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.
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.
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.
I surely was. My problem is that I grew to hate cars and already haven’t ever finished San Andreas because the map was too big for me without a jet. GTA III has the proper size.
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
32: 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.”
What single player experience? That is going to be a footnote going forward.
Fair point. No SP leaves it sitting in my epic/steam/ etc account with all the other free games I never touch haha.
Dumping SP makes it a live service and I’m not paying upfront to be milked further like that if I can avoid it.
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.
Titles of those games or it didn’t happen.
Small indie games:
Proximate and Security: The Horrible Nights
500 hours game: Hero’s Hour (I play a bit almost every night before sleeping on my steam deck)
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 seriously doubt there’ll be meaningful DLC and that the story will be long/entertaining. See the critically acclaimed RDR2,has no big DLC. I doubt it’ll ever come down to $20
I suspect it’ll be a vehicle to push GTA Online 6 or whatever. Even with that, it’ll still be $100. I also doubt it’ll come to steam till 5 years down the line. These are usual Rockstar & 2K shenanigans.
Not being cynical, being (relatively) realistic. Rockstar has a track record of demanding exorbitant prices & fans paying them.
I don’t HAVE to play the game. If they don’t price it in a way that I’ll buy it, then I just won’t buy it.
I’ve never bought a lot of games, heck I don’t buy MOST games. I buy games that I’m interested in, when they’re priced in a way that seems reasonable to me. There’s plenty of companies (and individuals) out there who are selling me what I want, for the price I would pay for them.
Most consumers aren’t reasonable consumers like you though. Peer pressure & curiosity is one helluva draw.
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 guess gamers really are walking dollar signs, according to all these folks.
Me in 2028
