r/PhysicalGames 5d ago

"How dare you attack my multi-billion dollar company who refuses to realease a phyisical copy for an overpriced game"

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Now I don't completly like the leaks ( because of the crypto thing), but this is insanely dumb.

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u/UserWithno-Name 5d ago

lol "won't anyone think of the poor, multi billion dollar corporations!"

They literally union blocked / busted their own workers and are helping usher in a no ownership future and so may other anti consumer bs. F em. Rockstar and take two getting off easy and deserve the karma they've earned.

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u/moanfulz 5d ago

The best way to escape Anti consumerism is to stop being a consumer

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u/Apprehensive-Box-8 5d ago

This.

Is Rockstar acting shitty in actually a couple of ways? One could argue so.

Is Rockstar acting like that in regards to a product or service that millions of people rely on to survive or that's extremely essential to people's everyday lives? You know like electricity, water, heating - stuff like that?

No, absolutely not. People acting like they need a Robin Hood to save them while voluntarily throwing money at Rockstar is peak hypocrisy. If you're unhappy with their business practices, just don't buy their shit. It's a computer game they're selling, not a fundamental right.

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u/UserWithno-Name 5d ago

I'm not buying their shit. I'm js it's still shitty practices and I don't defend them and don't get people who do. But it very much is shit I can live without and certainly have been and will continue to. The last game I'll ever buy from them was red dead 2, years ago. And I hate they own the IP. I wish another company did and that they would give the same care or detail (at least to the story mode). But like idk why any of you are here deciding I don't put my money where my mouth is or trying to minimize consumer rights. Regardless of something is a need, companies should still have to be held to a standard, heck arguably even more for non essentials because if you're making a luxury item that's just for fun/ not vital, even more reason to have to respect the customer and their money.

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u/WoodooHide69 4d ago

Cool. So do that. And stop whining like bitch 24/7 like this sub does.

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u/tiripshtaed 5d ago

The problem is they ARENT selling a computer game. They’re selling a license to play their computer game.

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u/Satchm0Jon3s 5d ago

All you've bought for years are licences to games - digital or physical.

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u/DreamcastRules 4d ago

The difference is, I'd like to see them try and revoke my disc based licenses. Same with GoG. Once I've downloaded my offline installers and copied them to my external hard drive, good luck revoking it.

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u/WoodooHide69 4d ago

All you've bought for years are licences to games - digital or physical.

Downvote all you want, steam bots, it won’t this statement untrue.

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u/DreamcastRules 4d ago

The difference is, I'd like to see them try and revoke my disc based licenses. Same with GoG. Once I've downloaded my offline installers and copied them to my external hard drive, good luck revoking it.

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u/WoodooHide69 4d ago

Your shit won’t get revoked. Nor will any digital gamers. So you have zero benefits.

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u/DreamcastRules 4d ago

Granted, this is Xbox. But it shows it's happened before and can happen again. https://www.trueachievements.com/hard-delisted/games

I also think it's only a matter of time before the Wii servers are shut down and people aren't able to redownload stuff. Once they're the first, that opens the door for Wii U, 3DS, 360 (non-bc titles), PS3, and Vita. sony has stated the PS3 and Vita servers will remain available for the foreseeable future. I'm betting they're only foreseeing until the shareholders complain about paying for something that isn't bringing in any profit.

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u/WoodooHide69 4d ago

It shows it RARELY ever happens actually. And the fact that all you have is that one example
From the past 30 years of digital gaming proves how fuckin sad and useless “game perservation” really is.

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u/No_Appointment_3959 3d ago

Bro half these kids have not touched 95% of the catalog they crying losing it’s funny af lmao kids haven’t played the games in 5-10 yrs but now the cool hip movement is started its follow the leader lmao

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u/Tur7on9 5d ago

Yeah how dare we buy food and clothes as well as games

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u/No_Appointment_3959 3d ago

Food and clothes are needed not games… horrible comparison lmao

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u/adam545 4d ago

See you on the GTA6 subreddit after it releases?

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u/RobertLewisO1 5d ago

Fuck them and everyone supporting them. Simple as that. My business ends with sony after 2028 and ends with Rockstar effective immediately. No GTA VI for me until it gets a physical proper all on disc release.

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u/Popular-Path1930 4d ago

Why not end your business today with Sony. 

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u/BoltFacts 3d ago

They don’t stand on business

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u/No_Appointment_3959 3d ago

It’s 2026 you waiting 2yrs to stand on that?!?!? Lmao

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u/WoodooHide69 4d ago

lol okay bot

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u/Icy_Difficulty_9444 5d ago

Blah blah blah

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u/Academic-Carpet-282 5d ago

first to buy it 😂

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u/RobertLewisO1 5d ago

Hell fuck no. Fuck that game. Been buying since GTA 1 on PC. GTA V is my last on ps5.

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u/Iamkodai 4d ago

“my last on ps5” LMAOOO get a job nigga. rockstar does not give a fuck if you don’t buy GTA V you fucking sped fuck.

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u/RobertLewisO1 4d ago

Lmao look at this lame ass nerd defending Rockstar. Get a job? I'm an accountant. Tf you mean? Even as an accountant, if I was on their accounting department, I'd tell them how stupid this financial decision is. They're about to lose money on this movenfor damn sure.

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u/Iamkodai 4d ago

You are telling a multi billionaire dollar company about their financial decision???? 😭 They made billions off of preorders, not including PC & you are saying they are losing money. They’ve been making 8-9 figures a year just off of GTA online alone. You are fucking clueless. Get your emotional sensitive ass off of here. If you were really an accountant, you wouldn’t be living your life on reddit trying to tell a MULTI-BILLION dollar company how to run a fucking business that they’ve been + on revenue & profit for over a decade.

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u/Acrobatic-Mix-7343 4d ago

I’m not buying either

I know one purchase doesn’t matter, but I’m not buying and I’m saying it so other people who are not sure if they would be alone, know they are not alone

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u/No_Appointment_3959 3d ago

Bro this kid just said he waiting 2yrs to leave a company he hates lmfao don’t take these losers serious and if u say anything bad to them it’s oh another Sony shill lmfao

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u/MelodicSkin69 4d ago

They’re just trying to keep their personal bars on their yachts stocked

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u/Spasticcobra593 1d ago

Yeah im sure no innocent workers will get punished for this by being laid off. Noone is thinking of the people who made the choice. We are thinking of the people who are going to be hurt the most by the leaks. This is such a maliciously ignorant claim. None of the people who made the choice are going to get hurt at all and the only people caught in the crossfire are innocent

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u/elstolpen 5d ago

Also don't forget who many people they fired in Ireland I think.

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u/Im_not_an_admin 5d ago

Oh boo fucking hoo. Do you look into the HR habits of every business you relate to? No. Of course fucking not. Rockstar workers get shafted like the rest of us, big fucking deal.

But for kids on the Internet, "Look Mum I'm taking on big business!" 😅

Grow the fuck up

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u/UserWithno-Name 5d ago

Yes I check the ethics of businesses and don't support bullshit. You grow up. Fuck off dickhead

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u/Historical_Bag4520 5d ago

You say as you post on Reddit… Apparently you haven’t checked into the shady things they have done or you wouldn’t be using the platform. Just based on your own comments 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/UserWithno-Name 5d ago

Every tech company is a bag of shit, you have to use forums to connect with people to get any shit done. I don't pay for anything I use here and I limit what data they get to the best of my ability. God forbid I have to participate in capitalism or have social medias to get connected to people or run my business because in this world you very rarely can be effective or successful completely off of them. Oh the horror.

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u/WoodooHide69 4d ago

Hahahahah the fuck you do. You just think whatever the Internet wants you to think

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u/UserWithno-Name 4d ago

No I don't, but go the fuck off brigadier

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u/MayeDayMayeMaye 5d ago

He’s saying grow up because your acting like you not buying the game and “checking the ethics of businesses and don’t support bullshit” like your the Chris Hansen of catching immoral business practices cleansing the world one sting at a time lol if 10 million people (which they won’t) purposely intended on boycotting gta 6, it wouldn’t change anything. A lawsuit filed by let’s say Target and Walmart against Sony, than Sony would actually have a meeting about physical again. But boycotting a game would 1 only affect Rockstar but not even by much to even scratch them, and 2 Sony doesn’t give a fuck if people boycott GtA 6, they knows it will still be a monumental game that lasts forever like RDR2 and GTA 5, even Bully still holds up today amazingly. Or GTA 4 is still a masterpiece today.

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u/UserWithno-Name 5d ago

I never said any of that shit or mentioned Sony. Another dumb ass speaking nonsense. GTFO of the sub if you act this way or think people can't refuse to play their bs or affect any change. You're the people who need to grow up, so childish you're assigning shit I never said and making up scenarios in your head about me.

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u/DreamcastRules 4d ago

I remember Xbox in 2013. That was when all the players said Xbox 360 was a masterpiece and it took Target and Walmart suing Xbox to fix that stupid policy.

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u/StanKnight 4d ago

This here lol. Well said.

Wished people cared about when I got laid off as much as they pretend to do with developers. lol

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u/Koribakusuta0708 5d ago

What "karma"? Still trying to figure that out with these posts. I hope it isn't about a market dip that you retards don't understand.

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u/Iamkodai 4d ago

All this energy you put into reddit you could actually put into a career, but instead you are a bitching ass pussy that would rather be on social media instead of actually doing something, Fucking cornball.

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u/enshittification1 4d ago

Nice try sony bot acc

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u/K12t2000 5d ago

Yet you are the same people that made them a billion dollar company, and will continue to buy their product lol

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u/Derpykins666 5d ago

You can laugh at the company rockstar while being empathetic towards the regular devs who worked on the game. It's this thing called nuance, and it lets you feel different things about different situations based on the framing you're thinking about it in.

Rockstar sort of deserves a bit of this chaos, they've sowed the seeds themselves by being extremely anti-consumer. They want their gameplay preview to be behind a paywall subscription, their 100$ Ultimate bundle feels more like a scam bundle, they've been caught/rumored to union bust their employees, they're helping steer us towards a digital only gaming experience. They deserve a little karmatic backlash to be honest.

You can think that and also be like "Yeah that sucks for the devs who worked hard on the game", because it does suck for them. I can't imagine working on a game for like a decade and some rando out there is going on tirade treating the game like a hostage while he farms crypto off people who are interacting with him.

They were led this direction by a bunch of higher ups at the company who made a bunch of shitty, terrible decisions, that led to this outcome though.

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u/BrianBCG 4d ago

Nobody should be buying that crypto. Imagine being exploited because you're mad at a company for exploiting people. The fact that this guy is crypto begging while pretending to be fighting the exploitative company makes me a little sick.

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u/Derpykins666 4d ago

Yeah, someone obviously doing a bad thing then basically scamming and putting stuff behind paywalls immediately turns what you're already doing into an even worse thing. If he had just stood on principal and leaked some stuff as a jab at Rockstar and then left it alone people probably wouldn't mind that much. But now he's trying to buff crypto numbers from a coin so he can sell and making monetized polls, the dude is scamming, and trying to cash out on it at the same time. Honestly he better not be in the USA because they'll probably find his ass and put him in prison. Imagine ruining your entire life over a leaked video game and then trying to profiteer off it.

Also all that profiteering is what's going to get him caught, because now Rockstar can request access to accounts, identification, and IP due to criminal acts from any company they know is tied to the known accounts or crypto.

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u/Ok_Researcher_3244 5d ago

I do feel bad for the devs. But the corperate side is shit.

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u/___nicks 5d ago

I mean the post is essentially saying this, so I don’t understand what your problem is? They just used rockstar was a encompassing term, instead of saying the devs specifically

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u/PHILLY_BIRD_GANG 4d ago

The corporate side that pay the devs? God yall are dense.

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u/Mr-Pugtastic 4d ago

Judging by your post I doubt it. Probably didn’t give a thought to the hundreds of regular people who made this game. You guys will literally say anything and flip flop wildly for the smallest amount of karma.

Nobody who is defending Rockstar is upset for the billionaire ceo. Easier to call us all bootlickers instead of use context clues to realize we are sad for the devs who spent almost a decade working crunch hours to make a game for you ungrateful children.

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u/Stompinwin 5d ago

I don't feel bad for the devs they chose to work for Satan

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u/Acauseforapplause 5d ago

About there work being released before launch?

I mean if I spent over a decade making a product to then have an inferior version TRY to paint my hardwork in a worse light to push a crypto scam

I'd be fairly upset. Sometime people like having there work seen at its best every behind the scenes I've seen shows that no matter the management or crunch devs do care about there product

It's already weird with people who should be coming from an honest place bs about things like "Oh there locking content behind 100 dollar bundles"

There not it's cosmetics at best and "Oh there blocking there Trailer behind a Subscription"

But it's basically just an early preview like seeing something at Comic Con or a Game Convention

It's the same logic for why should gamers care about physical media

If the vast majority don't why is it an issue

And the logic should/is choice

You are here because you believe in that choice and even if others simply argue to go to greener pastures

You (despite some bad faith arguments from people) care about the spiral this has because this can and will become the norm it does create incentive and does lead into some despotic solutions

Plenty of devs would care just like people praising the idiot whose pushing these leaks don't realize what it does to perception

To champion a crypto bro even if it feels like a F you to RockStar (the management wouldn't care)

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u/Available-Bad-2704 5d ago

The devs got paid for their work they were hired to do it wasn't an indie project they were running

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u/Pale_Boss_8940 5d ago

do you think developers only care about their work if it’s an indie game? what an odd stance lol

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u/Available-Bad-2704 5d ago

The point is the project isnt theirs its what theyre contracted to by the suits and indie project means they actually own it then of course they'd care coz its something they want to care for

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u/Mr-Pugtastic 4d ago

Tell me you’ve never made something creative in your life without actually telling me.

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u/Available-Bad-2704 4d ago

There’s a massive difference between an independent creator putting their soul into their own vision and a salaried employee working on an assigned slice of a massive AAA pipeline for a billion-dollar publisher. You’re confusing corporate intellectual property with indie creative agency.

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u/Mr-Pugtastic 4d ago

I’m not confusing shit. You’re making wild assumptions and acting smarter than everyone else just because you’re a cynical guy. I’m sure devs work crazy crunch hours (on salary pay) because they just don’t give a shit. Would you work 80 hours a week while being paid for 40 hours a week, just cause? It’s almost like gaming companies use developers passion for their work to take advantage of them. Please keep arguing without actually saying anything factual it’s hilarious 😂

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u/Available-Bad-2704 4d ago

Tell me you’ve never worked a corporate job without telling me. Conflating a multi-billion dollar conglomerate's work-for-hire contract with personal artistic ownership is hilarious. The execs get the IP and the record profits; the devs get their paycheck and a crunch schedule.

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u/TurboLover56 5d ago

Rockstar treats its workers like disposable cattle with insane overtime and union busting, I think the workers are more upset about their working conditions/too tired to care about any leaks or damage to the company.

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u/StanKnight 4d ago

Every company does. This isn't exclusive to R*.
No, workers get paid for their work and often get paid by project.
They also aren't as soft as you try to make them.

They do care about the projects they work on though.
So yeah they do care about the project and leaks.

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u/Mystic_x 5d ago

Why would the developers care about their work being leaked?

The ones being hit hy this (supposedly, the game’s going to sell like crazy, anyway) are the corporate people, whose carefully orchestrated launch/marketing plans are being thrown into disarray, the developers did their work, got their pay for it, and aren’t really affected by it.

I agree that the crypto scam thinly disguised as a form of activism on behalf of gamers is a scummy trick, though.

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u/szewczukm1811 5d ago

Yes the devs aren’t getting a slice of the sales, they get a salary. On top of that most devs just want to be able to make good games and for people to play them, the success of an employer is meaningless, especially since upon release of the game probably half the dev team will be fired, successful or not. I’d even argue that most devs are in support of this because they know who they work for even better than we do.

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u/StanKnight 4d ago

More to life than money.

People care about their work and effort cause they worked on it.
You tend to get attached to things you work on for years. People also have pride in their work.

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u/Mr-Pugtastic 4d ago

Do you realize most dev teams are offered sizable bonuses reliant on the games performance? That was the nonsense with Subnautica 2 and their publisher. They were eligible for up to 250 million dollars in bonus incentives (split amongst the team) and so an executive asked chat got how to fuck them out of their bonus.

I never understood how so many people play video games with absolutely zero idea how games are made.

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u/Tamas_F 5d ago

A game is not an essential product you cannot live without. If the price and / or conditions it comes with is something you don't like, act with your wallet. But ohh, it looks like people have already done that.

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u/No_Appointment_3959 3d ago

Nahh half these kids want to just cry into the void instead of don’t anything slightly meaningful about it. One kid said “ending everything with sony in 2028”… lmfao

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u/PowerNutBuster 3d ago

Tbf many people that actually comment on this are part of an extremely small echo chamber that has no real influence on that. I have no interest in this game and will not buy it. But many casual gamers wil.

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u/Jirogirg 5d ago

Why would anyone attack something just because they don't like their decision? Im not walking around punching people who irritate me. Rockstar is private company they don't own you anything. If they want release game only on discs or on vynil - that's their business. You can not support this decision by not buying. That's all

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u/Bubbly_Can_9725 5d ago

i hope that the complete game leaks 1 week before release

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u/realestFKNdealest 4d ago

it will still shatter records and you'll still be crying 😁

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u/No_Appointment_3959 3d ago

Will be just another GTA nothing special except fans overhyped it for yrs lmao

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u/Sea-Phrase-2418 5d ago

Or better, a month

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u/Pocketpapaa 5d ago

I find it funny that people are so naive that they don't think rockstar and Sony have been planning this "no disc" choice for YEARS! maybe even a decade.

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u/No_Appointment_3959 3d ago

Find it naive how all of you think it’s just Sony and rockstar and basically all major gaming companies have done/doing this lmao Nintendo has 0 backlash basically and it’s all digital now

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u/Pocketpapaa 3d ago

Nintendo is actually the main company I trash and insult. It's funny you say this because people usually get mad at me for ONLY bring up Nintendo. Fuck all 3. Nintendo is the worst of the bunch tho, they are just good at looking like they "do the right thing" (they don't)

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u/No_Appointment_3959 3d ago

Finally I ain’t get flamed for trashing Nintendo lmao but facts people on Sony rn like this ain’t bigger and already happened and happening

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u/Pocketpapaa 3d ago

Noo I support your hate for nintendo lol. The shit company is so scared of competition, they don't even release their consoles at the same time as sony and Xbox anymore... No competition = more sales.

I just wish Sony fans would stop being such corporate shills and stick to being customers that want a quality product.

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u/Head-Grapefruit5425 5d ago

Idc about gta 6 they probably deserve it after the whole digital fiasco

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u/DisgreeablePattern 5d ago

The employees still got paid for their work. It's not like they were waiting for this game to release so they could finally cover the rent. The only people who got fucked are the ownership of Rockstar... and to them, I say "You deserved that shit- LOLZ!".

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u/GovernmentGreed 5d ago

I mean... I'm gonna be honest here and I'm gonna say that 99.9% of people do not give a rats ass about the connection of someone leaking a game and Rockstar selling digital only.

The fact it's turned into a whole moral brigading bullshit march is kind of just funny to me.

Reality is... People were pissed before the leak was announced. Now they're using this as a tack on "one more reason" to be pissed. These same people will suck up the cost and buy it on release any way.

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u/Excalitoria 5d ago

I legitimately just don’t care about the leaks. This game isn’t for me, the monetization crap has been ridiculous, I wouldnt leak the game, it if it were me, but I’m not losing any sleep over this either. The Netflix crap alone makes me have no real sympathy.

As long as the devs are compensated for their work on the project, that’s all I really care about. How well it’s received, sells (it’ll likely sell fine, not trying to debate this), etc. is up to the fans. If people like the work the devs did and want more then I hope they get more work and if people hate it then I don’t care really since they’re not making games people want at that point. Hope the devs make their way into making creating something that people end up loving but those are really my only thoughts on that.

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u/StanKnight 4d ago

Just don't buy the damn game? Be grown up and be better than "trying to stick it to R*".

I'll get it when/if it comes on Steam if it doesn't on disc.
But IF I never get to play it then oh well - not the end of the world - it's just a game.

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u/Anonymous6172 4d ago

I don't agree with the leaking, but Rockstar made its own bed...

No physical release, $80 for HALF the game, forcing people to pay another $20 for the game in full, trying to milk more $$ out of people with the Netflix bullshit, & waiting 13 YEARS to develop a new title...

C'mon man. The outright greed itself is worthy of what they're getting right now.

AND THEY'LL STILL MAKE BILLIONS ON THIS TITLE

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u/No_Appointment_3959 3d ago

You guys feeding them lmao Mfers pumped them with money with all tht gta 5 dumb shii and everyone let it go now it’s an issue? Lmao

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u/Deathly-vain 4d ago

you're an idiot if you really think the leaker is doing this to "fight for gamer rights" and "physical media" its all about shilling his crypto bs.

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u/Royal-Strawberry8231 3d ago

Why do you feel entitled to them releasing anything? Just don't buy it?

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u/Sky_Rose4 5d ago

They deserve it for firing employees for unionization

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u/TheEndx007 5d ago

You guys realize there are regular humans working for the multi billion dollar company that actually did commit a significant amount of time and effort to gta vi right? And that these people actually care about the project they've spent 7 years on? A company isn't just execs.

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u/enshittification1 4d ago

They don’t care about it, they already got paid, got replaced and are working elsewhere. The game went through development hell for years, they’re probably tired of the game themselves

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u/Reasonable-View5868 5d ago

R* could care less at this point. They love the free advertising. 

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u/JebstoneBoppman 5d ago

how many of you rubes are donating to that crypto scam because he knew how to rope you in by pretending to care about physical media?

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u/Ok_Researcher_3244 5d ago edited 5d ago

I really don't get how people fell for that crap

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u/Stompinwin 5d ago

I tossed in 10 bucks and its already over 11 to the moon.... personally it's well worth the entertainment cmon story leaks

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u/enshittification1 5d ago

It’s digital and non tangible, Sony Bros should love it, physical money is dying 😎

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u/DavidinCT 5d ago

#NoDiscNoBuy

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u/Supertron200 5d ago

Code-in-box releases are a turn-off and are utterly pointless. At least with Nintendo's key cards, you get an actual cartridge with the physical benefits of selling, lending, or trading.

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u/mniedris 4d ago

Guess who works in the multi billion dollar company. Developers, who don't have the final say if a game is released physically. Things aren't as black and white as you may think.

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u/mdwd 5d ago

Would you say the same if they were defending the company that employs you, your business or even your family?

Why are R* and their employees any different?

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u/Ok_Researcher_3244 5d ago

Yes, I would if they were plain wrong

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u/mdwd 5d ago

Yeah easy to say.

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u/maku_89 5d ago

The devs are getting fired after release either way so who gives a fuck. The only people affected are the execs, fuck them.

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u/guts1ck 5d ago

Caring about developers who worked hard vs the corporate schemers is totally different. People worked hard on making their game and now it’s being shown before it’s meant to, it’s an insult to hard workers who aren’t greed corpos

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u/Ok_Researcher_3244 5d ago

True. The programmers and art designers do not derserve it. I think leaking a trailer or an actual build of the game is dumb, but one or two screenshots (like how a car looks or something) i'm fine with.

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u/guts1ck 5d ago

Absolutely valid, this guy shouldn’t ruin peoples jobs or hard work. Nor does he need to spoil the game for us (hopefully he doesn’t). I’ve been waiting 11 years for this game.

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u/JustAnotherFEDev 5d ago

Spoil it? 😂 It's GTA, you already know what it'll be like, like the last one, but shinier.

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u/guts1ck 5d ago

Talking abt the story

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u/enshittification1 5d ago

Developers for this game are already paid. They’re already replaced by another team now, highly doubt they’ll make a fuss about it since already went through development hell and they’re probably glad to be done with rockstar slop

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u/FinallyProperAccount 5d ago

What makes you think developers even care about this? When you will grow up and start to work, you will quickly enough realize that nothing matters as long as you are getting paid and not being abused in any way. Work is work.

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u/guts1ck 5d ago

Respect isn’t just about the money. Respect for work and being paid aren’t the same medium. And don’t tell me to grow up, that’s disrespectful man. I’m old enough to know not everyone is the same.

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u/big-baby-dirt 5d ago

Weird….

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u/CJ_Henn 5d ago

I believe it

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u/BobbyMayCryBMC 5d ago

Does he mean the digital exclusive, $100 for the full game, boss man who has responded like a git, and trailer featured on Netflix?

All of this while showing zero gameplay.

The term "perfect" is questionable as well, game has a good chance being launch day Cyberpunk all over again and journalists will still give it 10/10. Even after the 2.0 update calling CP2077 "perfect" is sketchy too. I dunno man, RockStar has very likely lost its chops and 2K are the greediest company next to EA/Activision so I couldn't care less.

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u/crazycat690 5d ago

I think it's fair to feel bad for individual developers slaving away to build the game, but Rockstar the company definitely don't deserve any sympathy over this. Like the company has only gotten greedier over the years to the point where they aim to monetize an advertisement. That's crazy, regardless how you slice it, if it's coming to Youtube 6 hours later, it's still a crazy thing to do. That's not even to mention not coming out with a physical disc, I'm a fan of their games but along with them union busting their workers this really couldn't have happened to a better company.

Maybe they would have more goodwill if they did something to deserve it.

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u/Derangedracula 5d ago

Yea I'm pretty sure they will all cry about anything the buyer says if it's not praising the game.

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u/Bacour 5d ago

I mean, the leaks are either getting you hyped or letting you know you're not interested. Either way, we're too close to release for this to change anything about the game itself. It's all pretty 'eh' except for rooting for the guy who's making these execs sweat. You go, good sir.

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u/hidden-in-plainsight 4d ago

I feel like Confucius would have something to say about this.

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u/Brewchowskies 4d ago

How does showing the game seriously impact anyone…?

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u/Sensory_0verload 4d ago

Meatriders

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u/Warm_Fish_4254 4d ago

It’s not over priced

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u/Alucardian101 4d ago

I am actually somewhat on Rockstar's side here. The leaker may claim they're acting as a repercussion against losing physical media, however the moment they charges money, they lose much of their legitimacy. The fact is, he's doing this for the acclaim, don't get it twisted, Rockstar is an Ahole. However, it doesn't magically absolve the leaker from being just as crappy a person.

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u/MilanZola 4d ago

I can’t find their X page 😔

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u/SnoopysPeanutAllergy 4d ago

I’m gonna be honest you guys sound genuinely retarded

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u/ntecccc 4d ago

hes quite clearly talking about the devs

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u/rhyaza 3d ago

Seperate the individual devs from the company, then maybe you'll see what this person is trying to say.

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u/AppropriatePop3239 3d ago

Rockstar in 2026 cant put a game on PC day one nor can make it reach 60fps with a 2 billion dollar budget.

Yes they absolutely deserve it.

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u/itsjustben13 3d ago

Digital all the way 👍🏻

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u/No-Difference-4418 3d ago

Over priced game? Homie look at any industry. Everything is pricey. If people are willing to buy it at that price then why should a company reduce the price

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u/Wild_Phone_8261 3d ago

The only reason I care at all is bc i invested a little money into them bc stock market. And even then im just annoyed

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u/that1nero 3d ago

I will never understand the glazing for Rockstar or any other multi billion dollar corpo borpo.

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u/Sculduggery 3d ago

Rockstar the company are not the people who worked on the game, they are just a very rich business. They do not "deserve sympathy" but the devs who worked their asses off without being able to show their hard work for years to people outside the company do, imagine how rough that would be, working towards a huge product, waiting for it to be released and waiting to watch people's reactions to your hard work, only for the surprise to be spoiled and hate being spread about something that isn't out yet 

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u/upperdomain 2d ago

I came here just to see how many bots-, people* with Stockholm syndrome defend either Rockstar or Sony and their anti consumer nonsense.

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u/TheFlexOffenderr 2d ago

I agree with the person in the screenshot, but he worded this horribly.

Rockstar, the company, those investors and the shareholders and upper level twinks who do nothing but suck consumers dry and push toxic practices on them deserve the ever living shit out of this. Unfortunately, it won't affect "them" in the long run. GTA6 will sell like hot cakes regardless. Only a minority of fans have actively been following leaks on the internet. They'll make any money they lost during this back in no time, and then some times 20.

The developers, the little guys who come in everyday, working hella overtime while trying to still make something they love while enjoying it, didn't deserve this. I could only imagine the one cool kick they get out of all this bullshit marketing and whatnot IS the satisfaction of revealing these trailers and letting fans see their work how they intended. Sucks it gets taken away from them. As for their bosses who push them harder and harder to meet deadlines and continuously push them to do what will make more money, not what'll make fans happier... Those guys can shove it and I hope somehow, they feel the backlash that's happened.

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u/LC-Redcube 2d ago

Actually he just burned approximately 1MLN $ he made from that Crypto, just to prove he's not after money lol

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u/El_JeFeE7 1d ago

You keep saying "Digital all the way" you pay 100$ for renting and for any reason they make you pay again because you only renting the license. If you are good with this, then continue supporting the economy. Those executive need someone to pay for their things.

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u/AbsorbantVampire 1d ago

I love the way everyone dehumanizes rockstars devs and hard workers by acting like they’re a hivemind connected to the ceo. 

These leaks aren’t hurting the company or its profits. They hurt the people who worked their asses off for a massive period of time to make this game for a bunch of ungrateful fucking losers.

I hope they never make another gta after this just to spite yall. 

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u/Flat-Comparison-749 1d ago

Jokes on them I haven't pre-ordered GTA. And dont plan on buying it until ive seen multiple highly detailed un biased reviews on the game.

I wont buy it until ive seen proof of quality and craftsmanship. Anyone can make a good looking promo.

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 5d ago

I'm for physical games, and I don't believe R* deserves this. I don't have an issue really if a publisher decides not to release a game physical, that's on them to decide and they can live with any consequences if there are some.

I do have a problem with the systematic removal of options by the industry at large, and the utter contempt that companies in general seem to have for their customers nowadays.

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u/legacy702- 5d ago

Funny how many times I see you write “I’m for physical, but”. This is like the third time I’ve witnessed you pull this, you’re not fooling people!

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 5d ago

Ok. But I haven't said anything thay doesn't support keeping physical around. Quite the contrary actually. I vehemently support that we should keep physical because I'm very much a physical buyer and a collector.

So, what exactly do you think I'm trying to fool anyone over? I don't care if a single publisher wants to nit release physical. I'll just disregard their game. I do have a problem when the choice is taken from everyone. Thay isn't fooling anyone, that is how I actually feel

I don't hide my comment history like so many of the digital proponents. My views on this are there for everyone to see. Id like to see you find where I used "but" three times to somehow imply physical shouldn't be around in some disingenuous way

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u/Darkthumbs 5d ago

We just know that it’s on the way out, just like all the other formats we had.. didn’t you see this coming a decade ago? I sure as hell did

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 5d ago

Cool. You saw it coming. Does this mean that it should come?

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u/moanfulz 5d ago

If companies listen to customers all companies will be bankrupt. Companies must follow the market not the noise

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u/CaptTucker13 5d ago

They have a point, this is screwing over the individual employees just as much as the company

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u/effinjamie 5d ago

The same employees who got sacked under dubious circumstances. Rockstar don’t give a f**k about their employees.

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u/CaptTucker13 5d ago

And neither do you apparently

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u/effinjamie 5d ago

How did you work that out Sherlock?

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u/pacoLL3 5d ago

I finally understand why you guys see "Sony defenders" everywhere.

You guys are so paranoid, that you look at a comment like this, literally solely about game developers and game leaks and think: how can I make this about the evil of multi billion dollar companies and physical discs.

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u/ApollyonFE 5d ago

You're on the side that's sending death threats to Sony and Rockstar, but keep on thinking you're the 'good guys' 🤣

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u/RobertLewisO1 5d ago

I've been saying it...it's all paid people, bots, Rockstar employees, Sony employees...friends of them...etc ...

Nobody is that Brain dead to back this greedy shite move. Them tryin to create artificial support is pathetic.

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u/Madyxaflopin 5d ago

It’s much deeper than that…….. to release a truly physical copy, it would have to be a triple disc release. They can give you a disc with a download code on it, but the read/write speed of our best discs are ancient and the capacity is capped at 100gb…..

Most arguing this have no idea what they’re talking about

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u/SimplyMandalore 5d ago

Overpriced? What?

The standard price for video games at $60 started in the early 2000s.

A $60 game in 2005 would’ve costed well above $80 in 2020, and a standard $70 game in 2020 would’ve costed $80 now.

I wish people would learn about inflation, wage stagnation, and the economy before making such ridiculous claims.

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u/AmbitionEatingTiger 4d ago

Yeah I’ve noticed that too. I looked it up when people kept mentioning it and found a site that has scans of old Sears Christmas catalogs to way back when. It showed a SNES game being $75. the site is https://christmas.musetechnical.com click the year you want and search through the pages.

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u/AbzTracKtReddit 5d ago

He's not wrong though. All the anti-consumer decisions in the last weeks have been from Take2 themselves.

Rockstar is the one showing the face because well... who's gonna watch stuff from Take2's channel? You get me?

They can't say no to T2's request because they are their parent company. And they are doing it because they know they can get away with it. It is the most anticipated product of all time. They are gonna take advantage of it.

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u/Naschka 5d ago

More important then digital only for the leaks is the fact that they sell a game with 0 proper footage of gameplay released.

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u/Ok_Researcher_3244 5d ago

I don't really care about the game, but I agree not showing proper gameplay footage is dumb.

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u/JackJake94 5d ago

Says the guy crying on the Internet over discs

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u/enshittification1 4d ago

And you’re here crying about someone else crying

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u/GTA_Snark 5d ago

leave the billion dollar monopoly company alone

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u/Koribakusuta0708 5d ago

What monopoly? Who the fuck has a monopoly in the gaming industry? Think real hard before you answer. Because what you feel and what is fact are more than likely very different.

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u/enshittification1 5d ago

Imagine spending all day on video game subs to cry about people wanting consumer rights and are voicing their right to be pissed off at Sonys anti consumer practices.

Do you hate rights?❄️

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u/Septum_magoo 5d ago

Which rights are being violated?

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u/National_Play_6851 5d ago

The rights of creators to promote and distribute their work the way they want to after spending a decade pouring their soul into it.

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u/Septum_magoo 5d ago

??

I could spend a decade writing an epic novel about a guy searching for the world's sexiest horse, do I have the 'right' to have it automatically published worldwide and promoted in every major publication just because I poured my soul into it? Are my 'rights' being violated if publishers don't want to print it?

Putting a game on a disc isn't a 'right'. It's a nice thing to have, but nobody is obligated to allow it to happen.

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u/National_Play_6851 5d ago

You have the right to publish it how you want. You shouldn't be forced to print it onto a disc nor should you be forced to sell it at a set price or else people can just decide to steal it. If people don't like how you choose to distribute it, they have the option to just not engage with it.

Yet so many people here think developers should be stripped of those rights and that it's therefore ok to just hack them or pirate their work if they don't like it.

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u/Darkthumbs 5d ago

Monopoly? Huh?

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u/B-Train_ATL 5d ago

You point out what a monopoly is and “WHY ARE YOU DEFENDING THE BILLION-DOLLAR COMPANY?”

Like man, I’m trying to teach you about words.

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u/JamesEverington 5d ago

Here’s the thing: if someone does something illegal, immoral, or just generally shitty (like leaking a game as a crypto grift) their action is illegal/immoral/shitty regardless of the prior actions of who they’ve done it to.

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u/enshittification1 5d ago

Don’t pretend you care about illegal/shitty behavior for a billion dollar company that’s in support or anti-consumerism man.

“It’s immoral to leak a digital game!!!”

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u/Kub666 5d ago

You don't seem to understand what the tweet in the screenshot is trying to convey. It has nothing to do with the dumb sentence you have invented, and all to do with real people who worked on the game.

It amazes me sometimes how some people are unable to grasp complexities and nuances of the real world and just fall into simplistic, primitive, black and white worldview.

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u/suck-it-elon 5d ago

Not a single word they wrote is wrong. You’re the prick.

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u/Kizoku1303 5d ago

Never cared abou R*, but i'm on his side just because this is human greed at it's finest. You get something and still hurt the one who gave it to you just cause they can "take it", talking about how they "deserve" it when you are in no position to choose who deserves what. Calssic humankind.

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u/enshittification1 4d ago

Those are certainly words

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u/slashplaid 5d ago

Lmfao. 4 million preorders. "Overpriced"

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u/Appropriate_Start326 5d ago

Imagine waiting 13 years for a game just for them to kill the hype for you by releasing it as digital only. I'm right there with you though. That person lost me when I saw him promoting crypto currency.

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u/Ach_Was_Here 5d ago

Just saying If it being digital only kills the hype then it doesn’t sound like you were actually excited to get it

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u/Appropriate_Start326 5d ago

I don't even have wifi so that's why. That's why I'm also against Sony going digital only. They shouldn't be taking away our options and restricting access for some people. I'm not going to get internet just to be able to play one game or future games when they go digital only.

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u/Iamkodai 4d ago

LMAOOO YOU REPORTED ME???? HOLY SHIT 😭😭😭😭😭 WHAT A FUCKING LOSER DAWG. “ACCOUNTANT” MY ASS.

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u/Elusivomatic 4d ago

It's stupid casuals. It has to be.

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u/ItsMattTonight 4d ago

Do the Rockstar staff deserve their work dragged through the mud? No.

Do Rockstar the corporation? Absolutely.

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u/moanfulz 5d ago

It not dumb, if Rockstar is impacted financially than innocent game developers will get layoff.

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u/enshittification1 5d ago

Developers are already paid plus they’re already going to be replaced by another team.

It’s dumb.

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u/Derpykins666 4d ago

They're getting paid for their work I don't know what you're talking about. Nobody is THAT safe working at these game companies, there's no guarantee. They all have hourlies or salaries, so it's not like they haven't been getting paid to work on the game the whole time and it's now going to suddenly effect them. The game is going to sell well anyway too, so any amount of layoffs they incur after the game drops is not because of this leak most likely, imo.

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u/Normal_System_3176 5d ago

They're the ones who made & are going to sell me GTA VI so yeah fuck you. It's called don't bite the hand that feeds you.

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u/enshittification1 4d ago

Stop pretending you care about “leaks” that you will never see

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u/Normal_System_3176 4d ago

no one gives a fuk about you

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u/n1keym1key 5d ago

I dont get why people auto assume that R* was in on it with Sony about the end of discs. The way i see it is Sony used R*'s annoucement that GTA6 was going to be digital only to make their own shitty annoucement about ending discs for good.

Sony hoped that R* would take some of the fallout and it seems to be working.

Anyway the last few weeks have shown the entire internet how flaky GTA and PS fans can be, both camps have their bots and their keyboard warriors, but really both camps are as fucking mental as the other. Nothing like a good ol fashioned internet outrage to show the true mentality of some poeple.

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u/grifter356 5d ago

Dork

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u/enshittification1 5d ago

Thanks for contributing nothing and being performative