game…
I’m not going to play any games that need several terabytes to install. I’ve got more than enough older games I’ve never played to last me the rest of my life and then some.
voytrekk@sopuli.xyz 16 hours ago
Games would ship with multiple discs if required in the past. The issue with no disc at all is that the license cannot be transferred.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
HL2’s original release came on 5 CDs, so yeah, games used to be multiple disk. its no big deal. Course, thats in the before times, from the long long ago… When gamers werent so spoiled with broadband internet and instant gratification.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
That’s an interesting example.
HL2 controversially required you to sign in to a new online service upon installation even though you had a physical disc. Everybody was super pissed about it at the time.
But now most PC gamers act like that service is the one good thing on earth.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Oh no, no no no. HL2 was far worse than that.
HL2 made you install the full game, off of 5 CDs, and it installed steam as well.
Then after the installation was complete, you had to register a steam account, and log in, so steam could decrypt your installed game, Which if you had a computer that wasnt bleeding edge in 2004, that your computer would be locked up and unusuable for a very long time. Mine was locked up for almost a full day processing the decryption.
And I still say, to this day, that steam is bullshit. That I shouldnt be forced to run steam for single player games, but back then at least steam was just a server browser/matchmaker. It wasnt the big pseudo-wannabe digital walmart+facebook that it is today… so you at least had an excuse to run it to play multiplayer games like HL2 deathmatch and CS:Source.
But requiring it for any single player game is the height of bullshit.
I wager most the people you find eagerly sucking off Valves cock as if its gods gift to gaming, are people 21 or under, who did not know a world before digital downloads, and who didnt know valve at their worst, before lawsuits and countries forced them to be marginally better.
dreamkeeper@literature.cafe 16 hours ago
The disc is still an issue for me even with the licensing issue. I like to resell and gift my console games and you can’t do that without a disc.
It’s one of the things that makes me sad about PC gaming. Steam killed physical PC games and it kind of sucks.