Jerkface (any/all) ( @jerkface@lemmy.ca ) English32•20 days agoWhat is this, 2005? No one should be losing sleep over GTA6. Just more iterating over the same thing that surely was awesome more than 20 years ago, but today? They are such a victim of their own success, they can no longer afford to take the risks required to continue to innovate.
Viri4thus ( @Viri4thus@feddit.org ) English21•21 days agoHow do imbeciles of this calibre get jobs as writers for a large public is beyond me. The editor who approved this is very much to blame too. This level of trash is easily replaced by AI, don’t complain when you get replaced when the only thing you produce is indistinguishable from AI generated slop to rage bait some nerds.
PS: Donate to Raymond, uBlock origin is a gift to humanity.
obbeel ( @obbeel@lemmy.eco.br ) English4•20 days agoIt isn’t that bad. It also stated new facts to me, like that GTA is owned by Take-Two.
Viri4thus ( @Viri4thus@feddit.org ) English8•20 days agoHave you been living under a rock for the past 15y?
Artyom ( @Artyom@lemm.ee ) English21•20 days agoIf you weren’t 100% certain that GTA6 would release as a console exclusive at launch initially, you’re an idiot. This is how Rockstar has launched every game since the Xbox 360. Furthermore, I can assure you the PC release will come about a year later, and will be the buggiest mess ever launched for the first month.
Ephera ( @Ephera@lemmy.ml ) English8•20 days agoWell, my initial reaction was “What year is it?”. As far as I’m aware, this practice has largely fallen out of favor in the industry. And it’s been more than a decade since the last GTA release, so their stance might have changed in a similar vein, or at least their management would have likely changed.
Appoxo ( @Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English2•20 days agoSee RDR2: No.
InfiniteGlitch ( @ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English19•20 days agoHonestly, I, personally, don’t think it is worth to purchase a console just for the game. Thus waiting is worth it.
Rumor goes that the game will be €100 on launch. So €550 for console and €100 for one game. That’s crazy.
root ( @root@aussie.zone ) English11•20 days agoAdd to that a monthly subscription just to play online. Even crazier.
LiveLM ( @LiveLM@lemmy.zip ) English8•20 days ago100 bucks for a game, lmao.
Surprised they didn’t skip the middle man and made it subscription only already Appoxo ( @Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English2•20 days agoTbh it’s fair if the quality and the (useful) amount of €/h of entertainment fits.
If it’s 75% go drive here, go deliver there from a story going for 100h and maybe 25% of it is actually exciting contetn, I’ll pass and wait for the >50% off.
DudeImMacGyver ( @DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth ) 17•20 days agoThat just means I’ll buy GOTY edition for $5 years later if I buy it at all lol
TonyTonyChopper ( @TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz ) English7•20 days agoI’ll buy it for $0 when the PS5 gets emulation in Linux, just like Bloodborne
steal_your_face ( @steal_your_face@lemmy.ml ) English4•20 days agoFitgirl repack should happen before then
tiredofsametab ( @tiredofsametab@fedia.io ) 3•20 days agoYup. This is how I treat exclusives.
doingthestuff ( @doingthestuff@lemy.lol ) English3•20 days agoI’ll buy it when but drops to $19.99. probably Steam summer sale 2028.
MonkderVierte ( @MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ) English1•20 days agoFor me it’s $10.
nutsack ( @nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English10•20 days agohow are so many of you forgetting that Rockstar titles are always launched first as console exclusives? My guess is they’re just trying to raise as much money as possible. it will get a PC launch later
Doom ( @Doom@ttrpg.network ) English8•20 days agoBesides you don’t wanna buy it at release
Haven’t any of these people learned?
nutsack ( @nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English2•20 days agoyea
easily3667 ( @easily3667@lemmus.org ) English5•20 days agoNot me! I’ve never paid enough attention to rockstar to have realized they were stuck in the 2000s :(
Appoxo ( @Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English10•20 days agoTo the title question: Yes.
I won’t bother buying a console just for one game. NigelFrobisher ( @NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ) English8•20 days agoJust wait. It’ll be the same as the last one with a slightly different city.
easily3667 ( @easily3667@lemmus.org ) English2•20 days agoThe city shape will be the same, the signs will be different
Ashtear ( @Ashtear@lemm.ee ) English6•20 days agoThis is another of the benefits of patient gaming, avoiding the delays caused by the double-dip fishing Rockstar does with their games. For me, the last three years’ release schedules have been so stacked that they don’t leave much room for temptation or frustration with delays. I’ve always got something to play.
I understand the frustration for the diehard GTA fans, but I would have figured those people moved to console if they weren’t already.
Ulrich ( @Ulrich@feddit.org ) English6•20 days agoConsoles are glorified DRM machines so it’s no wonder, really.
zagaberoo ( @zagaberoo@beehaw.org ) English3•20 days agoWell that and extremely standardized platforms, with all the benefits that entails.
MangoPenguin ( @MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English5•19 days agoBetter off waiting until it’s down to normal game prices anyways.
alessandro ( @alessandro@lemmy.ca ) English3•20 days agoGTAVI will not be just a console exclusive, probably it will become an Epic Store exclusive on PC. There could be tons of useless discussion about what companies shoud or should not do; but in the end, companies exist only to the extend of their customer’s money. T2 strategy paid off, becouse their customer bougt GTAV repetedtly when came on PS3 generation, then PS4, then PS4Pro, then Epic Store and etc. etc.They sold one single AAA multiple time with relatively low effort (definetly not the cost of this many AAA games): their growth was done on their customer’s stupidity, so they now employ the same exact stratgy that works on stupid people… and make money.
Viri4thus ( @Viri4thus@feddit.org ) English2•20 days agoLet’s not ignore the quality of the game itself. CDPR talked big but the best they could muster was gtaIII levels of world dynamics and crowd behaviour. T2 gets away with it because like it or not, gtaV is one of the best games ever made, period!
Otoh, Straus Zelnick deserves to be the middle guy in a human centipede with Kotic at the ass tho.
Lesrid ( @Lesrid@lemm.ee ) English3•20 days agoI used to think simultaneous launch was good and desired. Then the first Monster Hunter simultaneous launch happened this year and now I’m not so sure. A lot of it’s problems were forecasted by the state of Dragon’s Dogma 2 but not to such an extent, I can’t help but wonder if a delay would have helped.