Comment on Do you consider GTA VI overpriced?
Guitar@lemmy.world 2 days agoFrom what I understand, it provides access to a handful of shops in game. This is where you get the clothes/tattoos/etc. The shops are present in the $80 version, but you can only access them after paying extra. I would absolutely call that locking content behind a paywall.
nyctre@piefed.social 2 days ago
You go in once, you spend a minute to pick your fav hairstyle (which might not even be one of the exclusive ones) and then you never go in again. You do you, but I personally don’t consider that content. It doesn’t really change the experience of the game.
Even if we do consider it content for the sake of the argument, it’s what… an hour of content? That’s still silly to get upset over when you pay an extra 25% for it.
100 hours of content for 80€ vs 101 hours of content for 100€.
Guitar@lemmy.world 2 days ago
But that’s just it, why the hell did it become okay to rip out an hour of content from a game and sell it for a quarter of the price on top of the game? It doesn’t really matter if its small or large, it’s scummy as hell. I’m not gonna make any excuses for it. Shit like that, among all the other terrible shit about Rockstar, is why I will not be buying this game.
nyctre@piefed.social 1 day ago
Fair enough. But I do wonder. If they only had the standard version for sale and then 3-6 months later they’d put all the ultimate edition stuff for sale as a dlc, would you still call it scummy?
CTDummy@piefed.social 1 day ago
Look as someone who’s partial to playing the devils avocado myself, I get where you’re coming from.
That said, this is just horse armour dlc tier. I’ll never understand people defending companies doing this shit. R* is already going to milk 6, probably to the tune of a billion plus dollars, again. Do they seriously have to nickel and dime like this? In an ideal fantasy land, they wouldn’t even charge a cent for SP DLC because they know they’ll sell currency and content for the MP and make an absolute killing.
Let’s not forget, how much DLC content was released for SP on GTA 5?
Like “thanks for buying our C suite several mansions and yachts each and our earning our investors a fortune last game. Want some tattoos and cars, that could be modded into any other game? Pay up. Anyway gotta go bust up another employee union, cya.”
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To answer your question, yes, if they had it ready to go on release and withheld it. Your question is also semi paradoxical. Cutting content from the game for day 0 dlc is done for profiteering. Why wait months in a vain attempt at hiding it? Also it’d be pretty obvious because they can’t sprout the locations up out of nowhere, so they’d have to block these areas off. Nerds also always datamine files for nearly every game. It’d discovered immediately so they’d still cop shit for it but now lose the FOMO incentive to purchase it that they’re angling for.