Market-research firm MIDiA Research found that just 35% of US adults would buy Rockstar’s crime sim at this price.

  • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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    5 hours ago

    it’s looking more and more like i’ll be waiting for the crack on this one…

  • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    GTA 4 was my favourite and still is. Great single player story worth the price of a AAA game, and we later got 3 great single player story expansions.

    Now they sell us games that are split into chunks and sold as a season pass, and gta is all about online now.

    I actually wouldn’t be surprised if the story for 6 is super short. By gta 7 it will be fully online, micro transactions and no story mode

  • pyrflie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 hours ago

    Considering the Rockstar Launcher. I wouldn’t pay $15. You can’t fucking log in.

    I won’t pay a cent for a game I cant load. I regret buying RDR2 cause I can’t play it.

    I have a 3 month plus log with Rockstar to get me able to log in. I’ve been passed to over 24 people, and noone checks logs. Their support is absolute shit.

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    6 hours ago

    Seen it with no man’s sky, seen it with cyberpunk, seeing it with gta6. I wonder if gamers are?

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      23 hours ago

      The single player part might be decent though. I hope.

      Will totally not get it at release though. For neither of the overcooked asking prices…

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        22 hours ago

        If they had actually come out with the single player DLC for GTA5, I’d be more inclined to get 6 near launch. But the only way I’ll get it is if reviews show that the single player story and world are legit as-is, because i don’t trust them to add anything later.

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          22 hours ago

          I wouldn’t trust them with <anything>. But also I won’t trust most of the reviews too. Guess they will use denuvo anyway, so no piracy to check-before-buy. Unless then, they can sadly go fork themselves. But screw single-player, the money was in the shark-cards…sigh

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    1 day ago

    In before, $99 and it sells like hotcakes. The success of Apple shows people will eat the price hike given enough hype.

      • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
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        21 hours ago

        The Switch 2 has been wildly successful. I think Rockstar is gonna be just fine.

        Remember, the opinions you read online on places like Lemmy do not match the opinions of the general public. This doesn’t just apply to games; on pretty much every topic Lemmy proves time, and time again, that people here don’t have the first god damn clue how the average person thinks.

        • P00ptart@lemmy.world
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          18 hours ago

          I just take what lemmy agrees is reality. Then I add an 80% more depressing adjustment to that, and I’m usually pretty close. Like hegseth getting fired means hell be replaced by the resurrected corpse of John Wayne gacey.

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      1 day ago

      I think we can differentiate between fashion and video games.

      I have no doubt GTA will sell well enough regardless of price and quality. But if it’s a $100 and the quality isn’t there, I doubt it will sell as well as they’d hope.

      But we’ll see.

  • BroBot9000@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    All the simps are gonna buy it regardless.

    Stop giving these shit companies money especially for this milked out unoriginal crap made in sweatshop conditions.

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    23 hours ago

    I think most people don’t have much impulse control or long term planning. They’ll buy it at full price despite having a backlog of other games

  • TheWeirdestCunt@lemmy.today
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    1 day ago

    For once I’m glad that rockstar takes forever to release their games for PC, this way I get to see how everyone reacts to it first then decide if it’s worth it after the hype dies down

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    1 day ago

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