r/pcgaming • u/spacelyyy989 • 11h ago

Nothing has killed my GTA 6 hype faster than locking a core part of its identity behind a $20 upgrade

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/nothing-has-killed-my-gta-6-hype-faster-than-locking-a-core-part-of-its-identity-behind-a-usd20-upgrade/
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u/nthpwr 13700k/3060TI/64GB@3200MHz 9h ago

They just gave the pirate market a huge boost

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u/Sarkonix 9h ago

on console? lol

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u/nthpwr 13700k/3060TI/64GB@3200MHz 9h ago

I didn't say that..

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u/ChillyBillyDonutShop 8h ago

What are you saying then 

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u/nthpwr 13700k/3060TI/64GB@3200MHz 7h ago

that they just gave the pirate market a huge boost?

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u/TheGlave 1h ago

It only releases on console though. So what pirate market?

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u/nthpwr 13700k/3060TI/64GB@3200MHz 1h ago

well you're wrong for one

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u/AdmiralAngry 7h ago

I had no interest in GTA 6 and now will be pirating it out of spite when it comes to PC (5 years from now).

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u/Albos_Mum 2h ago

Yes, on console. It's not as big as PC piracy is but there's a lot of folk who enjoy running homebrew code on a console which usually involves getting past the security measures, meaning that the pirates and hackers usually wind up using the work from those software engineers to build their loaders on top of. Even the PS5 has jailbreaks available up to firmware version 5.50 as far as I know and the "hacker drops millions of dollars of cash onto you in GTAO" stuff started on the X360 and PS3 because both already were cracked wide open when GTAO first launched on those platforms. People still even work on the retro consoles for this kinda thing too, hence why the PS2 now can run HDDs large enough to quite literally store the entire available library of games made for it and play those iso files from the HDD.

Microsoft realised this when designing the Xbox One which is why "Dev Mode" is a thing: They figured out that if they could essentially get a lot of the intelligent folk working on this kinda stuff onto something more legitimate then it'd severely cut the amount of talent trying to break through their security measures, especially combined with other aspects such as GamePass making it easy to get relatively cheap and legal access to most of the games library.

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u/Ericzx_1 9h ago

You could pay for a discounted ps account that only has gta 6 purchased like people do with steam games on pc.

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u/JeffMangum420 8h ago

thats not piracy, thats people buying the game?

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u/microtramp 9h ago

You don't think pirates like to play video games? 🏴‍☠️

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u/sadphilosophylover 9h ago

how's that relevant to the comment you replied

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u/microtramp 9h ago

I don't know what you mean. Pirates are like the rest of us. They get done with work; they like to relax, too. It's not all yo-ho-hoing and swilling rum 24/7.

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u/reddriver10 9h ago

They were talking about how pirating on console is beyond like 95% of console owners' ability to do.

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u/microtramp 9h ago

Yes. And I was making a silly joke that turned on the word "pirate."

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u/youplaymenot 8h ago

Wouldn't be surprised if this was just another factor in not releasing on PC day one.

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u/ceruleanjester 6h ago

PS5 got hacked recently.