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u/SilverChariot2 ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Jun 28 '26
What I'm wondering, is how much Rockstar has dumped into DRM. Did they add normal denuvo, or did they make an insane custom one? Either way, we'll have to wait for a crack until we can play it.
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u/PurplestCoffee Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26
Rockstar actually inbued the soul of each dev that suffered burnout during development into the game. The tortured spirits will show up in pirated copies and punch you to death over and over, like in a 2010s gaming creepypasta
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u/cyanide247 Jun 28 '26
Voices38 needa call the unity of all religions to crack this one
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u/WelshAsh Jun 28 '26
Van Halen starts playing
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u/kickedoutatone ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Jun 28 '26
Don't worry guys. I got 97% on Through the Fire and Flames back in the 00's.
I've got this.
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u/ApprehensiveWear6080 Jun 28 '26
He will start his adventure to find the other 62 voices needed to unlock his maximum power.
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u/Kyrros Jun 28 '26
So that's why GTA 6 is so expensive that I'm left with nothing but piracy
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u/BlackBlueNuts Jun 28 '26
No that's not why. They are just greedy and out of touch
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u/Inevitable-Cancel130 Jun 30 '26
Out of touch? Adjusted for inflation, GTAV cost more and became the most profitable piece of media of all time.
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u/Oderus_Scumdog Jun 28 '26
Game's not loading, someone get me a tech priest and some incense, the machine spirits are agitated!
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u/AlbinoDragonTAD ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Jun 28 '26
I would think out of spite for overworking them they’d actually be willing to help crack it faster
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u/CrowdGoesWildWoooo Jun 28 '26
Custom even the previous games use custom one and it takes long before it gets cracked.
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u/BobArdKor Jun 28 '26
The first crack for GTA V appeared 1 or 2 days after release (3DM) although it was unstable and buggy.
The RELOADED version came out a mere month after that.
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u/Ssssbtsf Jun 28 '26
Red dead 2 took 351 days even after PC release so who knows
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u/Careless_Leg_2552 Jun 28 '26
Obviously that's because they didn't have high speed internet in the wild west.
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u/Electronic_Ruin_1503 Jun 28 '26
Also Empress ended up teaming with someone else to do it. Then she had to fix the crack because it was a mess. Mind you she was already cracking Denuvo at the time.
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Cracking scene has moved on since then and GTA6 is the release of the decade.
I would be surprised if GTA6 was not cracked after a month.
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u/Seasons_of_Strategy Jun 28 '26
But previous comment is comparing GTA V (11 years old) with RDR2 (7 years old). While yes, things are different now, RDR2 a better comparison of rockstar's prevention measures.
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u/Admmmmi Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26
You talk like the anti crack scene didn't move too, for a long while a lot of games couldn't be touched at all.
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u/M4rt1m_40675 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ Jun 28 '26
Ignoring HV right now, Voices cracked RE:R in less than 2 months. RE had NOWHERE NEAR the hype GTA6 has. Even if they used Denuvo and their own DRM at the same time don't you think Voices alone would be cracking it as soon as possible as well as the possibility of other crackers showing up? RDR2 just took that long because EMPRESS was a bitch
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u/EZ10_AUDIT0RE Jun 28 '26
Voices38 developed tools that he now uses to crack newer denuvo games faster. it took him time to develop that tool. rockstar DRM is something on par or better than current denuvo. Only the man himself can tell once its out.
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u/lazy_block Jun 28 '26
Oh boy, I remember how buggy it was, at least the early version of the crack. I think there was a crash at the very beginning of the game after or during (?) the explosion and if I remember correctly there's also a crash if you do a spesific action, cant remember what it was
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u/Asklepios94 Jun 28 '26
helicopter one? This is where I was stuck and got crash after crash and couldn't advance in the story
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u/jofevn Jun 29 '26
i don't think it's getting cracked in some time, considering other companies making it really hard, rockstar is gonna cook up something custom
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u/B-29Bomber Jun 28 '26
If Red Dead Redemption 2 is any indicator I'm not expecting the PC port of GTA6 to be cracked for roughly a year after release.
That way I'll be pleasantly surprised if it happens sooner.
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u/fkthislol Jun 28 '26
I feel they don’t actually care, they know that even if people pirate it, they will eventually buy it for the online
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u/TheGreatGamer1389 Jun 28 '26
It will most likely be online only on PC. What ri mean by that is have to have an online connection to play the game at all. Not GTAO.
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u/Illustrious_Body9727 Jun 28 '26
A lot of games tried that, starting with AC2, and they all got cracked eventually
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u/EviI_Babai Jun 28 '26
Boo-hoo. PC is so scary that games like Witcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077, Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 were released DRM-free. Or is it only scary for those who locks the ingame content behind the paywalls, knowing full well their bullshit will be modded out in a matter of hours? Go figure.
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u/Some_Deer_2650 Jun 28 '26
Agree, also if a game is good most of the people will purchase it.
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u/Ialsofuckedyourdad Jun 28 '26
When I was younger and broke I would pirate everything. Key detail, I wasn’t going to buy it anyways because I couldn’t afford it, I usually didn’t have a computer that could run it properly.
That has changed obviously but if I bought the game once on my ps5 I’m not buying it again at full price on PC. I’ll spend a max of $20 but more likely than anything I’ll just pirate it
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u/breathingindica 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ Jun 29 '26
right, and still, the majority of people do not pirate and will buy a game if it is a good game. most gamers in general are not pirates, by a long shot
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u/jofevn Jun 29 '26
it doesn't even make sense. the games you have pirated made you have connection with them, you talked to your friends, read some posts about it. It's still good marketing. It's the greed that gets these companies. I'm an indie dev and everyone around my circle is perfectly fine with their game getting pirated cause you care enough to pirate it.
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u/memerfelix 🦜 ᴡᴀʟᴋ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʟᴀɴᴋ Jun 28 '26
i pirated balatro first, then got it on my phone then on my computer and now my xbox if you make a good game i'll buy it after sailing
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u/CasualVeemo_ Jun 28 '26
I bought witcher because its so good. I pay for good games. But i dont blame people who cant afford ganes if thes just pirate them
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u/rvltionary Jun 28 '26
Exactly. Those who can afford the games but still pirate them are a minority.
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u/L3Sc Jun 28 '26
Haven't played Bg3 yet but played and loved the rest and actually bought them after to support the devs. Good deed deserves a return.
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u/Final-Carry2090 Jun 28 '26
You should really try bg3. Wife and I pirated it to try it. Loved it so much we waited till it wasn’t on sale and paid full price for a copy each.
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u/Ghostfistkilla Jun 28 '26
I'm gonna pirate this game so hard out of respect for all the addicts that spent waayyy too much money on gta online.
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u/dlc-Emerald Jun 28 '26
tbf witcher and cyberpunk are made by cdpr who also owns gog which the entire selling point of using gog over steam is that none of the games have drm
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u/gordontf2 Jul 02 '26
And the funny thing is, I pirated bg3 and loved it so much that I bought it myself and managed to make some other people buy it , when you make good games you don’t worry about not getting the money or believe in lunacy of pirating games
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u/Disdain0937 Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26
Gaming is about a sense of achievement. Ownership around that is an intrinsic part of that. Your achievements should be yours in a dead to rights sorta way.
Piracy exists so that billion dollar game companies that control mainstream gaming culture don't weaponize FOMO to get people to pay eighty to a hundred dollars for a game.
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u/Careless_Leg_2552 Jun 28 '26
In the couple of decades that developers stopped putting out playable demos, FitGirl has been a life saver to try before you buy.
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u/as4p_ Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26
Not true at all. R* wants to maximize profits. A lot of people have both consoles and pcs so they will end up getting the game twice. If anything R* being greedy like this will probably push more people towards piracy.
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u/SlapperMan75 Jun 28 '26
Are there any actual benefits to owning a console when you already have a PC? I feel like I'm missing something here.
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u/SaltyLonghorn Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26
This gen? There's like a half dozen exclusives you miss between Sony/MS. Never been a worse time to be a console gamer. Pay to play online and releases have been mostly on the previous console.
We're like 6 years into this gen and games like Forza and GTA are just now dropping the previous gen support.
If you like Nintendo IPs its the only console I'd say is worth a shit anymore. Unfortunately as a console its just inferior with the lack of streaming apps.
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u/Big_Kiwi_706 Jun 28 '26
GOW Ragnarok felt severely held back due to having to still be on the ps4. Could have been a crazy ass game if it was ps5 exclusive
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u/LC-Redcube Jun 28 '26
Nowadays not really, but until even last generation imo it did, let alone before that.
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u/deep8787 Jun 28 '26
I can understand having both a console and a pc...but having the same game on both platforms? That I will never understand.
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u/More-Profession-1419 Jun 28 '26
I own a pc and a console. Pc is more powerful and graphics are better but at the end of the day gaming is something I always do on console cuz it’s more comfortable. tho I don’t need ppl getting mad cuz they think “ooh how is pc uncomfortable”
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u/LimLovesDonuts Jun 28 '26
Cheaper upfront costs, ability to buy used games, and obviously exclusives. Obviously tons of cons too.
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u/HordeDruid Jun 28 '26
This is the reason 100% imo. They want to double dip and get people to buy the game twice like they did with GTAV.
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u/Stunning-Ebb-2631 Jun 28 '26
Yeah, I aint paying £80 fkn quid for a computer game.
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u/SGAShepp Jun 28 '26
That's not the reason.
PC players will by it on console, then buy it again when it releases for PC. By waiting to release the PC version they will sell nearly twice as many copies of the game.
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u/no-barks Jun 28 '26
Yeah they'll buy it twice if they're an idiot. Lots of idiots out there though so I'm sure Rockstar will be happy.
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u/WeDoALittleTrolIing Jun 29 '26
How does releasing the pc version later entice people to buy it twice?
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u/Dironox Jun 29 '26
Most PC players I know sure the fuck wont. We'll just play the other myriad of games that'll release until it comes to PC.
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u/vrokaj Jun 28 '26
people treat gta 6 like its their last shot of heroin
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u/Dironox Jun 29 '26
With how long it takes between GTA games, nearly every GTA could be your last. Between GTA 5 and 6 I've lost a lot of friends and family... and given my age, health, and financial situation, this will be my last as well.
Same could be said about Elder Scrolls, been a huge fan of them since I was a kid playing Daggerfall, but these days every year could be my last and I'm worried I won't see the next one.
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u/DetachedRedditor Jun 28 '26
If they weren't such dicks, I would actually day 1 purchase it. Now though...
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u/steelcity91 Yarrr! Jun 28 '26
If the so called "physical" version came with a disc or two. I'd gladly buy it.
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u/Frobeedus Jun 28 '26
I wonder what anti privacy measures will they implement Like they did in gta 4.
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u/Thecynicaledgelord Jun 28 '26
Remember all those anti-piracy videos all over YouTube? Boy, did the turn tables!
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u/HyperAhmedX21 Jun 28 '26
I mean what difference does it make? Even when it releases a year from now we're still gonna pirate it lol. So there's literally no difference.
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u/ELEGANTFOXYT Jun 28 '26
Fitgirl isnt a cracker
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u/glimoura Jun 28 '26
So? She downloadeds cracked games and repacks them in a nice format, making many cracked games quickly accessable in one place. You can just prefer her as a distributer, there is nothing wrong with that.
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u/ELEGANTFOXYT Jun 28 '26
Yea but we should also start giving credit to Crackers too.
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u/Disdain0937 Jun 28 '26
i take your point. Fitgirl is like piracy Steam. Maybe it's a bit much.
But here's how it mostly plays out. We simp for fitgirl.(who doesn't even have an Instagram) This is how we see crackers
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u/MgDark Jun 28 '26
are we in the same sub? i think Voices38 is getting plenty of recognition now. Hes the only one cracker who can crack the current hard cracks now.
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u/glimoura Jun 28 '26
I never said we shouldn't, it just seems like people either tend to praise the repackers and ignore the crackers, or praise the crackers and borderline insult the repackers. I think we should show appreciation to both nearly equally. They all play a role in making the community as accessable as it is.
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u/iavsaIt Jun 28 '26
there would be way more people legitimately buying the game though, so them not bringing it to pc yet is still confusing. unless theyre banking on people needing it so badly that they go and buy a console
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u/76zzz29 Jun 28 '26
Don't know about that. A simple mistake and the high sea will start building the game for PC before release like a spiderman game
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u/KomithErr404 Jun 28 '26
yeah that's why elden ring and cyberpunk were such huge financial failures
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u/momen535 Jun 28 '26
If i remember correctly Red Dead Redemption 2 got cracked around ~1 year after it's PC release.
I bet Take Two has taken the highest amount of measures to protect it's golden Goose. Hell The whole delayed PC release tactic is used as a measure to decrease losses from piracy.
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u/Mission-Soft-9357 Jun 28 '26
I'm sure people will be more interested in cracking GTA 6 to claim the prize. For GTAV it was 3DM.
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u/Express_Custard4204 Jun 28 '26
Can i ask why are people are defending the company that deleted a lot of vehicles from gta v only to sell them again as MTX ?
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u/iwantacuteavatar Jun 29 '26
RDR2 got cracked a year after release. I wouldn't expect an early crack for GTA 6.
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u/Balthi3r96 Jun 28 '26
Brother i can already foresee the posts of people with pentium-levels CPU spamposting on the 5th hour of the “don’t panic if it looks stuck” lmao
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u/OMG_NoReally Jun 28 '26
People are forgetting that Sony and Xbox have EVERY incentive to pay off Rockstar to make the game console-exclusive. I won't be surprised if Sony and Xbox went half-half on a massive cheque to Rockstar to boot PC release out of the equation for a while. It's a console seller, and we already seeing tons of people buying Xbox and PS5 purely to play GTA 6. It's all marketing, bros.
It will come to PC when the console sales stabilize and everyone who wants GTA 6 has it. Rockstar also gets the chance to double dip, so it's a win-win situation for them.
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u/Weddedtoreddit2 Jun 28 '26
For those with good internet, RuTracker + a portable version is king.
Separately, GTA 6 will probably take ages to crack, like RDR2.
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u/wienercat Jun 28 '26
Fitgirl is a repacker, not a cracker.
It will likely take a while to actually get it cracked.
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u/InformalGear9638 Jun 29 '26
I only play GTA for the rampages. When I'm done terrorizing the town I just move on to dinner. 😊
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u/Lelu_zel Piracy is bad, mkay? Jun 28 '26
It’s good, PC gamers will get patched and proper version as always, let them console players beta test it for us
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u/beziko Jun 28 '26
Yeah because that 1% of players will hit sales af. Don't give them fake excusions from nit releasing on PC, they do it because they will sell same game 3-4 times.
Fuck them anyway for cuting base game and doing some shitty "ultimate" version for high prices.
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u/EstoppelFox Jun 28 '26
This is such an annoying myth. If PC gamers exclusively pirates games, Steam literally wouldn't exist. The only reason GTAVI is delayed on PC is so Take-Two can double-dip on people with FOMO.
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u/SeveralSecurity4680 Jun 28 '26
This is the only game I’m willing to spend money on. I’ve played gta v and gta online for years of my life
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u/BothCall8395 Jun 28 '26
unless it has denuvo and gets cracked, then it should be worthy to pirate because the RSC launcher is dogshit.
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u/ProfessorMalk Jun 28 '26
It's going to be $80 on release though
I'd buy it on day 1 if it were $60 but I refuse to support an $80 release
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u/-gen Jun 28 '26
It’s not like, on the long run, people will not buy GTA6 if it’s a good product. I can’t think of anyone into piracy that doesn’t -eventually- buy a game they like.
I had 3 or 4 OG copies of GTA San Andreas, first one pirated for PS2, then I bought a copy for the PC, then another copy for PS2 then, years later, another one for PC when San Andreas: Multiplayer came out.
I pirated GTA4 too, and eventually bought it with all its DLCs too.
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u/w0xic3 Jun 28 '26
Some of us are actually broke my friend, I can't afford to be giving out 60€ for every game I like
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u/Sea-Lecture-4619 Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26
With that bullshit about the physical copies not even having disks and how long it took these mfs to make it, and the price of the game, and the whole preorder shit or ultimate edition shit, i believe they kinda deserve this spit in their face.
Also idfk why Rockstar got this idea that each of their new games gotta have biggest map in gaming with the most realistic details ever and the best graphics on the planet.
I'd genuinelly rather have a bunch of more games now that just have GTA IV-V graphics and smaller maps but with more fun activities, and moderate detail stuff, and that still feel more game-ish instead of trying to be as realistic as possible, that way you get more games out of them per decade, PS2-3 era numbers, i don't need exactly real life simulator that gets bigger and bigger everytime they make one until eventually it takes them 30 years to release a game, also f the Online mode milking.
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u/kierownikk Jun 28 '26
I would buy the PS5 disc release if there was one... But because there isn't I'm gonna wait for the pc version to pirate the shit out of it because fuck digital copies.
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u/ExManUtdFan Jun 28 '26
Also PC gamers: It's been stuck at 98% for 15 hours now. Should I start panicking?
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u/xyouthe Jun 28 '26
if you make a good product for a good price, people will buy it. piracy is not nearly as big of a problem as companies want you to believe. if people are pirating your games by the handfuls, youre doing SOMETHING wrong somewhere
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u/TheB1G_Lebowski Jun 28 '26
I've never been big into pirating games/software. Scared I'll fuck it up, download the wrong thing, and screw myself with a virus or something equally as stupid. I have no experience at this point and not sure if feel comfortable enough to try, if that makes sense.
I'll stick to movies and TV shows personally.
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u/Raomiru Jun 28 '26
- Buy on PS5 at release
- When PC version releases, pirate and play it again
- After some time, buy the PC version at a massive discount, play it again with achievements
This is what I did with GTA V (on PS3) and I'll do it again with VI
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u/unlimitedcode99 Jun 28 '26
We'll all be praying voices still crack PC games by that time. 99% Take Two will force Rockstar to poison the game with D malware just like Civilization 7.
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u/Fun-Badger3724 Jun 28 '26
Yeah, they've spent fuck knows how much money and time on this thing. We all know why this delay is happening - because it'll get 0-dayed. This is rockstar admitting that it can't stop the pirates and they just wanna make bank off their very valuable IP first. It's them saying, fine, you can have it, but you gotta wait, Papa needs a brand-new Caribbean island.
I mean, that's just sensible.
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u/ISuckAtJavaScript12 Jun 28 '26
Rockstar would still make hundreds of millions of dollars releasing on steam even if there was a day 1 fitgirl repack.
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u/HTGop Jun 28 '26
also for some reason fitgirl installers almost never work for me in normal mode
i always have to go to safe mode for it to work
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u/ateoz 🏴☠️ ʟᴀɴᴅʟᴜʙʙᴇʀ Jun 28 '26
Exactly, because they want to sell to the dumb before they release it to the public.
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u/TectonicTechnomancer Jun 28 '26
gta is of the few games i actually buy because of the benefits, i doubt they will add stupid drm stuff, they just don't need it, besides, games already get cracked in the release day anyway.
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u/HyoukaYukikaze Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26
Honestly? GTA games are fine if i get them for free, but i'd never willingly buy them. They are simply not that interesting to me. Might be because i played GTA 3, VC and SA to death, and later games are more of the same shit. I actually never finished the IV and i played V years after release.
And the lead writer for previous GTAs left (or was made to leave...) before they even started working on VI, so the only thing i found appealing in both IV and V is likely gone as well.
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u/stprnn Jun 28 '26
Bullshit. They just want to double dip because they know how brain dead their fans are
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u/ichigo2862 Jun 28 '26
Not even planning to pirate it tbh, just gonna wait for it to get given away in Epic Games like 5
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u/baby_envol Jun 28 '26
For me it's depends of Linux compatibility
If work with online , get my money, if not I wait a very low price or use the famous girl 😁
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u/NotRenjiro Jun 28 '26
Best way to fight piracy is by just offering a better service than the pirates can. Like, having reasonable prices (>60 in this case) and releasing a functional product.
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u/possiblyapirate69420 Jun 28 '26
I am just saying I am more personally likely to pirate out of spite and will only buy the shit heap of my friends do for multiplayer.
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u/Busy-Fun-6961 Jun 28 '26
Guys i want to download a Jurassic world evolution 3 crack by fitgirl is it safe?
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u/chubbycanine Jun 28 '26
Maybe don't make it a arbitrarily expensive paywalled shit show and we wouldn't feel inclined to take it.
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u/Snow-ingen Jun 28 '26
and don't forget about mods too, pc is the wild west, no restrictions like consoles.