• InfiniteGlitch@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 days ago

    Honestly, I, personally, don’t think it is worth to purchase a console just for the game. Thus waiting is worth it.

    Rumor goes that the game will be €100 on launch. So €550 for console and €100 for one game. That’s crazy.

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      100 bucks for a game, lmao.
      Surprised they didn’t skip the middle man and made it subscription only already

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        Tbh it’s fair if the quality and the (useful) amount of €/h of entertainment fits.

        If it’s 75% go drive here, go deliver there from a story going for 100h and maybe 25% of it is actually exciting contetn, I’ll pass and wait for the >50% off.

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    how are so many of you forgetting that Rockstar titles are always launched first as console exclusives? My guess is they’re just trying to raise as much money as possible. it will get a PC launch later

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    Even if GTAVI launched on PC at a normal price, it would still be worth it to wait. You can get it on sale, and the game will have been fixed, and there will even be content updates.

    Patient gamers, people. Don’t even think about release dates. Early access? Advanced access? What the hell do I care? There are still NES games I should get around to.

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      Content update? You mean online mode updates? All single player will get is a radio station downgrade after a year or so.

      This will be the first GTA I don’t preorder or play on day one.

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        Yes, but then ask you need to do it continue to wait for a sale or reduction in price. The patient gamer life has definitely grown on me, with a few exceptions like helldivers 2

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    Consoles are glorified DRM machines so it’s no wonder, really.

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    I used to think simultaneous launch was good and desired. Then the first Monster Hunter simultaneous launch happened this year and now I’m not so sure. A lot of it’s problems were forecasted by the state of Dragon’s Dogma 2 but not to such an extent, I can’t help but wonder if a delay would have helped.

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      You always develop games on PC. From there you create builds for PC and Consoles, but the console build step is not easily achievable. You need to go through a lot of hoops to get a game on console. Oh and you’ll spend a lot of money to get there.

      And does it really make sense as a solo indie dev to release your game exclusively on one console?

      Bottom line consoles intentionally don’t make it easy to publish to. PC is as easy as making an itchio account and uploading your games there.

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        And you may notice, I didn’t say that it was. I said I found it hard to feel empathy for PC players as they stand on a literal mountain of PC only games.

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          Yes and I just wanted to point out that this isn’t a choice of the devs (most of the time) but rather consoles being a walled garden.

          Because I think it’s unfair to say that you shouldn’t have empathy for PC gamers just because they have so many games already. Do the 100 indie games I can buy for <5€ really make up for the inability to play GTA6 or Death Stranding 2 (early)?

          Console exclusivity always hurts the consumer and is, in my opinion, a legacy practice.

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    What is this, 2005? No one should be losing sleep over GTA6. Just more iterating over the same thing that surely was awesome more than 20 years ago, but today? They are such a victim of their own success, they can no longer afford to take the risks required to continue to innovate.

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    How do imbeciles of this calibre get jobs as writers for a large public is beyond me. The editor who approved this is very much to blame too. This level of trash is easily replaced by AI, don’t complain when you get replaced when the only thing you produce is indistinguishable from AI generated slop to rage bait some nerds.

    PS: Donate to Raymond, uBlock origin is a gift to humanity.

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    If you don’t already have a console it isn’t worth buying. If it ever gets ported to PC you should wait a year or two for all the inevitable bugs to get worked out and possibly an upscale mod as well.

    If you can’t wait that long then I’ve a hell of a real estate deal for you where that money would be better spent.

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      GTA games always get ported to PC. I don’t understand why people think that VI will be any different. Y’all do this with every new release.

      We’ll be playing this game on PC by Q4 2026, spring 2027 at the very latest.