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"Security measure to not leak the game"
Entirely BS. How has the entire games industry existed before then?
Can we also talk about how they're locking full on content behind the ultimate edition? Not just some cosmetics, but the actual shops you'd go to in game to customize your character. In a single player game. That's fucked.
It's enough that I'm not getting the game. I can wait for PC and we'll see if they release it as a full game rather tham carve it up. This is just an excuse not to have a $100 base price so they avoid that backlash while they effectively have it for the full game.
Remember when you bought a game and it was yours?
Remember when you unlocked things in game through completion and achievement?
Remember when you bought a game you got the whole game, not 70% and access to a storefront?
Fuck AAA gaming man. I feel sorry for the devs and artists who work so hard on a game only for executives to slice it up and smear the goodwill the game had by attempting to be predatory and parasitic capitalists.
Fuck the billionaires.
I'm just gonna wait for epic to give it away. Didn't pay for 5, don't intend on paying for 6.
I feel like devs and artists should know about this already since this shit keeps happening and that they're enabling this behaviour. Please correct me if you think Im saying some dumbass shit but I think at this point I can't excuse them.
They're people who followed their passions, learned the skills, and were able to join those companies and have secured an income, which we have tied to our very survival.
Can we blame them for being used by corporations when the alternative could be homelessness and societal outcast? Especially in this current fascist regime with less and less social protections? Even more so if they have families to provide for.
I'm sure they're aware. But we've yet to achieve class consciousness. They're made to believe they have no choice. Corporations union bust and threaten that you're replaceable and that there are no jobs.
Devs aren't the enemy. They're working class just like us. Executives psychologically, financially, and physically manipulate and abuse us. They're the enemy we need to focus on.
So, unionize?
Also, is it hard for someone who managed to get hired by a AAA company to get hired someone else? You'd think they'd be more valued.
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
You can't correct an opinion, own it or shut up
Is it wrong to want to know better?
Knowing is facts, not opinions
The game costs $100, the "lite" bullshit is just a poor deception.
But the code leads to a download, right? Which is you owning it, just like all other digital media you've downloaded.
Until you can’t download it anymore.
The “retro” gaming market is going to absolutely suck in 30 years because you don’t “own” anything.
"Ownership" should not imply the DRM you purchased it through can revoke said "ownership" whenever it becomes convenient. If you still have to ask permission to play something you "own", I don't call that ownership.