• juipeltje
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    20 hours ago

    Well they don’t always, but you can just use multiple discs in that case. I think final fantasy has done this as well as a recent example, but this has already been done since the days of games still being on CD.

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      18 hours ago

      It’s significantly more expensive than simply having the rest be downloaded via an update.

      With developers going under left right and centre, putting an even higher cost on their production is a death sentence.

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        17 hours ago

        That’s not because of the discs lol. If you afford to spend 300 million on slop like concord, you can print discs. And a franchise like gta 6 can definitely afford them.

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          14 hours ago

          It is because of discs, actually. Every single extra dollar it costs to manufacture them is like 5% of the revenue from the sale of the game that the publisher loses out on. That’s huge.

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            13 hours ago

            I’m sure they’ll be fine compared to the 30% that sony/steam takes.

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              6 hours ago

              So because they already lose 30%, they can afford to lose another 5%?