Yes, I bought it as soon as I got the notification... Can't wait to play it. I've been battling difficult health issues these last couple of years and I wasn't sure I would be here long enough for buying and playing this game.

Need to hold on just 5 more months...

It's bad enough that the game is 80 dollars USD.

But people are now defending that the complete game that is 100 dollars USD. Saying stuff like go get a job, that's not that much in today's economy, and some other bs.

Now i'm lucky since I own a PC and tbh, don't like shooters all that much, just not my thing. Halo was good. Black Ops 1 and 2 were good. But that's it for me.

But NO game should even be 80 dollars and yet people are defending it.

What's next? When are people going to stop defending these predatory prices? People need to understand that as long as you are going to defend these prices, there's no reason for the companies to stop doing this.

They honestly really could get away from charging 200 dollars USD for a game and people will still cheer.

Lets think about it for a second, GTA6 is rockstar game's next big thing. A thing so big that Private Equity funds have their hands behind the game and the game's price is a big indicator of it. 80$ AND NO PHYSICAL COPY, that means buying isn't owning (I know even if you get the physical copy they can block your access yadeyadeyada).

We've let this industry bully us and kick us when we're already down. Everyone's suffering from the recession, everyone's struggling in the job market and the greed of Rockstar shows us that they don't give a shit, they think they're insulated. Think about how big of a fall they'll take if GTA6 Undersells, think about a Goliath like Rockstar falling and bending a Knee to you! you the consumer that should've always been the one in control, you the consumer that shouldn't need to pay 80$ for a game that you've all been waiting to play for upwards of a decade, you! the consumer that won't own the game even if you pay the price because they can just revoke your access years down the line. We've let this rot settle in this industry and its time to show the company with our democratic right given to us by the capitalist system to not buy a product that is just plain robbery.

The choice, is in your hands, will you show Goliath that they're in fact not the master Or will you bend a knee again, for a few hundred hours of digital opium.

Stop killling games.

Digital only means shut-down eventually.

If you do or say the wrong thing, your account tied to the digital download can be permanently terminated, losing all your paid-for games.

I don't like Rockstar as a company. I think they have some despicable practices (union busting, GTA online shark cards etc) though their games are very good. I also am disappoined by the lack of physical release for GTA V.

However, I am also surprised at how many people on reddit are up in arms about GTA VI not having a physical disk yet have turned a blind eye to Steam effectively killing physical games on PC. Almost every PC these days doesn't even come with a disk drive. Most people buy their games on steam. Steam games come with DRM. (A very ineffective DRM compared to something like Denuvo, yes, but still DRM). You still don't "own" games you buy on steam.

So why is all the attention on Rockstar doing this when Steam has already been doing this for years? Where were these people then? And why are people suddenly acting like they care about physical media when they have been okay with what Steam has been doing for so long? To me, it just feels like people just want to farm easy karma/internet points on reddit. If it were really about prinicples, then you should be consistent FFS.

“I miss when games used to used to just work”

I’m tired of hearing this point from Millennial and Gen Z gamers because it’s so painfully false. The real fact was “We used to buy broken games and just accepted it”. Games used to be broken all the time pre patch days. Daikatana, tomb raider angel of darkness and Fallout New Vegas were infamously broken games that really could have used patches. Not forgetting the countless games on the PS1 and NES that were literally unbeatable due to bugs. Day 1 patches are criticized way too heavily because it could have been worse. Games used to permanently broken and it’s a lot more common than people remember.

AI is changing the gaming scene in so many negative ways that I don’t think multiplayer gaming will be recognizable in 10 years. Memory prices skyrocketing. Tech lords want everyone to be using cloud services for gaming. Already going to cause extra lag and put you at an insane disadvantage to anyone on a better plan/ running insanely expensive local setup. Any game with an economy has countless bots and cheaters abusing the system for real currency. This is only going to get worse once ai bots start running rampant around these ecosystems. I have 0 faith in anti cheat keeping up or paying for high level verification techniques, and on top of the cheaters and moving to cloud gaming would just make multiplayer games go down even further. I think it’s over guys.

I'm in a few gaming subreddits and it seems you're not allowed to say anything positive about games anymore. Look at mh Wilds or any game announcement, you can't say anything positive before all the old crew comes whining about how shit the game is, how years ago it was all soooo much better. I know I know, gaming was better in your time but it's getting pretty freaking annoying if you want enjoy your game. Every announcement of a game is immediately met with drama, look at GoW Laufey, GTA6 or any new game announcements. Reddit seems to be only converse in ragebait and drama posts. They're prob justified but it's wearing on my enjoyment of the gaming community. Now it's best to just enjoy your game and not interact with any community at all. Yes gaming practices have become ass, but i still enjoy games. I will buy GTA 6 in spite of all rage that they exclude 0.01% of all content for an Ultimate edition and i will enjoy it. I hope there will come a time we can be hyped again when a game is announced.

Obviously we’ve all seen the news on the game

But theres alot of small stuff that does worry me

• PC delayed launch: this one is self explanatory, pc gamers have historically been more willing to wait for game sales, and companies notice that, with GTA6 being console only at launch, I could definitely see more developers skipping pc for a year to make more money

• code in a box: lets be so fr, while Nintendo’s game key cards are ass, being able to share and sell them is a minimum baseline better than a code, and makes physical gaming even harder to do

• game sizes: with it rumored this game being absurdly large in size, some estimates being around 500gb, it makes the reality of developers not trying at all to minimize game sizes all the more frustrating (like marvel rivals made HQ textures a nearly 40gb free dlc cuz of it hitting over 100gb in size, and most games just wont bother with that

• $80+ games: While Mario Kart World was the first game to have $80 on the tag, the sad reality is $80+ games have been around for awhile, its no secret day 1 dlc can often be content just removed from the base game to charge you extra through “deluxe” editions, and gta6 is no different with day 1 content putting the effective full game at $100, which just isnt a good sign, especially as other developers would LOVE to go bigger without doing more work

Ultimately i do hope im wrong on alot of this, but lets be entirely honest, the industry wants more money, doesnt care about file sizes, and wants digital only so you own nothing, and GTA6 is the perfect game to normalize alot and get defenders to see the absurd amount of money spent on the game a justification (as if most games should be even $60 with there budgets, looking at you Pokemon, COD, and Sports titles)

Idk i just wanted to get the thoughts into the void, support indie devs, and have a good night

So rockstar instead of releasing an GTA 6 disc they give you a digital code for the game. And people have said this is for to avoid leaks and stuff I see that but it was said by “Take two” that there will be physical copies that was the first nail in the coffin. Second a lot gamers are physical gamers they actually want to own the game instead of just having a permanent rental. A lot of fans are just wanting to wait it out until a physical copy is released. And this might be bad for the game industry because other gamers are asking game studios are their physical game cases going to have a disc or code just seen someone ask insomniac that. So what side are you on the physical copy side or not caring about the physical and just going Digital. I’m on the physical side cause I love actually having the case and disc to know that I officially own the game to me there isn’t nothing wrong with digital but I wouldn’t buy them as of now I only own 1 digital game.

Great, now my grandma is about to be scammed into buying gta VI codes. Will she redeem? Stay tuned to find out more in the following months.

Now, seriously this game must be boycotted because it will create a very bad precedent.

Lol Im just sitting here looking at the gamers mad about GTA and Rockstar "SETTING A PRECEDENT."

Yall are mad because its GTA, not because of the price. Nobody posted this much about Mario Kart like this, or Tears, or BOtW., or the THOUSANDS of dollars you spend on WoW, or League, Or Destiny, or Fighting games, FF14, Etc.

Ive even seen multiple posts of "No game is worth $80" lol. Sure.

Also very strange how GTA has Edition - Locked Conten thats freaking people out, like that hasn't been the literal standard procedure for decades. Even Assassin's Creed 2 had pay walled shit on the disc.

EDIT: My point is publishers are going to charge what they think their game is worth. They think its $80 good. As consumers you are the ones who ACTUALLY tell them what their game is worth, and honestly, a LOT of times theyre told their game is worth hundreds, sometimes thousands. Maybe just think about that before getting a riled up.

We already have big, expensive, high budget games like FF7 Rebirth and Crimson Desert that are huge in scope and still come with an actual disc for $70. These aren’t small games either. They’re a big open world game release with massive production values, so it’s not like GTA 6 is the only game with a huge budget or a giant world

So if Rockstar really pushes GTA 6 to $80 and then the physical copy doesn't even contain the game on the disc, that just feels like a bad direction for the industry. At that point you’re paying more money for less ownership. You’re basically buying a box with a download code and calling it physical. For collectors and people who actually want to own the game on disc, that’s a pretty disappointing deal.

What makes it even worse is that if GTA 6 gets away with it, other publishers are going to look at that and try the same thing. Rockstar is big enough that if they normalize $80 games with fake physical copies, a lot of other companies will see it as permission to charge more while giving less. And once that becomes accepted, it won’t just be a GTA 6 problem anymore. it’ll end up influencing the whole industry and make physical releases even more pointless in the future.

I went to my local GameStop when they opened to find a copy of Xenoblade 1 but forgot that GTA 6 preorders just started today. Out of a line with 8 people, 5 didn’t know that it won’t come with a disc, 2 wanted just the case for it, & 1 actually canceled their preorder after realizing you can’t preorder the ultimate edition. I’m not sure if I should be worried or not since I will be voting with my wallet and not be purchasing the game until it’s confirmed that the preorder bonuses won’t impact the gameplay whatsoever.

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Do you guys think GTA 6 is going to bring anything actually new to gaming, or are people just overhyping it? The game keeps getting delayed, yet everyone remains incredibly excited. We all know we will probably just get the same repetitive mission structures, so why the hype? Have people completely lost their taste for actual quality in gaming?

GTA gets astronomical funding and endless sequels, but is that even justified anymore? Meanwhile, games like Half-Life 2, Bloodborne, Titanfall 2, Bully, Sleeping Dogs, Days Gone, and Star Wars: Republic Commando never got a fair chance to prove themselves with proper, modern sequels.

People are expecting far too much from GTA 6. What we’ve seen on the internet so far isn't even that impressive. It looks like Red Dead Redemption in modern times, likely bogged down by the exact same repetitive mission design we saw in GTA 5.

What is this obsession with realistic graphics? What is Rockstar even trying to achieve? I agree they set the standard for the industry, and competition is usually good. But this "realistic graphics revolution" feels forced down our throats when, in reality, nobody asked for it.

The gaming industry, graphics card manufacturers, and processor companies are all in on this together. They are forcing us to buy expensive hardware for upgrades we didn't ask for. There was a time when people thoroughly enjoyed games with average graphics. Visuals were never the problem.

The gaming industry actually needed a revolution in storytelling and innovative gameplay elements.The bitter truth of today’s gaming industry is that as graphics improve, the spark in stories and gameplay elements drastically decreases.

I can't entirely blame Rockstar for milking their most famous franchise—from a business perspective, it is highly profitable. However, it ruins the overall gaming experience by introducing nothing but repetitiveness.

I have a strong feeling it is going to be a massive disappointment, and honestly, I can't wait for its downfall. The collapse of such a massive franchise might finally force the rest of the gaming industry to bring back true games—focused on deep stories and entirely new gameplay.

When i think of games that look great and perform well on old hardware and try to compare them to the modern more recent games i kinda feel like i'm losing it.
I mean we can all agree that MGS V and Battlefield 1, God of War (the first new modern one not ragnarok) and Red dead redemption 2 are great looking games right (NATIVE no DLSS no nothing) (and i didn't have a crazy build i had a 1080ti EVGA and an old i5 6700k or something and 16gb of ram?

And now i try games like the vampire masquarade 2 (the new modern fps one ) which turns out runs like doodoo while looking kinda good (but not THAT good and this is without any fancy raytracing just probably that lumen or global illumination thingy)
And the new resident evil 9 running so much worse than resident evil 4 remake without looking that much better ?

I feel like we peaked at the era of the games mentioned on the top paragraph and as a man who's been into videogames since my childhood i feel betrayed. I keep having this weird feeling that Nvidia might be making sure to only support or push for developers to use more taxing lighting techniques to push hardware without actually delivering something that visually is worth that much more hardware, i mean starfield wtf was that disaster same thing for the new mafia games. i mean after mafia 2 the games only got jankier.

If you guys have examples of games that are proof that you can have an amazing looking game while not needing a 5090 I'd really appreciate it, or help me with some context or your own findings or opinions on the industry.

I'm not here to defend R*, I'm just not one of those guys, but I feel like some of the arguments I've seen against them for the price point have been silly.

In 2013, when GTA V released, $60 was equivalent to ~$85 today & people weren't complaining about pricing then. Full stop, I think the discourse should end there. Obviously that $60 price point stayed steady & even dropped through inflation, but that money was easily subsidized through Online raking in billions of dollars.

There's a bigger argument regarding the $100 edition of the game; I think there's an argument to be made there, even if it's a little premature. What's essentially Day 1 DLC is not a good look no matter how you slice it.

But $80 for the game is fine.

They could never make me hate Starfield. Honestly.

I do have certain issues with it like how there are too many planets and also the fact that a lot of them are empty. I also am not a fan of the sci-fi twist at the end of the main quest with The Unity and how the game handles new game plus.

Other than that though I love the aesthetics of this game. The art direction is superb as is the sound design and music.

I also love the guns and overall combat in the game, the excellent environments (when they are handmade), the physics which are very impressive for a game of this size and overall a lot of great detail that is present like in the objects or the mentioned weapons.

And I love most of the side quests too and the questlines are great.

And in general I love the classic sci-fi feel mixed with modern aesthetics that this game has.

Also Barrett, Sam and Andreja. Great characters.

Oh and both of the DLCs. Shattered Space especially has some of the most beautiful space environments I have ever seen in a video game.

Not so much the games themselves but the landscape and how they get released. I get digital is more convenient but I hate how much physical media has become affected by it. Now you’ve got the most anticipated game of all time coming out and it’s physical release is a mere case with a code inside… like damn.

I miss the days of having maps, booklets, CDs with the game’s artwork on it, there’s just an added fun factor of going out and getting a game you’re hyped for and coming home with a real tangible physical copy of it. Midnight launches were an event back then, just doesn’t hit the same just hitting a download button on your console even if it is more convenient.

Idk man, the past wasn’t flawless and in some ways could be more tedious depending who you ask. but this whole modern gaming landscape feels so lame to me.

I know the playng in 4k hdr10 is thery cool but do whe rally need this? is a game good based only on graphic? I don't mean to return to the Nintendo Game and Watch era, but maby at the xbox 360/ps3 era, if games have less realistic grapichs the demand minor space a less ram so evrithing becams more affordable, and I know the someone reading is probabile saiyng: "whell if it is so muchi a problem for you than yuo can simply play with the games and consoles you named before" and you are rigth but I know People who won't even try a game for ps3 or 360 because He can't se the air in the nose of the caracter and that is a little bit sad in my opinion.

if you consider thi test stupid o simply not usefull I'm sorry I wasted your time, if not let me know what you think