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I waited the decade
I can wait until it's cracked
It's already waiting behind a half decade of AAA games I would have to build a new PC capable of running them. I'll have ray tracing in the sky when I die.
I can't wait to play this game for free 8 years after it launches with all of the content unlocked and a million mods 
It's the only civilized way to play games imo
VINDICATED! IVE BEEN TELLING MY FRIENDS THEYRE GONNA MONETIZE THIS GAME TO HELL AND BACK AND RUIN IT. Yet another instance of the tankie being right, again!
How else are they going to make 20 billion dollars on it?
What are they even doing for it to cost 20 billion? Seems like a money laundering scheme.
didn’t gta online basically cement that, they still are raking in cash w that
Exactly the evidence I gave my friends. They would always respond "well I'm just gonna play the single player anyway" like there's some kind of wall between the two that Rockstar is going to respect
well, the wall is coming down for sure now. tough, i enjoyed the series
a lot of people who worked on the series move out of from Rockstar anyway
To craft absolute gems like MindsEye
thank god. sounded like a terrible place to work
Didn't they try to do a monetised companion app that they then stopped updating?
you could still grind it out free to play style, which is what my friends and i did, but it was a lot of effort to find the enjoyable, passive ways to generate an income. it was just complicated enough that a lot of people kicked in for sharkcards (in game $$ buys).
and they also made the online economy absurd to try and sink money. like a pair of shitty cargo pants in single player from the discount store might be $35. in online it would be hundreds or thousands. and the actual desirable clothes would be 5 figures, easy. everything was crazy inflated.
they made 2 currencies in red dead redemption 2. the regular one was cash, which you got for doing missions and could buy most items. the buyable currency was gold, which could buy anything but was meant to be rare to come by. it could also buy special aesthetic items and eventually it was used to unlock roles/professions.
but they fucked up because if you kept a streak going of doing some "daily" tasks that might only take 10-15 minutes, after 28 days the multiplier made it so you could make like 1.25 gold bars each day. i kept that shit up for like 3 months and had like 100 gold before the nerfed it and tried to introduce a third currency (lmao) they had more tight control of, but the modding/hacking was out of control by that point and nobody seemed interested in trying to find a clever way to get the new currency, as it seemed pretty locked down.
i think rdr2 online was really just a proving ground for testing out currency ideas they could bring back to more tightly and elegantly monetize GTA6 to make it seem more normal to younger gamers who can get their parents to buy them in game shit.
i have no doubt it is going to be the worst game ever created in the genre of monetization, because the game has always been about getting rich, so it's going to all come together.
ngl. i figured the Sims-EA model would hit rockstar eventually but i am kinda surprised its arrived already.
I miss when you would just pay for a game and then you get the game and if the devs want to get more money out of you they have to sell you an expansion pack 50% of the size of the game
I miss that too, and I think we're starting to show our age since those haven't been a mainstream thing in decades
It basically was up until i was a teenager or in college iirc. I blame obama somehow
haircuts and pedicures cost money, it's just like real life! they are really committing to realism this time.
i hope they let me get a job paying minimum wage at a burger king in the suburbs and get a paydayloan on a 1988 Ford Festiva and cruise around the club streets downtown, shoot up my own windshield, and get fucked up on bath salts behind an abandoned Kmart to really lock in the Florida experience.
https://www.reddit.com/r/GTA6/comments/1ue9iat/gtavi_ultimate_edition_announced/ here's the rest of the stuff announced
To me it seems like its saying 'here the extra's you get with premium' so I'm not convinced by this alone that all aesthetic customisation is going to be paywalled imo I think there'll be the usual hairdressers and clothes shops in f2p, then there'll be a few 'premium' cuts/clothes etc only available at these locations to the paypigs
'go change your haircut/clothes' traditionally being one of the first missions in GTA games, the backlash would be great if there was zero customisation of the base characters available to people who 'only' buy the base game
of course I could be wrong, god knows studios have learned pandering to whales is more profitable than making the base game as good as possible to attract more buyers, I just don't think this by itself is evidence all customisation will be paywalled as many seem to be assuming
There's a lot of shit already in the ultimate edition and if they follow what they are already doing with GTA Online, they will keep releasing more paid shit trough out the game's life. Down the line you will have tons of paid shit and only a few in the actual game and is extremely probable that what is included in game is ugly as fuck compared to the paid shit like GTA Online, in 3-4 years they can release an GOTY/remaster bullshit version with almost all the exclusive shit that will cost $100-$120.
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this why they not selling it on PC lmao. smh
That and they're probably trying to get people to double dip again, like they did with 5
It'll launch on PC, but like a year out from the console launch
Iirc They double dipped on GTA 4 and triple dipped on 5 (oldgen consoles, newgen consoles and PC)
The fans of this game already abhor fantasy so this is perfect. Locking customization behind monetary walls is just like real life!
I feel like no one around me cares about this game, and I'm surrounded by mainstream slop lovers
I think the largest demo still excited for this are children younger than gta 5 and the second largest is dudes who feel they’re only allowed to play gta, cod, or 2k.
second largest is dudes who feel they’re only allowed to play gta, cod, or 2k.
Those are called ball and gun gamers because they only play ball and gun
It's still going to be one of the best selling games of all time.
the white house cares, which feels like the kiss of death for any serious game
Man, if Horse Armor for Oblivion was released today, it wouldn't be controversial. It wouldn't have even made a dent in discourse.
I feel like that was basically the tester balloon for what these massive gaming companies could get away with and they've been slowly cranking the dial up since then.
Added my signature, this can’t go on!
Anyone expecting this game to be good are not looking at the Rockstar.
I'm gonna be
to watch the fight between pig-respecting boomer chuds and treatlerite gamer knuckleheads. Maybe GTA6 can get its release date pushed back again for censorship
Then it's first DLC is a escort mission where you safely deliver the POTUS to an Epstein Island-like destination
GTA 3 you had to take your car to paint N spray several times until you got the color you wanted. Good to know we're back to basics.
Despite record sales, mass layoffs somehow still happened.
I can already see the goblins writing shit like:
Castrated über-man with cockshame and dominating androgynous "female" looking down at their paypigs
maybe we really do have to AI generate the game
surely it isn't all vehicle/haircuts, just a few specific shops?
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