Just for fun, to see what the opinion of the Lemmy crowd is.

Edit: VPNs unblocked now. There was a setting I overlooked, my bad. I did not block VPNs intentionally. Sorry. Please vote now if you can (and want to).

open results for 24 hours mark
Not interested                             58.95% (293 votes)
Wait until sale                            35.01% (174 votes)
Day 1 Standard Edition for 80 Dollars       3.02% ( 15 votes)
Day 1 Ultimate Edition for 100 Dollars      3.02% ( 15 votes)

Total votes: 497

    • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlOP
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      2 months ago

      Oh, that’s bad. I didn’t know they would block VPNs. There was an option to detect unique users, and I chose by IP (but with option Anonymize voter data). For anyone else, I guess the comment section is the only way to express opinion then. Edit: Why the downvote?

        • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlOP
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          2 months ago

          But this was just an explanation. Why downvote an explanation? I did not decide to block VPNs, in fact I thought it is possible to vote multiple times by using the option “by IP”. It’s the first time I used this website. And by looking at it again, I can see there is an option that says “Block VPN users” and I simply did not see it when creating and left it the default option. So blocking VPN users is an accident here, because of my incompetence, not because I decided to block them with intentions.

          I use VPNs myself often, especially with YouTube, and would not wanted to have them blocked here. My apologies.

        • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlOP
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          2 months ago

          I found out there is a setting to unblock VPN users. Please try again, I hope this works now. It was not my intention to block!

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      2 months ago

      I found out there is a setting to unblock VPN users. Please try again, I hope this works now. It was not my intention to block!

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    2 months ago

    None of the choices apply to me. I’m pretty excited to play it. Not gonna pay for it though.

  • arcine@jlai.lu
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    2 months ago

    Voted “Not Interested” while guessing it was the least common option, turns out it’s close to 60% ! I guess this audience is a little biased towards playing indies, maybe that’s why.

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      2 months ago

      I tried 4 and 5 for a few hours each and the mechanics are all very mid. I have no idea how this series became the juggernaut it did. To me it’s as surprising as some random mobile game blowing up, like Angry Birds or Flappy Bird

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    2 months ago

    I don’t think I’m going to get GTA 6 at all. I have a grudge against Take2 since they had Gearbox update all the old Borderlands games right before Borderlands 4 came out to include an anticheat software and the EULA now states that any info the anticheat scrapes can be sold to their marketing partners. So they turned all of those games into spyware. Rockstar and Take2 both stated that the already over-monitized GTA Online is actually under-monitized, so I fully expect the GTA 6 online to be more of a fucking nightmare than EA’s Battlefront 2 on release. And I also hate how as soon as Rockstar saw how profitable GTAO was, they cancelled the single player DLC and shoehorned all that shit into GTAO.

    I’m tired, boss. It’ll be a cold day in hell before I spend money on a triple-A game again

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      they cancelled the single player DLC and shoehorned all that shit into GTAO

      I didn’t know that, but always suspected it.

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        Yeah, they never outright stated it, but this was all found in one of the big data leaks from Rockstar. The first was mostly finished and involved Trevor working with the CIA, doing a heist on the casino, and going on James Bond/Austin Powers like adventures. The second DLC was a zombie survival scenario (probably going to be like RDR’s Undead Nightmare) with Micheal and his family. And the final DLC basically just had concept art of Franklin being sucked up into a UFO.

        All the cars and the casino heist from Trevor’s DLC is in GTAO. The cars modified with sheet metal and spikes from Michael’s DLC got repurposed into a Mad Max type of update for GTAO.

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    I can’t give my money to a union busting company. I’ll play it though. Probably “borrowed” from “a friend”

  • Kind_to_Everyone@slrpnk.net
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    2 months ago

    Why is “buy eventually” not an option? I’m not arranging my life around the PC launch, but I don’t need a sale either.

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    2 months ago

    I’m not at all surprised to see the “not interested” and “wait for a sale” options being massively ahead on Lemmy. Though it’d be interesting to see how different the “not interested” crowd would be if the option were split into “not interested at all” and “interested but wont buy for political/moral reasons”.

    The comments here imply most would vote for the second option, but I’m in the first camp myself. I’ve never been interested in any of the GTA games.

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      I’m in both camps, but also I think there should be a “Arrr” option. I’m also in that camp, mostly out of curiosity. I want to see what compromises they make on this game, and how they choose to accomplish certain tasks. It’s going to be a massive game culturally, and I want to be aware of what they’re doing.

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      2 months ago

      Yeah, I also imagine there’s lots of folks who have their handful of games in rotation that wouldn’t care to buy a new game anyways. And then also lots of folks, who just don’t have the hardware for it…

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    2 months ago

    lol, I know what people vote for in these kind of poll VS what they actually do on launch day.

    I am not convinced.

    • dogslayeggs@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      There are only 609 total votes here, pulled from a fairly small subset of the gaming population. I would not doubt that this poll is very accurate… for the people who took the poll.

  • LemmyEntertainYou@piefed.social
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    I’d have been a day one customer if they’d bothered making a PC version and hadn’t arbitrarily blocked Linux users from GTA Online a couple of years ago. Now they can get fucked.

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    I chose “wait until sale” because there will apparently be no actual physical release, but I’d consider getting the $80 version at some point if there was one. I was fully prepared to just buy it on release, but $80 digital-only left a bad taste in my mouth. I don’t appreciate Rockstar’s blatant greed and it immediately dropped it from “must-buy” to “buy later at some point, maybe.”

    Now, if they made a Bully 2? I’d pay $100 for that.

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    2 months ago

    I am one of the few in this world that GTA just didn’t appeal to, and I guess I’m lucky in that regard, seeing as how it takes so long to develop a new one.