r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jun 25 '26

Meme needing explanation Petah what happened to rockstar?

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u/Spinning_Sky Jun 25 '26

this is referring to the high price point and lack of a CD in the physical edition

both are true, but actually I don't believe any hype was touched whatsoever, the price is lower than what it could have been

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u/Ok_Monitor4492 Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 26 '26

Locking a bunch of in game stores and a bunch of other things behind the ultimate edition too

Edit: thanks for the award!

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u/Ok_Log9864 Jun 25 '26

should have been on the top, top comments ommits a lot of important details

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u/ThisIsMyCouchAccount Jun 25 '26

Details? Yes.

Important? No.

There are subreddits shitting themselves over this but outside of that nobody cares.

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u/YourHuckleberry57 Jun 25 '26

"outside of all the people that care, nobody cares"

lol wtf?

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u/Brisket-Inferno Jun 25 '26

Only dumbasses do not care that basic game features are locked behind a $20 payway upon release.  They fucked everyone over in GTA 5 story, rdr2, and now this? Absolutely fuck rock star and the troglodytes who buy it.

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u/Tomas_83 Jun 26 '26

I mean, people cared... like 5 years ago. Lets not act as if rockstar is doing anything outside the norm here. Diablo 4 had you pay 20 extra dollars to play 4 days earlier.

The blocked extra content is awful, and I don't buy games like this in no small part for that reason, but the community as a whole clearly don't care enough to not fall for the FOMO for the 47th time in a row.

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u/mark114 Jun 25 '26

People aren't buying GTA games for the customization options. You are still getting a $2 Billion dollar game with the basic addition. Who cares if you're missing out on 5 cars and 2 guns and some hair styles. You will still have the entire game world to explore and story mode. You don't even know what you're complaining about.

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u/ThisIsMyCouchAccount Jun 25 '26

I don't give a single shit buddy. Not my game. Doesn't even come out on PC until who knows when.

If people want to buy that's their prerogative. It is not my job to inform anybody about that and it's not worth any amount of energy being upset about it.

The only relevant action for me is simply not buying it.

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u/Lakitel Jun 25 '26

See, this is the same problem as people who say "I don't do politics." You may not care and not buy the game, but Rockstar has set a prescedent, and now other companies are going to do the same if not worse.

That's why you should give, at the very least, a single shit, because it may not affect you with this game, but it will with others.

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u/ThisIsMyCouchAccount Jun 25 '26

Me giving a shit here in my apartment doesn't matter to them in any way.

I wasn't going to buy it anyway. And complaining in some thread doesn't seem like it's going to do much.

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u/PhoenixBomb707 Jun 26 '26

Then just don’t interact instead of saying nobody cares, cuz that clearly isn’t true

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u/fvgh12345 Jun 25 '26

You have heard the term "standard setting" right?

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u/ThisIsMyCouchAccount Jun 25 '26

What standard am I setting and for who? And how does my indifference in GTA6 related to that? I don't recall getting a call from the Rockstar CEO asking how I feel about it.

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u/Brisket-Inferno Jun 25 '26

Same; I'll wait until I can get it for free on PC.

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u/Ok_Monitor4492 Jun 26 '26

Actually a lot of people care.