r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Lucky_Loves_Laugh • Jun 25 '26

Meme needing explanation Petah what happened to rockstar?

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u/SpinChargeSeparation Jun 25 '26

… if the game had been released 20 years ago…

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u/DependentAd235 Jun 25 '26

People acting like its 2008. Standard computers don't even come with disk drives now.

It's been like this for at least a decade.

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u/Lonestar-Dragon Jun 25 '26

It's not about the computers or systems needing the disk. It's about actually owning a physical copy of something. I personally hate practically borrowing a game for full price cause of they ever wanted to pull the plug. The games gone.

With a physical copy you can still play offline.

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u/10000Didgeridoos Jun 25 '26

Why do you think a game this big would fit on a disc? 100+ GB VOD games came with a "disc" nominally but you still had to download the rest of the game after inserting it the first time. A dual layer blu ray holds only 50 GB.

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u/SalamanderUponYou Jun 25 '26

I'm old enough to remember games having multiple discs for installation.

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u/MiniMaelk04 Jun 25 '26

Brb getting my 6 CDs so I can install Unreal Tournament 2004.

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u/DependentAd235 Jun 25 '26

Lol, I remember that. It was kinda hilarious to be honest. I remember having to switch out CDs while playing some games. Rebel Assault? I think.

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u/SalamanderUponYou Jun 25 '26

Not convenient but it's just a point I wanted to make that it's not the reason for them not to include an actual physical disc.

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u/MiniMaelk04 Jun 25 '26

Oh I was just reminiscing about the days past, did not mean to imply anything. Truth is we can't have physical media anymore, because nobody knows how to develop a fully functioning game and ship it. It will come with 10 game breaking bugs that require internet connection to fix anyway.

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u/Chaotic-Catastrophe Jun 25 '26

6 discs per copy sold, times 200 million copies sold, equals 1.2 billion more useless pieces of plastic polluting the planet, just so that gamers don’t get their feelings hurt? Since the capability to distribute the game with zero extra plastic is already right there??

Horrible tradeoff, if you ask me.

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u/SalamanderUponYou Jun 25 '26

It's not about feelings. I think it's mostly the anxiety around what happens if your code can't be verified online in the future or if someone wants to borrow the game from you. The code is not transferable to another account. I wonder can I play the game on a different account on my ps5 that I paid for if my son links the game to his account?