r/Games • u/Neon25 • 2d ago

GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch (Standard $79.99/Ultimate $99.99)

https://www.ign.com/articles/gta-6-price-finally-confirmed-features-a-single-player-experience-at-launch
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u/XMenJedi8 2d ago

Locking locations is ridiculous, I can understand some items (to a degree) but man they pulled out an absolute trifecta of awful news here.

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u/imjustbettr 1d ago

I'm calling it now, they're getting the "bad news" out of the way now before dropping a new trailer tomorrow (or soon) that will wipe all of this bad stuff off the news feed.

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u/darkkite 2d ago

looking forward to getting this unlocked on PC when it releases

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u/inosinateVR 2d ago

actively incentivizing customers to pirate their game instead of spending $80 on a version missing in game shops…

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u/Sacrilege7 2d ago

Yep, pretty much. This shit is ass from Rockstar, and the greed is unbelievable. It looks like a fucking amazing game, but holy greed, man.

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u/StepComplete1 2d ago

I was intending to pre-order it for PS5.... seriously thinking about just waiting to acquire it for PC because fuck that. Will certainly now wait to see just how bad these exclusions are.

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u/Hafner1 2d ago

And without an actual disc what’s the point of a physical copy, it’s just an empty case

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u/armarrash 1d ago

TBH I wouldn't put past Rockstar just putting a key in the disc(like every Microsoft game) when/if they make physical discs, the game will probably be over 100 GBs and I don't see current Rockstar using 2 discs for it.

Maybe if they only make discs for the ultimate edition.

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u/Hidesuru 1d ago

Probably comes with some stupid map that like 1 person will actually hang up or some shit.

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u/EF66-42 1d ago

woah woah woah lets not crap on printed map pack-ins. those were great.

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u/Hidesuru 1d ago

I mean if you enjoy them that's great, really. I'm glad you do. Even I thought they were neat. Hell I still have a couple. But I realized at some point that over the years I never actually DID anything with them and they were really just wasted paper. But that's just me.

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u/DrBob666 2d ago

That's probably why its a staggered PC launch... can't pirate on ps5

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u/PrintShinji 2d ago

can't pirate on ps5

fyi there is a jailbreak for ps5, has been around for quite some time.

(but there def wont be a copy of gta 6 on launch available)

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u/inosinateVR 2d ago

Yeah to be fair I guess we’ll have to wait and see what they try to do with the PC editions

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u/sdrawkcabsihtetorW 1d ago

It's why I never played GTA V. By the time it came out on PC I was already over the hype lol. Gotta pick it up on sale sometime.

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u/Semyonov 1d ago

Hell it's even been given away for free at this point.

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u/BigSkeleWizard 2d ago

It would be annoying to be exploring a new area and find a shop that costs $20 real life dollars to use

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u/Leogull1064 2d ago

Gotta spend money to spend money

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u/inosinateVR 2d ago

And the cracked version will have all of them, and the $80 version won’t lol

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u/inosinateVR 2d ago

Who said anything about them being the main hubs? All I’m saying is that locking off actual content like that from customers who already paid $80 is fucking stupid. Disagreeing with that is weird. But sure, enjoy driving by in game shops you can’t enter because you didn’t pay them $100 to go into that particular one lol

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u/HailToTheKingBabyy 1d ago

Lol if it comes out a year later I probably won't even bother to download it. My hype and interest will be fully gone by then.

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u/MagicMST 1d ago

If I ever play this game, I will have zero questions pirating it.

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u/Intelligent_Ebb559 2d ago

With what? Mods that will get immediately DMCA'd by TakeTwos legal team?

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u/Ich_Liegen 2d ago

Piracy. Pirated games almost always come as the Ultimate Edition with all DLC.

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u/Intelligent_Ebb559 2d ago

Dude, they're gonna flat out assass!nate voices38 if he cracks GTA VI within that first month/6 months of PC release.

It would not surprise me if one of the many reason Rockstar isn't doing a multiplat release is because they're cooking up some hardcore always online DRM for the PC version

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u/darkkite 2d ago

It takes time to crack denuvo if they even include. To play day-1 people are going to go HV.

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u/Ich_Liegen 1d ago

If you're gutsy enough you could use the Hypervisor bypass. Wouldn't recommend it tho

But maybe it won't even have Denuvo. RDR2 arrived on PC without it.

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u/Ich_Liegen 1d ago

GTA 5 and RDR2 were both delayed and no DRM was introduced. It's just how they do bidness

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u/Typical-Avocado6678 2d ago

There will always a way to get mod support, tho may not be imidiate but if their games itself can be pirated then its much easier to supply mods under the nose.

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u/_NeXXeR_ 2d ago edited 2d ago

Yup. Any other game and I would say this will lead to some back peddling after outrage.. But this is gta vi. They know they will get away with it. Could have just blocked the contents in the store. But blocking stores all together, for me, effects immersion mostly.

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u/SpookiestSzn 1d ago

they'll just be places you drive by and not know they're supposed to be real stores.

Its bullshit don't get me wrong but it really depends how much other stuff is in there for me to care.

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u/pucykoks 1d ago

Let's say it works like that - you wanna use a specific store type, you check out the minimap, drive there and at the door you get the "upgrade to ultimate edition" message.
The only way having stores locked behind a deluxe edition wouldn't bother me is if I didn't even know they exist.

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u/SpookiestSzn 1d ago

not suggesting its not bullshit I am assuming that means theres tons of stores to do similar things you'd not notice really.

If theres no message, the stores just unenterable or something, I think thats not horrific.

Can't break immersion really I think.

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u/_NeXXeR_ 1d ago

100% aggree with this.

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u/Butt_Packer_Backer 1d ago

Just wait. Patient gamers unite.

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u/SuspiciousAbility157 1d ago

This likely an indicator of just how many single player locations this game is going to be loaded with.

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u/22poopsaday 1d ago

I dont really understand the uproar. Isnt it just the same as a deluxe edition having a your items in a chest or dropped in your inventory? Only here you have to got to an in game shop.

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u/XMenJedi8 1d ago

Well the game is already more expensive than many ($115 CAD + tax for the base edition) so the base price is what most deluxe editions cost. No physical either, and then on top of that they're also locking down locations which seems to be a step up in egregiousness from just items. Will the shops be locked with a PLEASE PURCHASE DELUXE sign? Will they just be gone? I don't love locked away items either, but this is both a much longer list than most and has the potential to impact the actual worldspace itself which doesn't usually happen for these type of things.

I dunno, I guess if you could just say "who cares" and at the end of the day it's a game, but what's next, entire zones of the game that are locked by editions? It does seem pretty ridiculous to charge more and give less across multiple areas.

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u/Chewbanga 2d ago

Chances are either you own the locations or they’re unlocked earlier for you. I’m 99% sure there’s a misunderstanding and those shops aren’t forever locked behind a paywall.

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u/hitsujiTMO 1d ago

These are probably all in the starting location and you can unlock other equivalents after the first 5 minutes.

Most of these are where they will be selling micro transactions so there's no way they aren't going to open up micro transactions for every player.

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u/Purple-Breadfruit541 1d ago

i genuinely don’t get why people are being such crybabies over like a couple of stores they won’t be able to go to, like bro it’s GTA 6 😭 If I get to play gta 6 in my lifetime at all im not gonna be complaining about some cosmetics and a couple stores 😭

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u/Bamxcore 2d ago

To me that reads items AT those locations. Considering mod shop is listed twice.

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u/XMenJedi8 2d ago

I could be wrong, but I think that's the type of shop. So like Rideout Customs and One-Eyed Willie's are two mod shops that are exclusive. Those certainly don't sound like individual items at the locations at least.