Can't use the word "buy" if you can't actually buy the thing.
Tell you what: Finish making the game, patch out all the bugs, add some DLC, and I'll consider paying you $5 for the GOTY edition in a few years. Best I can do.
this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2026
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DLC is shit and ruins game balance in GOTY editions.
Welcome to the game! Here's all this amazing loot you bought! Now your first quest is to kill that rat over there with your brand new Fire Sword. Oh yeah, here's your Anglic Armour and your Awesome Horse Armour. You'll have to lug that around in your inventory for a few hours until you find the horse quest though.
I’m going to disagree with you. Things like Shivering Isles added replay value to Oblivion and, to my memory, didn’t include anything that would overpower you in a new game.
I agree with both of you, I think it comes down to the scope and type of DLC. An expansion size DLC like Shivering Isles tends to fit in nicely with the rest of a game because the developer needs to plan out when and where you can start to access the new stuff, but a lot of smaller DLC like bonus weapons can be integrated pretty poorly because they want you to get the cool little thing you paid money for and it’s easier to put it in a hard to miss chest or just give it to you early on.
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I still havent played GTA5 because I never found the disc cheap enough, at some point I quit looking for it, really sucks GTA4 was the last game from that franchise I'll get to play, but ending physical discs means I will not buy your console game.
I found GTAV at a thrift store for $4.99 several months back. Bought it. Still haven't played it lol
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preorder what?..... what are you reserving anyways?
I assume the standard "I didn't wait to see the reviews" cosmetic that all pre-orders seem to give people these days
You're preordering your bytes, duh! It's well known that companies run out of bytes when there's massive demand and have to order more from the byte farms. If you don't preorder this, the company might not have enough bytes for you and your download could have to wait a long time until they replenish byte stock!
The ability to have it all downloaded and ready to go at launch, I guess. Wouldn't be so bad if the price weren't raised out of blatant greed while simultaneously removing the option to get a sellable license via a disc.
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Why pre order? Would they run out? It makes no sense without a physical copy
So they signed up for that subscription right away! (I do believe if you pre-order your auto enroll for the subscription)
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speak with your wallets sisters and brothers, do not rent this bs
Millions will, and Rockstar will make billions, but don't buy it at launch anyway. Get it on a sale or pirate it when it comes to PC instead.
Once again we all suffer because of the stupid majority. Imagine if everyone closed their wallets to the likes of google, meta, apple, rockstar.
Shame actually works quite well despite what everyone’s been trying to tell us.
In my experience, I'm the one who gets shamed for not being in walled gardens of google/apple/meta when everyone else is. Network effect is powerful
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It’s pretty sad you have to tell people to pirate when honestly no one should be playing it at all. even discussing it helps them. If this is so bad, which I think it is because I’ve quit buying/playing games almost 10 years ago, Then the answer is to not engage.
This isn’t food.
There are so many independent studio/artist making things that desperately need your help in anyway. To read share and engage with their shit. Every minute spent with a major corps bullshit piece of entertainment Is time taken away from the independent artist. Every minute you spend engaging with this complaining or not, helps them.
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Shit article. Counting down to when you can start giving them money for a pre-order we don't even have details about is news!?
But really, if we reward companies for games before they're even released and reviewed, we deserve any and all garbage they decide to give us...
Relax and wait for pirates, especially when PC launch comes 😏
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/488/
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i cant justify spending 80 usd for a game when there are so many amazing games that are free or are under 5 usd
Saw an article a few weeks back that said something about how Rockstar was ensuring availability for the game. Availability? For a download?
Also, why bother pre-ordering? The whole idea of pre-ordering is so that you can ensure you have the game when it comes out because there are limitations on supply meeting demand on the printing of a disc. Again, this is a download. Other than some artificially limited exclusives (which, again, are downloads and will probably be made available again at a later date) there is no reason to pre-order. Unless you want the game to just automatically install for you, I can't think of a real reason for pre-ordering this. (Disclosure: I am old and I practically never download big games--not at launch anyway)
Bro, you don’t get it.
My preorder tells Rockstar that I am okay with them charging the most for the opportunity to rent the game from them while I pay them additional money for multiplayer. It also means that I can preload the game, because I have been conditioned to have 0 patience, and the thought of waiting to give Rockstar more of my time and money hurts me physically.
Let me have this bro. Please. If I spend the equivalent of a weeks worth of groceries on a game that is going to essentially be the same game as the last game, I can finally feel something for a brief moment.
Didn't forget, on PlayStation if you download (even pre-orders) you can't refund it!
So if you buy it and download it now, you don't have to deal with those pesky reviews.
Had me in the first part, ngl
I also don't understand what pre-ordering means nowadays. sometimes they offer you some sort of extra thing, which makes sense. but why would you preorder if you get literally nothing for it
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Bought about 15 games for that much the other day in the GoG sale. Against the Storm is probably my favourite out of the 3 I have played so and will probably keep me going for a while even though I want to play the others too.
GTA6 doesn’t even have a PC release date, correct? Just funny because of the publisher in the screenshot.
Any word on Linux desktop support? Last time I played a Rockstar game was RDR2 on Win10 and somehow my cloud saves through their platform got corrupted.
Open to trying it but wondering if the platform I have will even be an option.
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I can't justify spending $80 on a game I won't own.
I can't justify spending $80 on a game I won't sell.
I can't justify spending $80 on a game I won't share with friends.
I’ll just wait for the PC version and then sail the high seas.
For the betterment of all gamers,
For the enrichment of our hobby,
For the expansion of the Indy Renaissance,
Buy no AAA games from multimillion dollar companies.
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Honestly, I can't justify spending $80 (or actually $95 in my country) at all, period.
If digital, then games should cost about 5 or 10 bucks apiece. The high cost is mostly attributed to the plastic and the distribution (and the greed, of course).
The high cost was never related to the plastic or distribution. Probably the entire DVD, case and booklet came in under $3. It has always been simply the price the publisher thought they could sell it for with regard to consumer demand.
Retailers get a cut. Digital lets them keep a bigger portion of the pie. Sony / MSFT are probably more likely to give them a bigger portion of the pie given that by releasing exclusively on consoles it will move more console sales (and thus other game sales on their platform) given how large this release is.
If consoles didn't give them a sweetheart deal we would see a PC release day 1.
Development costs of GTA 6 are estimated to be a billion dollars at the low end. The cost of manufacturing and distribution compared to that are nothing.
Take Two are def greedy af though.
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The cost is the r&d bro. CDs cost nothing to Make.
Uh… development budget?
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This game is going to be nothing like past grand theft autos. All the people who made the prior games are gone, and now they write by focus group and committee... I think it's probably going to suck.
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Even if you keep your machine offline, many discs have required updates included.
Any one of them could brick your console.
If its not running freedom respecting software and standard hardware, you probably didn't own it anyways. (Unless you airgap everything and risk assess all new software with a test machine, like the feds.)
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What I dont get about this is most game CDs today dont include the full games on them. We dont have CDs in existence to hold these games.
No CDs big enough, sure. Most modern consoles (like PlayStation and Xbox) use Blu-ray as their disc type for physical copies of games. Those can hold up to 100 GB for PlayStation 5 in particular.
Regardless, even if the disc isn’t able to store enough data to hold any one game, it isn’t immediately a problem. For example, the physical copy for the PS4 version of Red Dead Redemption 2 came with two discs to hold all of the data. There are ways around any data capacity limitations more often than not for physical media.
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