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If game > 30$ Game not worth the money and you shouldn't buy it
That is the rule. I am not making exeptions and especialy not for AAA studio... I may be willing to go up to 40$ for a small indie team thats clearly steugleing and i rly love there vision, but thats as high as i would go.
Gonna have to disagree there! I've played many games that are worth more than $30 to me, and hell some of them were less than $30!
Money doesnt mean the same thing to everyone. 70$ isnt as much to you, but thats 13h worth of wage for me
For the record, I didn't say it isn't much to me.
Is that actually your wage in the US that's awful.
Its not us
Would be illegal in the USA. Unless they are giving an after tax value, I suppose, don't feel like doing that math.
I'm already sick of this of this games shit
I was going to buy it in ~5 years on PC for the single player campaign...
But if they're describing it as a "single player experience" it's going to be a shitty offshoot of multiplayer instead of a ring campaign that has a multiplayer slapped on.
It sounds like a minor difference, but it means the entire "experience" is just reskinned multiplayer and will push people there so they spend money.
This one will likely be bad
Where are you getting that it's an offshoot of the mulitplayer? We've seen the cinematic trailers and such by now. There are written characters, and you're not just playing as the create-a-character "John Auto". I think they're just saying it's a single player experience so that people looking for GTA Online know that it won't be there at launch.
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.
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 stores have said that they won’t sell the physical copy of GTA 6, due to it being just a code.
There are some rumors going around that a physical disc copy of the game comes out in December, so I guess it’s better than nothing, but still sucks.
That's way, the people with slow Internet will have a nice box to look at while their download fail.
Now that's a reasonable response lol
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.
$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.
All that and I will bet you anything that they will have in-game purchases. Some kind of currency that you can purchase with real money that you can use in the game to buy extra shit.
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.
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.
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.
No physical, no purchase. Period.
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.
Sadly, I predict a repeat of this classic:
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.
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.
$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.
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.
This won't come to PC and will most certainly have the most invasive anti cheat possible. Hard pass
Website details the game actually blocks off stuff if you don't buy the most expensive version