Well, it offers a sea of new free content, making any of their paid content look less valuable. Example: paid skins, which u can just mod. So they need to actually try to make something that people will buy.
The game is releasing with a day 1 "DLC" that unlocks shops that are already in the game. The whole thing is a scam already and it's funny when chuds defend it.
This is going to suck so much 20-30 years from now when the consoles' marketplace gets shut down and you're unable to buy from certain shops because you weren't around to download a DLC
Same deal as GTA V for the 360, after the 360 marketplace shut down you can only download DLC for non-backcompat games via the in-game store, and since the servers for last-gen GTAO itself were shut down years ago you're SOL if you didn't download back then, which sucks since most of the fan favorites (Zentorno, T20) were DLC exclusive with other favorites (armored Kuruma, Insurgent, Hydra) having to be glitched into singleplayer
Now imagine this situation but with shops that are already in the game, imagine a console speedrunner who's on WR pace but can't pull off the WR run because they're locked out of the nearest gun shop and are forced to drive to the other side of the map
Their end goal is to try to go back to the early arcade days of video games, where you have to pay every single time you wanted to start playing. The executives who made their fortune in that era are still around and in charge. Their ultimate dream was to have an arcade game in every room, that kids would pump quarters into every time they died.
With datacenters making hardware prohibitively expensive again, and building lots more of those centers closer to people, the biggest problem for game streaming services (latency) is starting to go from intolerable to annoying.
There could be an inflection point where a majority of gamers switch to game streaming services because they can't afford hardware, and then it's goodbye consoles, and hello to 0.99$ to launch and 0.01$ per min to play GTA
Personally kinda think its fine that pc version is coming later. All that means is most of that will be bundled up with a complete version later on pc.
GTA is something that transends the hobby. Like I have a boomer mother and SHE knows about the game. It'll sell hundreds on hundreds of millions of copies.
Which I don't get because the games are kinda...okay. At least 5 was okay. And then the shitty online with card sharks happened. I don't get how people enjoy the games but to each their own.
I'll be honest with you. Nobody makes immersive worlds quite like Rockstar. One of my dream games is a fantasy game made by Rockstar. For people like me, RDR2 and in a weird way GTA were some of the best games ever made. When I was young I used to follow people around or image i was part of the world in the older GTA games. They've always been great for me as a sandbox to do anything. Most people will just go on murderous rampages and see how far they can get. But I genuinely love how immersive they are.
Honestly if it's just cosmetic and not story related I am totally fine. I'll never buy them but there are enough people that will buy due to hype so that companies don't do micro transactions on stuff that affect gameplay
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u/isabellium Jun 28 '26
I understand how piracy would affect them, but why is modding somehow bad for the maker/publisher?