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Grand Theft Auto VI pre orders go live tomorrow, physical release limited to code in box

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The delays may be behind us, but the news isn't all good for Grand Theft Auto VI. Rockstar have today announced that pre-orders for the game will go live tomorrow, on the 25th of June. Those who pre-order will get the Vintage Vice City Pack, a small throwback to one of their older titles. With the game launching on the 19th of November, fans will be able to start their pre-loads a full week early to ensure there's enough time to get things ready. So what's the bad news here? As you've probably seen from the title, there's no true physical release planned for the game. The retail version will instead feature a code in the box, being available to buy at the same time as pre-loads going live.

Rockstar also announced an Ultimate Edition for the game, throwing in an assortment of "vehicles, weapons, apparel, and action" for those willing to spend big. Barring further delays, the game will be available to play on the 19th of November.

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RyanTheArchivist said:
Yeah the reasons for shutdowns are generally to avoid having to maintain a save and secure billing environment.
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Which, to extend on your point, is why we see payment/storefont servers shut down, but not the download servers. The last time a data-centered server was shut down where folks couldn't access their purchases, to my recollection, was Google Stadia. It was cloud-based, sure, but still. A purchase is a purchase. When that shut down, Google refunded everyone their purchases. This was for hardware, games, and add-on content. Assuming this were made precedent, should any of the console makers go shutting down their download servers, preventing people from accessing their purchases, and NOT offer refunds, they could be in for some serious trouble.
 
Is physical media even a thing these days? We've dug our own graves and we are getting into them like sheep.

No matter what side you're on, 99% of discs/key cards require downloads. Be that on PlayStation, Xbox or Nintendo.

At least nintendo are giving out something you could resell in future, this code in box bollocks is where I draw the line.
 
Can't support those kind of customer-abuse practices, sorry. I'm out. Hope it gets game-shared into the ground to fleece TT for as much as possible.
 
MysticStarlight said:
No physical disc?! Suddenly the Game Key Cards don't sound too bad...
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GKCs are still worse
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SaudiCraft said:
Companies should be penalized for creating e-waste, its either a proper physical or nothing.
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This isn't e-waste tho. That would be GKCs. I agree with you 100% but the physical edition is likely just a map in a case without a disc. Far better than e waste
 
DuoForce said:
GKCs are still worse
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This isn't e-waste tho. That would be GKCs. I agree with you 100% but the physical edition is likely just a map in a case without a disc. Far better than e waste
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You do understand the point of GKCs right? It's a way to preserve the second hand market while giving publishers a cheaper alternative to cartridges. With the exception of Pokopia, no first party nintendo games use GKCs so it's just the devs with the low effort ports that were going to just put a code in the box or the lowest capacity cartridge possible. And Pokopia probably only used the GKC cause nintendo only has 2 capacity options for cartridges, 10gb and 64gb and Pokopia was 12gb.
 

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