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While Take-Two is riding high on their announcement that a GTA 6 trailer is coming, its CEO has some…interesting ideas on how much video games could cost, part of a contingent of executives that believe games are underpriced, given their cost, length or some combination of the two.

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[–] abbotsbury 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Rockstar's games are the rare few I'd say are worth a full $60

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That was before they started diarrhea shitting themselves since the founders left. GTA Trilogy, GTA+, and removing cars people paid for in Online is just a taste of things to come.

[–] abbotsbury 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I specifically mean their in-house single player games, so only GTA V and RDR2 for the last decade.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's what I mean, Rockstar was a brand you could trust until after RDR2. Founders left right after and you can see how things changed right after.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, they left and the change was IMMEDIATE. Holy moly the shit show that was RDO. If you were playing that game back then, you could see the crumbling of the company happening in real time, it was wild. RDO being left to rot is my Roman empire, and I wonder if the founders feel regret at all with how their creation was treated by the company they left. Or if they just dry their tears with hundos these days?

Heck, I don't even feel like RDR2 lived up to it's full potential before they left, what with post-game being the most buggy and unfinished-feeling part of the whole game. It felt like it was just waiting for DLC content to be added, since it was a huge patch of map with hardly anything going on. Sigh, who knows.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Too bad it will be at a minimum $70, and i bet with the hype, even $80, while also being chockful of microtransactions.

[–] SocialMediaSettler 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's Rockstar Games, they love microtransactions and Sharkcards and will more than likely implement more greed tactics into their next big game (GTA 6). I'm still pissed off over the bilking they did with the bunker series in GTA 5. They're a ruthless, greedy company. And don't forget those times they went after those fanboys/talented game designers who were revamping their old games like GTA 4. Those kids were super talented and Rockstar busted their asses like the mobsters they are. Fuck Rockstar and their next GTA greed fest.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Don't call them mobsters, they probably think that sounds cool. More like corporate sell outs.