So much enshitification with this once good company.
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 it wasn’t GTA I doubt anyone would notice and/or care. It’s the equivalent of an exclusive interview or something.
Yeah I mean it might be stupid but it’s also a real nothingburger. This is like if the trailer aired at 3am and you fall asleep and watch it when you wake up at 9am.
They’ve generated drama with it. Mission accomplished as far as they’re concerned. It truly is nothing. Six hours? I’m at work, I’m at the beach, I’m on a hike, I’m doing whatever, I’ll watch it later. Boom, six hours. It’s a meaningless window of time, but there’s articles being written about it.
Not even paywalled.
Just gated by 6 hours.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.
The funny part about all this is that the game will be released in the high seas a week before official release and will have mods working before any of the preorder suckers even get to download it.
Doubtful, given that it’s only a digital console release for the foreseeable future.
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
- Game of the year
- Highest grossing game of the decade
- 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.
This is GTA 6. The game could just be Hello World and it would still be the best selling game ever. They could have started taking preorders earlier and it could have also been the best selling game of last year.
People know how popular the last game was, assume that this one is going to be even more, and feel like they need to be first to play it or they will be left behind. They feel like they need to preorder the game so that it doesn’t sell out, despite the fact that it is a digital download.
And everyone is going to buy it just like always. Which proves their strategy works.
I really hope GTA 6 bombs HARD. Like, 30k total worldwide sales. I want them to have to reevaluate their strategy, and stop making GTA games so paint by numbers. The numbers are there to make them consistent flow of money. But they really make the missions become “Go to the yellow marker. Follow the target. Kill the gang that ambushes you. Lose the cops. Mission passed.”
With multiple cut scenes (that sometimes are unskippable depending on game) between each step.
I just want to enjoy the game, in single player, and have a full experience that doesn’t feel tacked on as an after thought.
Hate to be the bearer of bad news but I’m pretty sure they made $
1.21.4 billion already from dummies preordering. We deserve the gaming industry we have because people never learn.
I mean if you can’t see what you get don’t preorder… Well… Never preorder But especially if you don’t see what you get
it’s gonna be uploaded to YouTube within 10 minutes of release.
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?
Its GTA. Anything they do is an amazingly brilliant effective tactic because it will work no matter what it is.
I would fucking love to work advertising there. You literally cant fail
Honestly I rather buy this game on discount during a major seasonal steam sale
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If you want to get the game wouldn’t you want to avoid further trailers to avoid getting stuff spoiled?
That’s not the point here. If you don’t want to watch it, don’t watch it. But if you do, you shouldn’t have to pay for it.
You don’t have to pay for it. You just have to wait 6 hours lol this is literally nothing.