Submitted 2 weeks ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
“Don’t boycott GTA 6. Win justice for the people who helped make it. We spent years pouring our hard work, skill, and creativity into making GTA, and we want people to experience the universe that we helped build,” former developers said. “That doesn’t mean we want to let Rockstar off the hook.”
This guy does not understand how capitalism works.
Is it still boycotting if I was never going to buy it in the first place?
If you’re going to “acquire” it, i think you’re exactly the sort of person this situation calls for.
No, I don’t sail the high seas in search of games. Never have.
Seeing how much they pivoted to multiplayer monetization in 5 post-release, I expect 6 will have barely any campaign with a roblox-like predatory multiplayer.
This expectation is crazy to me. Most of what we’ve seen in an official capacity is cut scenes for a story mode resembling what they’ve been putting out since 2008, and that’s if you ignore the fact that gameplay has leaked multiple times and there won’t even be multiplayer at launch. Smart money is that there’s a campaign like they’ve always made and then the online rolls out months later, like their last two games.
Setting your expectations based on marketing is truly “smart money”. It would be a nice surprise if that happened, but the monetary incentive pales in comarison.
I’ve noticed that 5’s big online content cycles have all come with their own detailed trailers and “story” moments. I don’t know when those come in between missions, but it’s plausible some of the 6 trailer content comes from missions like those.
This is what I’ve told coworkers when this game comes up. I believe Rockstar themselves only referred to it as a single player experience.
I‘m not boycotting GTA6. I simply don‘t care about it.
I hope they win their lawsuit. But I am certainly boycotting this game and I encourage everyone else to do so as well. Rockstar has become the thing they used to satirize. Of course this game is going to be massively successful. But the more we can cut out of their sales, the better the whole industry will be. I mean shit, these assholes are actually trying to have you pay for a Netflix subscription just to watch their advertising of this trash. And that’s on top of a $100 price tag for the full game.
$100 for a revokable license is straight filth. Digital ownership is important, but as a physical collector, not even having the option to buy physical is the easiest pass I will ever take. Especially for a series that has not had any significant innovation in two decades.
Won’t be an issue for me - my only gaming device is a steam deck so I very much doubt I’d be able to play this even if I wanted to.
Being too broke to afford top-of-the-line gaming hardware has been a blessing in disguise for me!
Actually boycott any gta.
Nah, I have some pirated versions. Won’t do anything that gives them money, but I’ll play what I have.
Wonder is the devs could slip a Linux port of the game out of a portable hard drive. It would be a shame if someone accidentally uploaded the game off said drive to the internet.
I just had a vision of devs sneaking into a server room and “hacking” the server to copy data onto a drive and somehow getting it out of a building with more security than Fort Knox. I’m sure it had a theme song.
Maybe an AI will go rouge and accidentally leak it…
Inshallah
I think he’s saying pirate it, maybe?
No interest in buying it anyway. I liked the first 3, but then it started catering to people who can’t read words good or do thinkings.
To bad not spending 100 dollars on game especially one that has no disc.
I loved GTA 3, the first one I ever played and bonus, Vice City was even better! I thought GTA 4 was OK, not great, not terrible. I hated GTA 5. Similarly, I loved RDR and hated RDR 2.
My interest in 6 is in negative numbers. Personally I feel like Rockstar is on a trajectory. It’s not like I don’t like the genre. I love Cyberpunk, but even that I didn’t buy until I managed to get it on sale for $20.
I might consider getting GTA 6 if it goes on sale for $5, which it won’t. Hell, they still want $20 for 4 lol. Money grubbing shits.
I never played RDR, but I picked up 2 for $20 on sale. Bored me out of my mind. It's just "ride horse here, now ride horse here, oh, now ride horse over there". Never finished it.
So boring. It’s pretty, sure. But doing anything remotely fun means a bounty and now everyone everywhere just starts hunting you immediately. It’s so hard to earn money so you need to grind, and then whoops: another bounty. I don’t game to practice restraint! If I wanna shoot that cop’s knee, I’m gonna.
I don’t give a shit about experiencing any universe built by someone this fucking spineless
Maybe if that world was coming to PC, I’d be able to experience it.
Rockstar’s average time between console to PC is ~5 years, if it ever comes at all.
Not saying you should or shouldn’t buy it, but their track record is consistently 1-2 years.
GTA IV
GTA V
RDR2
The average for recent games is somewhat driven up by RDR taking 14 years (literally multiple years after RDR2).
But GTA is their bread and butter, the old reliable. RDR was the second Red Dead game, but the first one was fairly unknown. It was also created by R* San Diego which didn’t really do PC ports of its games anymore, they also didn’t port Midnight Club 3 or LA. So I’m fairly sure they (San Diego) didn’t plan a PC port at all. But then it was fairly successful and RDR2 even more so and they (R* corporate, not San Diego) had another company port it to Windows.
Moral of the story, this is exactly why averages are misleading compared to median
I haven’t even played GTA 5. It felt like a downgrade compared to 4.
That’s definitely an opinion
Are you one of those people who first played GTA5 many years after it came out?
You’re not wrong in technical aspects, also in story, gameplay maybe not, but i definitively play way more 4 than 5.
Also, i prefeer San Andreas than bothbof them
Not boycotting it per se, I’m just not getting it at launch. I think I’ll play Saints Row 3 again. Those games are so good.
You see what GTA 5 goes on sale for. You got me fucked up if you think I’m dropping $100 on GTA 6.
I don't buy anything published by Take-Two Interactive, as they are scummy as fuck...So yeah, sorry about it, won't be buying this game or any other by them. Until they make some less greedy, less dev and consumer hostile choices.
Fired Marathon and Destiny 2 devs supposedly said similar. Hmm…
To be completely fair, I wouldn’t want to work on a project for like 5+ years and have no one see it either. But regardless of how many people join in on this boycott, the game is already a success. Plenty of people will see their work. So I say, boycott away. I guess we can’t exactly say the same about Marathon though.
I’m not surprised. The actual game designers and developers tend to have passion for their work. Musicians want their to be heard, artists want their work to be seen, game devs want their work to be played.
Rockstar could pretty easily win this if they just pointed to the alleged thread where the supposed leaked info was and prove it was gross misconduct
newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This guy’s brain is truly cooked if he thinks buying the game will hold Rockstar accountable.
arules@retrofed.com 2 weeks ago
I’m at the conclusion that their work visas expired, and they need the game to succeed in order to stay in 🇬🇧🔥
I would have already found another job to keep my visa valid.
Davel23@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
How does that make any sense? These people no longer work for Rockstar, the game's success has absolutely no bearing on their lives any more.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
I can see two or three reasons.
They have an ongoing lawsuit with R*, probably not the best optics to call for a boycott. Calling for the opposite shows you in a good light however. Always want to be seen as dealing in good faith when it comes to court.
Artists want their art to be seen by the world, even if they don’t directly benefit from it anymore.
They don’t want to be seen as vengeful by potential future employers.
Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Former employee means they don’t work for Rockstar anymore