• Caveman
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    317 hours ago

    Patience, the price will drop and the game will be just as good

      • SGG
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        19 hours ago

        Yes, but then ask you need to do it continue to wait for a sale or reduction in price. The patient gamer life has definitely grown on me, with a few exceptions like helldivers 2

  • @[email protected]
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    318 hours ago

    Even if GTAVI launched on PC at a normal price, it would still be worth it to wait. You can get it on sale, and the game will have been fixed, and there will even be content updates.

    Patient gamers, people. Don’t even think about release dates. Early access? Advanced access? What the hell do I care? There are still NES games I should get around to.

    • @[email protected]
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      112 hours ago

      Content update? You mean online mode updates? All single player will get is a radio station downgrade after a year or so.

      This will be the first GTA I don’t preorder or play on day one.

  • @[email protected]
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    how 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

    • @[email protected]
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      31 day ago

      Yup, it’s always the same model, pretty sure with the precise (and likely not incorrect) assumption that at least some amount of people will buy it twice at full price if they do that.

    • Doom
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      162 days ago

      Besides you don’t wanna buy it at release

      Haven’t any of these people learned?

    • @[email protected]
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      72 days ago

      Not me! I’ve never paid enough attention to rockstar to have realized they were stuck in the 2000s :(

  • InfiniteGlitch
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    322 days ago

    Honestly, 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.

    • LiveLM
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      142 days ago

      100 bucks for a game, lmao.
      Surprised they didn’t skip the middle man and made it subscription only already

      • @[email protected]
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        Tbh 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.

  • Jerkface (any/all)
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    What 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.

  • @MyDarkestTimeline01
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    21 day ago

    I find it extremely hard to empathize with PC players from the mountains of PC only games that have never come to consoles.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 day ago

      You always develop games on PC. From there you create builds for PC and Consoles, but the console build step is not easily achievable. You need to go through a lot of hoops to get a game on console. Oh and you’ll spend a lot of money to get there.

      And does it really make sense as a solo indie dev to release your game exclusively on one console?

      Bottom line consoles intentionally don’t make it easy to publish to. PC is as easy as making an itchio account and uploading your games there.

      • @MyDarkestTimeline01
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        120 hours ago

        And you may notice, I didn’t say that it was. I said I found it hard to feel empathy for PC players as they stand on a literal mountain of PC only games.

        • @[email protected]
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          220 hours ago

          Yes and I just wanted to point out that this isn’t a choice of the devs (most of the time) but rather consoles being a walled garden.

          Because I think it’s unfair to say that you shouldn’t have empathy for PC gamers just because they have so many games already. Do the 100 indie games I can buy for <5€ really make up for the inability to play GTA6 or Death Stranding 2 (early)?

          Console exclusivity always hurts the consumer and is, in my opinion, a legacy practice.

  • @[email protected]
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    332 days ago

    If 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      92 days ago

      RDR2 pc release was 13 months later and GTA5 pc release 17 months later. I wouldn’t be surprised if it takes at least 2 years with GTA6.

      • @[email protected]
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        22 days ago

        Probably not because GTA6 is planned to release on pc so they will do most of the work beforehand and the xbox is basically a glorified stripped down windows OS.

    • Ephera
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      102 days ago

      Well, 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 days ago

      And NOTHING HAS CHANGED in twenty years - yeah? Not a fucking thing that should shift how they release games. Consoles are still sooo different from PCs, with their AMD x64 CPUs and AMD RDNA GPUs.

      • LiveLM
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        52 days ago

        OK but Take Two is greedy as all hell. Their previous launches taught them that gamers are willing to double-dip so why would they pass up on the opportunity to earn twice?

  • @[email protected]
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    52 days ago

    I 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.

  • @[email protected]
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    423 days ago

    How 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.

  • DudeImMacGyver
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    272 days ago

    That just means I’ll buy GOTY edition for $5 years later if I buy it at all lol

  • @[email protected]
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    312 days ago

    If you don’t already have a console it isn’t worth buying. If it ever gets ported to PC you should wait a year or two for all the inevitable bugs to get worked out and possibly an upscale mod as well.

    If you can’t wait that long then I’ve a hell of a real estate deal for you where that money would be better spent.

    • @[email protected]
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      122 days ago

      GTA games always get ported to PC. I don’t understand why people think that VI will be any different. Y’all do this with every new release.

      We’ll be playing this game on PC by Q4 2026, spring 2027 at the very latest.

  • Ulrich
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    92 days ago

    Consoles are glorified DRM machines so it’s no wonder, really.