So who’s paying $100 for GTA 6 then?

[tpuuser256]

GTA 5 was so bad I'm glad the game was gifted to me and I didn't spend any of my own money on it. You couldn't pay me to play GTA 6 and I won't let anyone spend their own money trying to gift me a copy of it.

TL;DR - Not paying for it.

What was so bad ? You seem to have tried the previous gamed so I wonder how much changed.

 

[kilo]

I will not be buying GTA 6 at all. 5's story was just three men yelling at each other for the entire game with too few fun missions.

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

Every one of those stories is pathetic BS that exists merely to provide a thin veneer of justification for the gameplay, which is:

• open-world
• drive vehicles
• shoot guns

I mean, those are game mechanics, there's lots of games that do this. Doesnt make them bad games, just means you are not a fan of open world action games. Which is fine, we all have preferences.

• make fun of American societal tropes because Americans think that is edgy and cool

A healthy culture and society can make fun of itself and poke at its own social issues.

• black characters say the N-word excessively because Americans think that is edgy and cool

You've never hung out in a majority black area in the USA, have you? It's not because it's "edgy and cool", its an accurate representation of conversation, especially for low income neighborhoods and gangster/criminal types, which is what GTA depicts. If they didnt do that, they'd be accused of sanitizing the criminal element of a game focused on committing felonies faster then you can count them. Criminals are not well known for eloquent speech or broad grammar.

To me it's like the complaining over mean words from trash talkers in Call of Duty, a game about *checks notes* brutally gunning down an entire small nations worth of people for fun. It just doesnt make sense to me to complain about it.

 

[Dr. Dro]

I disagree, you're playing a gacha game with digital waifus, you knew going in this was a risk

On a related tangent, what happened to anime waifus in your avatar? Most interesting man in the world is boooring

True, that. Qiqi needs a vacation, she'll be back soon. What happened is that TPU lately makes me want to drink. It's become that depressive. From delusion to desperation, the place pretty much got completely toxic, and it started to get to me. I can't wait for this GPU launch season to end. Which is when I'll be back posting regularly, I guess.

 

[Solaris17]

I only wanted to play single player portion of it.

Same zero interest in multiplayer or online.

 

[Assimilator]

What happened is that TPU lately makes me want to drink. It's become that depressive. From delusion to desperation, the place pretty much got completely toxic, and it started to get to me. I can't wait for this GPU launch season to end. Which is when I'll be back posting regularly, I guess.

I understand entirely.

 

[chrcoluk]

GTA5 they abandoned single player DLC, I expect they are going to mllk MP like crazy. The Roleplay craze I expect fuelled a lot of sales.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Who’s going to pay that then, think it will be worth it?

Not here. Even if it was $60 I would pass. I am not paying a premium price for a game that will then require a monthly subscription.

 

[R-T-B]

Is it milking if people actively want it?

It can be yeah. Cows don't have to dislike being milked.

 

[dont whant to set it"']

PC gamer here, I might get the game during a holiday/bf sale in the year it's launched, you know in "5" years time when it eventually gets released for PC.

Faint chance I buy a previous gen console and the game, depending on performance consistency (60FPS).

Interested in the single player story line side of it.

 

[Shou Miko]

One of my friends yesterday talked about rumours that Rockstar could split up the single player and online part so you have to buy them both if you want the whole experience

This take wouldn't be bad for me since I do not play GTA Online today and I tried it once didn't really interest me but if this split is real I do hope Rockstar doesn't neglet the single player side as they have done with V.

 

[neatfeatguy]

What was so bad ? You seem to have tried the previous gamed so I wonder how much changed.

Probably because it was just more of the same from the previous games. Kind of like Saints Row, first couple were pretty good and then playing the same rehashed stuff over and over again and calling it "new" became tediously boring. GTA3 was entertaining and the next entry - was it Vice City? - was okay. Then it was the more of the same in the next release and so on. Perhaps "bad" isn't the right word to use, maybe uninspiring or dull or bland would be more fitting of a description.

 

[Ayhamb99]

The sad reality is that even if they launch it at that kind of outrageous price, unfortunately it will still sell like hot cakes because the anticipation for this game has reached Half life 3 levels of hype in the past couple of years. The average gamer nowadays don't give 2 craps about if they get ripped off or not, and due to that fact if the game sells like hot cakes, every single scummy publisher will follow suit and will price their games at $100, which would mean it would be €110 since in the U.S they don't include taxes with the final price.

The last time I paid full price for an AAA game was back in 2023 with the Dead space remake because that was the last game I was so excited for that I bought it around launch time and that was €60, the only game so far that I am very excited for in this year is DOOM The Dark Ages, and that game will cost me €80 now which is so outrageous that despite my excitement I will not buy it on launch despite me being a huge DOOM fan.

 

[Upgrayedd]

The sad reality is that even if they launch it at that kind of outrageous price, unfortunately it will still sell like hot cakes because the anticipation for this game has reached Half life 3 levels of hype in the past couple of years. The average gamer nowadays don't give 2 craps about if they get ripped off or not, and due to that fact if the game sells like hot cakes, every single scummy publisher will follow suit and will price their games at $100, which would mean it would be €110 since in the U.S they don't include taxes with the final price.

The last time I paid full price for an AAA game was back in 2023 with the Dead space remake because that was the last game I was so excited for that I bought it around launch time and that was €60, the only game so far that I am very excited for in this year is DOOM The Dark Ages, and that game will cost me €80 now which is so outrageous that despite my excitement I will not buy it on launch despite me being a huge DOOM fan.

I don't see why people think that. Other games don't have the following that GTA has. Look at Skull and Bones, massive budget, years and years of development and they raised the retail price and nobody bought it. There's too many major flops.

Good games get bought, period. $60 for a remake is laughable. $80 for a single player only slow motion doom game is laughable. They made it much slower and there is now ZERO multiplayer. The failure of a mp mode that was in Doom eternal convinced ID that doom doesn't need mp when 2016 had amazing mp. To me doom is DOA because of that. Can't even enjoy it with a friend.

 

[phanbuey]

$100 is like one night out.

GTA 6 is 200 hours+ of entertainment... it's not terrible unit of fun/$. I'll prolly still wait for a sale though - I'm cheap.

 

[lilhasselhoffer]

I don't see why people think that. Other games don't have the following that GTA has. Look at Skull and Bones, massive budget, years and years of development and they raised the retail price and nobody bought it. There's too many major flops.

Good games get bought, period. $60 for a remake is laughable. $80 for a single player only slow motion doom game is laughable. They made it much slower and there is now ZERO multiplayer. The failure of a mp mode that was in Doom eternal convinced ID that doom doesn't need mp when 2016 had amazing mp. To me doom is DOA because of that. Can't even enjoy it with a friend.

Math.

It's amazing that you need this explained, but math. The industry is inefficient. It spends enormous amounts of money on consultation, insane amounts on marketing, and the corporate structures are now megalithic. In other industries this leads to collapse and break-ups of the companies. In the games industry it leads people to eat up any development studio with success, milk that until the IP dies with exceedingly poor quality titles, and then redistribute the talent to work on the next vampire operation...while executives commission more consultation to have their shovelware spread out to even more people in the vain attempt to perpetuate toxic behavior.

This is why the industry claims that it's absolutely penniless to pay code monkeys, and terminal a-holes like Kotick and John Riccitiello constantly make record profits. They then announce mass layoffs of the studio that just made them enormous amounts of money, and decide on hare-brained schemes like a per installation fee... Seriously, it makes my blood boil that these monsters failed upwards to make this industry a joke. Back on topic.

Do you maybe get it? The people making the financial decisions are waiting for somebody to broach the $79.99 base price border. There may be a few failures, but instead of restructuring their parasitism they want us to pay for it. You don't have to be efficient if you suddenly get 14% more profit per sale. You don't have to stop making a single game designed to cater to everyone. Heck, you can just expand things a little more, and make that pyramid scheme go a little farther for a few more years, eating those last few profitable companies until the monolith is all that remains. What do you do when your greed is impossible to perpetuate? You crash.


I can appreciate that you think quality sells. I think that Walmart killed that sentiment in the 90's. I think that planned obsolescence has snuffed out what little life remained. I think that you believing that your dollars do not speak is...very much a personal choice. I also disrespect anyone who will believe that RockStar needs to up the price, when the vast majority of their profits come from almost no effort cosmetics that could make the game free to play and still have them printing cash. I don't believe they'd leave that money on the table, and given Take2 are their publisher I know they'd be greedy enough to ask for that extra money knowing that it's never going to benefit the people working on it...it'll only enrich the upper strata of the management, who probably couldn't program a calculator. Despite that, they are entirely qualified to sell all of us their inefficiency.
-insert joke about the movie, and music, industry doing the exact same...and noting their greed collapsed those industries-




Oh course, you didn't do any of this. Cripes. You presumably watched Idiocracy. Did you not pick-up on the same thing happening, where stupid outbred smart, and those that could do good found it infinitely more enriching to research hair care drugs than to cure cancer? Well, the gaming industry is skipping on curing the cancer in their business model while researching how to make paid gatcha mechanics in full priced games. That's why people are angry that RockStar would do something like this. Their success, because they release once a decade, will embolden worse behavior from developers who release yearly.
Screw the fact that Raven is in the CoD mines...and that's all the more I can offer.

 

[Ayhamb99]

I don't see why people think that. Other games don't have the following that GTA has. Look at Skull and Bones, massive budget, years and years of development and they raised the retail price and nobody bought it. There's too many major flops.

Good games get bought, period. $60 for a remake is laughable. $80 for a single player only slow motion doom game is laughable. They made it much slower and there is now ZERO multiplayer. The failure of a mp mode that was in Doom eternal convinced ID that doom doesn't need mp when 2016 had amazing mp. To me doom is DOA because of that. Can't even enjoy it with a friend.

I don't get why everyone is saying the new game looks slow, the same exact thing was said with the eternal trailer because of the original gameplay reveal speed, perhaps wait until the game actually comes out before judging the game based upon a trailer where they usually take their time and don't rush in order to show the world itself and all mechanics without making it so fast that watcher won't be able to keep up, and DOOM The Dark Ages, A game from a franchise that people mainly buy for the single player campaign in the past decade, is DOA due to it being single player focused according to you, nice one. The 2016 multiplayer was generic and underwhelming, unlike the single player which stayed true to its origins which was the 1990s doom games, the multiplayer fails to do that and was a failed attempt at "modernising" arena shooters.

As for the Dead Space Remake, did you even bother to look at the game itself before disregarding it that fast, the game reworks and provides an improvement/evolution of literally everything from the original game with only slight issues in the story with the inferior voice acting of some of the side characters.