Honestly I rather buy this game on discount during a major seasonal steam sale

Thanks to those who will upload free to YouTube.

Oh no, I did some math and I realized I'll forever be a big dummy for not participating in this once in a lifetime moment...

I'll never know what it's like to throw $20+ at a shitty streaming platform that's hyping a videogame trailer that was made by a union busting game studio. I'll need to choose between giving up $80 worth of groceries for the base game, or I'll need to give up $100 worth of food for the full game since they paywalled additional content.

All in all, that's over a hundred dollars in the hole.

Fuck.

That.

Maybe it's an attempt to limit distribution to a platform where they can control the narrative and pull it if they choose to?

We all know that won't work, though, so I don't get why they're doing this. It seems like they'd want their marketing material to be distributed far and wide.

Oh, well. For me the game stopped at 5. It was fun while it lasted. RIP.

Not even paywalled.
Just gated by 6 hours.

The more I hear about GTA 6. The more shit it looks.

Charging to watch an ad for a video game. Capitalism is really outdoing itself.

this once good company

My dude, the last non-enshittified GTA was GTA 4.

It has been 18 years. This is like talking about EA as a 'once good company' 30 fucking years ago.

Just don't buy it. Don't look for it. Pretend it doesn't exist. Don't reward them.

I'm always amazed at Rockstar's ability to sell a game with the simple sales pitch of "It's GTA". We've basically seen nothing about this game, and they aren't well known for managing their existing games well, yet everyone is convinced this will be

1. Game of the year
2. Highest grossing game of the decade
3. Most innovative piece of software ever

Despite only seeing a pre-rendered trailer up to now. We don't even know any members of the cast on IMDb.

I think we've completely lose the plot on game development.

That's just a terrible business model. Artificially limiting the advertisement of your product.

Not that it won't be leaked elsewhere within 20 minutes of going live.

I still don't get why people care about a new gra. It'll play exactly the same as the last 3.

Also... Once good company? Haven't they been abusive to their employees for a long ass time? Huge amounts of crunch, mass layoffs after releases?

They probably did the math and figured their console audience already has netflix on top of their online subscription and any other services. People on PC are less likely to pay for subscriptions and were gonna wait for the port anyway.

Lmao I'm not sure how people expected anything different from them. Rockstar has been in the business of separating fools from their money for years. The constant stream of pay to win should have been enough of a giveaway already.

Bravo rockstar for convincing Netflix to pay for a 6 hour exclusive window 😂

I'm not gonna watch it early but I gotta respect them convincing Netflix this was worth the money.

I don't see the need to pay. It's not coming to PC right away, so I have plenty of time to watch full gameplay before I would consider picking it up.

I gotta be honest, I don't see how this is different than all the times a movie preview would premiere on MTV or some other cable/satellite channel. Game trailers and gameplay previews premiered on G4/TechTV quite a bit for a good run there. Also, it's on Netflix a whopping six hours earlier than YouTube. That's not a paywall, so much as a paybump. I hate that I'm white-knighting for capitalists here, but there are things to be outraged about and this ain't one of em.

If you need a trailer that bad and can't wait for the upload then you deserve to pay for a Netflix sub

Consider this a preview of gta6 ways.

We all should be glad we get to see one ad less unless we pay, for a limited time at least.

once good company

i only played gta 1 but i remember you guys bitching about greediness with 5. maybe it was multiplayer? i cant remember exactly but i know there has been greediness for a long time.

They should make a $1,000 edition you can play a week earlier.