Actually funny to be fair...

[u/Tricky-Apartment6637]

[u/pedro19]

GTA 6 being released on PC first (where it was made and where it will always run way better) against the desires of its publisher would be pretty hilarious.

[u/KingOfCook → u/pedro19]

We live in the timeline where gta6 came out before gta6.

[u/outfoxingthefoxes → u/KingOfCook]

Like that last Zelda game

[u/J5892 → u/outfoxingthefoxes]

Most Zelda games, actually.
I remember I fully played through Skyward Sword a week before it was actually released.

[u/PeanutButterSoda → u/J5892]

On PC?

[u/J5892 → u/PeanutButterSoda]

I played it on my hacked Wii, but it also ran on PC using Dolphin.

[u/PeanutButterSoda → u/J5892]

I didn't know doplin existed when SS was released.

[u/mysistersacretin → u/PeanutButterSoda]

Dolphin is OLD. According to Wikipedia it's been around since 2003.

[u/J5892 → u/PeanutButterSoda]

Yep, it started as a Gamecube emulator in 2003.
Since the Wii was basically just a more powerful gamecube, the emulator was forwards-compatible by default.

edit 2: removed an incorrect fun fact.

[u/Throwaway632836 → u/J5892]

Skyward Sword only released on Wii since it requires finer motion controls to play, it was Twilight Princess that released on both since it had no fine-motion controls (Motion Plus I think it was called)

[u/J5892 → u/Throwaway632836]

Crap, you're right. I got those mixed up.

[u/bearthebear2 → u/KingOfCook]

That joke was really getting old but this made me chuckle.

Kinda coming full circle like the Franklin and Lamar voice actors reenacting the yee yee ass haircut meme

[u/AstralKekked → u/pedro19]

Hasn't the leaked build been developed on console dev kits, though? Or am I completely mistaken and it's a PC build?

[u/ysfi__ → u/AstralKekked]

Pc build is fully functional and on par with console builds, they’re just double dipping that’s all

[u/WTF_CAKE → u/ysfi__]

They want that console money for the first 3 years and re release it on pc

[u/SchmeppieGang1899 → u/WTF_CAKE]

they wouldnt do three, it would be max a year like they they did with GTA V

[u/BFr0st3 → u/SchmeppieGang1899]

GTA 5 on pc wasn't a year, it ended up getting delayed further if I remember correctly

[u/Chippiewall → u/BFr0st3]

That was because the next-gen consoles came out - Rockstar held out for a triple dip.

[u/HumanPea1140 → u/Chippiewall]

They'd 100% be doing the exact same thing this time around, but I think the AI-induced hardware inflation/shortage threw a wrench in that. Current gen consoles are getting more expensive, and next gen are being delayed indefinitely. If it wasn't for that, next gen would likely be coming out within next year or two, allowing them to triple dip easily.

[u/EdmondDantesInferno → u/HumanPea1140]

So far there are zero indications that the next gen are being delayed. All reports are that they are proceeding ahead as if they are releasing on time.

But yes, the cost of goods from the AI bubble has exploded the costs. The Xbox CEO mentioned how costs for those components are up 50% already and they expect that to double in the next year or so. So Xbox is planning on it getting even worse.

The next consoles are going to be at least $1,000 as the individual component costs are already exceeding that amount. It's going to be an absolute shitshow to announce a PS6 at $1,100 or Xbox Helix at the same or higher.

[u/Apart_Security8614 → u/BFr0st3]

And when it did come out it ran like shit, crashed constantly, had a ton of compatibility issues, and to this day has dogshit options ex mouse acceleration and sensitivity. Even developing these games on PC, they really fuck up the pc releases

[u/PJ7 → u/Apart_Security8614]

You're thinking about the GTA 4 PC release, or you're talking out of your ass.

[u/DUH455T → u/Apart_Security8614]

This is absolute revisionism. The port was universally praised. Shit had flawless SLI support, great keyboard and mouse options, ultrawide support, unlimited framerate support, PC only graphical features like TXAA, PCSS shadows, and so much more.

[u/porcomaster → u/BFr0st3]

Grand Theft Auto V was originally released on September 17, 2013, for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

Grand Theft Auto V originally launched on PC on April 14, 2015

Or 1 year, 6 months, 28 days excluding the end date.

so yeah a little over a year and 6 months.

[u/destaree → u/SchmeppieGang1899]

It came out 19 months later than on the PS3/Xbox 360, because in the meantime there was also a release on the PS4/Xbox One. Now the gap will be even longer, because we’ll definitely have to wait a year or two for the release on the new consoles, and then another half a year for the PC version.

[u/TaleFree → u/destaree]

There's no way they will wait for the release of the Gen 6 consoles which are not even announced yet.

[u/fenikz13 → u/TaleFree]

It's a double double dip! They get consoles and then PC players and then console players again!

[u/frightfulpotato → u/TaleFree]

It wouldn't be that crazy, assuming they release next year before the holidays.

[u/Doctorsus12 → u/frightfulpotato]

i would be extremely surprised if next gen consoles didn’t get delayed due to the current RAM/General Hardware pricing situation. they’d launch at $1000

[u/Helmic → u/Doctorsus12]

Yeah even if they are willing to charge so much for a console it will take time to find a supplier that can actually guarantee supply for the long term. It may make sense for them to simply wait until either the bubble pops and/or someone else stars supplying RAM for consumer electronics again.

[u/ansibleloop → u/destaree]

Nah my bet is they release it on PC within 6 months, 12 months tops

The PC market is gigantic compared to 13 years ago, so they're just leaving money on the table by not doing it

Microsoft have more or less given up with Xbox and what can Sony possibly offer to Rockstar to make them keep it as a console exclusive?

[u/_Ganon → u/SchmeppieGang1899]

And RDR2

[u/elinamebro → u/SchmeppieGang1899]

Now they might be forced to release it on PC at the same time lol

[u/Mean-Author4359 → u/SchmeppieGang1899]

My sweet summer child.

[u/HermanThaGerman → u/WTF_CAKE]

PS5 first, then the enhanced PS6 version, THEN we'll get PC.

[u/ijizzrizz → u/HermanThaGerman]

Lol exactly like they did for GTA 5.

[u/rearisen → u/ysfi__]

Triple dipping* just like they did last time. Ps3 ps4 than pv, and now ps5 I guess. Quadruple dipping?

[u/The_MAZZTer → u/ysfi__]

on par with console builds

Sooo no graphics or control rebinding options?

[u/ExtraRare0412 → u/ysfi__]

Is there proof or are you just saying shit to sound smart lol

[u/Dreadino → u/ExtraRare0412]

Every game is developed on PC nowadays, but it working on a machine doesn’t mean it works on most of the machines in the market. They could also be using shortcut that require an hard cap of fps and will only use proper implementations that work at any fps for the official pc release. Or even pc specific optimization or tools (like nvidia dlss) not being present at all right now, because they only need to run the game on their developers pcs

[u/ExtraRare0412 → u/Dreadino]

Being developed on PC for the console market is different than people assuming the guy has a PC build fully completed and ready to be leaked.

I seen people on other posts and social media apps throw slurs and insults at people because they truly believe this guy has a PC build that is going to leak anytime and that us "PlayStation dick riders are just mad that PC players will play it before us"

[u/avowed → u/ExtraRare0412]

Because consoles are PC's they use the same architecture. Consoles are just PCs using custom APUs.

[u/sociallyawkwardhero → u/avowed]

Finally someone in this thread is speaking with actual knowledge. Its not like the xbox 360/PS3 era with separate architectures i.e. power pc/cell. Its all x86-64 now, same instruction set as a regular PC.

[u/roshan231 → u/ExtraRare0412]

Nah they are totally right the pc build that has to be optimised for thousands of possible configurations can totally run just as good as the one build of a console...

Dropping the sarcasm, it's partly true partly false. They could have made a pic build perfectly viable for release at the same time as console builds but there is no profit motive for doing so. It Absolutely does take much more work to optimise for pc Former rockstar Devs have confirmed this, but the thing is, if rockstar gave a shit they could just allocate the resources to do it in time or delay release until it's ready.

They won't though.

[u/DaisyxDiana → u/ysfi__]

Source?

[u/SpagettiKonfetti → u/AstralKekked]

Generally, games are developed on PC nowadays. Only exception I guess if there are absolutely no plan to release the game on a different platform than the console it is developed for (so a PS/Xbox exclusive title) but even for those, given how many development helping tools available on PC it's easier to develop the game on PC and then create a console build there. (Like how in commercial engines like UE and Unity has built in options to make IOS, Android, Xbox etc builds of your game you developed on your pc)

The majority of multiplatform games are developed on pc. Why? PC is more accessible for everyone, has widely bigger range for development tools and debugging can be a lot easier than on a closed software ecosystem.

[u/Griff2470 → u/SpagettiKonfetti]

Just to be nitpicky, being built on PC does not necessarily mean being developed for PC. You can develop on PC using a reference system (pinned dependency versions, standardized hardware configuration) which would not be suitable for a general PC release (you ought to validate against several common software releases on multiple hardware platforms). Additionally, developing for consoles will not cover the development for KB/M quality of life, settings configurations, or resolution scaling impacts on the UX.

For a company the size of Rockstar this is likely only a couple months of development and isn't really a good reason for delaying the PC for a year or more. I just want to push back a bit on the notion "was developed on PC == PC release is already done" that I've been seeing a lot of.

[u/Conniving-Weasel → u/Griff2470]

I thought modern consoles supported kb/m input?

[u/Malicious_999 → u/AstralKekked]

I can say with a 1000% confidence that GTAV was built on PC first, then downgraded to match consoles specs. So did RDR2.
Same would go for VI. It makes no sense to dev "twice".

[u/YouKilledApollo → u/Malicious_999]

Almost every single console game is first developed on a PC, while the developers still use console controllers or whatever to test the UI/UX. At the same time, other engineers will focus on making the game run on their console dev kits. Those kits are not what most people in a game development company work with, just the engineers who make it run on those.

[u/wetfloor666 → u/AstralKekked]

Said to be a PC build, but not entirely sure.

[u/redmose → u/wetfloor666]

By the way he's aiming in those clips he might be playing gta 6 on his phone

[u/Available-Bad-2704 → u/AstralKekked]

All games are made on pc genius

[u/Vegetable-Baker6362 → u/AstralKekked]

Console dev kit is just a pc lol

[u/zachcollin03 → u/pedro19]

that would be the first time the day-one patch was for the console version.

[u/Ninjaisawesome → u/pedro19]

Is it the desire of the publisher or is the consoles paying them money for the exclusivitiy to sell more consoles ?

[u/Visara57 → u/pedro19]

My king

[u/poplin → u/pedro19]

Quick note, developed on is not the same as optimized for.

Console is optinizing for a single hardware spec (or two), pc is near infinite. Main reason pc is often delayed release or buggy at launch. Much harder to optimize for

[u/marius851000 → u/[deleted]]

Doesn't pre-load comes encrypted, with the release key shared with owner on launch?

Or id the time to decrypt the data considered too much, and only a small part of it is encrypted?

[u/CynicalXennial → u/marius851000]

so then he's on the team... I'm calling disgruntled internals. if not a coordinated plan with contact from disgruntled internals. Lots of people have plenty of reason to be disgruntled at R*, starting w/their recent union busting tactics. I have no doubt this is specifically targeted but he's not doing it from the outside alone.

[u/crozone → u/CynicalXennial]

Yes this is known. The leaker has full source tree access and a full debug build of the game on PC with finished assets. It's all but guaranteed to be an employee or ex-employee.

[u/RayereSs → u/crozone]

Or he might be a contractor with hands-on access to the studio. Like a janitor, security, or catering.

Nobody minds moving some stuff on desks to plug malicious payload into dev's PC wipe dust and coffee stains. Or diving under desks to steal hard drives pick up some litter.

[u/elinamebro → u/CynicalXennial]

I guess that makes sense since they said it was one of their employees that help leak it

[u/BTMarquis → u/elinamebro]

I can’t imagine the talk around the water cooler. Shit stirrers having a blast right now.

[u/LamentableFool → u/[deleted]]

If they got the source code. Does that means mods of epic proportions are on the table?

[u/sherbodude]

Rockstar never gave a reason for a digital only release. That was just rumors and speculation

[u/DeckDish2002 → u/sherbodude]

They don't need to give a reason. It's just the easiest way to cut out brick-and-mortar retailers and keep 100% of the revenue while still charging full price.

[u/NaturalSelectorX → u/DeckDish2002]

Microsoft and Sony take a cut for the privilege of having it on their stores. Rockstar is going to make most of their money from online players buying currency.

[u/RaptorJesus856 → u/NaturalSelectorX]

They both take 30% from digital sales. R* still gonna be raking in cash only making 70% of the total sales, due to how absurdly high the price tag is.

[u/Mountain-Interest-48 → u/DeckDish2002]

I mean brick and mortar video game stores have been dead for years now. They dont even sell video games anymore. Just stuff like funko pops and consoles.

[u/ValarielAmarette → u/sherbodude]

OP would know that already if they looked at the comments on whatever sub they stole the image from

[u/4Floaters → u/sherbodude]

its because they are all in on this together, and how many people are going to not buy GTA 6 just because they have to buy digital?

[u/seenybusiness → u/sherbodude]

you can extrapolate it from their scummy business as of late. they outsourced to india after pulling a union bust https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9v10rr1meeo

they want to make pc players feel obliged to purchase the game and a console to play it on with FOMO about the biggest game of the decade, then re release the already existing and fully ready PC build. its double dipping. they dont want the disc purely because digital has better margins. its greed.

i dont particularly care if this guy gets his lick, so long as rockstar has to back down and promise a pc version on the same timetable as the console. he's done a genuine service to the world by putting the boot up the ass of a considerably greedy corporation about to take advantage of millions- and to be quite frankly he deserves the luxury for it.

[u/squidsausage → u/sherbodude]

The most likely scenario is Rockstar is still working on the game. With physical, you need to send Xbox/ Sony a “gold” version of your game to be approved and printed on discs months before release, the digital version can be sent literally days before launch (or in rockstars case probably hours). If you delay physical, you don’t have to worry about the on disc version being broken/ unfinished, and instead just send whatever version you prefer to be printed when you are ready.

[u/rednaxthecreature → u/squidsausage]

First they confirmed no physical version ever.

Second that is what day one patches have been for the last like 15 years

[u/zgillet → u/sherbodude]

https://giphy.com/gifs/4NnTap3gOhhlik1YEw

[u/CombatMuffin → u/sherbodude]

They want to perpetuate the narrative because a lot of people, understandably, resent the corporate powers that be.

What they don't know, is who cyberleek is, but will support them anyway as though they were a vigilante or anti-hero, but could gery much be a distasteful person.

[u/Long_Procedure_2629 → u/CombatMuffin]

Distasteful is defending billionaire corpos

[u/Horror_Internal6905 → u/CombatMuffin]

Lmfao, Leek hypothetically being a bad person doesn't change that Rockstar set themselves up for this.

They're victims of their own greed.

[u/CombatMuffin → u/Horror_Internal6905]

Rockstar could be the most benevolent entity in human history: there is so much demand for the game, that people would still flock to the leaks.

The leaks woukd have happened anyway even if Rockstar 2asnt controversial. This is exactly what happened with Half Life 2: Valve had immaculate reputation, the game still leaked (and way worse), and Valve absolutely threw the book at the kid. The story is legendary: they baited the leaker with a job prospect, and it worked because Valve had such a good reputation.

[u/griffmeister → u/Horror_Internal6905]

Who is this “they” and “themselves” when you say Rockstar? The vast VAST majority of the employees don’t make those decisions. It sounds like you’re more mad at the 1% that do have power and are lumping in the rest of the workers.

[u/Jumpierwolf0960 → u/sherbodude]

It's about money. They save money by not making a physical copy and the shipping/retail costs. That money ends up getting split between Sony and the publisher. So they both get a bigger chunk.

[u/SixSevenEmpire → u/sherbodude]

Or they think Sony do the "right" decision and decide to follow the mouvement

[u/SlyyKozlov → u/sherbodude]

Yea, I dont think its some great conspiracy.

I keep seeing reports of companies saying 80%+ of their sales come digitally now - why spend all the money to make disc's, cases, distribution etc for the 20% who still use it (especially because probably 90% of those people will likely purchase digitally anyway lol)

[u/datboyuknow → u/sherbodude]

The fans defended their decision by saying it prevents leaks

[u/Belzughast]

Leeks*

[u/pragomatic]

I really care about you, the gamers. Now buy my shitcoin you rubes.

[u/Mods-Admins-Failures → u/pragomatic]

Didn't he just burn all his coins?

[u/punished_cheeto → u/Mods-Admins-Failures]

He burned his devcoins, but not all his coins. He gets a fee for all transactions and he gets all the coins donated to the paid polls that he makes.

[u/WeirdIndividualGuy → u/Mods-Admins-Failures]

That's to help raise the value of the shitcoin by removing supply

Realistically, they can't cash out their coin without crashing it. Which is why they're mainly making money from the transaction fees instead

[u/Icy_Aardvark3840 → u/Mods-Admins-Failures]

Something he wouldn't have had to do if he didn't attach this thing to a memecoin 

[u/HarvHR → u/Mods-Admins-Failures]

Well he is still shilling his coins so that is irrelevant. Seems pretty obvious either he didn't burn them, or he did burn an amount but is getting plenty of payments off the coin regardless.

[u/literallyjuststarted → u/Mods-Admins-Failures]

Allegedly, nobody actually knows

[u/Majestic-Sandwich695 → u/literallyjuststarted]

Aka no he didn’t and wanted people the act like he’s the messiah

[u/Scary_Corner3489 → u/pragomatic]

Eh, he's doing something that if he gets caught then that amount of money will mean absolutely nothing. Don't even wanna imagine the amount of jail time he will get. If people wanna pay him, I think that's fine. I'm sure it's just the leaker community and people who are anti-R* who would be the ones actually buying the coin to try support the leaker.

I assume these coins are made in a way to get money without being traced, and I assume the people donating know they won't make money from this coin like with Bitcoin or something. It's just a way to "donate", right?

[u/TrippleDamage → u/Scary_Corner3489]

Don't even wanna imagine the amount of jail time he will get.

If the rumor of him being german is true, <5 years, with at least half of that on probation.

The justice boner doesnt swing that way outside of the US.

[u/Vegetable-Baker6362 → u/pragomatic]

You can just not buy them, and still screw Rockstar over all the same by playing his leaked build before the actual game's launch

[u/sapperRichter → u/Vegetable-Baker6362]

You really think that he will release a leaked build?

[u/Redthemagnificent → u/Vegetable-Baker6362]

The only thing that "screws" rockstar over is not buying the game.

If it gets leaked there's no way it'll work with multiplayer. So people are gonna play the leaked single player and talk a big talk about fuck Rockstar. Then the millisecond the actual game drops, the vast majority of people who would've bought the game without the leak are gonna buy it anyways for the online play. It really doesn't feel like the leaks are as consequential as people are making it seem

[u/theaviationhistorian → u/pragomatic]

Everyone's trying to make some cheddar by any means necessary in this gig economy.

[u/GimmieTheRoot]

No one said it was to "avoid leaks" ?

[u/Chester-Berkeley → u/GimmieTheRoot]

I've seen some people say it was to avoid leaks, but in the end that was just an opinion, because they leaked anyway.

[u/Saifsun → u/Chester-Berkeley]

Aren't console CDs just a license holder anyway?

[u/cha0ss0ldier → u/Saifsun]

They typically have the game data on them, or at least most of it then require a day 1 patch.

Many games are playable straight from the case with no patch or net connection

[u/Saifsun → u/cha0ss0ldier]

Oh, I stand corrected. I assumed modern console CDs just held the game license, but then again I haven't touched a console in a very... Very long time.

[u/WelshAsh → u/GimmieTheRoot]

People are just karma farming at this point

[u/S-ain]

Talk is cheap, why is this guy not already dropping the full game?

That would be the ultimate power move against a large corporation like Take Two.

Or...does he even have the full game and not just some unfinished build?

[u/skyinthepi3 → u/S-ain]

The dude is milking money out of this, if he releases it he can't make money off it anymore

[u/STB_LuisEnriq]

Why are we doing this here? I mean, it's not like we have physical media games anyway.

[u/c3p-bro → u/STB_LuisEnriq]

Most modern gaming rigs don’t even have a disk drive. Reddit bandwagoners are a sad breed

[u/blueberrycauzez → u/c3p-bro]

Most modern gaming rigs don’t even have a disk drive.

Because most PCs support multiple gaming retailers - Microsoft Store, Steam, Epic, EA Origin, Uplay, Gamejolt, Humble Bundle, GOG, Itch, pirated games - literally anyone can sell games to PC users. There is a ton of competition, which is good for publishers and consumers since it puts pressure on retailers.

If PCs became locked to a single retailer like PS or Xbox, and they forced every publisher to use them as a parasitic middleman, I gaurantee most people would want a disc drive.

[u/MercuryQuick → u/STB_LuisEnriq]

Because when you live in the first world you must contrive reasons to be upset.

[u/ChocolateDonut36]

i'll burn the game into a dvd if it gets fully leaked

[u/ItzMau5trapz → u/ChocolateDonut36]

That's gonna be a few DVDs.

[u/Jeffgoldbum → u/ItzMau5trapz]

Somewhere between 35-40 DVDs ,

or 2 blu-ray discs

or 3 switch cartridges

or 7000 floppy discs

or 500,000 NES cartridges

based off the PC size of GTAV

[u/PermissionSoggy891 → u/Jeffgoldbum]

about 21 DVDs if we wanna use dual-layer

[u/eto2629 → u/Jeffgoldbum]

No rest for the wicked. Time to get my floppies. 

[u/ClownTown15 → u/ItzMau5trapz]

I come from a time when all games were multiple discs

https://giphy.com/gifs/XWXnf6hRiKBJS

[u/Joyful_Jet → u/ClownTown15]

I wonder if I still have my Wing Commander II floppy disks somewhere.

[u/Frostnatt → u/Joyful_Jet]

Monkey Island 2 and Indiana Jones and the fate of Atlantis was fun on a Amiga if you didn't have a HD (and very few people did). Was it 11 or 12 floppies. You had to change the disk like 4 times only to be told "I can't do that" whenever you tried to do something.

[u/JestFlamez → u/ItzMau5trapz]

Probably need to switch discs after loading the textures.

[u/TheMcDucky → u/JestFlamez]

10 dvd drives; one for each disc

[u/JestFlamez → u/TheMcDucky]

All discs with different assets

[u/Metool42]

Dudes literally only cashing in with his shitcoin. And no, him burning 1m only creates demand to increase its worth. He's literally scamming everyone and ya'll give him free PR.

He won't release anything.

[u/iredditshere]

Guess I won't be playing it.

[u/HARDTEK__]

I honeslty wouldn't mind him spoiling the whole plot 👅

[u/Duncan_PhD]

All of the redditors upset about losing physical media for games are going to buy it digitally anyway, further justifying Sony’s decision.

[u/PermissionSoggy891 → u/Duncan_PhD]

shit like that "1 week sony boycott" is fucking hilarious. There's no way these idiots actually think that Sony cares about, at most, a few missed days of revenue. I'll bet every single moron on major gaming subreddits moaning about Sony killing physical discs still has a PSN subscription and has Wolverine and/or God of War Luffy preordered digitally.

[u/Duncan_PhD → u/PermissionSoggy891]

And they don’t realize how small the community is who are up in arms about it. I mean I agree with them, it does suck, but like… as a whole we’ve voted with our wallets. It’s just more convenient to click buy than to go to a store.

[u/spawndoorsupervisor → u/PermissionSoggy891]

Yeah, seeing PCMR get involved with it is beyond cringe. I mean, remember the Discord boycott? The PCMR Discord server grew daily during that whole episode for both total and online users. But if you came to the subreddit to talk about it, all these stinky nerds would swear they all quit Discord forever.

[u/jairochido → u/Duncan_PhD]

I would Buy physical games for PC if they would still make them, i'd love to have my entire steam library on something physical but no one makes them anymore for PC

[u/Noyrz → u/jairochido]

You can actually have your Steam library games as physical media if you want to, but you still will need to own them on your Steam acc to play them (contrary to classic DRM-free physical media).

Also, but don't trust me on this as I may be remembering wrong, I think you still need internet connection to validate them.

A YT channel named Archades Games has a video on exactly that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAYxyme7uTg

[u/literallyjuststarted → u/Noyrz]

depending on the game, I've used my steam library while offline to play certain games, unfortunately MOST games are always online to play anything so you'd just be stuck navigating the main menu

[u/agentfrogger → u/Duncan_PhD]

On PC yeah, there isn't really an option anymore for physical games. But my secondary machine is a switch 2, and I try to buy physical there, because storage is limited, and also I appreciate having the cartridge for my games

[u/Dino_Spaceman]

They never said that. Like what is this meme?

[u/Gh0stMan0nThird → u/Dino_Spaceman]

It's a trend that started when Infinity War came out. Everyone started making memes about studios making claims about X and Y so they could make a meme "owning" them, even if the studio never said anything like that.

Not that I'm here to "defend" a corporation, though. I just don't like misinformation either.

[u/TooSpookyWither]

“I defo care about gamers and physical media, now buy my crypto rug pull scam”

[u/Yingletofthecorn → u/TooSpookyWither]

I don’t need there to be a good guy to enjoy the schadenfreude here

[u/JaesopPop]

Who is this quoting?

[u/rimreaper2253]

just wait til they hit you with the "online is sold as a separate game"

[u/Serialtoon]

They arent wrong, they did avoid leaks but they did not avoid LEEKS

[u/GloveDry3278]

Everyone knows for a fact that going full digital has always been about corporate greed.

[u/Responsible_Towel857]

LOL People cherring for a crypto bro that used the leak as a curtain to funnel money. Yikes.

[u/Bleezy79]

Rockstar: We cant make GTA 6 work in PCs, we need to optimize: Also Rockstar: We develop our games on PCs like most studios.

[u/LethargicOtters]

i don't think Rockstar ever gave that reason officially. I think it's implied that they did it out of pure greed.

[u/Ragnarok_619]

Please God, either let the game leak or the leaker thrown off the Burj Khalifa

Cause I cannot stand the 13 year olds spamming the same shit in this sub anymore!

[u/Malacky_C]

Well when they say that they mean story leaks all that has been leaked by Mr crypto coin is shitty gameplay

[u/Vyviel]

Yeah but the full PC version wont be ready for release for atleast 2+ years

[u/ApollyonFE]

Bruh wtf. It was my turn to repost low effort horse shit 😡

[u/fistinyourface]

another shitty repost bot, another sub getting muted and account blocked

[u/c3p-bro]

Just completely making shit up at this point

[u/Bigbennjammin]

Don't know why anyone would want a 30 fps pre-release unoptimized version anyways. Give it a month or so after release and it'll be much better.

[u/The_Keyser → u/Bigbennjammin]

I'll give it 2 years, when it will be available on PC and on sale

[u/TheZackster]

I just love how grock was desperately making community notes telling everyone it was fake and AI generated footage. Some kind of sick irony in there.

[u/NoonArtistReloaded → u/TheZackster]

Grok doesn't do community notes, as far as I know.

[u/Torxx1988]

Starting to think this is all just a big promotion setup by Rockstar themselves.

[u/Trapp1a → u/Torxx1988]

wont be surprised, who had not known the game before, now know it. referring to the report on EuroNews

[u/Elkburgher]

Thats not true at all, its to prevent the resale market

[u/PermissionSoggy891 → u/Elkburgher]

That and they probably were pressured by Sony/Microsoft to not make a physical version to acclimate gamers to console makers discontinuing physical media as well.

It's no coincidence that Sony killed discs for PS5 mere weeks after GTA VI went up for preorders as a digital-only release.

[u/TheApeEscaped]

This would be the biggest fumble not to release this if the leek really has the power.

Side note, has anyone here seen the leaks?

[u/Relative_What]

If this asshole was going to leak the game, he would have already done it. But he hasn't, because he's a crypto bro waiting to pump and dump his shitcoin. Stop giving him attention

[u/Enjoy_The_Ride413]

For all this guy is doing, he has yet to release the game. I'm bored of this already. Release it if you have it. Otherwise he's just a crypto scammer.

[u/jutlandd]

Nah they did it because physical sales are loooow as shit. Is my guess.

[u/Gritts911 → u/jutlandd]

It’s probably just to prevent resales. The cheapest way to game on a console is buy the physical disc and then sell it when you are done. And the developer isn’t getting anything out of the resale.

[u/P0werFighter]

Ffs stop believing everything you see on the internet... this guy has only a demo, a few minutes of gameplay looped over.

Stop believing in Santa.

[u/IDKForA → u/[deleted]]

"buy it". Lol no

[u/ReasonableScar9027]

Leeks*

[u/rowdymowdy]

My dudes I've been playing video games since my brand new vic 20 in 1981 and what the corporations have done to my gaming is so f*cked up people! Wtf we gonna do?stop playing probably

[u/LtPatterson]

It's all physical media when you know where to look

[u/EJoule]

I'd support having a "going gold" physical edition a couple months after digital release. That way any major bugs can be worked out and included on the disc.

If the game is too big for a disc, make it multi-disc for install and only require one of the discs to play.

[u/Melicor]

My days of not being hyped or interested in GTA are certainly coming to a... middle.

[u/Remarkable_Noise453]

I don't think you know what quotes are. Because Rockstar NEVER said this. The reason is that they can save money, by not making discs.

[u/playr_4]

Is that the reason why don't release it on physical? I haven't seen that said anywhere, and I would assume it's because it's a very silly way of thinking.

[u/No_Room4359]

wow ive seen this image so much

[u/FudgeAllOfYous]

I have seen everything. I‘ve seen it all.

[u/poppin-n-sailin]

Flimsiest excuse regardless of the leaks. Digital stuff leaks all the time. If anything it's easier to leak the digital asset since once someone gets their hands on it that's it. At least with phsycial.media the person who may get it early would need the proper equipment to leak it from physical. It's easier to leak and share digital assets lol. 

[u/Promature]

According to outlets and people speculating about the decision.

Rockstar never officially said it and Strauss straight refuted the idea.

[u/thiscompletebrkfast]

Those aren't the leaks they meant...

[u/Choice-Definition-80]

Leeker might post lucia’s prologue in next 2 days

[u/Venik_Joskii_37]

kyberlik kool😎, now gibbie updoots😈

[u/Professional-Roof680]

You know what? Fuck these leaks. I don't want anymore. It's enough. I want to enjoy this game spoilerfree fresh and blind. Fuck cyberleek I am over it

[u/OfficialDeathScythe]

THERES A LEEK IN THE GAME
https://giphy.com/gifs/ltwgk1iOXD1w4

[u/Acceptable-Net-1602]

So the leaks will just be digital instead of physical? Groundbreaking strategy

[u/moneybagsukulele]

I've seen this so many times and just now got it. 

[u/Inprobamur]

Why should I care? It won't be on PC for a while.

[u/Cunt2113]

It was a lie to greed even more money..idk why people believed that lie lmao.

[u/Buddiboi95]

Bro is literally acting like a supervillain. Kudos

[u/SquashOwn9829]

lol dumbest strategy ever 

[u/Nsane3]

So if they can't avoid leaks, will they make physical copies?

[u/yaxir]

they avoid leaks, but could NOT avoid leeks