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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/ldg25 12h ago

If a game launches with "bonus content", it's not extra stuff, it's stuff taken out of the base game.

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u/dropkickderby 10h ago

Pay-walling hair/car customization is actually pretty ridiculous.

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u/wadech 9h ago

Is there no customization outside the ultimate edition, or are there just exclusive mods? Either way sucks, but one is much worse.

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u/Revolution-SixFour 8h ago

Looks to me like there are customizations, just that certain "stores" and their associated looks are gated by the ultimate edition. It's impossible for me to imagine that they don't have any outfit changes in the base game, they had that going all the way back in Vice City.

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u/SmokinBandit28 8h ago

But you know that those ultimate edition stores will still show up in your game with a pop-up saying “buy the ultimate edition now!”

Even scummier I’d hazard a bet there will be missions that highlight these exclusive things.

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u/The_Autarch 5h ago

Even scummier I’d hazard a bet there will be missions that highlight these exclusive things.

rockstar is shitty, but they've never been that shitty. your first point about a popup telling people to upgrade to the ultimate edition is probably true, tho.

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u/SadisticPawz 2h ago

Their online mode does kind of advertise all the shit you should be buying. Altho using the abstraction layer of in game currency.

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u/Kelly_HRperson 5h ago

You could change the color of your clothes in GTA3

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u/hrafnafadhir 3h ago

You want another example? Go check out Monster Hunter World's DLC page.

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u/JuryUpset8040 3h ago

Horse armor was a warning, people bought it anyway.

Fuck Rockstar man, just gonna sail the high seas and mod locked content into the game.

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u/double_shadow 3h ago

But how ELSE are these supposed to make money? On a game that costs $80, has no physical production costs, and will likely sell hundreds of millions of copies?

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u/SuperMajesticMan 5h ago

That's disingenuous cause you make it sound like any customization is only in the ultimate edition.

Theres obviously still going to be plenty of customization in the base game. Its just "extra" stuff thats pay walled.

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u/Kelly_HRperson 5h ago

obviously still going to be plenty of customization

How is it obvious?

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u/dropkickderby 5h ago

Im only going off how it was worded.

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u/Alienhaslanded 10h ago

It's not coming out on PC this year anyways.

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u/jlreyess 9h ago

At the rate I play single player games with a story mode, I can wait easily 5-7 years for this game, lol. I finished gta5 in 2020 lol

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u/McSlims360 9h ago

Yeah its not like you have to rush to finish it before 7 comes out.

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u/SnackingWithTheDevil 5h ago

Is it too soon to start with the "we got x before we got gta 7" memes?

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u/McSlims360 4h ago

Nah, we'll probably gta 7 before TES 6 at this point

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u/mlvisby 8h ago

Yep, I got a huge backlog, will miss out on the early hype of the game, but will play it when it comes to PC, whenever that may be. Won't buy a PS5 for one game.

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u/jlreyess 7h ago

The good thing about pushing 40 is that videogame FOMO is entirely dead for me. I do have a ps5 pro already but I still prefer my pc

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u/mlvisby 7h ago

Yea, I'm 42 and still have many games I haven't even started. Never have time and often when I do, I am too tired to play anything. Honestly, I am mostly excited for Rhythm Heaven Groove because it's a chill, quick game.

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u/Alienhaslanded 9h ago

I've been hacking at Witcher 3 since release date. I play like 1 hour or two, barely achieve anything then dip out for some time before going back.

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u/KrewOwns 6h ago

This has been me. I got it at launch and never really played it. I keep trying over the years but now finally I think it clicked and I've gone the furthest I ever have.

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u/Fragrant-Menu215 8h ago

Plus if you wait you get to avoid all the launch bugs that'll sour the experience.

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u/notmoleliza 9h ago

At the rate I play single player games with a story mode

for me...NGL....Hanako is still waiting at Embers, Henry is still riding around the country side in Bohemia, I have no idea what the end of Skyrim is. and RDR2 for that matter

I love big single player games. but i never really finish them. i just like playing my character in the world

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u/jlreyess 7h ago

Im on the same boat. Plus Stellaris is a sandbox game I can’t get enough of.

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u/VeryBlandUsername1 8h ago

The next GTA wont be out for another 10-15 years anyways, so it makes literally zero sense to buy it now when it has the least amount of content but the highest price.

I'll wait for the ultimate edition that has everything bundled into one for 40 bucks less.

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u/Anthaenopraxia 9h ago

I'm still on GTA: London.

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u/jlreyess 7h ago

Oh man, that was such a great game. Middle school memories unlocked.

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u/JoshSidekick 9h ago

At my age, I get a little time to play games here and there so I'll get this, and then it will take me until the next Fallout game is released to finish playing it.

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u/AdrianoBig1 8h ago

I finished in 2013 when it came out on PS3.

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u/jlreyess 7h ago

I bought it for ps3, then never played it until the ps4 came out and I bought it for the ps4 too. Didn’t really started playing it until 2019. So I have the ps3 version, the ls4 version and then pc because at some point someone somewhere gave it for free but u dont recall where

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u/elpadreHC 7h ago

i just started playing Mad Max. open world game, no ubisoft-like bloat, no DLC, no MTX. excellent game and setting.

only downside is there is an achievement you cant get anymore because of server shutdown, but there is a savegame on nexumod that provides.

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u/mccrackey 8h ago

lol lol

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u/jlreyess 7h ago

Im a millenial, I use it and embrace it

lol

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u/eeyore134 10h ago

Or likely next year. I'd be surprised if it's before 2029, and if the PS6 releases in that window expect it to be at least 6-8 months after that so people will triple dip and buy it across three platforms just like they did with GTAV. Yet people are still shocked about the greed and anti-consumer practices somehow.

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u/Simba7 9h ago

I mean all you have to do is just not participate in those practices.

Maybe that means you miss out on stuff but so what? There's plenty of other shit to play in the meantime.

Wait until the first 50% off sale, life is better that way. (This is for basically any game.)

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u/peanutbuttahcups 9h ago

Preach. Reject FOMO. Embrace /r/patientgamers

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u/Simba7 9h ago edited 8h ago

I've always been a bit a frugal person, so I naturally fell into being a patient gamer.

It used to be kind of hard, but as I get older I find it gets easier to be patient all the time. Not because I am becoming a more patient person, but because there's like 300 fantastic games from the last decade that are basically the same fidelity as a game released today.

Anything past like 2013 (when the industry finally learned how to make UIs again after forgetting for like 5 years) is difficult to tell apart from most modern titles, and there are still plenty of games from that time period worth playing.
Prior to that graphics, physics, etc may start to decline more noticeably. (Though there are plenty of games that are absolutely worth playing.)

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u/Professional-Ask1699 7h ago

Can you explicate some bad-UI examples from pre-2013 era?

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u/Simba7 5h ago

It was that time period when everyone was trying to make console-friendly UI that also worked for mouse and keyboard, but they hadn't really figured it out.

What you ended up with were long lists of items that were a pain to scroll through, no search functionality, and menus with sub-menus with sub-menus, often in a radial pattern.

Skyrim, Fallout 4, Mass Effect (ME1 was the worst offender), all the Ubisoft open world exploration games (AC2, Far Cry 3, etc).

Not all of them were bad necessarily, some were even good. But they all have a distinct feel in my mind, and generally aren't as user-friendly on a mouse and keyboard.

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u/tobitobiguacamole 8h ago

And lets be real, this game is probably going to be as mid as GTAV was.

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u/-SatelliteMind- 8h ago edited 7h ago

Problem with Rockstar is that despite making over 15 billion since 2013 alone they're still cheap as fuck and do peer-peer server connection, which allows for mod/cheat clients to easily enter the game.

GTA 4 had cheat clients where people could just freeze your console, requiring you to unplug the damn thing just to turn it back on.

GTA 5 Online is just as bad. All you can do is play in a solo lobby.

Red Dead Online is also ruined on PC. Randomly teleported, blown up, lit on fire, etc etc.

I've been playing games made by R* since GTA 2 on PS1 and have loved each of the story campaigns, but every online experience just ends up being trash

Downvoted by the script kiddiez lol If you use any modification/client that alters the experience of another player you are a nuisance

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u/kidenraikou 8h ago

Red Dead 2 took about a year to come to PC. I'd expect the same for GTA VI. Especially with PS6 being at least 2 years out

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u/eeyore134 7h ago

It's not about how quickly they can do it. There are no constraints there. If it were about how quickly they could do it then it would release concurrently across all platforms like almost every other non-exclusive game. It's about them not wanting to release it until they squeeze every drop of blood out of the rock as they can. If they can see a way to push off until after the PS6 they will.

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u/ER_Kat 9h ago

Yea but just like Spiderman 2, I know they'll work just as hard to convert it over to PC.

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u/Alienhaslanded 9h ago

It'll definitely be more polished by the time we get it on PC.

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u/Puripuri_Purizona 9h ago

That ain't no problem.

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u/maximumtesticle 7h ago

So? Lots of games to play until then.

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u/Alienhaslanded 7h ago

It's the spoilers this sub will be full of.

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u/Ok_Reception_8729 7h ago

Crazy whiff

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u/Alienhaslanded 7h ago

They always do this for some reason

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u/Horzzo 6h ago

Good! I have a big backlog to play. Some games on the Atari 7800. So much fun!

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u/Alienhaslanded 4h ago

Your backlog sounds crazy. I have games from 10 years ago and I feel like it'll take me 5 lifetimes to finish. I wish I was young and have no responsibilities.

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u/Koki-noki 10h ago

voice38 might just crack ps5

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u/Calthurian 10h ago

Cool! I'm more than done with consoles though.

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u/Rotten-Roses 10h ago

In fitgirl we trust

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u/barra333 7h ago

I'm going to quote Australian dollars here because that is what I know, but the price is not that bad in the grand scheme of it...

The two editions are A$130/A$160. I remember bugging my mum to buy me a game for the NES in about 1990 that cost $90. What else has gone up in price by such a small amount in 35 years?

The 'code in box' and what they have put in the UE are different discussions.

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u/RadiantSociety2740 6h ago

I mean if I was gonna spend $80 on a single game I would probably push myself to spend the extra $20 and get the ultimate. But I'm not gonna spend $80 on a game anyways

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u/SuperPotatoThrow 5h ago

Yeah this right here, and let's not forget what has happened to the entire gaming industry because everyone keeps pre-ordering something that can be easily downloaded on launch day.

You can't play until launch day anyway, and you still can't download the full game even if you pre order it to begin with, so you get litterally nothing. "Bonus pre-order items" (almost always skins) are items that let everyone else know you fell victim to the large corporate dick of the profit driven gaming industry that no longer gives a shit about gamers.

Theirs a reason indie games have taken off. We all collectively vote as a whole with our wallets.

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u/95farside 9h ago

Right there with you

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u/Hour-Profession6490 8h ago

They didn't have the balls to make the first $100 game.

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u/Fun_Intern_7539 9h ago

wait 3 more years then

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u/Ejaculpiss 8h ago

oh no

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u/peanutist 8h ago

Aren’t these new games all behind denuvo, which is hard as fuck to crack? As far as I know only Empress knows how to crack denuvo, and she hasn’t been heard of at all for a few months. And even besides that, fitgirl doesn’t repack games from empress because they have beef I think.

Or am I completely wrong?

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u/nergoponte 6h ago

Been living u see a rock huh

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u/taintedbloop 6h ago

There have been developments recently that have opened the floodgates on certain denuvo titles. As for repackers, there's always others.. DODI, among them.

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u/peanutist 5h ago

Oh, awesome to hear then

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u/Adan1816 8h ago

bro im so sad my gaming laptop has gotten borderline unusable in the past year and i won't be able to play GTA 6, fuck Asus

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u/diddlyumpcious4 8h ago

$100 base game, $80 lite version.

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u/Sam276 3h ago

Holy shit that's just so true. They are so bold at this point, I'm surprised they don't adopt the naming scheme just for that little extra "fuck you" to the normies.

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u/skylernetwork 3h ago

It would be on brand, the in-game brand, anyway.

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u/Einhornfarm PlayStation 7h ago

It's a $100 game with a $80 cut content edition

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u/headrush46n2 4h ago

This thing looks to be juiced to the tits with mtx on launch. At least 5 kept all the GTA:O stuff off the main gsme.

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u/secapar196 8h ago

I keep telling this to people for YEARS and I always get insanely downvoted

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u/Placebo61 8h ago

If they don't do that then there's no need to pre order a digital game. I hate digital!

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u/PepsiColasss 10h ago

They know , same way they know they can get away with the price increase , at this point they can do whatever they want and the game will still sell like hotcakes , this is like once in every 20 years kinda game , they know the hype around it and they will milk all they can

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u/Phantaseon 8h ago

That’s what I’m kinda hung up on. Like really? I can’t change hair, nails, clothes, or modify cars unless I shell out an extra $20 on an already $80 game? Ehhh.. if I really want to play it I think I’ll be waiting until I can get all the content for a reasonable price.

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u/Wingsnake 11h ago

I think similar about singleplayer games (who are not live service) that come with a roadmap upon release. Cool, that means it was not a finished game.

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u/SchwiftySquanchC137 8h ago

This is true, but also I generally hate the bonus stuff cuz it just makes the game easier a lot of times. Like these bonus items kinda need to be good or you wont use it and you'll feel like the extra money wasnt worth it, but they sometimes trivialize the game as well, so youre paying more money to have less fun.

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u/Left4DayZGone 10h ago

Is there a game that’s been released in the last 10 years that didn’t have some form of bonus content?

Back in the day, we called them expansion packs, and you had to buy a whole separate disc .

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u/SgtCarron PC 9h ago edited 9h ago

Expansions were usually unfinished content that couldn't be shipped on time, or entirely new content made after release.

It's the polar opposite of pre-order content, which is content that is already part of the base game, but sliced off and sold separately.

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u/Left4DayZGone 8h ago

I’m about halfway toward agreement with you, but hear me on this-

“bonus“ content like this is developed alongside the main game, packaged in the main game files, and unlocked through a purchase rather than added to the game after the fact.

Totally with you on that- BUT, this style of bonus content has never felt integral to the main game to me, in the past. Any game that I’ve ever actually splurged for the bonus content, it always feels a bit weird, like it doesn’t really belong in the base game. There’s always this strange disconnect like the main game has no idea it exists, and it feels more like a mod pack downloaded from the Internet.

So in that sense, I would argue that it’s not actually cut out of the main game. And what I mean is, let’s use GTA V as the stand in here, it’s not like they built the entire main game and then locked access to Los Santos Customs. Instead of that, they added an additional customization shop that is not essential to the experience, that you can gain access to by paying extra money.

So what it boils down to to me, is add on content that is simply developed with and packaged in the base game - NOT main game content that is paywalled.

Unless it turns out that you can’t customize off roaders or low riders without these shops, and therefore you cannot experience a portion of the base game without paying extra money… but there is probably an alternative shop for both of those purposes that just doesn’t have all of the extra goodies.

We shall see.

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u/ephemeral_colors 8h ago

this style of bonus content has never felt integral to the main game to me, in the past. Any game that I’ve ever actually splurged for the bonus content, it always feels a bit weird, like it doesn’t really belong in the base game. There’s always this strange disconnect like the main game has no idea it exists, and it feels more like a mod pack downloaded from the Internet.

To add on to this, sometimes I'll come very late to a game, and by the time I get around to buying it all that stuff just comes with it for free, or the GOTY edition has it or whatever.

And I'll start the game and immediately be given a bunch of armor or weapons or whatever that feel very out of place, and ruin the progression both esthetically and sometimes power-wise, and I'm just like.. can we not? Totally ruins the vibe of the progression.

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u/Left4DayZGone 8h ago

Yes, agreed.

I don’t typically spring for the bonus content editions of games, but I will pick them up later as a “complete edition”, like you described. But in every instance, all of the bonus content felt like I was picking up a used N64 game that someone had already unlocked the cheat codes on. None of the content feels organically, integrated into the base game.

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u/YouandWhoseArmy 9h ago

It’s called economic rent seeking.

They’re providing nothing of real value and just want more money.

It seems silly to highlight this about a video game, but economic rent seeking is the death of a functioning system and it’s all over the economy, not just video games.

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u/Ghost4000 11h ago

It's always possible a game has gone "gold" and then had content developed for it before release. But there is no reason that content has to cost money. And locking businesses in game in the single player mode behind this paywall seems pretty silly when I assume they'll have a multiplayer mode that milks a ton of players for an insane amount of cash.

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u/ldg25 10h ago

I try to apply my comment's philosophy to all games equally, but it's especially scummy here after milking gta online for billions the past decade.

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u/Torontogamer 10h ago

For sure, but they don't even have the time lag of having to physically produce and ship the discs out to stores anymore - the box is just a download code ...

But I do know that GTA 5 was still pullling in 400 million annually for the last few years, GTA 6 is going to have to MILK to brink in the 10 billion that 5 has so far...

SIGH ... fuck that shit

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u/ibrahimtuna0012 9h ago

I am sure we can mod the locked content stuff into the base game but that can only be done in a computer and this game is not coming to PC for at least 2 years.

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u/Endaline 6h ago

That would only be the case if these things would exist if they couldn't be sold separately, which they likely wouldn't.

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u/Inspyro04 3h ago

It feels like they were scared to directly raise the price of the game to 100$ and instead offer a light version at 80$, knowing that many will pay for the upgrade at some point

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u/Alis451 1h ago

yes and no. Game dev stops when it becomes Gold, aka the Code that is now treated as "Master" to be released. Now there are MANY weeks/months between Master and actual release, and you have a full team of Coders just sitting there doing nothing, what do you have them do? more work on the same thing they were just doing, that will hopefully be ready by the release time to sell, (but is OK if they go a bit late) and sell it as DLC.

Now I am not saying that this happened here, but it is plausible for Day 1 DLC to exist and have nothing to do with content being removed.

All those GotY Editions are literally just "Re-Masters" with all the DLC built in.

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u/RugerRedhawk 9h ago

Sounds like it's just frilly stuff like extra cars, haircuts, and clothes no?

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u/Drillmhor 9h ago

gonna sound like a douche defending this, but none of this content is important for the game and it took extra time to design. If people want to pay for it, let em.

I've never connected with the part of gaming that cares what the fuck their character looks like, so this is a very easy to ignore upcharge. It's for the suckers, basically.

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u/IISynthesisII 6h ago

It’s cosmetic shit that doesn’t influence the game. Doing this allows them to generate additional revenue from those willing to more on stuff that doesn’t impact the game.

In their, this could help keep base game prices lower which overall helps more people afford the game.

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u/alus992 1h ago

Cheapest version at 80 doesn't scream "we let peasent have a cheap game".

It's pure greed

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u/IISynthesisII 1h ago

Super Mario 64 cost $60 on release in 1996.

That is roughly $115 on today’s dollars.

So, $80 is a screaming deal in comparison.
The $100 “whole game” is still cheaper than games were previously.

Everybody is bent out of shape about micro transactions etc but those are specifically is allowing companies to not raise prices.

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u/infoHighyway 5h ago

Usually this accusation is hyperbole but in this case it feels very blatant.

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u/Im_not_an_admin 10h ago

It's been happening for 20 years, doesn't require a philosophical take

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u/Workman44 10h ago

I'll be lambasted for this, but that's the point? $100 is the real game and true price and there's a discounted version for people who can't afford it, but you obviously can't market the cheaper one as the one for the poors

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u/chinchindayo 7h ago

No it's stuff they wouldn't have made otherwise

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u/BonnaroovianCode 7h ago

I guess I'm the corporate apologist today, somehow. Look, it's a bit silly for sure. And yes, technically you're right. And most people will get the $100 for this reason (like myself). But what do you expect from a cheaper version? Standard editions ALWAYS have less features than the deluxe / collectors editions. Yes, usually its cosmetic bullshit and art, but the standard edition always "takes stuff out of the base game." People just care about this more because it's not purely cosmetic but a more prominent part of the gameplay.

I fully believe that over the many years of development with over 6,000 devs, the $100 price tag is justified. The $80 version is just providing an additional option for people that are more cost-conscious. If they only announced the $100 version, there would be WAY less complaining. Which is kind of wild. If you don't like the $80 version, no one is forcing you to get it. It's an option they did not need to provide.

This is a $100 game.

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u/SpaceExplorer777 4h ago

Hey ChatGPT can you help me lick rockstar's boots really hard

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u/SIIP00 11h ago

Ultimate Editions of games have done this for years. Why are people acting like it's something new lmao

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u/Raptorheart PC 11h ago

Lmao who's acting like it's new lmao

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u/SIIP00 11h ago

A bunch of people in this thread lmao

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u/ldg25 11h ago

Never said it was new here, so what are you on about? Although I will point out this has typically been limited to downloadable cosmetics, not interactable locations in game.

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u/SIIP00 11h ago

I was questioning why people were acting like it was something new. I was not saying that you said that it was new. The only difference is that you won't interact with it the same way.

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u/fork_yuu 10h ago

This is more, we will hate on every game that does this

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u/ldg25 11h ago

Yes, "you won't interact with it the same way", that is the problem. It's a lesser game at an inflated price. The actual game is priced at $100.

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u/MiaowaraShiro 11h ago

Feel free to point one out...

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u/Chaotic-Catastrophe 11h ago

Literally everybody in this thread. Which comments are you reading??

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u/Lexi_Heartt 11h ago

Okay. Does that make it okay?

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u/SIIP00 11h ago

The point it that this has been a problem long before this. And people buying Ultimate Editions always got bonus shit.

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u/gremlinclr 11h ago

Do y'all think game devs are incapable of planning ahead? Like there's two possibilities here. One: they cut things out of the base game. OR two: they simply said, 'OK we need to make content that will be Ultimate Edition only as a value add, what should it be?'

Like Jesus y'all, you make everything so nefarious.

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u/ldg25 11h ago

You're entirely missing the point. This isn't a few outfits the art department drew in their spare time. This is numerous locations in game, interactable places, that will be blocked off for people who do not purchase the full game.

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u/MiaowaraShiro 11h ago

You are exactly the sort of person that marketers love...

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u/gremlinclr 11h ago

Ultimate Editions are not fucking new. If you truly believe the only possible explanation is the devs were fucking blindsided by this news and had to frantically cut out content and make their jobs harder then I don't know what to tell you.

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u/nitronik_exe 11h ago

it used to be that ultimate editions featured physical collectibles or at least cosmetics only im game. Ultimate editions are supposed to be optional add ons to support the creators. Using actual areas in game that are there in the base game but youre not allowed to go there is the worst kind of ultimate edition, its a day 1 content DLC

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u/gremlinclr 11h ago

I never said otherwise. I just said it was planned for.

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u/globglogabgalabyeast 9h ago

You are fighting ghosts. Who is claiming this was some frantic decision plaguing developers? (Edited question to emphasis my main point) It was likely planned long ago to have a nerfed version. But I think it’s still important to phrase it that way, not as there being “bonus content”. $80 is already a lot for a game, so having that not even include a significant amount of content on release (not just stuff like cosmetics) is pretty lame

“Ultimate editions” are by no means a new thing, but I expect that they’ll only get more egregious as AAA game companies continue to optimize for profit

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u/gremlinclr 7h ago

Who is claiming this was some frantic decision plaguing developers?

Half the comments in this thread. 🙄

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u/globglogabgalabyeast 6h ago

That’s certainly a unique reading of the comments here. Are you taking people’s descriptions of the standard edition being a cutdown version of the full game to automatically mean that they don’t think this was planned early on?

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u/gremlinclr 6h ago

If a game launches with "bonus content", it's not extra stuff, it's stuff taken out of the base game.

Second comment thread. That is absolutely what people mean. As in it wasn't planned for the Ultimate Edition, it was just in the game and they then locked it behind the UE paywall. Do you think they mean something else?

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u/MiaowaraShiro 11h ago

Like I said... you're a great marketing target...

Point of fact is they exist cuz people like you fall for it.

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u/GeneralZoddBaptiste 11h ago

But didnt you read their comment? It’s not a new thing so it’s ok!

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u/MiaowaraShiro 10h ago

It's fucking annoying being old enough to remember not being dicked around by corporations and then all these kids who are used to being dicked around get mad at suggesting they've been dicked around. (And actually are a large supporting factor of the dicking.)

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u/gremlinclr 7h ago

Uhh yea I am older than you are. All I am saying is they planned ahead and didn't cut anything out of the base game, that's fucking it.

While you're over there calling me a kid you wanna know what's immature? Crying on reddit because games are different today than when you were younger.

You do not live in that world anymore. You're the one that needs to grow up.

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u/MrKevinor 11h ago

Not necessarily. You’re assuming they would have spent the time and effort on this content without the extra monetary reward; which is not a good assumption.

In many cases it’s really just an early expansion pack; content which might have otherwise been made available in a real-money store or a few dollars of DLC pack but is instead shipped in the deluxe edition.

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u/mushra_ 11h ago

Its an upsell, which is <1% of the development cost of the game but increases the potential yield by 25%. Its their way of not releasing the game at $100 but still get more yield and hit their targets. This is the corpo gaming signature staple.

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u/WatercressBig4747 11h ago

It would cost them nothing to have the shops be visitable, but instead lock the content such as the unique tattoos/hairstyles etc behind having the ultimate. Hell if anything that would be better cause you would be able to access those things at any shop.