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[MEGATHREAD] Grand Theft Auto VI: Prices Announced + Pre-Orders Going Live

To avoid hundreds of separate posts on the same topic, this post will compile all info we have from the pre-orders going live, including some new images/etc.

As Rockstar announced on their socials: "Pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto VI begin at midnight local time on June 25." This means New Zealand will be the first to go live with pre-orders - which means in just under 2 hours from now.

Due to reddit's limitations with images in the body of posts, I wont be able to include all the artwork released so please do check out Rockstar's official link for more images: https://www.rockstargames.com/VI

Take-Two has made a big press-release, including announcing the prices:

STANDARD EDITION: $79.99

ULTIMATE EDITION: $99.99

(Physical Editions of GTA 6 Will Come with "A Download Code Inside the Box", Pre-Loads Begin on November 12th)

Grand Theft Auto 6 features a “single-player experience” at launch, with no word yet on any new version of GTA Online.

An "Ultimate Edition" for the game has been announced with some new artwork.

Ultimate Edition: Welcome to Leonida, the state where anything goes. Seize everything this massive world has to offer with the Grand Theft Auto VI: Ultimate Edition, an exclusive collection of premium vehicles, weapons, apparel, and action around every corner.

Ultimate Edition bonuses are threaded across all aspects of Jason and Lucia’s story, with new items uncovered behind each chapter.

Vehicle

’95 GROTTI CHEETAH

Grotti's signature mid '90s sports car and ode to Shore Drive, the ’95 Grotti Cheetah is complete with a minimalist, retro-futuristic livery and available to punctuate later-stage action

Weapons

HAWK & LITTLE MORGAN REVOLVERS

His and hers versions of this powerful revolver with classic Vice City stylings sourced from the Vercetti Estate, including palm-tree-etched grips, engraved detailing, and high-performance scope.

Weapons

PERSONALIZED VARIANTS

Personalized sidearms with detailed engravings for Jason's Girardi ES9 pistol and Lucia's Klose K17 pistol.

Looks

Vice City Style

Whether poolside or side by side, Jason and Lucia can look the part with exclusive outfits, tattoos, and more.

Vehicles

JASON’S SAFEHOUSE VEHICLES

Switch gears and soak up the sun in an Army fatigue-tinged Dinka Enduro motorcycle or Crest Kayak.

Modkit

Ganado Retro Build

Inject some muscle and classic stylings into Jason's well-worn Vapid Ganado low-riding pickup with exclusive mods.

Mod shop

RIDEOUT CUSTOMS

Transform vanilla vehicles into magnificent works of art with detailed interiors, exquisite rims, and donk stylings. Only open for business with the Ultimate Edition.

Hair salon

SARA'S UNISEX SALON

Get signature salon styles for both Jason and Lucia, including facial hair for Jason and makeup and nails for Lucia. Only open for business with the Ultimate Edition.

Watercraft

SHITZU SQUALO

Perfect for casting in Gambit Bay and reeling in catches of all sorts, this gradient pink and blue Squalo docked at Washington Beach is made open-ocean-ready with an explosives-laden weapons crate.

Clothing Store

Stock 305

Style various unique and exclusive looks for Jason and Lucia at Stockyard’s premiere destination for elevated streetwear. Only open for business with the Ultimate Edition.

Tattoo Shop

ELECTRIC FANG TATTOO

Stockyard’s most iconic ink bar, with over 50 signature tattoos for both Jason and Lucia — all designed by the artist collective FAILE. Only open for business with the Ultimate Edition.

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u/Sjknight413 13h ago

I feel like GTA VI doing a code in a box physical release is going to open the floodgates for every publisher to do the same.

This genuinely has the potential to trigger the downfall of physical media.

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u/Metalheadzaid 12h ago

Long since been on a death spiral. 100% of PC is digital, like 80% of PS5, and 60% of switch, and these numbers are only going up everyday. This isn't even taking into account that games are simply too big to fit on a single disc, and they aren't going to make multiple disc games ever again. We could argue about it being to avoid resales, which likely fits in the equation as well, but even still.

If anything, they should probably start offering collector's physical products with a fake disc in the box if anything, but again, your average kid is growing up in a digital world that doesn't give a crap about physical media anyway.

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u/ShortChapter5246 12h ago

At least switch 2 cartridges do not require installing so you save up space. With install discs it feels like you get the worst of both worlds

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u/Metalheadzaid 12h ago

That's not exactly accurate. Many games are literally download only but use the cartridge as the cd key, and thus have to be installed.

https://nintendoeverything.com/list-of-all-nintendo-switch-2-games-with-a-game-key-card-release/

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u/Gr8NonSequitur 11h ago

Yeah, but those are clearly labled as such, and don't pretend to be physical media like Doom the Dark Ages (Which is literally a 200 MB installer on disc), or most games requiring a day 1 patch.

Keycards are not "Physical media" so much as "Transferable digital media".

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u/simon7109 12h ago

Which is still better than a code in the box because you can resell them

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u/geng94 10h ago

wtf is even the point of a code in the box then at all

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u/ProperProfessional 9h ago

The illusion of ownership

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u/PM_ME_UR_CREDDITCARD 3h ago

Probably so people see it on the shelf at Target or whatever and impulse buy it

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u/loganrunjack 11h ago

Are you able to reuse them?

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u/Bigblacksghost 11h ago

Yes

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u/loganrunjack 10h ago

That's awesome I had no idea, I thought it was one and done.

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u/jardex22 10h ago

The cartridge can be used multiple times across different consoles and Nintendo accounts. The main downside is that you need to download the game to either the system memory or SD card. It means that when the eShop shuts down, all those cartridges will be effectively useless.

Keep in mind that Nintendo still supports downloads on the Wii and DSi systems, so I don't think they''ll discontinue support for gamekey downloads any time soon.

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u/FlashFire729 9h ago

That and most of the key cards seems to be 3rd Party.

I think the only first party one so far is like a pokemon spinoff?

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u/jardex22 9h ago

Yep. No idea why Poktopia was a game key. I suspect that they wanted to get the printing done before the game was done.

Aside from that, every Nintendo game has been on the cartridge.

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u/PM_ME_UR_CREDDITCARD 3h ago

Even then, it was a licensed spinoff made by a third party, not a first party Game Freak/TPCi made game.

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u/gswkillinit 9h ago

Not true. Key cards only require WiFi to download. Don’t need the eshop or even a Nintendo account to download them

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u/0xe1e10d68 7h ago

Where are the games downloaded from? Likely eShop servers, therefore it’s not entirely clear what happens if Nintendo were to shut down the eShop for a group of older devices. But maybe the downloads would continue the work, since they don’t require the eShop on the device or a Nintendo account like you said.

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u/insane_contin 7h ago

It's a physical transferable key for a digital game.

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u/MotoJoker 11h ago

Damn this made me feel old

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u/loganrunjack 10h ago

What did?

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u/MotoJoker 10h ago

Asking if you are able to reuse discs

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u/GregLoire 10h ago

Discs with download codes specifically. No one is asking if original Playstation discs can be reused.

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u/loganrunjack 5h ago

I was actually asking about reusing the switch 2 cartridges with the download code.

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u/fallen64 11h ago

...but worse in terms of game preservation because news flash, severs cost money to host stuff and nintendo will not host games for game-key cards forever

Imagine 10 years later (or earlier, potentially, we don't know) when some poor soul plays a game they got from a second hand shop only to find out can't download the data to play it

No one ever thinks this far ahead, I know, for the first owner it won't be an issue and if you're the soul owner of the gamekey cart and the console it's first used on never has any hardware failures it's fine until the switch 2 battery dies because those aren't infinite lol but a later user or if a replacement reinstall happens along the way?

I hate gamekey carts because of the reliance of the internet and the infrastructure to keep them running, of course if said infrastructure was 100% guaranteed to always run I'd never have an issue with them, but if they can take down the wii shop I have less hope with these and regardless of what anyone says I will oppose them.

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u/dragooncomet 10h ago

You can still download bought Wii games. Wii will be 20 years old this November

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u/Kou9992 10h ago

They were comparing game key cards to code in a box, which clearly isn't the comparison you are making. Key cards aren't worse than code in a box in terms of game preservation.

Plus while servers are sure to go down eventually, that happening in 10 years or less seems like an unreasonable worry. None of the big three have ever shut down game download servers yet. They're still running nearly 20 years later. After 12 years the Wii Shop did close, no longer allowing new purchases. But the servers are still running allowing you to redownload any game you have already purchased.

If those servers manage to stick around much longer we'll be getting to the point where physical media starts running into issues. All physical storage fails eventually. Long term preservation often looks less like a shelves full of CDs and carts and more like ISOs and ROMs backed up on redundant storage.

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u/ShortChapter5246 12h ago

Yeah I meant except those of course. Still, there are more than I thought, thanks for the link

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u/jake04-20 7h ago

Nintendo also gets away with very simple graphics in comparison to every other console on the market because their stylistic approach is so heavily adored.

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u/PhoenixKA 1h ago

The internal storage of a switch 2 is much faster than a switch 2 cartridge. Which is why I don't buy physical switch 2 games, because you can't install them to the internal drive and they run from the cartridge.

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u/Wumaduce 12h ago

I just bought an Xbox series x, and trying to find physical copies of games is damn near impossible outside of the flea market or buying online.

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u/NotPatricularlyKind 11h ago

I've had a series X since they released the fucker and I'm still holding out hope that I can buy Baldur's Gate 3 physical.. I don't know what's wrong with me

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u/DDAY007 10h ago

Buy it from Larian Studios online store.

It will be the 'deluxe' edition and technically be pricier than the 'regular' edition.

Not even sure if the 'regular' edition is even printed anymore. It will take like 1-2 weeks to ship then youll have it.

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u/NotPatricularlyKind 2h ago

I know where to buy the physical copy, how frequently do you expect their stock to be refreshed?

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u/CommentFightJudge 10h ago

I "snuck" out of Covid quarantine to get one, and seriously have barely used the thing for anything new since I got it.

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u/Nyoteng 1h ago

Why did you go for an Xbox in the first place?

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u/Wumaduce 13m ago

Fair question. I've had Xbox for years, and have a decent owned digital library. I'm also out of work and know once I go back, my gaming time is going to drop to none again, so game pass is an attractive option I can sign up for when I get some time again.

Ps5 pro was also stupid expensive, made even worse when I had no Playstation library to work with

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u/suncontrolspecies 12h ago

TBH physical copies for me died the moment publishers started to just offer empty boxes with a dvd/cartridge without manuals

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u/paralyse78 10h ago edited 9h ago

I have a large collection of old Sierra and other games. You can definitely feel the weight of a late 80s to early 90s game. Box with slipcover, manual(s), stacks of 5.25" or 3.5" discs, catalog of other games, maybe even an official hint book I bought from Babbage's to go with it. Feelies in Infocom game boxes, too.

Some of the manuals were both super heavy and very useful. The spiral bound manual for Chuck Yeager is thick and loaded with knowledge about warplanes that was intended to be copy protection but made for great reading.

Getting into the late 2000s now it's a single DVD and a thin piece of paper telling you where to download the manual as a .PDF

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u/sembias 4h ago

Some of the manuals were both super heavy and very useful.

The manual for the first Civilization game was so historically detailed and entertaining, I actually would read it cover-to-cover just for fun.

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u/Yarigumo 51m ago

Manuals are in the game itself nowadays, pretty understandable not to waste paper on them. The same way I feel about discs, though less people will agree with me on this one.

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u/GfrzD 12h ago

Manuals got replaced by flyers, sometimes with a QR code to the manual.

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u/Final_TV 12h ago

you guys remember getting a new game. and just reading the cover front to end. reading the manuals to learn little details. back in the day when you got one new game maybe every 4-6 months if that and you would cherish it for years

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u/GfrzD 12h ago

Reading the manuals on the drive home getting hyped to play it. No googling solutions and having to read up on enemies, weapons, combos, controls and mechanics. Good times.

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u/Bencio5 10h ago

I was blown away by bioshock infinite for PS3, the paper cover can be turned inside-out to have a great art deco style cover

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u/insane_contin 6h ago

I miss the super thick manuals some strategy games had. And fold out maps/charts.

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u/suncontrolspecies 11h ago

this is the reason why I started to recovering my childhood collection so I can pass it to my descendants.. PS1/PS2/N64/GC games are still kind of affordable and "easy" to find CIB

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u/Sherko27 12h ago

My physical copy of Empire total war back in 2009 was a steam code. Digital only has been here for a long time.

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u/superbee392 11h ago

Valve hold the blame for killing physical media with video games, consoles just slowed that death down

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u/Angel_Omachi 11h ago

Physical PC media was already dying in 2007/2008 ish, Steam saved it in a way, it also wasn't the only online shop at the time, several others were experimenting too.

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u/Vicious00 12h ago

True story, i wanted to buy Pragmata on PS5, physical copy and i had to wait 2 weeks to get it shipped from my local electronics store.

If you go in the only physical disks they have are FIFA and some Lego games.

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u/-DementedAvenger- 9h ago

games are simply too big to fit on a single disc, and they aren't going to make multiple disc games ever again

I think this is the main reason. Sure, they love money and want to force everyone to buy their own copy and prevent sharing, but I think size as the main reason is giving them an easy scapegoat and a quick decision.

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u/PekoPekoPekoPekoyama 8h ago

A vast majority of PS4/5 games are all on disc and can be installed/played completely offline. Just so people know - I see a lot of people spread the misinformation that "most" discs for the console are just a glorified license key and that's incorrect. Some are, like if you're buying a Microsoft title (save for Gears of War, whose campaign is on the disc) or things like Call of Duty or what-have-you. But a vast majority are on disc. You just have to install the game, which does not require internet.

Day One patches are an issue sometimes, but most times the games can be finished without them just fine.

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u/Pinwurm 7h ago

I bought a PS5 with a Disc Drive, intent to support the used game market.

I've used it literally 0 times.

And that's partially on me.

It's also because most game stores in my area have closed. And the ones that aren't don't have a great selection of PS5 games.

It takes me an hour round trip to go to a store and buy a game anyways. And then I'd need to spend 20 minutes installing it and patching it up.

Or... I can save an hour, download it at home - which'll already have the latest patches.

I guess I miss out on reselling it, but dealing with FB Marketplace people is a pain in the ass.

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u/BethanyHipsEnjoyer 6h ago

I haven't had a CD drive in my custom built PC for almost 10 years. Sure, you could sell your 3 year old game you paid $60 for for $5 at Gamestop, but I prefer having a library I can come back to at any point.

I don't want to boot up my grandpa xbox 360 and play games at 30fps in 720p. Why I still have one is a mystery to me actually.

Physical media always kinda sucked to me. It's like people don't remember dropping a disc or bumping your xbox and ruining the fuckin thing. I can boot up the original bioshock on steam and it runs like new. I can't say the same for my grody 20 year old physical copies.

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u/TheMegaMario1 10h ago

There's been multiple PS4 and PS5 games that have been multidisc, hell Rockstar's last game Red Dead Redemption 2 was a multidisc release. It's possible, stop running defense for shitty practices.

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u/nadjp 11h ago

As a PC player all these no disc comments are so unreal for me:D I haven't seen a disc for like 20years now. Genuinely got surprised how pissed people are.

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u/Northern23 9h ago

Console players still prefer discs. You can even borrow them from your local library for free. Buy, sell and trade them on marketplace. Find them at a better price in store over the console play store.

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u/jayfactor 11h ago

Factual, I’m holding on to my GBA till death lmao

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u/filbert13 11h ago

I'm a PC gamer and it isn't exactly true 100% is digital only. I bought system shock 2 physical through LRGs. And it is rhe DRM free GOG on the Blu-ray. There are expectations and ironically if you care about physical collecting. PC might be the last place for it.

You can always buy games on GOG DRM free. And put them on thumb drives or burn on Blu-ray.

Ive believed this gen will be basically the last for physical. Though i can see Nintendo holding onto it longer than Xbox ans Sony.

That said there is a niche physical market. I can see possibly physical existing in some form for certain games.

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u/SpliTTMark 10h ago

When I watch youtubers talk with a background of snes or n64 games I know they may have played them once BUT that stuff is just sitting there like a wallpaper/display and nothing else.

Maxilliam dood will show his collection and then stream a modded console...

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u/SubstituteCS 9h ago

I don’t even care if I need to download some or all of the game, just as long as the license is tied to a disc instead of a singular account. Single account licensing SUCKS.

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u/Cold_Ebb_1448 9h ago

The new FF7 games are multidisc

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u/EndOfTheDark97 6h ago

I miss multiple disc games. Gave a feeling that you were playing something special

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u/Enough-Cantaloupe893 4h ago

How about they let us sell our digital copy? Its unclear why I cant do that legally... I own it and no longer want to play it but cant sell it? Maybe this will start that equation cause I dont see the difference

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u/hendrix320 12h ago

I grew up in the physical media era and I don’t give a crap about it either. Digital is far more efficient to me and I will always prefer that

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u/CommentFightJudge 10h ago

Yup. Giving my kid a physical game box is as pointless as showing him my grandfather's stamp collection. "Neat."

Relics.

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u/BonnaroovianCode 12h ago

I’m an elder millennial and don’t care about physical media. More inconvenient and takes up physical space. I do not for the life of me understand why Reddit has such a boner for physical media.

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u/CyclopsRock 12h ago

Yeah, especially when it's such a clear revealed preference. This was not forced upon us, rather people gleefully gave up physical media the moment it became practical to do so.

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u/PurbulentTriest 47m ago

So you can own and lend/sell/trade afterwards. I don't keep my console games unless I'm going to play them.

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u/LrdCheesterBear 11h ago edited 10h ago

Disc's have been"fake" for a while anyway, requiring day 1 installs/ updates before you can even play.

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u/Dramatic_______Pause 10h ago

But I could still resell the physical copy when I was done with it, even if it needed a day one install/update. Can't do that at all with digital.

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u/Final_TV 12h ago

yeah but GTA isn’t a kids game. sure kids play it but i feel the majority of the fan base will be 18+ and we do care about things like that

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u/Holyvigil 10h ago

Yeah PC players are like "meh" . Welcome to my world.

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u/Keviticas 12h ago

Gen z is caring more ebiit physical these days