Yeah, /r/gaming and /r/gta6 seem to be very much on board with digital only.
E: It's funny how much of a sore spot this is. Dawg, if you're fine with digital only, great. But don't get all pissy when people want physical, and have good reason to back it up.
It feels like this for every release of everything. People like it, others don't. But the fans make it sound like if you don't love everything about it, you're a bitter, irrational person filled with hate.
This is why my default assumptions of most comments I see on the main gaming subreddits are:
This person likely doesn't even play the game
This person might not even play any games and exclusively experiences them through streamers
If this person does play any video games they likely just pirate it despite them talking about what developers owe them.
This person is likely under 20.
Oh and then you get the same people on the PC-related subreddits shitting on peoples' builds and setups from their hand-me-down 10 year old family laptop.
Iâm sorry, how many copies of âGood Samaritan Simulatorâ do you think would sell? People want to do the things in video games that they canât do in real life, even if itâs just driving a car really fast.
Im a bit hopeful its getting better. I've been seeing people try to whip out the AI card, purity tests, and other reddit bs. More people have been willing to tell them off, which wasnt really a thing here for a while.
The AI card is absurd on Reddit. People love peacocking about how much they hate AI. People will take a picture of a fucking advertisement for a garage sale and be like âsToP wItH the Ai SlOp.â
Reddit attracts people with strong opinions, so youâre basically talking to people about their pet peeves - doesnât make it reflective of the general opinion out there.
I legitimately donât mind it on PC because of how PC gaming is. Thereâs always another option, another market, another way to play a game. If it runs on PC, you can play it. Even a botched release, damn near guaranteed someone has fixed it. Steam wonât be around forever, sure, but itâs been 22 years of continuity. Thatâs a pretty damn good streak.
Consoles? Closed off consoles? Fuck that. Give me physical media. No console developer has been able to stay consistent with their digital libraries. Hell, even the ability to play your âownedâ games across multiple consoles that you personally own is a fairly recent development.
I had to get my Switch repaired about six months after owning it, bought it a few months after launch. Sent it in, got a different console back, and they didnât port my account/library to the new Switch. Which meant I had to send THAT ONE back, and it took three weeks to get it back with my games. They also told me that if I needed any further repairs, they could not guarantee Iâd be able to keep my games. Thatâs absurd.
Sony? Shit, say goodbye to entire libraries available on the store. No more PS3 games for you. No more PSP games.
Just canât trust that shit. But at least on PC, thereâs always a way. For now, at least. Thatâll go away when hardware is priced out of consumer reach and they only rent out cloud systems.
I lost my physical collection in a flood I couldnât have planned for. There was never a reason to plan for what happened.
Shit, the world could fall apart tomorrow and internet access could go away forever. Maybe I go blind and canât play any of them. Maybe I get hit by a car. Who knows.
If anything itâs more Facebook, YouTube comments and twitter. On subreddit you have to be going to specific right wing subreddits for those, most culture war comments and posts get downvoted to oblivion on regular subreddits
Well, is be more open to the game if they didn't constantly lock out PC until 4 years later.
They also are bragging internally about how their new anticheat will stop all attempts at player made mods.
They want to run GTA online like the greasiest greediest modded servers and no allow any other choices, I'm sure they'll do some form of custom server they totally control and monetize every aspect of too after multiplayer is milked dry.
I have zero faith in taketwo's administration to handle the game remotely faithfully.
They milked gtav for over 13 years and it took roughly 3 to 5 years of active development and a combined development and marketing budget of $265 million to release Grand Theft Auto V back in 2013.
Since then, the game has sold over 230 million copies and generated over $11 billion to $13.7 billion in lifetime revenue.
Out of that massive pile of profit, over $5 billion to $6 billion was squeezed entirely out of GTA Online microtransactions and Shark Cards.
The online mode still prints roughly $1 million to $1.3 million every single day from a player base trapped in a predatory economy.
They don't want player freedom or organic community mods because a single custom server is a direct threat to a machine that pulls in half a billion dollars a year on autopilot.
Taketwo look at Rockstar and GTA like it is their private economy to lure in players and then be locked down and strip-mined before being released 3-4x before it dies off and it revived by modders only to be sued again into oblivion.
This is exactly right. I log on this website and every single subreddit is just full of the most negative people bitching and whining about the most absurd stuff.Â
Literally. That last line was similar to some guy telling me physical discs being gone isn't an issue for him, so it can't be for anyone else because the issue doesn't exist anymore because physical discs are gone.
I donât know where youâve been hanging out, but messages criticizing the decision get blocked and pro-physical posts get spammed by what seem to be pro-corpo bots in their fandom.
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u/sherbodude Aug 29 '26
Perfect example of interactions of reddit