Comment on GTA V was released on this day, 12 years ago

• ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Are you unaware that there’s a component of GTA 6 besides GTA online? Even in the online mode, they’re milking gamers for weak content using regular gambling. A grift would be like a carnival game that appears winnable but actually never is. For your gambling money, you do get “stuff” in GTA 6, even if you or I would consider it a poor value. I don’t know why a shitty online mode would make me want to play a good crime story single player mode less, but the mere existence of the single player mode easily makes it more than “just” that.

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  • RonnieB@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Imagine witnessing the evolution of predatory practices in gaming for the past two decades and still arguing in favor of giant corporations.

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    • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I just think that if you’re going to call something a grift, it should actually be one, because words have meaning. We can call it all sorts of other things. “Predatory” is a good one. I myself called it “shitty”. That’s not arguing in favor of a giant corporation. You can’t just pick your favorite negative descriptor when it doesn’t apply.

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      • FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You are being pedantic. You derailed the conversation from the game to definitions of words, because your argument was shallow to begin with.

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      • datavoid@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I’m willing to bet GTA VI’s single player, offline campaign will be groundbreaking.

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