Technology

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 don't care.

People that want to spend that much on a game can, and I can wait until it's the right price for me (£12-20). I'm patient enough, there's plenty of good games in the meantime.

Bonus: it'll probably run like butter on a Steam Deck ~~3~~ 2: Episode 1 😉

I just hope they don't push that shitty rockstar login/launcher crap anymore, and I hope the bullshit online stuff is kept well away from the single player game.

By the time I care it'll be ten bucks or given away for free like 5. I'm not into GTA online so the single player experience will only improve over time.

I'm getting to a point I'd describe my enthusiasm for big games as "yAAAwn."

This week I bought and finished two little indie gems, for the price of 5.89 + 4.99. They were great, even if one was a bit short, but I also have around 500 hours on another indie game. Thanks to alpha beta gamer on YouTube i discovered there's a lot of nice games which focuses on story and mechanics more than graphic. I hope they price Gta VI at 100 $ and it flops.

Ok hear me out. I'm a book author, I write a book and try to sell it for £100 while all my peers are selling books at 60 or 70. I spend the most money imaginable making my book. It's quite possibly the largest book in existence thanks to the effort of me and 5000 other people. I lie awake at night worrying that we'll never make back the money we've spent on it.

Wait what's this? Some team of less than 10 people has written a 3-page book and sold it for 2.50? And people are... Buying it?! But why? Look at the size of my book, clearly it must be better because it's so big, so fancy, so expensive! Every letter cost me millions! I read the 3-page book. It doesn't have money dropping from each letter like mine. It has a beginning, middle and end but mine has 500 acts each more expensive than the last. Surely it's not that good... It's pretty great actually. I have learned nothing from this experience, even though it's happened a hundred times. I will still make more money than entire countries, somehow.

And I have hope the industry will start treating its workers well and its customers fairly.

Looks like we'll all be disappointed.

I'll put it on my steam wishlist and buy it when it's $20 or less.

I'm still waiting for Elden Ring and BG3, there's plenty of games to be played, I don't need to get it day one.

I also get the advantage of not buying a buggy game that's half finished. It'll be cheaper and better if I wait, often with a bunch of the extra paid DLC included.

I bet it will still be stuffed to the gills with buying things using real money, and the grind will be intentionally miserable to force people to take the shortcut.

I guess gamers really are walking dollar signs, according to all these folks.

I'm sure it'll be free from Epic Games in like 4 or 5 years like every other game I've been playing recently, so meh.

Bleed them impatient whales, I guess?

At that point people should refuse to buy it until it hits 70 or 60. They are going recouperate their investment unless the game is trash.

I know everybody here thinks if they raise the prices of games to $100 it won't work, I can assure you it will. We'll complain, but your neighbor will just blame inflation and Joe Biden while he forks out $100.

I've played enough of them that I'm kinda bored of them. I probably only did 10% of the last one. They can ask whatever they want, but I won't be buying until it's probably around $20-$30.

So they think if GTA6 is worth $100, then their latest climb the towers, fill the map, Ubislop title will also be worth $100?

Good luck with that thinking.

Plus Rockstar don't need to charge $100 for their game because it will likely sell 200 million copies over the next two gens.

Me in 2028

No

It’s surprising that games are getting cheaper compared to the cost of living. If you take into consideration the fact that games are becoming more expensive to produce, I really don’t understand it.

Gaming is way cheaper for me than it was during the ps2 or ps3 era.

Still, I don’t want games to become more and more ambitious and cost more and more. So, if I get GTA6, it’s gonna be at a reasonable price, maybe even second hand since I don’t need to directly support Rockstar.