Seems like a fair price to me. It’s going to be far more of an enjoyable experience than most of the slop that gets pumped out these days at similar prices. Physical copies are coming a few months after. They limit them on launch to stop game leaks.
The thing is, only GTA has the cultural clout to do this. If anyone is delusional enough to think even dorks would pay $100 for their COD or FIFA slop, they have another thing coming.
RDR2 did the exact same thing. Gang hideouts, guns, horses, and side missions were locked behind the Ultimate Edition. GTA V even had the blimp locked behind a pre-order bonus. Unfortunately, the days of getting a complete game on a disc are long gone — and these days, there's not even a disc. But despite all that, the game will still sell millions, make billions, and pretty much everyone here will end up playing it one way or another, sooner or later. It is what it is.
It is the ultimate normie game. Normies will eat this shit like it's vanilla ice cream. It will break records, it will set new standards for game prices, it will be the new "normal". Because normies. This is why we can't have nice things and why gatekeeping used to be a good thing.
Now, imagine if just the strip club was also locked behind an extra $20 on top of the Ultimate Edition. The $100 just give you the option to unlock it afterwards. Gotta see those new graphics lap dances, right boys?
We should really be upset with this but people are too blinded by the GTA hype, that they unknowingly encourage bad business practice. Sure GTA 6 might be worth 100$ but now EA and Ubi will think their games are worth that too because why not?
They know they can get away with it and that many people will pay extra to get the ultimate edition. Just look at the last Forza Horizon and how many people got the top edition. GTA is several times bigger.
I literally can't wait for this game to be released and not buying it on day one (or year one) I'll pay no more than 20 for the complete edition on pc (I don't care how many years it takes)
And the game itself is already going to be $80. This confirms that Nintendo was only the first test run, they're going to see if $80 can become normalized. The industry can't crash soon enough.
I don't think the concept is new, it's basically like DLC worded differently. Instead of saying you are getting access to extra things, they tell you be missing out of key content.
Okay so I thought ALL car mod shops, tattoo shops, salons, etc. would be locked behind the Ultimate Edition, but it turns out it's just these select shops. I understand why someone would think this is bad, but it's basically just cosmetic DLC that exists in sooooo many other games, and you get all that shit for just $20 extra.
I know the base price of $80 is already overpriced though, but I'm not buying this game anyway so whatever.
80 dollar game, have to pay 20 extra dollars to unlock basic shit like all the shops.
Its a 100-dollar game just like people said it would be. I suspect this stuff is why the game isnt on PC day 1, PC users would just have modded this stuff back into the game day 1 like it should have been.
This is kind of a canary in the coal mine kind of thing. I'm expecting this to be a soulless husk of an excuse for a GTA, I truly hope I'm wrong but I expect this to be so woke it will make some people physically sick.
game looks so fuckin bad. shame on anyone here that buys this garbage, of which im sure there will be many.
forget the pricing and gaurenteed shitshow the future monetization will be; anyone that doesnt instantly disqualify this dumpster fire from the trailer alone should seriously ask themselves what they're doing in this sub.
I disagree. Yes, it looked absolutely beautiful and was incredibly detailed. Unfortunately the story just wasn't very good. I couldn't get invested into any of the characters.
This is the intersection point they're counting on. They're going to milk it for all it's worth because the AAA market obliteration is imminent with AI.
Aren't these just skins? Extra skins and similar cosmetics have been "ultimate" edition add ons for a long time. It doesn't seem like too big of a deal to me. That said, i never get heavily into modifying my characters looks in any game so maybe I am missing something.
They are really using that FOMO psychology. With 20 dollar difference, I think all the people who was going to buy it anyway, they will all buy the 100 dollar version.
Good thing I'm retiring this hobby after Final Fantasy VII Revelation (I just want to see something to the end, okay. Not a censorship lover or anything just personal reasons)
Ah so you do need to pay 100 bucks for the full game. Day one DLC is garbage and ill be laughing at all the consoomers who are so easily parted from their money.
This is only the beginning. GTA V sales aren't what made Rockstar so successful, shark cards are. VI's going to be an MTX hellscape within months of release, even if they soften the blow on day 1 to avoid outrage, as is becoming common.
Agreed, this is absolutely just the tip of the iceberg in predatory monetization for this game.
As a PC gamer it makes me glad they're making the decision for me not to get this shakedown of a game as I eat popcorn and watch how egregious it gets.
bro i literally got the game + online starter pack for free on EGS and sank like 400 hours lmao, not to mention it goes on sale for $15 on steam all the time
Can we honestly say this is any different than any other game including cosmetic pre-order bonuses. All they are doing is restricting the use of the cosmetics via a store instead of a menu. Yeah it's shitty, but it's nothing new.
They are not locking features behind any paywalls. The ultimate edition has content that is exclusive to it, but instead of handing it out in a boring way like most games do (by having the items in a chest or just dumping them into your inventory), it will be available to you as actual locations. So an additional tattoo salon that is only available in the ultimate edition and so on. The features themselves are still available in-game, but the ultimate edition has additional variants of these features. Hope that makes it clear.
This is still scummy as hell, don't get me wrong, but the title of this post is extremely misleading.
EDIT: downvoted for facts. Nice, the sub is truly on its' retardmaxxing journey.
When this shitshow flops. What needs to happen is to former rockstar story writers who left the company due to wokefication need to come up with new competitive IP and game that has basically oldschool GTA story writing in it. No online. Just kick as singleplayer sandbox game. That would sell like hotcakes. Fuck this shit.
I played System Shock 2 recently and its such a weird thing to play something that allows you to get lost in the world for not paying attention. Replaying Morrowind too with Tamriel Rebuilt, you just have to learn the lay of the land if you want to have a good time.
Robocop: Rogue City (one of the few newer games that wasn't made for the so-called "modern audience") got me to revisit Deus Ex Human Revolution because they are similar, then finally the original Deus Ex which I haven't played in over a decade.
Yeah, does not bode well. At least the 'unisex' salon still makes a distinction based on sex though, interestingly enough. I'm sure someone inside Rockstar is already escalating to fix that.
That's what jumped out to me. Not that there's anything wrong with them, but the wording and need to proclaim it is just screaming of DEI nonsense in the game.
I mean how would that be a surprise? Rockstar caved to Collective Shout (Australian Feminazi group) and removed certain things from GTA Online, like the crossdressers in front of that one club and an action figure...yes, an action figure! RDR2 was already woke as shit as well. Imran Sarwar (Director of Design) was fired from Rockstar for "toxic masculinity" and "bullying"
It doesn’t matter anymore. Normies will still line up at the pig trough and consume whatever they’re given that is rockstar. Just watch—AAA studios will follow suit now
Rockstar are the only developers who releases a game and it becomes a cultural event. Feel free to sit on the sidelines and pout. Other developers can try, but they won’t be successful.
I buy like two games per year and feel $100 for ultimate is a very reasonable ask. Sometimes it feels like this sub is all broke teenagers who don't understand how to value things. The game isn't the same scale as an annual COD release and that costs almost the same amount.
He thinks cause he pays more that means he has greater status than the rest of us uncouth masses. He is cattle to the corpos but is delusional about it
Lol explains why I buy EA FC every 2-3 years. Last 2K I bought was when Luka was on the cover and before that, can't even remember. Last WWE game was the one with Rey on it. But sports should be one main game with yearly/seasonal roster updates. But yeah, lotta braindeads buy those religiously
Usually the owners of the license mandate a yearly game.
But EA WRC tried that model of one base game with paid season updates. The whole thing flopped and the decades old rally game studio got shut down by EA with almost everyone laid off. Their former offices are now used by a new EA FC team.
That’s exactly the case. The only cosmetics locked are the ones that are behind the Ultimate edition. Imagine Bennys being locked in GTA V, but you’re still able to customize at Los Santos Customs. You don’t have access to the exclusive Bennys cosmetics but you can still customize your car elsewhere
Take-two was going about how games should cost 100$ a year or two ago and now apparently they found a way to make people pay for the 100$ version of the game
And you say GTA6 game filled with woke dogshit is better than game with zero woke. wtf man are you high? xD Have you even played mafia the old country. It's one of the better mafia series games even if it was short.
Strauss Zelnick said 10 or 15 years ago already that if he could, he would charge 100 dollars for his games because he thinks that's fair. He also disallowed Humble Bundle to include any 2K games in their bundles because he thought that are worth the full price. The guy is the absolute worst, greediest CEO in the gaming industry.
Now think of how many less hours you spent on other stuff. I probably put 100 hours into it, but I also probably put 200 hours into vampire survivors and it was $4. Then the new 007 was $70 and 12 hours
Good news. There is no indicator that Take Two will post a profit next year, as GTA6 would have to sell an unrealistic amount of copies in half a year's time for that to happen. He'll be ousted.
It’s extremely scummy knowing your game is gonna make all the money in the world and yet you pull this BS along with the price increase and no physical disc.
They are waiting to see if the social commentary favors them or not to either boycott or promote, let aside the fact that they are supposedly anticapitalist
If you happen to have 200-250 gigs of space handy... for the rest of us plebs here, very few games are worth that much. Crimson Desert takes up 130, and it's acceptable because the game is halfway decent and the devs at least try to fix the problems.
All Denuvo games have been cracked. If it had come out a year ago you would be right, but right now it'll probably take 1 day for a hypervisor crack and 2 weeks for a normal crack. That's what happened with 007 first light. Of course, they could improve denuvo in the meantime, but that's how things stand right now.
Piracy is the easiest it's ever been, go on a legit site that's easy to find, direct download any game, great download speeds got elden ring in like 20 minutes. No need to vpn like torrents
It's been over a decade since I paid any attention to this stuff. I assume you only can access single player content and all online content is unavailable, is that right?
In the vast majority of cases yes, some multiplayer games do work even pirated though, like among us, or games like black ops 2 where most people are playing on third party servers
yep, the file size alone is likely to be an onerous commitment. Wouldnt be surprised if it was 200GB, which would be an utter pain in the ass on the game library these days when SSD prices are through the roof.
On extremely old firmware allowing only older games to be played. So yeah, not a viable option. Good luck getting a PS5 that hasn't been updated past the required firmware as well. If you do, what you can play is very limited
Let’s hope it is one tattoo salon of many with 50 tattoos out of 500 and the same goes for every other “business there”. And even that would be shitty on release.
I have stuff to play, I’ll wait till it will be cheaper and/or bigger and better and then at one point I’ll get it - if it will be worth it of course. Hopefully it won’t be broken on release and people counting days will have a decent experience though.
Basically the DLC items have their own exclusive barber shop, tattoo shop, etc. Those shops are locked. The base game shops are unlocked if that makes sense.
People are taking this way out of proportion. I am not defending Rockstar, they’ve done some shit I don’t like as a consumer but It’s legit cosmetics that have a dedicated interior and a set of collectibles. People are acting like you wont be able to customise the characters or their vehicles if they don’t buy the ultimate edition. It’s $20. Rockstar is definitely greedy but there isn’t anything inherently greedy about this. What would be greedy is actually locking integral features behind a paywall, not cosmetics. Rockstar definitely could’ve worded it more towards today’s intellectual levels but it’s really not that hard to use your brain and extrapolate the meaning. RDR2 had an ultimate edition with a couple missions and the best horse in the game in chapter 2
I will buy the cheaper version a day before release. once the game is out and I can see specifically what the "premium" hairstyles, car mods, clothing etc are online, I will decide if I want to pay the extra $20 to upgrade. This seems significantly more logical than just blindly dropping the $100 right now 5 months in advance when I still dont know much about the game
Yeah it sucks an $80 game has content that's not available, but are we really acting like games locking stuff behind a "deluxe" edition hasn't been the norm for years now?
The launch prices are only an amuse-bouche for what they will be charging for online stuff.
I would guess they are going to exploit online players for all they are worth this time around.
If they spent 2 billion on this game you can be sure they want to make double or triple that back ASAP.
It will be interesting to see how deep the single player is. If it's pretty shallow and this game if mostly focused on multiplayer this could be the first GTA game I haven't bought. I have zero interest in online.
I hope that doesn't happen though, I have loved all the GTA games all the way back to the first top down version.
The game is 5 months from being released and people are freaking out. It’s just a game. This is not the big deal that most people are making it out to be.
Don’t forget…The devs aren’t part of the marketing. TTWO is a publicly traded stock. You don’t get a 1 Billion Dollar budget without greasing a few investors.
honestly this feels like they wanted to make it $80, but someone went "well shit, thats not gonna go over well, we gotta find shit to remove" and just got rid of whatever sounded fair.
Yup looks like I won't be buying GTA 6 lol, I already wasn't going to as $80 for a digital only game is something I will simply never do now I'm definitely never going to be playing it just out of principle
Rockstar is an exception to the gaming industry. They can charge what they want and the fans will pay. They earned it. Also, the game reportedly cost 2 billion to make so.. your getting a premuim product with your $100 not just some yearly release.
U pay 100 for a game that probably has more content then 3 games and cost more then 10x most games and I gonna cry for 20.00 u kids need to rage about something else. Lmao. No this will not be the new normal becomes gta transcends gaming and is its own thing.
This is how companies have been doing it for years to not touch that mythical 60-70$ game base price. Deluxe editions are always filled with useless trinkets people dont use after a mere hour of gameplay but somehow must have.
Worst part - because it's GTA VI, one of the most hyped up games in history, it's not going to heavily decrease sales, and I'm afraid other developers will see this approach works and start using it as well...
$100 is good at its best, anyone complaining clearly is just a low ball cheapscape.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn’t describe aesthetic customisations as key features
ReplyDeletePeople still believe this will not be a woke infested diarrhea. Lol.
ReplyDeleteUnisex?
ReplyDeleteGod…. God isn’t with us
Seems like a fair price to me. It’s going to be far more of an enjoyable experience than most of the slop that gets pumped out these days at similar prices. Physical copies are coming a few months after. They limit them on launch to stop game leaks.
ReplyDeleteThe thing is, only GTA has the cultural clout to do this. If anyone is delusional enough to think even dorks would pay $100 for their COD or FIFA slop, they have another thing coming.
ReplyDeleteRDR2 did the exact same thing. Gang hideouts, guns, horses, and side missions were locked behind the Ultimate Edition. GTA V even had the blimp locked behind a pre-order bonus. Unfortunately, the days of getting a complete game on a disc are long gone — and these days, there's not even a disc. But despite all that, the game will still sell millions, make billions, and pretty much everyone here will end up playing it one way or another, sooner or later. It is what it is.
ReplyDeleteIt is the ultimate normie game. Normies will eat this shit like it's vanilla ice cream. It will break records, it will set new standards for game prices, it will be the new "normal". Because normies. This is why we can't have nice things and why gatekeeping used to be a good thing.
ReplyDeleteI was watching a video on pork production and the pigs in a long line penned into their cages gorging on slop reminded me of normies
DeleteNot playing is winning
ReplyDeleteNow, imagine if just the strip club was also locked behind an extra $20 on top of the Ultimate Edition.
ReplyDeleteThe $100 just give you the option to unlock it afterwards.
Gotta see those new graphics lap dances, right boys?
Hire me Take-Two.
We should really be upset with this but people are too blinded by the GTA hype, that they unknowingly encourage bad business practice. Sure GTA 6 might be worth 100$ but now EA and Ubi will think their games are worth that too because why not?
ReplyDeleteThis is insane to me, basically the 100$ version is the real base edition. I fucking hate the state of gaming.
ReplyDeleteGTA 6 is trash and fuck Rockstar
ReplyDeleteWhat happens when you call one of the most mediocre games in the industry amazing incessantly even when it's been shitting itself back to back
ReplyDeletedidn't buy GTA5 because of console exclusivity, won't be buying this crap either.
ReplyDeleteThey know they can get away with it and that many people will pay extra to get the ultimate edition. Just look at the last Forza Horizon and how many people got the top edition. GTA is several times bigger.
ReplyDeleteI literally can't wait for this game to be released and not buying it on day one (or year one) I'll pay no more than 20 for the complete edition on pc (I don't care how many years it takes)
ReplyDeleteIt is amazing how fast Rockstar turned people against GTA6 and killed most of the hype for that game.
ReplyDeleteAnd the game itself is already going to be $80. This confirms that Nintendo was only the first test run, they're going to see if $80 can become normalized. The industry can't crash soon enough.
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to play this game in 5 years
ReplyDeleteDon't ask questions, just consume product.
ReplyDeleteI don't think the concept is new, it's basically like DLC worded differently. Instead of saying you are getting access to extra things, they tell you be missing out of key content.
Broke boy problems! Couldn’t be me!
ReplyDeleteSailing the high seas for this
ReplyDeleteOkay so I thought ALL car mod shops, tattoo shops, salons, etc. would be locked behind the Ultimate Edition, but it turns out it's just these select shops. I understand why someone would think this is bad, but it's basically just cosmetic DLC that exists in sooooo many other games, and you get all that shit for just $20 extra.
ReplyDeleteI know the base price of $80 is already overpriced though, but I'm not buying this game anyway so whatever.
Ahhh reason 10 I won't be buying this game
ReplyDeleteWell good for a minority of gamers like me who dont find GTA interesting anymore.
ReplyDelete80 dollar game, have to pay 20 extra dollars to unlock basic shit like all the shops.
ReplyDeleteIts a 100-dollar game just like people said it would be. I suspect this stuff is why the game isnt on PC day 1, PC users would just have modded this stuff back into the game day 1 like it should have been.
This is kind of a canary in the coal mine kind of thing. I'm expecting this to be a soulless husk of an excuse for a GTA, I truly hope I'm wrong but I expect this to be so woke it will make some people physically sick.
ReplyDeleteI hope Rockstar nickel and dimes every single one of their fanboys.
ReplyDeleteYeah, that's the experience I'm looking for after spending $80 on a game: in-game reminders that I should've spent another $20.
ReplyDeletegame looks so fuckin bad. shame on anyone here that buys this garbage, of which im sure there will be many.
ReplyDeleteforget the pricing and gaurenteed shitshow the future monetization will be; anyone that doesnt instantly disqualify this dumpster fire from the trailer alone should seriously ask themselves what they're doing in this sub.
Remember when you used to wait at least a year for dlc
ReplyDeleteRockstar are the only ones who CAN do this shit and i would still buy it. More than 2 decades of bangers makes people loyal.
ReplyDeleteDon't forget to swallow.
DeleteConsoomer mindset lmao. There's no loyalty, r* sees you only as a freely opened wallet.
DeleteI haven't touched a r* game for over 10 years. Greed ruining their track record of enjoyable games.
There's just so many other games and media for me to spend my time and money on.
To be fair RDR2 was a VERY good game, don't sleep on it
DeleteI disagree. Yes, it looked absolutely beautiful and was incredibly detailed. Unfortunately the story just wasn't very good. I couldn't get invested into any of the characters.
DeleteThis is the intersection point they're counting on. They're going to milk it for all it's worth because the AAA market obliteration is imminent with AI.
Delete"key features" lmao
ReplyDeleteThey're also bundling GTA+ with both versions with auto renewal turned on by default.
ReplyDeleteAren't these just skins? Extra skins and similar cosmetics have been "ultimate" edition add ons for a long time. It doesn't seem like too big of a deal to me. That said, i never get heavily into modifying my characters looks in any game so maybe I am missing something.
ReplyDeleteThey are really using that FOMO psychology. With 20 dollar difference, I think all the people who was going to buy it anyway, they will all buy the 100 dollar version.
ReplyDeleteI'm so happy I have a jailbroken PS5; I won't give a single penny to that shitty, woke Take-Two.
ReplyDeleteGood thing I'm retiring this hobby after Final Fantasy VII Revelation (I just want to see something to the end, okay. Not a censorship lover or anything just personal reasons)
ReplyDeleteSome cosmetics are key features?
ReplyDeleteAh so you do need to pay 100 bucks for the full game. Day one DLC is garbage and ill be laughing at all the consoomers who are so easily parted from their money.
ReplyDeleteIt started with horse armor.
ReplyDeleteThis is only the beginning. GTA V sales aren't what made Rockstar so successful, shark cards are. VI's going to be an MTX hellscape within months of release, even if they soften the blow on day 1 to avoid outrage, as is becoming common.
ReplyDeleteMy guess is they will make you play gta online in vice city only if you buy their trash gta+ subscription
DeleteAgreed, this is absolutely just the tip of the iceberg in predatory monetization for this game.
DeleteAs a PC gamer it makes me glad they're making the decision for me not to get this shakedown of a game as I eat popcorn and watch how egregious it gets.
y'all weren't planning on buying at launch for full price were you??? bro this shit will be tossed in for free in 3 years at discount.
ReplyDeleteNah it won't Rockstar is as stingybas Nintendo when it comes to discounting.
Deletebro i literally got the game + online starter pack for free on EGS and sank like 400 hours lmao, not to mention it goes on sale for $15 on steam all the time
DeleteFeels like a prime opportunity for an indie game to pop up that channels the whole crime sandbox thing with half the price.
ReplyDeleteCan we honestly say this is any different than any other game including cosmetic pre-order bonuses. All they are doing is restricting the use of the cosmetics via a store instead of a menu. Yeah it's shitty, but it's nothing new.
ReplyDeleteAnother reason not to buy it
ReplyDeleteIf you're gonna buy it, go to Costco and get the $100 PS cards for $80 and the upgrade is free.
ReplyDeleteGarbage open world overhyped AAA western slop.
ReplyDeleteYikes, that's really bad...
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ReplyDeleteThey are not locking features behind any paywalls. The ultimate edition has content that is exclusive to it, but instead of handing it out in a boring way like most games do (by having the items in a chest or just dumping them into your inventory), it will be available to you as actual locations. So an additional tattoo salon that is only available in the ultimate edition and so on. The features themselves are still available in-game, but the ultimate edition has additional variants of these features. Hope that makes it clear.
DeleteThis is still scummy as hell, don't get me wrong, but the title of this post is extremely misleading.
EDIT: downvoted for facts. Nice, the sub is truly on its' retardmaxxing journey.
When this shitshow flops. What needs to happen is to former rockstar story writers who left the company due to wokefication need to come up with new competitive IP and game that has basically oldschool GTA story writing in it. No online. Just kick as singleplayer sandbox game. That would sell like hotcakes. Fuck this shit.
ReplyDeleteThis is the most guaranteed success of any game there is. I wish I could bet money with you that it won't flop.
DeleteIt unfortunately won't flop though. It will sell more than GTA V
DeleteI want to be mad about this but the western market has been dying for the last decade this just put the final nail in the coffin.
ReplyDeleteWelp back to resident evil.
Whien did GTA use EA SIMS monetization method
ReplyDeleteI'll vote with my wallet.
ReplyDeleteJeez, I wish there was a less expensive way to acquire donk stylings for my automobiles.
ReplyDeleteThe enshittification continues. Just another reason I mostly play older games.
ReplyDeleteI played System Shock 2 recently and its such a weird thing to play something that allows you to get lost in the world for not paying attention. Replaying Morrowind too with Tamriel Rebuilt, you just have to learn the lay of the land if you want to have a good time.
DeleteRobocop: Rogue City (one of the few newer games that wasn't made for the so-called "modern audience") got me to revisit Deus Ex Human Revolution because they are similar, then finally the original Deus Ex which I haven't played in over a decade.
DeleteFor real been playing Bound by flame these days an older game that is no masterpiece for sure but I have fallen in love with gaming again
Delete"Key feature" is REALLY overblown.
ReplyDeleteJust look at the names of those businesses: Zero talent for humor on board for this.
ReplyDeleteYeah, does not bode well. At least the 'unisex' salon still makes a distinction based on sex though, interestingly enough. I'm sure someone inside Rockstar is already escalating to fix that.
Delete"Gun and Ball" gamers won't care.
ReplyDeleteI'm definitely sailing the high seas when this comes out for PC lol
ReplyDeleteUnisex salon lol
ReplyDeleteThat's what jumped out to me. Not that there's anything wrong with them, but the wording and need to proclaim it is just screaming of DEI nonsense in the game.
Deleteits sad too because there are so many creative ways to say it instead of dry bathroom stall sign "unisex"
DeleteDon't think I've even heard of a "non-unisex" saloon in a game
DeleteUnisex salon means they cut and style both sexes 😆 what's weird about it? That phrase has been in use well before the world wars 😂
DeleteBecause typical salons are unisex? Its the special salons that would be gender specific
DeleteBecause "unisex salon" here means all the hairstyles are going to be gender-neutral.
DeleteThey’re brainwashed and glued to screens…anyone complaining about DEI in games usual are
DeleteI mean how would that be a surprise? Rockstar caved to Collective Shout (Australian Feminazi group) and removed certain things from GTA Online, like the crossdressers in front of that one club and an action figure...yes, an action figure! RDR2 was already woke as shit as well.
DeleteImran Sarwar (Director of Design) was fired from Rockstar for "toxic masculinity" and "bullying"
If one er buy this game, it will be when it is cheap on steam. Not one moment before. That said, my interest is positively in the toilet.
ReplyDeleteFuck Rockstar, Fuck Take-Two.
ReplyDeleteAnd normgroids who enable their fuckery. GTA Defective Edition selling over 20 million was black pilling enough.
So the game is actually a 100$ not 80.
ReplyDeleteI've been saying for a long time that gta 6 will be worse than gta online's already egregious monetization. I'm just gonna be watching and laughing.
ReplyDeleteIt doesn’t matter anymore. Normies will still line up at the pig trough and consume whatever they’re given that is rockstar. Just watch—AAA studios will follow suit now
ReplyDeleteRockstar are the only developers who releases a game and it becomes a cultural event. Feel free to sit on the sidelines and pout. Other developers can try, but they won’t be successful.
DeleteI buy like two games per year and feel $100 for ultimate is a very reasonable ask. Sometimes it feels like this sub is all broke teenagers who don't understand how to value things. The game isn't the same scale as an annual COD release and that costs almost the same amount.
DeleteDigital of course huh? Also are you American?
DeleteYou can think GTA 6 is worth $100 without acting like everyone who disagrees is financially illiterate come on now lol
DeleteHe thinks cause he pays more that means he has greater status than the rest of us uncouth masses. He is cattle to the corpos but is delusional about it
DeleteI could, but I wont because I'm not wrong. Even if the hivemind disagrees.
DeleteNot every AAA studio can get away with it. Can't even think of one game that can get away with it beside GTA VI
DeleteTES 6
DeleteEA and 2K especially can get away with it, considering how braindead a lot of sports gamers are
DeleteLol good point.
DeleteSports games have been getting away with it for a decade+
DeleteBraindead consoomers buy it every year.
Lol explains why I buy EA FC every 2-3 years. Last 2K I bought was when Luka was on the cover and before that, can't even remember. Last WWE game was the one with Rey on it. But sports should be one main game with yearly/seasonal roster updates. But yeah, lotta braindeads buy those religiously
DeleteUsually the owners of the license mandate a yearly game.
DeleteBut EA WRC tried that model of one base game with paid season updates. The whole thing flopped and the decades old rally game studio got shut down by EA with almost everyone laid off. Their former offices are now used by a new EA FC team.
Sport games have no competition licenses. And GTA is probably the biggest IP gaming.
DeleteMonetarily for GTA, there ability to make players stick around for online gameplay is what's going to determine their success or failure.
You think there's multiple tattoo and car mod shops throughout the game and these are just one more of them with some special paint colors/patterns?
ReplyDeleteThat’s exactly the case. The only cosmetics locked are the ones that are behind the Ultimate edition. Imagine Bennys being locked in GTA V, but you’re still able to customize at Los Santos Customs. You don’t have access to the exclusive Bennys cosmetics but you can still customize your car elsewhere
Deleteyar har fiddle dee dee...
ReplyDeleteTake-two was going about how games should cost 100$ a year or two ago and now apparently they found a way to make people pay for the 100$ version of the game
ReplyDeleteTbf how long were they working on this game?
DeleteTime =/= quality
DeleteMafia the old country cost only $50 had zero woke and is 2k game being also Take-two game
DeleteMafia Old Country was also a shit game, so that's that.
DeleteAnd you say GTA6 game filled with woke dogshit is better than game with zero woke. wtf man are you high? xD Have you even played mafia the old country. It's one of the better mafia series games even if it was short.
DeleteAnd you say GTA6 game filled with woke dogshit is better than game with zero woke
DeleteDid I? Care to quote me on that?
They’re not going to try it with The Old Country but will with a Rockstar title because they think they can get away with it.
DeleteTake Two, not Nintendo, is why the entire industry wants to raise prices again while blaming everything under the sun for it.
Strauss Zelnick said 10 or 15 years ago already that if he could, he would charge 100 dollars for his games because he thinks that's fair. He also disallowed Humble Bundle to include any 2K games in their bundles because he thought that are worth the full price. The guy is the absolute worst, greediest CEO in the gaming industry.
Deleteearly life section checks out
DeleteHot take, but i never thought 100 was too much to pay for a game.
DeleteI used to go out often, and would easily spend 200 a night.
If a game can give you 30 hours of quality play, that's 3.3 dollars an hour. If you play online mode too and end up putting hundreds of hours in....
Witcher 3 (my fav game of all time) i think I paid 80 for it, and put in 300 hours.
That averages out to 26 cents per hour lol.
Now think of how many less hours you spent on other stuff. I probably put 100 hours into it, but I also probably put 200 hours into vampire survivors and it was $4. Then the new 007 was $70 and 12 hours
DeleteGood news. There is no indicator that Take Two will post a profit next year, as GTA6 would have to sell an unrealistic amount of copies in half a year's time for that to happen. He'll be ousted.
DeleteWhat a disgusting egotistical man
DeleteI can think of plenty of other games worth far more gameplay wise
I would even argue that "gameplay wise" most games a worth more than R* games.
DeleteGameplay wise definitely lol
DeleteDon't buy it. Don't even pirate it. Don't waste your bandwidth/time and SSD space on this overhyped expensive garbage.
ReplyDeleteIt’s extremely scummy knowing your game is gonna make all the money in the world and yet you pull this BS along with the price increase and no physical disc.
ReplyDeleteIt cost 3 billion to make, the company has posted over 9 billion in losses over the last 3 years, so Strauss is very, very desperate.
DeleteProbably spent like 500+ million making the game so they wanna return in profits as much as possible
DeleteThey spent in the billions, but it’ll print money for them for a decade minimum. They’ll make that money back quick
DeleteThey spent like one or two billion if I remember correctly but I’m telling you they’re gonna make that back in a week and then some.
Deleteand as always 95% of that money was marketing and licences for music etc not actually spend on game.
DeleteNot all of that money was spent on the game
DeleteGood lord. I wonder where all the social activists are to shame them for spending all that money on a game instead of charity.
DeleteYeah itll be a huge success no matter what they do.
They are waiting to see if the social commentary favors them or not to either boycott or promote, let aside the fact that they are supposedly anticapitalist
DeleteEA and ubishit are taking notes rn
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ReplyDeleteI have weird suspicions that it's not a whole list of features behind "Ultimate Edition" paywall.
ReplyDeletei won't even pirate it
ReplyDeleteEveryone should pirate GTA VI for locking so many things behind dlcs
ReplyDeleteNeed to be picky about what I pirate due to bandwidth, but I will hoist the sails if user reviews are good.
DeleteI'm sure it's just a matter of time before publishers start including pirate download counts in their "players reached" numbers.
DeleteIf you happen to have 200-250 gigs of space handy... for the rest of us plebs here, very few games are worth that much. Crimson Desert takes up 130, and it's acceptable because the game is halfway decent and the devs at least try to fix the problems.
DeleteThey'll probably put Denuvo DRM on it which will take 6 months to crack
DeleteRockstar uses their own DRM not Denuvo. Which is pretty strong as it took 1 year to crack RDR2. And I’m sure they’ve invested to improve it since then
DeleteAll Denuvo games have been cracked. If it had come out a year ago you would be right, but right now it'll probably take 1 day for a hypervisor crack and 2 weeks for a normal crack. That's what happened with 007 first light. Of course, they could improve denuvo in the meantime, but that's how things stand right now.
DeletePc release isn't any time soon and there'll be DRM for sure
DeleteI've become too lazy to pirate stuff. If it's not worth my money, it's probably not worth my time, either.
DeletePiracy is the easiest it's ever been, go on a legit site that's easy to find, direct download any game, great download speeds got elden ring in like 20 minutes. No need to vpn like torrents
DeleteIt's been over a decade since I paid any attention to this stuff. I assume you only can access single player content and all online content is unavailable, is that right?
DeleteIn the vast majority of cases yes, some multiplayer games do work even pirated though, like among us, or games like black ops 2 where most people are playing on third party servers
DeleteToo lazy?
DeletePirating is often easier than having the game legit.
Watch the reviews first. Maybe you will not even want to get it.
Deleteyep, the file size alone is likely to be an onerous commitment. Wouldnt be surprised if it was 200GB, which would be an utter pain in the ass on the game library these days when SSD prices are through the roof.
DeleteI bet it will be 200+
DeletePiracy on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S isnt viable atm
DeletePiracy is definitely a viable option for the PlayStation 5.
Delete(I have jailbroken ps5)
On extremely old firmware allowing only older games to be played. So yeah, not a viable option. Good luck getting a PS5 that hasn't been updated past the required firmware as well. If you do, what you can play is very limited
DeleteNo?
DeleteI have 11.40 firmware
and I can play (almost) anything I want like stellar blade or ninja gaiden 4
Now this is bad. The game is $80 by itself.
ReplyDeleteLet’s hope it is one tattoo salon of many with 50 tattoos out of 500 and the same goes for every other “business there”. And even that would be shitty on release.
People will probably find a way to crack that shit day one with Cheat Engine.
DeleteOn console?
DeleteThere's not even a fully confirmed existence of a PC port yet.
Good point. I forgor.
Deleteyou're not getting the game.
DeleteOh absolutely not. Not on release at least.
DeleteI have stuff to play, I’ll wait till it will be cheaper and/or bigger and better and then at one point I’ll get it - if it will be worth it of course. Hopefully it won’t be broken on release and people counting days will have a decent experience though.
but you'll never have the game. it will never be yours.
DeleteBasically the DLC items have their own exclusive barber shop, tattoo shop, etc. Those shops are locked. The base game shops are unlocked if that makes sense.
DeleteI'll be pirating this as soon as it hits pc, definitely not pouring more money into their accounts
ReplyDeleteIve got other things to play, dont even feel the need to bother pirating it.
DeletePeople are taking this way out of proportion. I am not defending Rockstar, they’ve done some shit I don’t like as a consumer but It’s legit cosmetics that have a dedicated interior and a set of collectibles. People are acting like you wont be able to customise the characters or their vehicles if they don’t buy the ultimate edition. It’s $20. Rockstar is definitely greedy but there isn’t anything inherently greedy about this. What would be greedy is actually locking integral features behind a paywall, not cosmetics.
ReplyDeleteRockstar definitely could’ve worded it more towards today’s intellectual levels but it’s really not that hard to use your brain and extrapolate the meaning. RDR2 had an ultimate edition with a couple missions and the best horse in the game in chapter 2
I will buy the cheaper version a day before release. once the game is out and I can see specifically what the "premium" hairstyles, car mods, clothing etc are online, I will decide if I want to pay the extra $20 to upgrade. This seems significantly more logical than just blindly dropping the $100 right now 5 months in advance when I still dont know much about the game
ReplyDeleteNah I’m still getting $80 version
ReplyDeleteYeah it sucks an $80 game has content that's not available, but are we really acting like games locking stuff behind a "deluxe" edition hasn't been the norm for years now?
ReplyDeleteThe launch prices are only an amuse-bouche for what they will be charging for online stuff.
ReplyDeleteI would guess they are going to exploit online players for all they are worth this time around.
If they spent 2 billion on this game you can be sure they want to make double or triple that back ASAP.
It will be interesting to see how deep the single player is. If it's pretty shallow and this game if mostly focused on multiplayer this could be the first GTA game I haven't bought. I have zero interest in online.
I hope that doesn't happen though, I have loved all the GTA games all the way back to the first top down version.
This is a flashpoint in human history. principium finis
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ReplyDeleteThe game is 5 months from being released and people are freaking out. It’s just a game. This is not the big deal that most people are making it out to be.
Don’t forget…The devs aren’t part of the marketing. TTWO is a publicly traded stock. You don’t get a 1 Billion Dollar budget without greasing a few investors.
Gotta take the good with the bad.
Still bought it
ReplyDeletehttps://imgur.com/a/8yPdTzY
video games are gonna have a big downfall in the future because of this shit
ReplyDeletehonestly this feels like they wanted to make it $80, but someone went "well shit, thats not gonna go over well, we gotta find shit to remove" and just got rid of whatever sounded fair.
ReplyDeletePretty sure they wanted to screw the bettors about the game being $100 haha
ReplyDeleteYup looks like I won't be buying GTA 6 lol, I already wasn't going to as $80 for a digital only game is something I will simply never do now I'm definitely never going to be playing it just out of principle
ReplyDelete5 was $60 not $70.
ReplyDeleteIt's a day 1 dlc? This isn't a new precedent, countless games have done this
ReplyDelete100% this sadly
ReplyDeleteRockstar is an exception to the gaming industry. They can charge what they want and the fans will pay. They earned it. Also, the game reportedly cost 2 billion to make so.. your getting a premuim product with your $100 not just some yearly release.
ReplyDeleteMeh, I would have bought the game if it was £100 base and £140 for the ultimate edition.
ReplyDeleteWhen it comes out on pc ill get all this stuff for free ⛵️
ReplyDeleteDoesn't dlc work like this though in some cases?
ReplyDeleteI'm glad I have a library of over 600 games to play so I can avoid this nonsense.
ReplyDeleteI'll buy it on PC in 4 or 5 years when it goes on sale for $30.
& this is true because you say it is?
ReplyDeletegood little consumers are going to buy it tho, no other option really than just don’t play at all
ReplyDeleteU pay 100 for a game that probably has more content then 3 games and cost more then 10x most games and I gonna cry for 20.00 u kids need to rage about something else. Lmao. No this will not be the new normal becomes gta transcends gaming and is its own thing.
ReplyDeleteThis is how companies have been doing it for years to not touch that mythical 60-70$ game base price. Deluxe editions are always filled with useless trinkets people dont use after a mere hour of gameplay but somehow must have.
ReplyDeleteFOMO is a strong effect.
it's something where these companies hire litteral phsycologists to find out how to get the most out of their players
DeleteReading the list of things locked to the premium edition it's not that substantial IMO
ReplyDelete"exclusive action around every corner" doesn't seem substantial to you? around every corner..
DeleteWorst part - because it's GTA VI, one of the most hyped up games in history, it's not going to heavily decrease sales, and I'm afraid other developers will see this approach works and start using it as well...
ReplyDeletethats what makes it so greedy. its not like RS needs to worry about making their money back tenfold on sales alone.
DeleteGate-keeping content
ReplyDeleteNo proper physical copies
Free month of GTA+ sub which also "auto-renews"
They could earn huge amount of money even without milking consumers
The only reason they made a Standard Edition was to avoid headlines about the game costing $100.
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