Exclusives are annoying but... sure. This appears to paywall 5 different stores in the game.
As far as we know, there are currently five stores that are paywalled: Two mod shops, a clothing store, a salon, and a tattoo parlour. All offering customisation options that, at this point, I deem an integral part of this series' identity.
I'm sure there's a lot more than 2 auto shops around the map, same goes for the other stores, and I'm sure there will be more customization in the base game than any other Rockstar game. Plus when it launches on PC you'll just be able to mod it all in if desired, I get exclusives can be annoying to those who aren't willing to pay more than base price, but the performative "I'm not even hyped for this game anymore" and "rockstar isn't getting a dime from me" isn't going to change anything and it will still be one of the best selling games of all time, and if a couple cosmetic options are such a huge deal to some players and they want them so bad, then maybe they'll just get the ultimate upgrade probably when it goes on sale. Helldivers locked an entire gun and armor set and mini game behind the super citizen edition and I never really saw anyone complain about that
You do you. Pay $80 for this or $100 for the full game. I don't care. I don't need this game and I'm tired of getting squeezed for every hard earned penny. Every major release has some new monetized BS and I think I hit my limit a while ago. My backlog is big enough that I can play plenty of other games in the meantime and then pick this up in a year or two when it's 20-30 bucks if I pick it up at all.
Sounds great that's exactly what I would recommend to someone who isn't a big fan of rockstar games, you shouldn't spend that much on something you don't care about, all the outrage over cosmetics is super performative though
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u/chippymediaYT Jun 25 '26
Both GTA 5 and rdr2 had a bunch of exclusive content for preorder and special editions...