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GTA 6 will cost $80

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Re: GTA 6 will cost $80

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Post by laughing_man »

maxwellito wrote: post #23

Excuse my silly question, but what's the point of pre-buying a game, if it will only exists as a downloadable copy. I get you want to gift it for xmas, but for the rest of players? The point of pre-sale is to make sure you will get one when it comes out?

There was a time when pre-sales came with a special box that included a physical map or a mouse pad or some other bit of game merch. I don't think that's true anymore, though.

Though I think there have been some games that let you start playing two or three days earlier.

Re: GTA 6 will cost $80

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Post by [deleted] »

laughing_man wrote: post #90
thegrim33 wrote: post #89

It's so interesting to me that as a PC gamer, they chose to just .. not let me buy the game. It's not even an option, for any price. I'd have to wait multiple years for them to decide to go for another cash grab and do a PC release. No thanks, I just won't play.

I've never understood this. For most games by the time they release on PC the hype has died down and they get a tiny fraction of the sales they would have gotten with a simultaneous release.

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Re: GTA 6 will cost $80

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Post by galleywest200 »

laughing_man wrote: post #90
thegrim33 wrote: post #89

It's so interesting to me that as a PC gamer, they chose to just .. not let me buy the game. It's not even an option, for any price. I'd have to wait multiple years for them to decide to go for another cash grab and do a PC release. No thanks, I just won't play.

I've never understood this. For most games by the time they release on PC the hype has died down and they get a tiny fraction of the sales they would have gotten with a simultaneous release.

Rockstar was very open as to why: PC players are a fraction of a fraction of their income. Xbox One players (yes, the previous gen) give them more money than PC players for GTA Online.

Re: GTA 6 will cost $80

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Post by Vaslo »

galleywest200 wrote: post #93
laughing_man wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've never understood this. For most games by the time they release on PC the hype has died down and they get a tiny fraction of the sales they would have gotten with a simultaneous release.

Rockstar was very open as to why: PC players are a fraction of a fraction of their income. Xbox One players (yes, the previous gen) give them more money than PC players for GTA Online.

Yep - I am a heavy pc gamer but I much prefer GTA on my PlayStation

Re: GTA 6 will cost $80

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Post by linzhangrun »

thegrim33 wrote: post #89

It's so interesting to me that as a PC gamer, they chose to just .. not let me buy the game. It's not even an option, for any price. I'd have to wait multiple years for them to decide to go for another cash grab and do a PC release. No thanks, I just won't play.

I don’t think Rockstar has ever launched on PC day one

Re: GTA 6 will cost $80

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Post by bigstrat2003 »

Klonoar wrote: post #88
jsbisviewtiful wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> they haven't missed in a couple of decades Depends on your gaming tastes. I haven't really enjoyed any of the GTAs for longer than 2 hours, while RDR2 I also stopped playing after about 3 hours out of boredom - and similar to the GTA series, general frustrations involving the controls. Rockstar just doesn't fit my tastes, which is certainly a problem that rests with me

RDR2 is highly rated as one of the greatest games of all time. Rockstar hasn’t missed, you’re an outlier.

No, they missed. RDR2 was a significant step backwards from the first game. It just... wasn't fun. Rockstar forgot that they are making a game, not some interactive movie or a simulation.

Re: GTA 6 will cost $80

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Post by linzhangrun »

For GTA 6, I think $80 is acceptable. I just spent almost $100 in DCS mainly for the F-14B(U)(though that comparison is not really fair, since DCS is much more niche and naturally needs a higher price to make up for lower sales)

I also don’t think the extra $20 will hurt GTA’s sales much. What I’m more worried about is whether other 3A games will use Rockstar’s price increase as an excuse to raise their own prices . And I’m even more worried that GTA may come out with a pile of DEI slop, which would really feel like another Atari crash.

Re: GTA 6 will cost $80

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Post by dessimus »

crims0n wrote: post #18

Over a decade of development and an estimated budget between $1-2 Billion, I am okay with paying ten bucks more. There are significantly lesser games selling for full retail.

Another way to consider it is to think of it in terms of entertainment value. The average movie runtime in the US is 114 minutes or 1.9 hours, and the average movie ticket is $11.50. This means I'm paying on average ~$6.05/hr to see a movie. Taking the cost of GTA at $80, then you would only need to play for ~13.2 hours to break even compared to watching movies in the theater. But if I played 100 hours, then I paid $0.80/hr to play the game.

Re: GTA 6 will cost $80

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Post by thewhitetulip »

thegrim33 wrote: post #89

It's so interesting to me that as a PC gamer, they chose to just .. not let me buy the game. It's not even an option, for any price. I'd have to wait multiple years for them to decide to go for another cash grab and do a PC release. No thanks, I just won't play.

Is it the same for PlayStation? I saw news that they are going to sell the CD jackets but not a CD, they ll just put a code in it.

Not sure why they're doing that farce even. Just let people buy the code online. Who wants a plastic packet for this much cost?

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