GTA 5 PC Ships on 7 Discs - Report

it would take forever to download that on steam with my internet connection and would use up half my bandwidth cap so I bought the physical copy. Discs aren't as convenient but they install faster and don't take up bandwidth so its not bad for me. Any game over 25gb I will usually buy physical unless steam has a killer sale.

How to Activate Retail Version???? is there any activation code on discs?

Should i buy it on Steam or Retail 7 DVDs? which one is best option? i hate to wait for downloading times.

@leimonides: About 8.5 gigs if they are dual layered.

Well not enough people have blueray drives on their PC's yet and I'm unsure there ever will be as internet speed is increasing.

Damn.. wait 2 years to play game and get hit with 7 DVDs lol PC.

And this is why I don't buy physical pc games anymore. The last one was Max Payne 3, which was on four discs. Sure, it's gonna take days to download 65GB, but at least I won't have to change discs every ten minutes during installation, or worry about cd keys. THAT is annoying.

In fact, I've rebought most of the pc games I have physical copies of on Steam, just so I don't need to have a disc in the drive.

Oh no wonder why it took so long to get to pc. They were waiting to get all the discs manufactured.

For PC games 2015 DVDs are basically to Blu-Ray what CDs were to DVD back in the early-mid 2000s at this point.

This game is available on steam OS?

Its time to get with the new technologies, for Christ sake 7 discs!

A blu-ray drive is very cheap and if it means only needing 1 disc instead of 7 I'd gladly take that option.

As for the PC fants trying to defend this what reason do you have to defend it? The PC gamers clearly have all the best of stuff and some of the most expensive hardware inside their computer yet you're mulling over spending an extra £20 on an Optical drive? lol smh.

this is even more ridiculous thn the ps1 era when ff7 had 3 disks and 8+9 had 4 (among others) this is a game suited for a download for me i got the ps3 and ps4 version but i want to see how good it can be on my beast rig

I am of the opinion that if you can download you should. The only exceptions would be if you are a collector or you have slow download speeds. As mentioned the physical disc for PC is not really of much use in reselling these days. Everything is tied to an account. The main reason I don't use DVDs and Blue Rays is because they are a waste of space. The less I have in my room the better it is for me. The only thing I don't like is most movie retailers don't allow you to save a copy of a movie to your hdd or ssd on PC.

Pathetic console gamers always looking for something to complain about.

If R* released on Blu-Ray, I'm sure most would buy those discs instead. I mean, what does a Blu-Ray Drive cost?....$35~45?

Given the current situation, I'd take the DVD discs just for the cover art...but its not like digital download isn't an option.

Hell yeah, a man buy a 2k pc and don't buy a 15bucks bluray drive... the logic

@walidras: Not everyone has the speed or capability to download 60+ GBs of data reliably.

Lol, waiting 2 years to play a game, and yet you need to buy a truckload of dvds to play it... i love my pc, but this is retarded...

Sweeeeeet. I'll be getting the hard copy. Digital is for suckas.

I can see now what a playground for kids the comments section has become.
Those good times where people enjoyed a game and talked about it, without stupid comparisons between platforms.

"Master race" still uses 20 year-old DVD. Sigh.

So much for "master race" lulz.