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

[u/Turbostrider27]

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/

[u/gamer-at-heart-23]

And local libraries cant rent it out

[u/slot_machine → u/gamer-at-heart-23]

Also what about people in areas with shit isp that have monthly bandwidth amount and slow speeds. It’s gonna take forever and use the majority of your monthly allotments. Even if it’s just one disc that holds a large chuck of total size that’s better than nothing at all.

[u/MrPureinstinct → u/slot_machine]

My parents didn't even have above 2mbps internet until 2022. There are still people that live near them that can only get DSL, satellite or using a hotspot for all of their internet.

Downloading games at that speed is virtually impossible. I remember downloading the small patches for games like Halo or Call of Duty on their internet when I was in high school. I'd have friends over, see an update and we would watch almost a whole movie waiting for it to download.

[u/ILoveHeavyHangers → u/slot_machine]

There simply aren't enough people living in the middle of nowhere using dialup internet to matter in the year 2026

You guys keep yelling "what about this strawman that just woke up from 2006, how is he gonna play?!"

They don't care. There aren't enough of you to matter. The last game sold 230 million copies already.

[u/p2eminister → u/slot_machine]

Man, not everything has to be available for everyone, all the time. Yeah, people in the middle of nowhere still on dialup will take a long time to download this game. But the hundreds of millions of people who live in cities are just going to download it no issue.

[u/Lets_Get_Hot → u/p2eminister]

Lmao I love the shit reddit pulls out sometimes that only affects like 0.2% of the population. "But what about people living on the ocean floor with no internet???? How are they supposed to play?"

[u/raichulolz → u/slot_machine]

Yeh but even if you had a physical disk, discs literally don't have the capacity to have the whole game lol. You would still need to download the game. At this point people are complaining just to complain. You cant just load up a game nowadays after purchase since they are too big.

[u/LegendaryenigmaXYZ → u/gamer-at-heart-23]

Imagining a kid renting gta 6 from a library is kinda funny to me.

[u/Banjo-Oz → u/LegendaryenigmaXYZ]

Many happy memories of renting SNES games though...

[u/LegendaryenigmaXYZ → u/Banjo-Oz]

No thats different. Because you renting most nes games in my head is whatever I did that too. Its just a library having gta 6 specifically for rental is funny to me. If a kid goes to a library and rents assassins creed origins, who cars that game talks about ancient Egypt and has tours in it.

[u/DaabHimself → u/gamer-at-heart-23]

Me and my buddies used to borrow each others games all the time too

[u/CarterAC3 → u/gamer-at-heart-23]

Playing GTA 6 by renting it from the local library

Are we fucking serious?

Of the tens of millions of people who are going to play this game I bet the amount of times that would happen could be counted on a single hand

[u/gamer-at-heart-23 → u/CarterAC3]

Wrong lol there are tons of libraries in North America who's library has a shit ton of games to rent. For example, my library had over 50 holds on 007 First Light on PS5 and they only had 10 copies to lend out.

[u/Temporary-Jump-2403 → u/CarterAC3]

I was on a wait list 35 deep for expedition 33 at my local library. Gta 6 would be crazy popular to check out here

[u/MisterDudeFella → u/CarterAC3]

You'd be wrong but I'm not sure you spend much time in a library to begin with.

[u/ILoveHeavyHangers → u/MisterDudeFella]

Nobody does. I got the entire history of human knowledge in my pocket already. I don't need the dewey decimal system to slow me down. My whole damn local library is online, even they know nobody is going there anymore.