I stand by this: a game should not need any internet connection to play. Same goes for any appliance or car.

"But EVERYONE has internet!!" Is not a valid argument.

Can we make some fucking laws for this?!

If it’s a code you don’t own it. If this slides you will never own a game going forward.

I mean, selling codes in a box is such a silly concept to me to begin with. I want to know it's marked up a bit to deal with the cost of keeping employees, be unable to trade it in or give it to a friend after I'm done playing it and have to wait to download it, but I'd also like to drive and wait in line to get it.

On Wednesday, Video Games Plus, a North American chain that has been around for over 30 years, confirmed in a statement on X that, despite GTA 6 being one of the biggest launches in entertainment history, it will maintain its existing ban on selling games that don’t have a hard copy.

Meanwhile, Loot Box Gaming, another video game retailer focused on physical media, has also revealed that it won’t be selling GTA 6 at launch if it isn’t available on a disc.

I kinda hate how I had to scroll through so much "article" before they actually named either of the stores, and even further to get to the second one.

I hope bigger retailers jump on board with this too 🤞

a disc

Considering the size of the game, it would need at least 3 discs. Doubt they're gonna redesign every case to accommodate that.

Are these cases going to have collectables? Are manuals, maps, sound track CD's, and other swag included? If all I'm getting is a case for my shelf and a piece of paper, I would rather not get physical anything.

Nice, but wake me when it's Gamestop or Best Buy.

Anybody else remember publishers trying to push the idea that games needed to be digital only because packaging and shipping games was too expensive?

Reasonable really. If you're a bit outside the city, there's no shot you're getting the GTA6 download (which I presume is 100GB+) in under like, 12 hours.

Two of my favourite game franchises are Civilization and The Elder Scrolls. I played them since the first game, and I still play them. The original Civ and Daggerfall are always with me on a USB stick, in case I feel like playing them, even when the computer doesn't have them installed.

The last games from the franchises I played were Civ IV and Oblivion. The next games required a download, and to this day I refuse to pay for a digital copy only. I have a huge backlog of older games on discs, so I don't mind that my recent game purchases are largely limited to collector editions on Kickstarter.

For AAA games, discs have just been fancy download codes for the last decade. I don't understand getting upset is now; if these retailers were going to "honor the people who pay their hard earned money to purchase it," they should've started complaining a long time ago.

Blacksmith refuses to sell tires

That's dumb, any "physical" copies of the game will just be a disc with a download code on it. I can't imagine them releasing n actual self-contained disc version of the game.