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Gaming Analyst Says There's "Hope" In The Industry That Grand Theft Auto 6 Will Cost $100
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this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2025
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I'm already not buying it. I have a rule. I'll pay full price for a full price game. That's fine. That's fair. I pay full price, I get full game.
I will also play free to play games that charge small amounts of money to play. That's fair. The game was free, and I am enjoying it. That's fair.
My rule comes into place that I will NOT buy a game that I then need to continually pay for.
GTA 5 has already shifted priority to their online portion of the game. But there's still a solid single player game. But online has CLEARLY been the priority post launch, with no updates or dlc to the offline campaign since release.
Compare this to constant updates and dlc for the online campaign. But there's a catch. GTA states that GTA Online is a seperate game/experience. However, in order to play GTA Online, you need to buy GTA 5. On PS5, I believe the standard non-sale price is STILL $59.99. Keep in mind, this is an upscaled graphics PS3 game that came out in 2013.
So in order to play GTA Online, you gotta pay $59.99, but once you do you're IMMEDIATELY at a disadvantage. Not the fact that you're level 0, but the fact that even if you level up your player, other players are constantly using shark cards. Which are in-game currency that you don't unlock. You buy them. With real world money. Already paid $59.99, but let me just pay another $19.99. Not to win, but rather to not fall behind.
Because if I pay $19.99, and you pay $19.99, we're both on even footing, and we're both out $19.99. However if I pay $19.99, and you don't, I then have an advantage before you even turn your console on.
And rockstar has openly stated that GTA 6 will heavily lean into this EVEN HARDER. It's now a core component of online play, which again, is their main concern with this game.
They'll throw in a single player campaign, but it's just scraps off the bone. The real meat of the game is online. Which again, is pay to stay competitive. After you've already bought the game.
Nooooooooope. From my perspective the only way to win, is to not buy/play at all. This coming from a 41 year old who played the ps1 GTA games as a teenager. So it's not like GTA just isn'tmy thing.
I want to like GTA 6. But rockstar is just giving me the middle finger. So in return I will give back the middle finger.
I hate that rockstar has effectively turned a beloved series into a fucking live service game.
At least they're fucking up their own series! So much worse when some big publishers buy out a beloved series and fucks it up properly, often never to be seen again. Could be Eidos fucking up Thief, Bethesda fucking up Fallout; EA fucking up Syndicate, Dungeon Keeper, Dead Space, SimCity, Need for Speed, Star Wars: Battlefront, Command & Conquer, Ultima and The Settlers. In fact, just fuck EA.
They wanna play with your emotions. It takes years to sink in. Some people never get it.
Whilst I agree that GTA Online can die in a fire, then have it's remains unfortunately caught up in a series of fires for an eternity, I think GTA online is available separate from GTAV.
Please show me a $0 or greatly reduced priced download link from GTA:O
Fuck rockstar but it's 20 bucks for GTA:O
https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/grand-theft-auto-v/#buy-now
Fwiw
Meanwhile 14-year-olds are salivating for this game, who will then steal mom's credit card for shark cards. I'm convinced teenagers are the target audience for GTA games.