A metaphor for life, it seems.
An open letter to Rockstar Games
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Re: An open letter to Rockstar Games
#32I think the author misses the point here. The cost of purchases in GTA Online adds up so quickly that $500,000 isn't actually that much in the greater scheme of things. It might get you an apartment or a cheap car, but once it's been spent, you need to earn more. Some of the cars in the game are over $500k as well. Seems like complaining for the sake of complaining without any real facts to back things up here. Rocks…
It will get you the apartment of your choice. The most expensive is something like $422,000. Or any car under the top tier. My fear is it will get those who already have a decent bank account closer to the tank, fighter jet, or attack copter. Too many of those in the game at once could cause problems but it's only a matter of time before that happens anyway...
Re: An open letter to Rockstar Games
#33It's funny how analogous this is to the underlying debate driving modern politics.
Should the state (Rockstar in this case) offer direct monetary provisions to the citizens without requiring productivity in exchange? The tough part is that both sides of the argument make sense. It's not fair that some players have had an unduly difficult time getting started, but it would also be unfair to diminish the value of the achievement of people who have succeeded by distributing gobs of cash to satiate the masses.
The analogy breaks down in that there's no inflation in GTA (as far as I'd guess, haven't played), but interesting nonetheless.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
An alternative would be for you to blow that $500k on some expensive cars, and then drive them all into the ocean.
Right. Another alternative is to call yourself Santa Claus and give it all away to other players during December.
Sure, but the other players are sitting on 500k as well, so the warm feelings of charity are a little lost.
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#35Given the choice, i am pretty sure 99% will just take the money. We are talking about mostly teenage guys here and most dont have your noble ambitions.
Re: An open letter to Rockstar Games
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Right. Another alternative is to call yourself Santa Claus and give it all away to other players during December.
Sure, but the other players are sitting on 500k as well, so the warm feelings of charity are a little lost.
Only to those who have been playing during the month of October... So by December there will be a new wave of users who didn't receive the nice charity of half a mil.
Re: An open letter to Rockstar Games
#37Has GTA changed this much that money became a real thing? Real as in used to buy gear, finite amount and has an economy? What happened to memorizing game pad combinations whenever you needed some quick cash for your escapades?
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#38Has GTA changed this much that money became a real thing? Real as in used to buy gear, finite amount and has an economy? What happened to memorizing game pad combinations whenever you needed some quick cash for your escapades?
It's GTA online, which is sort of like an MMO
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#39Author of the paste (and post) here: Wow, didn't expect this to reach the top of HN! To answer some points raised: Maybe I am taking a game a bit too seriously, but my friends and I have put a lot of time into GTA online, and had a load of fun. I just don't want RS to do something that could ruin that. I agree that in the GTA world $500k isn't really 'rich', maybe the title was a little link baity, but my point remai…
$500k is not going to ruin the game. That's chump change at the higher ranks. What is going to ruin the game is R* focusing on GTA$ instead of fixing the serious gameplay flaws like keeping your friends in one session and giving worthwhile activities to progress together. And give us heists already.
If anyone has played WoW before, it's like you go into a zone and for the next 20 levels there's literally only 1 quest that's worth doing because all the other quest rewards and xp are terrible. But there's an ability to replay this quest so you do it because that's the only efficient way to level up. So Blizzard nerfs the replaying of the good quest, doesn't add in better quests or scale up rewards, and gives away what seems like a lot of money (because you're low level) to keep people from seeing the real problem.
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#40This is a truely interesting paste. Thanks for sharing. GTA is meant to replicate the real word (to a certain extent). So, when you try to replicate his argument to the real word, you you get the point. This guy has just given some real reason why people shouldn't hope to be magically rich in real life. Why try to win at Euromillion ? By translating to the real world, it would give : "Giving [me] $500,000 will shit o…
A sense of achievement comes from two different places when comparing GTA to real life. 10k in real life doesn't feel like an accomplishment to people simply because they don't have 500k in the bank, it's also/mostly because it's usually hard to earn and takes a significant investment of time and effort. Also, there are no real consequences in GTA for running out of money, like there are in real life. People want to…
I admire your composure in replying to that post.