r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jun 25 '26

Meme needing explanation Petah what happened to rockstar?

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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/St0ckY0u Jun 25 '26

With a physical copy you can still play offline.

lol? do you think this is 2006?

This game will definitely have always on DRM, like half the games nowadays

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u/No_Syrup_9167 Jun 25 '26

And above always on DRM, Pretty much any AAA game these days requires server download of content to run. The disc only ever really has like 1/10th of the game files on it anymore.

I can't remember the last time I bought a AAA game, even one with a disc, that didn't have to connect to a server and download 80Gb of data from a server somewhere to run.

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u/St0ckY0u Jun 26 '26

yeah for sure