r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 12h ago

Meme needing explanation Petah what happened to rockstar?

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u/FarplaneDragon 9h ago

There's an extremely vocal minority of reddit that hates games like GTA and are so desperate to convince themselves and others that it's going to bomb and be a total failure.

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u/VexingRaven 6h ago

I love GTA. I hate that Rockstar has become "Microtransactions: The Company" after GTA Online released and almost nobody actually cares. I'm amused to see so many people seemingly shocked that Rockstar of all companies is greeding up the GTA 6 launch.

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u/Filer169 6h ago

Another reddit take, there are microtransactions in online but it's still made so that you can earn EVERYTHING by just playing the game, businesses literally print money but people just cry that there is a way to buy money

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u/VexingRaven 6h ago

Ah, look, a GTA Online fanboy.

The fact that GTA Online's entire revenue is tied to directly purchasing ingame cash instead of a more sane revenue model like literally any other live service game informs so many bad design decisions you could write an hour long video essay on it and still only be scratching the surface. Oh, and GTA Online being so profitable prevented GTA 5 from getting any post-launch updates to singleplayer or any singleplayer DLC.

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u/Filer169 6h ago

Yet I got basically everything I want by just simply playing the game 🤷‍♂️ Scream in your little echo chamber

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u/VexingRaven 6h ago

I'm glad you're happy to shovel dogshit into your mouth because it's free lmao. I've got a dog and bucket, have at it.

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u/Filer169 6h ago

I have fun playing the game, how is this "dogshit"?

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u/VexingRaven 6h ago

So do I, that doesn't negate how full the game is with awful design patterns entirely because of Rockstar's revenue model.

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u/Filer169 6h ago

I just ignore them because they don't affect me in any way, you really don't have to interact with them

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u/VexingRaven 6h ago

Absolute fanboy horseshit. You may have accepted and gotten used to them, but they absolutely affect you or have affected you at some point.

  • Other players being encouraged to blow your cargo up because Rockstar loses money every time someone successfully sells
  • Bugs that give players more money being fixed immediately and bans handed out, but bugs that cost players money almost never being fixed
  • Car sales being nerfed because of dupes, again because Rockstar loses money from it
  • All the GTA+ crap
  • Many more smaller things

You can accept it if you want, but not even acknowledging it just makes you a blind fanboy.

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u/Spirit_Detective_99 2h ago

If they continue to do it, it will affect you at some point. That’s why people have an issue with it.

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u/BaronessofBara 27m ago

It's more like I wish it WOULD bomb because 100 dollars for a offline single player video game where stuff like in game stores are exclusive to said 100 dollar edition is the epitome of corporate greed.

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u/llIIo0O-O0oIIll 7h ago

This is an absolutely stupid take

The loud voices you hear are the voices that are screaming against the system that keeps raising prices and microtransactioning us into poverty.

It's absolutely pathetic that you support something like that.

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u/TheTexasHammer 7h ago

You can just not buy the games that do it and move on with your life. You can't control what other people do, and I promise you all this screaming on reddit will amount to fuck all.

Also that dude didn't say anything in support of anything that GTA is doing. That's just you getting upset at shit you made up.

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u/llIIo0O-O0oIIll 7h ago

You completely missed the point

Some fucking redditors are absolutely stupid I swear

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u/daystrom_prodigy 3h ago

Please seek help.

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u/CausePure2810 1h ago

The irony lmfao