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Gamers, our response?
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If it on EBT we ain gon have a problem
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GTA6 is going to be wokeslop. The creators of GTA have all left the company and the GTA Online dlc is cringe garbage written by women. I hope it is $130 too because that would be hilarious. Anyone blindly buying this game at launch will get what they deserve.
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>>734152930
I wasn't going to buy it regardless of the price
I have the first five with various spinoffs in my library for years now from a bundle deal, I tried the first one briefly and it's just like an old equivalent of a top down flash game
I will maybe play or try them all in order sometime before I die
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Ok?
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I'm patient enough to wait for a sale.
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>>734152930
I’ll tell you exactly what will happen.
GTA VI will just barely get away with it because it’s GTA but internally profits will be lower than expected.
Then every other AAA game will think charging $100+ is now the new norm, raise their prices and every one of these new releases will giga-flop because they aren’t GTA and thus this slow excruciating AAA vidya crash will finally kick into full gear with dozens of studios shuttering back to back.
Recovery from said crash will not even begin until after the semi related AI crash runs its course.
tl;dr
Vidya economy is gonna suck even more than it already does for years.
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Yes, this one is very powerful......however.
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They are right.
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I didn't buy V until it was like 80% off lol
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I wasn't buying games full price at 60 what makes you think I'm buying at full price when it's over double?
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Vidya is a product that cost close to nothing to manufacture after R&D phrase is finished so if they're gonna price it at 130 bux they have to hope over 50% of potential buyers of the 70 dollar game will paypigmaxx and that's just for the base game, there's lost profit from mtx too.
It's better to sneak in that 80 dollar, maybe even 90 dollar price tag and rake billions rather than be too greedy for no reason.
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>130 bucks for 25 year old uncslop that's been milked to hell and back with gtaonline since 2010
Plenty of people would, I'm not that retarded though and have a huge steam and emulation backlog that will probably see me through to my deathbed. There's nothing worth playing anymore and I'm not spending any more money on it.
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Remember when 130 for a game used to get you the game, a poster, a statue, and a collectors art book? + Some extra in-game cosmetics? Now it gets you a digital download that will barely run at launch
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All kidding aside you have a point, back when GTA V came out truly open-world games were rare and most shooting games took place in hallways, and there was no equivalent to GTA online. Since the early 2010s, the entire Payday series was born, lived, and died doing the same shit as GTA V heists. There's a trillion open world sloppa games now and so many multiplayer shooting games that even F2P games die and get ridiculed on release. I have a feeling GTA VI won't have legs, it'll sell a gorillion copies on novelty but then everyone will return to their GAAS slop afterwards because a proper single player game can't compete with the gacha tier skinner boxes that are prolific these days.
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riendly reminder Gamefly still exists and has a free trial.
Just set up a free trial and play it, buy it when it drops to a sane price.
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>>734152930
>investors
pffff... lmao
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>>734154725
OT but your post reminded me of the awful special edition steelbook of GTA V
just give me the basic GTA grid man
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>>734154803
>back when GTA V came out truly open-world games were rare
GTA 3, VC, SA, IV AND there were spin-offs and other gta clones and super hero open world games. Protype, Spider-man, Transformers etc.
The genre was oversaturatred back then too.
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>>734154874
Truth, being an absolute rube gets you massive izzat
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I feel like when GTA V came out, open world games were still getting bigger and bigger in scope. You could see generational progress between each game and when compared to lesser clones and spinoffs. Nowadays open worlds have hit a wall, they're actually too big and it gets annoying. So R* can't be like "oooh we have the biggest map evar!!11" because that doesn't mean shit anymore. Nor can they hook players with "infinite replayability!!" because everything is designed around that now, even phone games.
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VI is gonna feel so dull when players have to abandon their V online billionaire special forces crimelord supervillian avatars with their bunkers and secret lairs full of Oppressors and stealth superjets and swap it for some gay bonnie and clyde singleplayer shit written by millennials who cycle through 12 different pronouns in a single work day
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Roblox
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>>734152930
We've gone from
>Everyone will be buying GTA VI
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>Even normie adjacent circles no longer care about the game
If I'm not buying games that I'm marginally interested in for 60$, why the fuck would I pay [the equivalent of what I spend in a year on games] for GTA VI?
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>>734152930
They are right.
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>>734153059
And even for free, it's not really worth it. Except to show off the graphics.
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>>734152930
It's the beginning of the "fake luxury" era of gaming, people who can't afford their lifestyle trying to show off how rich they are and writing off any criticism of constantly rising AAA prices as sour grapes.
Indies will continue to grow, of course, but AAA is going to start trying to do something about it, like lobbying for making all games required to be ESRB rated even off of consoles
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>>734152930
It's lightning in a bottle. I'm sure it'll do amazing just like Concord, and Highguard!
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I haven't bought a GTA game since San Andreas.
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>>734152930
If you think it's too pricey there's zero reason to buy it at release when it's going to be half off in a year.
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>>734156840
I unironically have this mindset for small indie devs and amateur companies run by real human beans. But I'm not giving money to 2K corporate vampires and their investors. I don't care if it's $150 or $50 or even $20, I just feel like retarded cattle if I pay them.
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>watch a youtube video that speculates on the GTA VI delay
>tl;dr they've been watching these wokeslop games from other devs lose millions and they realized if they do the same thing they are going to suffer immense financial loss and their budget is already through the roof
>so they're re-writing everything to get rid of the cringe woke shit
>the evidence for this was the fact that all the founders were gone and most of the devs/writers are women now
>and these women wrote the stories for the most recent GTA online content and... well you can watch it for yourself it is genuine cringe OVERLOAD
If the game is good, I get to have fun playing it
If the game is bad, I get to have fun watching Rockstar burn
Either way, I win
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GTA6 has taken so long to develop that its core audience-- edgy pre-teens-- did not have a GTA game come out since they were born.
Also, this game will probably be a bestseller for its release year, and still not break even. Just have a think about that.
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>>734152930
>Get bored of SP and hop on GTAO2 because of the sunk cost of a $130 game or payment plan
>Get beanboozled by the Oppressor Mk4 while doing a mission that gives chump change
It'll go on sale pretty quickly
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>>734157665
the rest of the audience is also already served with GTAO where they can have shitty wars about who has the most p2w vehicles to blow each other up with
I'm not sure how much staying power 6 will have unless they shut down GTAO
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>>734157729
The evidence he provided was the GTA online content which has cringe DEI writing all over it, and these are the same writers doing 6 so logically it would make sense that the quality of the writing would be equally as dogshit.
There was also a leaked memo about them "toning down the mocking of transgender people who used to be the butt of every joke in previous games" which made people go "welp..."
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>>734157731
You're both completely unaware of the project lead saying they needed to scrap a hell of a lot because "trump got re-elected and wasn't supposed to"
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>>734152930
>rich people are literally calling you cucks now and know you'll buy their faggot games full of trannies and pro israel BS
>you'll cry about it on the internet and buy it anyways
accurate, i'm glad I don't play video games anymore.
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>clickbait that's nearly a year old
>123 bumps and counting
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The retarded thing is new GPUs wont be out by then because of the AI shit. I'll still have the 5th fastest regular consumer GPU by the time gta 6 is out.
It's going to run like ass on anything weaker than a 5070Ti/4080 and it won't be running good with all the graphics on those.
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>"investors believe"
>game industry is now confronting the fact that people no longer buy games that cost 70 dollars
You don't hate shareholders enough
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My favorite part about GTA6 is how they're delaying the PC release just to avoid it being a repeat of MH Wilds' release, while forgetting the fact that they're falling on a different trap because there's no way people who aren't insane will buy a PS5 just to play GTA.
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I haven't pirated a game in a long time since Steam is so convenient but GTA 6 may be the exception
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>I'm gonna skip GTA innit?
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>3 years of people bitching about it going to $287924729 a copy just for it to be $70 because these companies make most of their money off mtx and get more mtx sales by just charging the standard price and getting more players
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how the fuck did we go from Ryder, Catalina, Frank Tenpenny to pic related man
even the supposedly cringe characters like Zero or OG Loc were funny and had personality
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>mfw these articles exist to trick NPCs into thinking that $70 is a cheaper, fairer price and that it "could of totally definitely been $200 but you're lucky we're so generous to make it $70" and it worked
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This is my response.
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>Industry tried to push $80 games as a standard
>The only one that sold was Mario Kart World, which was bundled in with the fucking Switch 2
I'd actually like to see them try this. The industry is in a downtown. People are not buying games. GTA VI should be massive, but charging that much could fuck things up severely for them.
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The weird thing is, all the most profitable games are F2P, and on as many platforms as possible.
With this game they're jacking up the price and locking it down to consoles only.
I think they just have an outdated worldview. They're using 20th century marketing and sales tactics, that shit doesn't make the big bucks anymore. It's all about the attention economy now, getting your game in as many hands as possible ASAP = infinite money. Upfront costs paradoxically mean a massive revenue loss, because you lose out on whales that would've been hooked if they tried the game.
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>GTA VI will cost $80!
>What do you mean you won't buy it for $100?
>It's an absolute steal at $130, if you consider the quality put into it
I think I can live without dropping $150 on GTA VI.
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haven't even played a GTA game since san andreas
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they won't even be releasing it for my platform for another year and a half
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I spent like $100 on the Monster Hunter Wilds deluxe edition, and it didn't even come with all the after launch dlc.
So I've learnt my lesson, all ready.
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GTA 5 was boring. RDR 1 and 2 are their best games by far. I'm not bothered, this franchise is not that interesting now that every single game is open world. GTA only stood out 22 years ago because it was one a kind.
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>>734153797
There's never going to be an AI crash. It is more likely that the game industry dies and a new generation grows up able to easily generate any game they want. These fags are making it easy to embrace AI.
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>it's not launching on PC
History repeats itself with every GTA released on PC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9l6Z8wslsI
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They will use the same proprietary DRM that RDR 2 and GTA Trilogy Definitive have been using, which will be cracked in 6 months to a year
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Yum yum, goyslop.I would rather just play the heists with my pals on GTAV.
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Broke: Not buying GTA VI because you're poor
Woke: Not buying GTA VI because you don't support the price
Bespoke: Not buying GTA VI because you never saw a reason to buy a PS5 or Xbox Series at any point in the first place.
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As someone who hasn't bought a Rockstar game since RDR 1, I think I'll be fine
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It probably won't cost that much because the real cash cow is Online. Copies sold matters to the bottom line, of course, but online microtransactions are going to be what makes them the lion's share of the money when it's all said and done.
All in all it'll definitely be closer to $100 than $60, but I don't think they're going to jump to $130 and say "well it's ok because it's a big game".
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I don't think the majority of people will have a machine that can even run this game. It will probably require something absurd like most bloatware being above the 1000 range in rtxs or whatever they are called. All because they can't resist rendering every ass sweat droplet live.
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>what kind of fucking idiot thinks GTA6 was going to be super politically-correct
are you dumb? They said themselves they're moving away from "that edgy, childish humor" because "its not 2012 anymore"
if you expect anything edgier from GTA6 than "NAZIS BAD" and "RACISM BAD" then you're dumb, man
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Good thing this shit is console only for a while.
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RDR2 sold itself as le gritty tale of outlaw cowboys and hid all the feminism and diversity pandering well beyond the refund window, everyone already knows GTA6 will be about le strong latinx womyn and her dumb white male sidekick help oppressed blacks to murder cops and steal from evil capitalist businesses.
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It’s one of the only games where you can kill civs
As soon as they take this away from GTA and TES or Fallout, the series dies
We just want to kill normal people, that’s it, every game that skirts letting you do that faces intense censorship from mad old hags
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While I really really hope this happens, I don't see how charging 100 or more for AAA releases would kill any company.
Cause games of Concord-shit levels would die anyways, so no changes there; good games would sell less but since you gain more for each copy you might find a new demand/offer equilibrium.
The only effect would be on those games that barely rise up to success, but in AAA space this is already considered a failure
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There is one who is seen naked tied up near the end and a mysterious naked girl described to be 12 who appears at the same camp and is protected from natives by the Judge lifting artillery. Both (maybe the same girl) aren't mentioned again after they are mentioned so it isn't that clear what happens to them or where they came from, but that is a recurring theme in the book and I feel makes it more interesting. The book in general is full of interesting one line elements like this.
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“AI Crash” doesn’t mean AI as a technology going away, just like the “dot com crash” didn’t mean websites going away.
When people talk about the AI bubble they’re talking about the tech bro retards spending literally trillions of dollars without any possible return on investment to be seen anywhere.
The people with giant warehouses filled with Ram and GPUs for hypothetical data centers that haven’t even started being built yet.
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Honestly, GTAV ran like trash on PS3 and I expect GTAVI run like trash on PS5.
So I'm waiting for the PS6 and/or PC version before I buy and play the game. And it's not gonna be at full price if it'll indeed cost over 100€.
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I have no desire
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The sound of wallets not opening equates to tears?
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This would work except for the fact that most people who talk about a bubble or whatever are anti AI types who mostly mention it implying they think it is going to make it go away or btfo the average AI user. AI is never leaving the internet nor software development and is realistically only going to get more sophisticated. If a crash happens that cause multiple excess companies to collapse it isn't going to really change much unless you work at one of the companies or invested in it. It is rather pointless to bring up over and over again.
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>It is rather pointless to bring up over and over again.
We’re talking about the video game industry and price points thereof. You’re retarded or lying if you don’t think the GPU/RAM shortage isn’t directly related at this point.
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If they sell it for more than 60 bucks they are crazy to risk half the playerbase to watch the story on YouTube and play something else afterwards.
I mean how much difference will multiplayer gameplay be on GTA6? It will be exactly the same as GTA5 but with less content. So after watching the story for free what's the point of spending money?
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No one gives a fuck about story in GTA. But yeah you are right, I would make it $70 since that seems to be the standard nowadays. Rockstar just don't need to worry about short term profits, this shit will be around and will sell like hotcakes for generations, plus getting more people on online matters way more.
Anyone "predicting" the standard edition will cost anything more than a regular AAA game is retarded.
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>mfw PCfags will never, EVER get GTA VI
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>>734153009
fpbp
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they saw nintard subhuman cultists not just buying or defending the prices, but also bragging about more of their money going to a greedy corporation
they were spot on about their observation
legends za is like $120 already if you count the $10 upgrade pack, $20 mandatory online and $30 dlc
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i only play for the story, i used to roam the city in singleplayer but the retards removed things to find like kill frenzy challenges.
my prediction is 70 bucks on consoles because they are starved for games and have rolled over on price increases.
60 bucks on PC when it releases there later, as well as a 30 bucks multiplayer-only version of the game that won't be available on consoles.
most expensive "special edition" will be 200 bucks on all platforms.
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It'll at most be 70. If anything they could sell it at 30 and make more money. Their money comes from the online, which is going to be a lot more in depth than 5.
Rockstar had no clue of how much their online would rake in cash. Now the game will actually be made for it, unlike 5 where every add on was pretty clunky
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>normalfaggots are strapped for cash because of a fucked economy
>can't upgrade their PCs because part prices are through the roof
>GTA6 comes out for an audience that can't afford it nor play it
Sadly enough I can bet on normalfaggots taking out loans to buy this and upgrade their rigs
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>ONLY $130
>plus tax
>plus tip
>plus mandatory payment of $400 across the consoles lifespan to play the system online using the internet you pay for in your own home
>plus VAT
>plus fuel
>plus online MTX
The jews were right, goyim aren't worth shit
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ngl i maybe would
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i think gamers will buy because for some god damn reason all the nigger brained normies collectively decided this gay ass series is the pinnacle of gaming. the gta games have always been shit and the only reason people like them is because all americans are inherently bad people who want to loot and commit violent crimes.
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>implying thatll impact it
lmao
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this. i do a 5 second review, upload it to my youtube channel and write it off as a business expense. my business literally never makes money and its only expenses is...well, everything i buy lol, so its a net loss every year and i claim the max back.
doing nothing but buying what i normally buy lol
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Even as a fan of GTA I don't even understand what I'm meant to want GTA6 for or be excited about.
For what reason should I want to play GTA6 over all the GTAs I already have? Why wouldn't I just play more GTA5 or Vice City? They've shown no fucking gameplay.
I'm not going to pay full fucking price just to get different names on the streets. I need something that's actually meaningfully different, and you know, fun. Something interesting yet distinct enough to warrant the pricetag.