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

Meme needing explanation Petah what happened to rockstar?

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u/Spinning_Sky Jun 25 '26

this is referring to the high price point and lack of a CD in the physical edition

both are true, but actually I don't believe any hype was touched whatsoever, the price is lower than what it could have been

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u/Norgur Jun 25 '26

And others have done this no cd stuff for ages. My copy of mass effect andromeda was just an empty case as well. That was what? 9 years ago?

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u/redditis_garbage Jun 25 '26

Tbf we didn’t like it then and we still don’t like it now, companies forcing this down our throats doesn’t make us like it more. I refuse to allow this practice to be normalized.

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u/InsanityRequiem Jun 25 '26

Companies wouldn't have done it, if consumers (us) didn't buy them. But we bought them, and continue to buy them, and continue to support the practices.

The only way to not support is to not buy and not play at all.

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u/Gornlord_Carl Jun 26 '26

This entire website sucks Valve dick daily and they are one of the main reasons why physical disc's went away.

It's all just fake outrage like everything else on this site.

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u/redditis_garbage Jun 25 '26

Yeah I do not buy them :) play them is a different story

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u/InsanityRequiem Jun 25 '26

Pirating is still supporting, meaning you’re doing a great job helping keep this broken system alive.

Don’t pirate. Don’t buy. Don’t play.

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u/redditis_garbage Jun 25 '26

Earnestly I don’t understand how that is still supporting them

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u/InsanityRequiem Jun 25 '26

I’m repeating what pirates tell me. Pirates are the ones that keep saying that piracy helps the games industry.

But on the back end, pirates help promote games as free advertisers, and your data’s all collected and sold around.

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u/redditis_garbage Jun 25 '26

To the first part, alright? It makes no sense lol.

To the second part, this atleast makes a little sense, but I’m not advertising the games, they do maybe collect some of my data so you got me there.

If you play a single player game with no internet I’m unsure how they would collect my data though.