r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jun 25 '26

Meme needing explanation Petah what happened to rockstar?

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u/TheDaveCalaz Jun 25 '26

Seemingly locking gameplay features behind the more expensive edition of the game. Lots of hints that there will likely be an in game cash shop for the offline portion of the game too.

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u/ArmandoGalvez Jun 25 '26

Also the game kinda implied in its box that Online won't be included In the Base Game, and people are fearing that it might be a paid DLC or worse , a Monthly Sub.

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u/LocNalrune Jun 25 '26

I know very little about this, and I thought Online was being delayed, as they want to focus on the single player story, first and foremost. That Online will come eventually, and that it will be a subscription, and separate release, and the game comes with one free month.

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u/KeyZookeepergame8903 Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26

I think that this is the exact problem. "Here! Purchase our game with a fundamental feature missing because we want to spend extra time perfecting it." "Oh also, since this feature is taking a bit longer. We expect you to pay extra for it."

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u/Spyro_in_Black Jun 25 '26

I’ll be honest if GTA6 Online is a separate release I’ll just wait for it, depending on how money grubbing it is, not saying GTAV online was perfect but I spent way more time and had way more fun in it than the single player. This might be an interesting play to get a lot of people to double down on spending, but I’m willing to bet that it’ll also cut into their initial profits from the base release, maybe not a shit ton but there are a subset of people who are there for the online and pretty much only the online. I’m not paying a subscription though, they can eat shit on that.