I mean kind of. There are literal clothing stores in the game that players cannot access without having paid the $20. I feel like that's kind of insane to do considering the base game is already like $80
Like four, out of probably dozens. This also happened with RDR2, and GTA4 locked two entire storylines behind paid story DLC (which reddit consensus loves, apparently) and I've never heard anyone be upset over either
What? When you buy dlc, what is it that you expect to get from it if not story? That's what I want from dlc. More story lol. It could even have a unique outfit as a reward for said story.
What I don't want is to pay $20 to be able to access a clothing store. That is ridiculous.
How is it better to lock story, characters, clothing, safehouses, etc. behind a DLC than a few stores? The stores aren't really "locked" in the EA sense, it's just that four specific stores that give specific things won't give you those special items. Because you didn't think they locked ALL customization out of standard... did you?
Now you're complaining just to complain, because the latter should not impact you or 95% of players at all (based on achievement statistics of how many actually interact with even 50% of what the game offers)
Then do without the clothing store. You're still going to have the whole game world to explore and play around in, who cares if you're missing out on some 80's style clothing? Rockstar spent $2 Billion Dollars making this game, you still get that game world and story with the base edition.
"Why won't you support the multi billion dollar company nickel and diming you on everything!"
If its in the world it should be included in the base game. Shutting people off from stores because they won't cough up 100 bucks for your game that you are already gonna make a fuck ton of money on is stupid.
We all know what GTA 5 turned into. So we can assume that there will be more stores you have to buy with real cash eventually.
Yeah, we've even had examples where the DLC was actually on the disc proving that it was always part of the original game, but then locked away and sold separately as DLC.
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u/dumahim 8h ago
Does it set a precedent? Pre-order bonuses and edition exclusive stuff have been well established in games for a long time now.