If you buy this you can’t really complain much about the price being unreasonable as you are showing its a price you will pay.
My most expensive (and best) gaming purchase of 2024 was Factorio: Space Age at £30. RimWorld - Anomaly and Enshrouded (£19.99/£22.49) were probably the next best purchases. Medieval Dynasty (£26.99) was also pretty good. Few other things under £20 at mixed quality too.
I know everybody here thinks if they raise the prices of games to $100 it won’t work, I can assure you it will. We’ll complain, but your neighbor will just blame inflation and Joe Biden while he forks out $100.
So they think if GTA6 is worth $100, then their latest climb the towers, fill the map, Ubislop title will also be worth $100?
Good luck with that thinking.
Plus Rockstar don’t need to charge $100 for their game because it will likely sell 200 million copies over the next two gens.
I’m sure it’ll be free from Epic Games in like 4 or 5 years like every other game I’ve been playing recently, so meh.
Bleed them impatient whales, I guess?
I bet it will still be stuffed to the gills with buying things using real money, and the grind will be intentionally miserable to force people to take the shortcut.
I’ve played enough of them that I’m kinda bored of them. I probably only did 10% of the last one. They can ask whatever they want, but I won’t be buying until it’s probably around $20-$30.
Me too. They used to be brilliant pop-culture parodies with great jokes on many levels, yet have a storyline that was both believable, moving, funny and over the top.
Ever since four the line for blurry with saints row, getting wilder and more grindy. But more importantly, the storyline stopped drawing me in like it used to.
Then v happened with the story split up over there characters, none of which really got me invested. The game turned online and therefore much more grindy and less appealing to me.
I may just getting older, but I really don’t care about vi, it will be the biggest game again, but I’ll only have a look when it’s free eventually.
And I have hope the industry will start treating its workers well and its customers fairly.
Looks like we’ll all be disappointed.
This week I bought and finished two little indie gems, for the price of 5.89 + 4.99. They were great, even if one was a bit short, but I also have around 500 hours on another indie game. Thanks to alpha beta gamer on YouTube i discovered there’s a lot of nice games which focuses on story and mechanics more than graphic. I hope they price Gta VI at 100 $ and it flops.
Titles of those games or it didn’t happen.
Small indie games:
Proximate and Security: The Horrible Nights
500 hours game: Hero’s Hour (I play a bit almost every night before sleeping on my steam deck)
not who you’re asking for, but ‘Mining Mechs’ was pretty fun but grindy at the end.
Infact it’s so small only 1 guy made it and in my review I said “if the frog guy isn’t in the sequel im not getting it” as a joke BUT THE DEV RESPONDED AND SAID HE ADDED IT 😭😭I have bought the sequel but haven’t gotten around to playing it yet, but one day I’m gonna get to the point of finding that frog.
thanks, looks like cool game to check out
By the time I care it’ll be ten bucks or given away for free like 5. I’m not into GTA online so the single player experience will only improve over time.
I’m getting to a point I’d describe my enthusiasm for big games as “yAAAwn.”
What single player experience? That is going to be a footnote going forward.
Fair point. No SP leaves it sitting in my epic/steam/ etc account with all the other free games I never touch haha.
Dumping SP makes it a live service and I’m not paying upfront to be milked further like that if I can avoid it.
That’s what I suspect also, after the big success of GTA Online and the cancellation of the GTA V story DLC. I’m not holding my breath.
Grandpa Threepwood’s wise words.
Me in 2028
I’ll put it on my steam wishlist and buy it when it’s $20 or less.
I’m still waiting for Elden Ring and BG3, there’s plenty of games to be played, I don’t need to get it day one.
I also get the advantage of not buying a buggy game that’s half finished. It’ll be cheaper and better if I wait, often with a bunch of the extra paid DLC included.
I seriously doubt there’ll be meaningful DLC and that the story will be long/entertaining. See the critically acclaimed RDR2,has no big DLC. I doubt it’ll ever come down to $20
I suspect it’ll be a vehicle to push GTA Online 6 or whatever. Even with that, it’ll still be $100. I also doubt it’ll come to steam till 5 years down the line. These are usual Rockstar & 2K shenanigans.
Not being cynical, (relatively) realistic. Rockstar has a track record of demanding exorbitant prices & fans paying them.
I don’t HAVE to play the game. If they don’t price it in a way that I’ll buy it, then I just won’t buy it.
I’ve never bought a lot of games, heck I don’t buy MOST games. I buy games that I’m interested in, when they’re priced in a way that seems reasonable to me. There’s plenty of companies (and individuals) out there who are selling me what I want, for the price I would pay for them.
Most consumers aren’t reasonable consumers like you though. Peer pressure & curiosity is one helluva draw.
No
I don’t care.
People that want to spend that much on a game can, and I can wait until it’s the right price for me (£15-25). I’m patient enough, there’s plenty of good games in the meantime.
I just hope they don’t push that shitty rockstar login/launcher crap anymore, and I hope the bullshit online stuff is kept well away from the single player game.
They recently updated their anti cheat for GTA V such that the game doesn’t work on the steam deck anymore. I’d guess they will do the same for GTA VI.
Even more reason to not get the game.
oh there absolutely will be a launcher. all of their games since iv require login.
I just hope they don’t push that shitty rockstar login/launcher crap anymore
I am done buying trash…
Literally can’t play my legitimate gta5 epic games copy on Linux so I had to pirate it… Pirate a game that I own…
I am of the mindset that it isnt piracy if you own it. I have goldeneye in the attic on cardtridge, I also have it on my pc as is my right. I also support piracy though.
Agreed. I just don’t buy anything with launchers. All my friends say RDR2 is an incredible game, and I believe them.
But I’ve had enough ballaches with Far Cry 3, Civ VI, and GTA:V’s launchers that I’m out. I’ve accepted I won’t play that game. No more launchers.
Annoyingly, they now often add them months or years after the game releases, so you often don’t even get a choice (cough GTA:V cough).
I am completely with you. No Sony, Ubisoft, Rockstar or EA games. I also took myself out of Epic Games, despite having to lose quite a few good games I had bought there.
Steam is all I want: had it since day one and I always felt respected by Valve as a gamer.
Just pirate rdr2 if you really wanna play it.
You’re robbing yourself of an excellent experience. Like, I get how annoying that shit is but RDR2 is one of the best games I’ve ever played. Still go back to it on occasion.
The world is so well crafted and believable and beautiful honestly there’s not many games that get me to just stop and stare at the scenery but RDR2 has that effect on you.
I know I’m missing out, big time. Everything I hear about it is good, and supposedly attention to detail is incredible. But launchers annoy me to an almost unbelievable extent.
GTA:V is also pretty great and I was really into it. When they added a launcher I opened the game, saw the new launcher/login requirement, pressed X, and never opened GTA:V again. To this day I’ve still not completed it, and I never will unless I find out the launcher has been removed.
Maybe I have some weird mental quirk, but for whatever reason, when I see stuff like launchers, I completely disengage. It becomes impossible for me to enjoy the content.
I’m the same with ads. On TV, I refuse to watch anything unless it’s on a BBC channel (no ads in the UK). If I’m at the cinema, I will literally stand outside the screening room for 30 minutes staring at the ceiling or counting stains on the carpet until they’re done. My partner even messages me when the film is about to begin, then I head inside lol.
I’d genuinely be more likely to buy a PlayStation, buy RDR2, then sell them both for a loss when I’m done than go through their PC launcher.
I realise it’s not normal and I sound like a right weirdo. There’s clearly something… odd with me in that regard, but I can’t really shake it off. It’s compulsive.
Besides, I already have so many other games that I need to play, so it’s not like I’m stuck without anything to do.
I’m very similar to you. It’s the principal of the thing. For me you either use Steam as a launcher, because it’s a good experience that actually adds value to my games, or you have no launcher. I do not want launchers within launchers. I do not want a weird online account I will never use to come up every time the launcher I forgot existed times out. I don’t want to take 10 minutes each new game to figure out how to play with a friend. I want to install this smoothly on my Steam Deck. It’s not a good experience and it’s not to my benefit.
There’s just something slimy about corporations trying to suck more out of you with absolutely zero value, in fact negative value in return. That’s advertisments, that’s lainchers, that’s DRM, microtransactions, etc. All exist to the detriment of the customer and they ask you to pay for the privilege. Once you notice that you start to get a little crazy like you mentioned and avoid the insult at all costs.
Honestly, it’s not crazy to me. I am not as rigid about those things but I avoid them pretty hard in my own way. I don’t buy stuff with a launcher either. Likewise haven’t played rdr2. I block every ad I can. I don’t pay for streaming unless it is completely ad free and don’t habe any regular tv services. If ads are at a theater (i usually only go to ones that just don’t play ads) I won’t wait outside (gotta get my good seat), but I will ignore them and dick around on my phone till they stop.
You gotta be true to yourself but a couple extra minutes, if even, to boot the game because of a launcher that’s integrated into steam isn’t that much of a biggie.
Shit after you launch if the first time I’m pretty sure you can skip the launcher popping up, may have to use a command line argument in steam not sure but it makes it so the launcher is basically non-existent at that point.
Anyways I don’t need to convince you, fine stranger, but I really would be remiss to not at least push another person to play one of my favorite games of all time.
2k removed theirs on civ6 and no launcher on civ7
I wonder why but I will take it
Really? That’s great news
I’ll have a go of Civ6 again and pick up Civ7 plus all the DLC in 5 years when it’s £4
It’s surprising that games are getting cheaper compared to the cost of living. If you take into consideration the fact that games are becoming more expensive to produce, I really don’t understand it.
Gaming is way cheaper for me than it was during the ps2 or ps3 era.
Still, I don’t want games to become more and more ambitious and cost more and more. So, if I get GTA6, it’s gonna be at a reasonable price, maybe even second hand since I don’t need to directly support Rockstar.
Less physical media, devices, real tangible products and assets. More online intangible products, assets. You can decide if it’s good or bad. I think it’s one thing that’ll change manufacturing and global resource issues long long term for the better less single use BS. But also it will if not regulated allow even more ultra wealthy individuals to multiply their wealth. Furthering the divide. First comes the shit end of the spectrum then eventually the good follows after the shit product era.
Not to mention they sell way more copies of each game than they used to when sales were limited to physical copies.
