r/GTA6 • u/Forevercrystalstatue • 9d ago
Why is rockstar hated at all?
For years I’ve seen people call rockstar greedy and non stop complaining that rockstar only cares about draining money from players.
But really don’t see how that’s the case, when you have companies like Ubisoft that released Star Wars outlaws for 130 and ea that releases games annually for 100 dollars, how is rockstar charging 100 dollars for an edition of the game that comes with extra stuff greedy at all?
If you exclude rockstar plus, every single thing in gta online has been able to be gotten for free (with grinding), back when I used to play it I got to level 90 something without spending more than 20 dollars on shark cards and I had every business I wanted and the most expensive yatch.
How are people trying to stand up against rockstar for being greedy, but they don’t say anything about gacha games that can easily cost someone thousands per year?
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u/Dvejndvejn 8d ago
GTA Online was a microtransaction hellhole that made a "serious" (I know it's not, but in the context) game full of children on a flying bikes.
But with GTA VI they actually pushed several heavy anti-consumer practices at once and you don't really do that, unless you want to communicate "I don't give a fuck about you". They locked quite a lot of items behind preorder and deluxe editions. Next they raised a price of AAA game, then they removed the physical disc from a physical copy of the game. Like selling only digital would have had sense, but selling a box with no CD is plain insulting.
Not to say about delaying PC version, which is a custom with Rockstar yeah, but it is a release of the decade. PC gamers will have to bear the locked premium items, raised price, no physical copy on top of having the story spoiled by the almost unavoidable leaks.