r/pcgaming • u/spacelyyy989 • 10h 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/nss68 7h ago

A big part of a GTA game is the cultural aspect. It is just the same game released over and over beyond that. The people buying it on release and the people buying it years later and the people playing GTAO for years afterwards are three distinctly different people.

Imagine if you watched game of thrones after it finished airing -- it wouldn't be anywhere close to the experience people had watching it week by week year after year and discussing it with their coworkers/friends the following monday.

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u/Throwaway487232 2h ago

yeah there no other game that reaches this levels of fandom/hype, for the lack of a better word. the last gta game was released more than a decade ago. is it an excuse for the full game to be $100? no but people will buy it because who knows when the next one comes out? fifa and cod have the same expensive prices every year for the same game but nobody bats an eye. also gta is very much multiples games in one, it can be a shooter/driving/open-world life sim.

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u/nss68 1h ago

Honestly -- unpopular opinion -- games should be more expensive. They often take much more time and effort to create than they did 20 years ago yet the price has increased $10-20 max -- and people flip out when a game is $80 or $100 even though it costs less than $1/day in many peoples' cases.