• Nopeace [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        Exactly the evidence I gave my friends. They would always respond “well I’m just gonna play the single player anyway” like there’s some kind of wall between the two that Rockstar is going to respect

      • you could still grind it out free to play style, which is what my friends and i did, but it was a lot of effort to find the enjoyable, passive ways to generate an income. it was just complicated enough that a lot of people kicked in for sharkcards (in game $$ buys).

        and they also made the online economy absurd to try and sink money. like a pair of shitty cargo pants in single player from the discount store might be $35. in online it would be hundreds or thousands. and the actual desirable clothes would be 5 figures, easy. everything was crazy inflated.

        they made 2 currencies in red dead redemption 2. the regular one was cash, which you got for doing missions and could buy most items. the buyable currency was gold, which could buy anything but was meant to be rare to come by. it could also buy special aesthetic items and eventually it was used to unlock roles/professions.

        but they fucked up because if you kept a streak going of doing some “daily” tasks that might only take 10-15 minutes, after 28 days the multiplier made it so you could make like 1.25 gold bars each day. i kept that shit up for like 3 months and had like 100 gold before the nerfed it and tried to introduce a third currency (lmao) they had more tight control of, but the modding/hacking was out of control by that point and nobody seemed interested in trying to find a clever way to get the new currency, as it seemed pretty locked down.

        i think rdr2 online was really just a proving ground for testing out currency ideas they could bring back to more tightly and elegantly monetize GTA6 to make it seem more normal to younger gamers who can get their parents to buy them in game shit.

        i have no doubt it is going to be the worst game ever created in the genre of monetization, because the game has always been about getting rich, so it’s going to all come together.

  • haircuts and pedicures cost money, it’s just like real life! they are really committing to realism this time.

    i hope they let me get a job paying minimum wage at a burger king in the suburbs and get a paydayloan on a 1988 Ford Festiva and cruise around the club streets downtown, shoot up my own windshield, and get fucked up on bath salts behind an abandoned Kmart to really lock in the Florida experience.

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    https://www.reddit.com/r/GTA6/comments/1ue9iat/gtavi_ultimate_edition_announced/ here’s the rest of the stuff announced

    To me it seems like its saying ‘here the extra’s you get with premium’ so I’m not convinced by this alone that all aesthetic customisation is going to be paywalled imo I think there’ll be the usual hairdressers and clothes shops in f2p, then there’ll be a few ‘premium’ cuts/clothes etc only available at these locations to the paypigs

    ‘go change your haircut/clothes’ traditionally being one of the first missions in GTA games, the backlash would be great if there was zero customisation of the base characters available to people who ‘only’ buy the base game

    of course I could be wrong, god knows studios have learned pandering to whales is more profitable than making the base game as good as possible to attract more buyers, I just don’t think this by itself is evidence all customisation will be paywalled as many seem to be assuming

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      There’s a lot of shit already in the ultimate edition and if they follow what they are already doing with GTA Online, they will keep releasing more paid shit trough out the game’s life. Down the line you will have tons of paid shit and only a few in the actual game and is extremely probable that what is included in game is ugly as fuck compared to the paid shit like GTA Online, in 3-4 years they can release an GOTY/remaster bullshit version with almost all the exclusive shit that will cost $100-$120.

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      I feel like that was basically the tester balloon for what these massive gaming companies could get away with and they’ve been slowly cranking the dial up since then.

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    I’m gonna be

    antelope-popcorn

    to watch the fight between pig-respecting boomer chuds and treatlerite gamer knuckleheads. Maybe GTA6 can get its release date pushed back again for censorship

    michael-laugh

    Then it’s first DLC is a escort mission where you safely deliver the POTUS to an Epstein Island-like destination