Some Retailers Are Refusing to Sell GTA 6 Due to the Lack of a Disc

Then you get fired cause they union bust. A union almost formed and then they laid off a ton of people so they wouldn't reach the threshold.

https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/06/19/rockstar-games-faces-full-hearing-over-alleged-union-busting/5258514

Blockchain just means every transaction is recorded forever (simplifying a little bit but not too much). You can have a blockchain currency without any mechanism to exchange / trade / transfer it.

There are also even regular cryptocurrencies that can only be traded within a 'walled garden' where the house always gets a cut. But I don't think they'd allow P2P sales, ever, and going by GTA V, probably won't allow P2P cash transfer at all either.

I realize now it was not at all clear, but I was speaking about secondhand market, which VGP and EG Games both do, and not the others that I'm aware of.

Edited to add, no wait my comment did mention physical resale.

Knowing is facts, not opinions

Unfortunately when businesses base success per quarter or by number of sales in the first week of release that means very little to them

I didn't acknowledge that point because it's not entirely relevant to choosing not to carry a new launch title. The resale market makes up an even smaller portion of impacts to the publisher and they would never see a dime of those transactions regardless. I understand why they're doing it, but I'm not sure this is really newsworthy or "stand" relevant.

Those same stores have likely happily sold physical cases for PC games containing nothing but a Steam code.

PR posturing.

I'm not familiar with Loot Box Gaming, but VGP does not sell pc games.

Haha okay I guess next time you're going to respond to someone's comment without acknowledging that comment, maybe just say that to avoid the confusion lol.

Literally the only reason to get the physical on this is if it's cheaper. Which is entirely possible in the UK, because retail often goes £5 cheaper.

They could at least put a printed map or poster in the box like in ye olden times.

especially when there exists several alternatives to obtain games on PC.

Not really sure what you mean here. Do you have a disk drive installed on your PC? If so how old is your case? Or when was the last time you had a car with a cd player in it? Or are you talking about any other store front like epic or battle.net? Because they're all in competition with one another.

Physical discs matter more on consoles than on PCs, given that there is not a whole lot one can do if their account gets banned for the silliest of reasons, or if one wants to share a game.

This is categorically and objectively not true. Bans on consoles are few and far between and many times they actually brick the console itself. You're not sharing games. No one is sharing games. The extreme vast majority of games are digital downloads. You're not passing around your cartridge of super smash bros 64 between school mates in 2026.

Also, have you thought that you might be referring to two different sets of customers

No. Why would I do that? I don't care. I own a PS4, a Steam Deck, and a gaming PC. They're all fundamentally the same customer experience built on similar architecture. This is just a ridiculous argument.

In fact, I feel like, deep down, you generally agree with my original comment but didn't want to say so for fear of being ostracized by the community in this thread. It feels like you picked the most ridiculous, indefensible arguments against what I was saying and just ran with them.

Years ago, when the PS4 launched, the philosophy was still different. Games were generally released in a semi-complete state on disc and were at least potentially playable without massive downloads. Go back another generation and it was even better. Games shipped complete, were fully playable right out of the box, and if you bought them, you still own that experience today. I still have my Xbox 360 collection, and from time to time I play those games on my fully functional Xbox 360.

What I'm talking about is this generation, and the end of the previous one, where more and more games began shipping incomplete or effectively unplayable without day-one downloads and patches.

Yes, I use Gran Turismo as an example because it illustrates the point. I'm not hung up on that one game. I play plenty of others.

Damn, is there any option left that doesnt end in violence?

same fam, see you in 2032

What's the reason for no disc? Is this another one of those 'you buy it but you don't really own it' things?