Can't vote because I use a VPN but no, I try to avoid paying union busters

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

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

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

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.

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.

No, but also I was never going to buy GTA6.

I loved GTA3, Vice City & San Andreas. Played for hundreds of hours. I played GTA4 for a few hours but it never really clicked the same. I also played Saints Row 2 and Saints Row 3, which I really enjoyed and scratched that same itch (those games eventually went a little over the top, but I still had fun.)

When GTA5 came out all I ever heard about it was it being "online" which turned me off of the series completely. I think I later understood that there is a single player component and an online component, but by then I didn't really care.

If anything I'm likely to try revisiting GTA4 this year. Maybe.

No, but I get the sense this is a skewed audience. I would not be surprised at all if this is one of very few corners of the internet not 98% invested in it.

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.

Will pirate in 5 years with dlc and if like then buy 70% off.

Voted not interested, but your question actually has another option: "it will not be launched on my platform", I don't think it will have a Linux version, nor even if they will support Proton.

Probably, but my platform is PC and I'm not expecting it for years.

I fully expect Rockstar to release it for the PS6 first and then we can start an 18 month timer for the PC release.

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

I am not convinced.

Nah. Never been interested in the IP, and I've come to hate open-world games. They're always the same sh*t with the same repetitive tasks. How can a game be a game when most of its gameplay is litteraly a list of chores in-between driving sequences longer than a loading screen?

No. I find virtually all AAA games for the past decade or so to be unsatisfying. I only pay for indie games nowadays.

lol not unless they make a PC version in 10 years.

hopefully this one is a flop and rock star goes out of business.

• I'm playing on PC (Linux PC + a Steam Deck) because it's a more open platform.
  • I avoid buying games that first came out as exclusives: if they didn't want my money when the game first came out, I'm not going to give it to them later either 🤷
• I generally prefer buying from smaller companies and indie studios
  • There are millions of other games from developers who do want my money, are cheaper, the money goes to developers and artists who need it instead of a huge corporation that lay off people all the time etc
  • Games are a form of art, and there are so many developers and artists that take the leap to try new things instead of pouring the same type of content in the same safe thing that appeals to more people and just sell more copies
  • Smaller games usually have way better VfM (I tend to prefer ~€0.5-€1 per hour of gameplay, but if it's a small studio I'm okay with paying a little bit more, given that steam+taxes take a little over 50% 🫠)

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.

I hardly buy anything on release, only the occassional indie.

In other words: No chance.

I'll probably just...acquire it...

No. Everything I’ve seen so far has been as underwhelming as 5.

I’m good.

I probably will, but i wont be happy about it. I've got a boy who'll be 15 by then attending a public school.

If it turns out basically everyone has a copy I'll need to get him one, you know how it is, and with the license-share on our xboxs itll mean I'll get a copy too. Hopefully the youth of today are actually a lot more politically-minded than i imagine, or the cost of living crisis will mean nearly no parents buy it for them, but I bet I'm going to be buying it.

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.

For me, the satire was the best part of the GTA franchise. After San Andreas the quality of the writing really suffered IMHO.

I got V for free from epic, didn't feel with me. If okay this for free only.

Nah.

We've got GTA 5, but don't really enjoy it. (The excessive open-world free-roam, great! The "doing nasty shit" part, not so much.) And THEN there's the whole "they're trying to kill discs" thing and just, nah.

-- Frost

The poll does not break down if people are not buying it because they object to some aspect of the release or they are not buying it because the game does not appeal to them. It makes it sound like there is a large boycott of the game when it could just be GTA indifferents (like me) stuffing the ballot box.

Maybe when it goes on sale

Still haven’t played gta5 story or rdr2

Lmao no

Pretty bad results for Rockstar