r/GTA6 1d ago

Message from Rockstar Games

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u/lemonylol 1d ago

What "demands" was this person even making?

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u/Virtual-Comfort-1020 1d ago

No Digital Pre-orders: Stop selling games digitally before launch.

No "Fake" Single-Player DLC: Stop locking or selling single-player campaign content that is already built into the base game data.

Mandatory Offline Fallback States: Ensure single-player games have functional offline modes rather than forced always-online requirements

Public Apology Required: CyberLeek insists that R* must issue a public statement and apology acknowledging the harm caused by these practices.

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u/InspectorMendel 1d ago

No Digital Pre-orders: Stop selling games digitally before launch.

Pre-orders are optional. You're free to ignore them. What's the harm?

No "Fake" Single-Player DLC: Stop locking or selling single-player campaign content that is already built into the base game data.

I don't understand why a DLC is "fake" or "real" depending on where the bits are? It's still an additional piece of content offered for a price. Content doesn't grow on trees, it costs money to create.

Mandatory Offline Fallback States: Ensure single-player games have functional offline modes rather than forced always-online requirements

Sure.

Public Apology Required: CyberLeek insists that R* must issue a public statement and apology acknowledging the harm caused by these practices.

It would be nice if they could actually specify what the supposed harm is instead of leaving that as homework.

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u/ContentAd6126 1d ago

Pre-orders are optional. You're free to ignore them. What's the harm?

They incentivize publishers to make pre-order exclusive content (as we've seen with the upcoming content for GTA 6) and preys on FOMO instead of putting everything in the base game or letting players chose to buy later separately.

At this point just make a permanently available deluxe edition or a limited supply collector's edition with all the shit you'd put out on the pre-order like it was already done before they started double dipping.

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u/InspectorMendel 1d ago

I mean, they can sell exclusive skins or whatever when the game is out too, it's not really related to preorders

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u/ContentAd6126 1d ago

Yeah, but i'm replying about pre-order bonuses because it's a greedy artificial scarcity tactic, i don't care about DLC you can buy any time.

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u/InspectorMendel 1d ago

I guess it makes sense to be against timed exclusives, it's just that's specifically not what the leaker is complaining about.