I'm already sick of this of this games shit
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OK, seriously now: Why bother saying you're going to "release a physical version" that's nothing more than a code inside an empty plastic box? I really don't get it.
Some people like to still have the box for collection purposes. Personally, I agree. I think the only physical option at this point should be something like a collectible steelbook if all they're going to have is a redemption code.
Yeah, Steelbooks and the like make sense, but wanting to buy a piece of plastic that's just a waste of space... It's the worse of physical and the digital format, the worse of both worlds.
(The anti Hannah Montana!)
Contrary to what the industry is hoping, this will not allow other games to sell at $80. Customers are already having a hard time justifying $70.
I don't remember the last time I paid more than $15-20. I have too much a backlog and too many more important things to spend money on than an inflated day-one AAA. Even GTA6 is a maybe for me, and that's a solid-looking addition to a series I've been playing for almost 30 years.
No PC release means I'll play it when it goes on sale for $15 a few years from now. I'd pay full price if it launched on PC but I'm not going to reward Rockstar for this shitty "we know you'll buy it twice" game they play.
I remember when the entire concept of digital downloads was sold to us as a way to make games cheaper, and the sacrifices we make on physical media, boxes, manuals, pack ins, etc, would ensure those cheaper games still saw devs making more money than they ever would with a physical copy.
I called bullshit on it from the start. I said from the start that their profit margins are gonna be significantly higher, and they have no reason to lower prices becuase gamers are already trained to pay 50 dollars. and I was scoffed and guffawed at, and called a blind fool and a luddite and everything else.
and now we have digital download games that cost 80-100 dollars.
GTA5 made a billion dollars in 3 days.
I fully expect idiotic fucking gamers to make GTA6 earn a billion dollars in half a day, and thus rewarding this shit so spectacularly that every game that follows will also be 80-100 dollars.
And those same gamers will cry.. oh lord will they cry, about the incredulity, willfully oblivious to the fact that its their very fault that it happened.
Oh well, might play it when it's on sale in five years. Also wtf is a "single player experience"? Is this going to focus almost completely on GTA Online?
Also wtf is a “single player experience”? Is this going to focus almost completely on GTA Online?
Pretty sure it means the exact opposite. GTA Online is NOT a single player experience in any way shape or form. They're saying that it isn't going to have that at launch.
I see no reason to believe that the "single player experience" is anything other the campaign you'd expect out of a new Grand Theft Auto.
Rockstar fired 31 employees for forming a union. If you care about workers rights, now is the time to put your money where your mouth is.
$100 if you want:
The entire map / all interactive world locations.
The entire story.
Ability to customize vehicles.
All of the game's vehicles.
All of personal cosmetic customization options, such as clothes, tattoos, makeup, etc.
All of the weapon customization options.
So really, the actual game is $100 dollars, that does not include Online, but there's a slimmed down poor person edition available for $80 bucks.
GTA Online 2 or w/e looks like its gonna be a monthly subscription to even access it.
Oh also there are no physical editions.
None.
All digital, the 'physical' is just a code in a box.
Now, the actual 'extra' content in the Ultimate Edition is an 80s/Vice City/Miami Vice cosmetic pack.
But the reality is that the broke ass bitch version is a stripped down version of the actual game, which is the Ultimate Edition.
You know the industry has gone downhill when they have to reiterate that it includes a "single-player experience" at launch.
I always thought Grand Theft Auto VI would have a single-player mode, but I guess some people focus more on multiplayer.
To be fair, GTAV online made them magnitudes more money than the initial single player price. It'd help if simps would stop paying real money for fake money to buy digital cars and boats and such.
$114CAD for the standard edition and $142CAD for the ultimate edition, before taxes of course.
Go fuck yourselves, Rockstar. Not that I ever intended to actually buy this because, y'know, scummy greedy company, but this really seals the deal.
I'm going to do the same thing I did with GTAV: wait ten years and get it for free on Epic or whatever.
I wonder if you still have to tap X to run like it's 2002. At least default that shit to the Tears of the Kingdom style where you just hold the button.
This is where everyone complains about the price and then goes out and buys it anyway, letting the industry know they can price gouge us.
The older I get, the more comfortable I am ignoring the hype and just waiting for something to go on sale. I'll wait years now. I don't care. Lots of other games.
I was pretty excited for Dead Island 2. Ended up waiting and waiting and then I got it for free from Epic. Worked out pretty well for me.
I'm also a PC gamer, so I won't even get the opportunity to play GTA6 for another year or two after it comes out on console.
This won't come to PC and will most certainly have the most invasive anti cheat possible. Hard pass
And it certainly won't work on Linux. A big no from me.
From my (PC) point of view GTA 6 comes in 2028 then. OK. I'll wait. I have waited 30 years for VR to arrive, I can wait 2 years for GTA 6, big whoop.
Website details the game actually blocks off stuff if you don't buy the most expensive version
Noup, standard wasn't 70.
Standard was 59,99 and will always be 59,99. Never forget, never forgive.
Nobody in the right mind is buying AAA games at launch. They always go on sale a few months later. But it's GTA... so... its going to sell like hot cakes.
Seize everything this massive world has to offer with the GTA 6: Ultimate Edition, an exclusive collection of premium vehicles, weapons, apparel, and action around every corner. Ultimate Edition bonuses are threaded across all aspects of Jason and Lucia’s story, with new items uncovered behind each chapter.
Gaming is so fucked.
You will own nothing and you will pay twice as much for it
Good thing I don't give a single fuck about getting this on release, or multiplayer, or any of the nonsense here. I'll wait you out Rockstar, and hope the rest of the gaming community is finally tired of your shit.
Fuck Rockstar. Absolute piece of shit company! And shame on any of you people for playing this dumpster fire.
Oh yes please! Give me all the fucking downvotes you primates!
“Features a ‘Single Player Experience’ at launch”
wtf does that even mean. Was there a possibility it would be launched without the story or campaign? If so, that implies that online was their primary target and they just threw a story in there to prevent people from hating it.
Also why is it a “single player experience” and not, oh you know, the game itself. Sadly that phrasing uses enough weasel words that it makes me think that Online is the first-class citizen and the story is just a tacked on afterthought.
Needless to say I’m waiting for the game to come out and some further reviews before committing to anything.
This might be the first mainline GTA to NOT outsell the previous GTA

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