GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch

OK, seriously now: Why bother saying you're going to "release a physical version" that's nothing more than a code inside an empty plastic box? I really don't get it.

I'm already sick of this of this games shit

Contrary to what the industry is hoping, this will not allow other games to sell at $80. Customers are already having a hard time justifying $70.

I was going to buy it in ~5 years on PC for the single player campaign...

But if they're describing it as a "single player experience" it's going to be a shitty offshoot of multiplayer instead of a ring campaign that has a multiplayer slapped on.

It sounds like a minor difference, but it means the entire "experience" is just reskinned multiplayer and will push people there so they spend money.

This one will likely be bad

Oh that was NEVER going to happen. They found out with GTA V and RDR2 that they can triple dip on sales at full price by staggering releases and upgrades. Rockstar will never release everything at the same time again.

Rockstar fired 31 employees for forming a union. If you care about workers rights, now is the time to put your money where your mouth is.

Sadly, I predict a repeat of this classic:

You know the industry has gone downhill when they have to reiterate that it includes a "single-player experience" at launch.

I always thought Grand Theft Auto VI would have a single-player mode, but I guess some people focus more on multiplayer.

This is where everyone complains about the price and then goes out and buys it anyway, letting the industry know they can price gouge us.

The older I get, the more comfortable I am ignoring the hype and just waiting for something to go on sale. I'll wait years now. I don't care. Lots of other games.

I was pretty excited for Dead Island 2. Ended up waiting and waiting and then I got it for free from Epic. Worked out pretty well for me.

I'm also a PC gamer, so I won't even get the opportunity to play GTA6 for another year or two after it comes out on console.

No PC release means I'll play it when it goes on sale for $15 a few years from now. I'd pay full price if it launched on PC but I'm not going to reward Rockstar for this shitty "we know you'll buy it twice" game they play.

$100 if you want:

The entire map / all interactive world locations.

The entire story.

Ability to customize vehicles.

All of the game's vehicles.

All of personal cosmetic customization options, such as clothes, tattoos, makeup, etc.

All of the weapon customization options.

So really, the actual game is $100 dollars, that _does not include Online_, but there's a slimmed down poor person edition available for $80 bucks.

GTA Online 2 or w/e looks like its gonna be a monthly subscription to even access it.

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Oh also there are no physical editions.

None.

All digital, the 'physical' is just a code in a box.

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Now, the actual 'extra' content in the Ultimate Edition is an 80s/Vice City/Miami Vice cosmetic pack.

But the reality is that the broke ass bitch version is a stripped down version of the actual game, which is the Ultimate Edition.

You don't have to be a bad person.

... you can wait untill it comes to PC, we'll get it cracked eventually, at least single player.

Those old GTA 6 alpha leaks are still out there.

I actually had a copy at one point... I'm sure someone still does, and I'm sure examining it can be useful.

But uh yeah, fire a whole bunch of devs right before release?

That's AAA industry standard, been that way for like 15 years now, they basically all do that.

I remember when the entire concept of digital downloads was sold to us as a way to make games cheaper, and the sacrifices we make on physical media, boxes, manuals, pack ins, etc, would ensure those cheaper games still saw devs making more money than they ever would with a physical copy.

I called bullshit on it from the start. I said from the start that their profit margins are gonna be significantly higher, and they have no reason to lower prices becuase gamers are already trained to pay 50 dollars. and I was scoffed and guffawed at, and called a blind fool and a luddite and everything else.

and now we have digital download games that cost 80-100 dollars.

GTA5 made a billion dollars in 3 days.

I fully expect idiotic fucking gamers to make GTA6 earn a billion dollars in half a day, and thus rewarding this shit so spectacularly that every game that follows will also be 80-100 dollars.

And those same gamers will cry.. oh lord will they cry, about the incredulity, willfully oblivious to the fact that its their very fault that it happened.

No physical, no purchase. Period.