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Post-covid inflation proved to companies that customers will pay up regardless because they want it and they want it now, no matter the price. Hell, we laughed at horse armor but microtransactions caught on anyway. Voting with your wallet doesn't work because there are an endless swarm of consoomers itching to blow their money on product.

Do not preorder anything ever

Kind of random but I hope they do the game comparisons not just with GTA 4 & 5 but also GTA clones like Watchdogs or even Cyberpunk 2077.

For all the graphical "upgrades" we've gotten, the physics and dynamic open world has fallen far behind.

What's the point of all that graphic fidelity if NPCs still act like scripted bots from Skyrim?

It does feel like the average person has the self control of a toddler.

So I was watching JoeFromSeattle and he basically has an observation/theory from repeatedly interacting with these people on Twitter.

... They literally do not count themselves as 'gamers', they use the word to identify others.

These are the people who buy Madden/FIFA every year, every COD, every Battlefield, and assume everyone does that, to the point of projecting it without realizing it and then not believing you if you say you didn't do that as well.

... they are very often illiterate, cannot understand sentences above roughly Grade 5 complexity, always assume they are correct and work backwards to attempt to form a justification for whatever they've decided is corrrect.

... they're morons.

Like just... complete fucking morons.

And that's not an insult, its simply accurate.

I'm out. I know that it wont amount to much in the grand scheme of things. I switched from a pure Playstation background (owned 1 through 5 on release day and had hundreds of games for each generation) over to PC. I wont partake in this, and I have spent thousands of hours with GTA.

Between Playatation being shitty and now Rockstar being extra shitty, I'm out.

GTA5 was out for like three years on PC before I bothered with it. I found it to be... fairly mediocre. There's nothing in GTA6 that would make me feel otherwise. I'll eventually play it... at great discount, or not at all.

People have the power to shut down bad practices if they had even a modicum of restraint. They don't, so here we are.

GTA 6 won't come out for Linux. So not buying it is easy

Is rockstar owned by Sony?

I still haven't played GTA 4 or 5. I own them (got 'em cheap long after release) but I haven't gotten around to playing them yet. Maybe by the time I have GTA 6 will be a reasonable price.

Remember the words of Guybrush Threepwood:

I'll be honest, I haven't touched a GTA since Vice City on the PC.

GTA is the exact same formula since GTA3.

Sure you get a different story, visual upgrades, and some newer cars. But you're not paying for a new gaming experience, it's essentially become what people made fun of CoD or Nintendo games for.

In that sense you'll get the same thrills from past games. That's also why I didn't give a shit about anything past 3, because I like to play new games not reskins.

I think it's only survived because it is in this niche of socially acceptable "cool" games. You can admit to playing GTA to almost anyone and your not as much a "gamng nerd", but if you like a fantasy RPG your some basement dwelling dweeb. Honestly they are not all that different from each other.

Or

Buy official or pirated physical disc media, pay $0 after optional initial purchase, forever own purchased or pirated+torrented movies

You have to protect your rights, no one else will

I'm not sure why we're surprised.

This entire gen has had spotty coverage of physical games at the best of times. Even on the biggest titles.

Just off the top of my head BG3 wasn't even available on disc, and Indiana Jones was only in some overpriced collector's edition.

I guess the odd way GTA6 is putting a code in a box is grabbing the headlines, rather than it just not being available on a disc.

Confucius say: Do not lament the bootlicker giving over their paycheck to Rockstar for their entry price to microtaxation. Celebrate instead the indie game that fulfilled your dream of slapping Nazis with a trout.