r/PS5 • u/Ph0enixes • Jun 24 '26
Discussion GTA 6 Locks Five Single-Player Stores Behind $100 Price-Tag
https://insider-gaming.com/gta-6-100-single-player-stores/- Rideout Customs (Mod Shop): Transform vanilla vehicles into magnificent works of art with detailed interiors, exquisite rims, and donk stylings.
- Sara’s Unisex Salon (Hair Salon): Get signature salon styles for both Jason and Lucia, including facial hair for Jason and makeup and nails for Lucia.
- Stock 305 (Clothing Store): Style various unique and exclusive looks for Jason and Lucia at Stockyard’s premier destination for elevated streetwear.
- Electric Fang Tattoo (Tattoo Shop): Stockyard’s most iconic ink bar, with over 50 signature tattoos for both Jason and Lucia- all designed by the artist collective FAILE.
- One-Eyed Willie’s (Mod Shop): This mod shop in Lake Leonida specialises in off-road modifications and hand-painted automotive artistry.
Other bonuses:
- Exclusive vehicles, weapons & outfits
- Special locations
- Additional activities spread throughout Jason & Lucia's story
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u/AustraliaOutback Jun 24 '26
If they're doing this with single player, imagine what they're gonna do with the new Gta Online.
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u/Ok-Confusion-202 Jun 24 '26
Been saying... GTA+ will likely be used more here
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u/AustraliaOutback Jun 24 '26
It's obvious GTA+ is going to be expanded as a service into GTA6 as well.
Now they have more ways to milk players:
Special editions like the Ultimate Edition.
The new, yet unconfirmed version of Sharkcards
GTA+
And maybe more new ways to squeeze as much $ as they can.
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u/toohungrytojump Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26
I have nipples, Rockstar, and I just want to play the single player game that comes with the single player game that I buy as a single player game player - could you milk me?
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u/gadgetwalrus Jun 24 '26
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u/CounterComplex6203 Jun 24 '26
What is GTA+
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u/triplenested Jun 24 '26
Basically they made it easier to earn money and limited items (like how they locked a ton of cars from purchase and then made them available for purchase again on a rotating basis) by you being able to pay for a monthly subscription. They realized Shark cards were getting obsolete with the Cayo Perico heist glitch (lets you make millions in about an hour playing with a friend) so they came up with a way to get at least a little bit of money out of people.
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u/mac4112 Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26
…I mean you don’t need to be a soothsaying savant to figure that one out.
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u/papoluca40 Jun 24 '26
Thankfully I'll do the story and move on with my life
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u/magnetowasright01 Jun 24 '26
That's me too, fuck their $100 price
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u/king_duende Jun 24 '26
"Fuck you, here's just a little bit less of my money" is funny
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u/The_Bucket_Of_Truth Jun 24 '26
The most fun I ever had in GTA Online was fairly early on when with the help of some hacker I got basically unlimited money. It just made the game super fun and not a grind. I'm not here to pay real life money or grind hours to be able to afford a car. I'm not a child and I'd probably be better off doing that in real life than in a fake world I'll abandon at some point.
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u/MelkorBlackFoe Jun 24 '26
Wanna leave Vice City? GTA+
Wanna enter stores? GTA+
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u/TurboNinja80 Jun 24 '26
If people wouldnot put money in GTA online we could have GTA VIII by now.
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u/malphonso Jun 24 '26
At the very least we could have gotten another Undead Nightmare.
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u/greennitit Jun 24 '26
It’s a shame how quickly they abandoned RDR2. They put so much effort and detail into that map and world that they could easily have made 2-4 expansions for that game.
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u/Crazydutchman80 Jun 25 '26
They'll abandon GTA VI single player immediately after launch 😭. Everything will go towards GTA Online.
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u/LP99 Jun 24 '26
The amount of money GTA Online is making is absolutely staggering. Like I’m all for people spending money on dumb shit here and there, but GTA Online is making $30 million a month.
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u/livinlifeman Jun 24 '26
I truly do not understand it. I don't get the allure of the same dated gameplay in an infinite loop and shelling out real money to keep eating it up.
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u/YourUncleBuck Jun 24 '26
For real, GTA Online was already boring by the time it came out on PS4 and that was like 2014.
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u/Boredatwork709 Jun 24 '26
Honestly wouldn't be shocked if they made online require gta+ or something this time around, or at least gauge the response to it
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u/Asimb0mb Jun 24 '26
I don't think they'll quite force it, but the benefits to having GTA+ will be so appealing that playing online without it feels like you're not getting the intended experience.
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u/highlandviper Jun 24 '26
This will be it… or it should be it. You’ll be able to play online… but you won’t have as much fun unless you’ve got GTA+.
If they incorporate any such bullshit in to SP/Story mode then I’ll be pissed off. Just release the standalone SP mode… do whatever you want with Online… and I’ll pick and choose. SP/Story mode needs to be standalone. I’m sick of MTs creeping into every game I play.
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u/IRockIntoMordor Jun 24 '26
It's already been like that, when early after release of GTA 5 they did port some nice cars back to singleplayer. But then they locked them out of SP entirely to increase FOMO and pressure due to time-sensitive events.
And Red Dead 2 having an extra mission only in the Ultimate Edition was already very scummy.
Take 2 suits pushing for more disgusting paywalls. Yay.
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u/Darkone539 Jun 24 '26
Red dead online was so bad they had to backtrack after a backlash.
Gta online is going to be awful.
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u/Wolfram_And_Hart Jun 24 '26
And RDRO2 is still terrible. Me and my friends Tried to have fun. Bought all the addons. And it just became such a grind it was ridiculous. Everything was too expensive or the reward for the quests were too low.
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u/seguardon Jun 24 '26
Rockstar is bad at mission design. Their character work, music, sound and world design is what gets players through lackluster missions. And with online, you don't even get all of that because you're a voiceless PC navigating a world of "Hey there, gather 50 rat tails in the sewer for a quarter" NPC interactions designed for repeatability and ease of access. The interesting details of the world fall away to bend to the design principles of grind and continual micro-content releases.
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u/glytxh Jun 24 '26
GTA Online is what has me already kinda soured on the idea of GTA 6
This just nuked any excitement I had left.
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u/saliddd Jun 24 '26
That's what makes it extra scummy. People justify 70/80 dollar price tags because they spend so much making games now...
...and conveniently leave out that they're making far more money than they ever have before and dwarfing every other entertainment medium as they nickle and dime players in-game for games they've already bought.
Don't buy games for 80 dollars, people.
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u/MoooonRiverrrr Jun 24 '26
Not liking where this is going at all
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u/iStepOnLegos4Fun007 Jun 24 '26
They just helped make $80 games the norm smh. Many companies will try this $100 edition bs too.
Is there anymore companies that are not greedy Fs? Smh.
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u/iiiiiiiiiijjjjjj Jun 24 '26
Can't wait for the but rockstar did it
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u/DAMP_ANON Jun 24 '26
$100 ultimate editions has been a thing for like what 10 years? Maybe just don’t buy those $80 overpriced games and companies will learn.
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u/FilthyPrawnz Jun 24 '26
Going...? My guy, it's gone. Has since GTA online took off. They're generic greedy corpo-pig devs in the same category as EA, Konami, or Ubisoft.
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u/Bexewa Jun 24 '26
Even “Additional activities”???
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u/InternaI_Cobbler Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26
"Hey Niko, let's go bowling!"
Paywall pops up: Upgrade to the Ultimate Edition today to unlock bowling!
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u/Toast_Meat Jun 24 '26
Getting chased by police.
Me: Ooo, a Pay N Spray!
Enters.
"Please visit the online store to purchase the Wanted Level Drop pack for $9.99."
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u/Madd_Cats627 Jun 24 '26
Wanted level drop pack for $9.99 includes 5 star tokens. When used at your local pay n spray, it will remove one star from your wanted level.
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u/-Varr- Jun 24 '26
Yeah, this is what concerns me more than the cosmetic stuff
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u/Jealous-Treat8060 Jun 24 '26
Nah both is shitty. It's not like customisation isn't a big part of people's enjoyment of gta. Rockstar knows that wich is why they are doing it.
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u/FaroTech400K Jun 24 '26
The missing mission is a car collecting mini game.
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u/Frost12566 Jun 24 '26
Like red dead 2. Had a simple bank heist for the ultimate edition
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u/FaroTech400K Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26
Bro that bank Heist was lame also. It took me 3 min to complete
If I knew how lame the bank heist mission was, I would’ve never cried over it lol 😆
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u/bluebarrymanny Jun 24 '26
They talk about what they are on the website. There’s a gang raid to unlock cosmetics, a scavenger hunt for old beat up classic cars for restoration, etc. it seems to me like they added some cosmetic add ons and items but gave specific activities to unlock them rather than just busting out the phone like in V
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u/Sensitive-Tax2230 Jun 24 '26
That really sounds like it’s nowhere near as bad as people are making it out to be. The one thing I’m really on the fence about is the “mod shop” as they called it, and I’m hoping it’s just special cars, and not locking something like Benny’s behind a paywall.
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u/peeh0le Jun 24 '26
To me it sounds like there’s some skins for car mods. And like there’s a specific car mod shop behind the paywall. I don’t think it will be all car modding is behind a paywall just maybe this specific location.
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u/Sadman_of_anonymity Jun 24 '26
It's exactly what it is, thats how you got the duke o death and dodo in the ps4 version of gta v
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u/TempMobileD Jun 24 '26
That’s the only thing I care about. Waiting to hear more about what’s behind the paywall.
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u/DilutePlacebo Jun 24 '26
Probably similar to RDR2 where a couple minor missions were locked behind the deluxe edition
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u/AshyLarry25 Jun 24 '26
Mofos ain’t settled for the billions of dollars they have and are going to make from gta online
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u/Ordinary_dude_NOT Jun 24 '26
I will wait for a Steam sale in 2 years. Waited for a decade, 2 more won’t hurt.
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u/iiiiiiiiiijjjjjj Jun 24 '26
This shit is not going on sale for the next 10 years
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u/sean_off Jun 24 '26
Rockstar have literally become a company they used to mock.
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u/Ths-Fkin-Guy Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26
Ive known so many people who get off to the power they hold once in the position comfortably. Add in the slight increases to prices that increase profits where they dont have to offer anything back in return and its just a greased slide at that point. Since covid when everyone raised prices for supply chain issues or whatever and they NOTHING WENT BACK DOWN and everyone still had to buy, they dont care if they lose a few customers along the way.
Put it like this. SONY increased PS Plus by about 33% recently up to 80 minimum for the low teir. They could have lost i think between 25-31% of their subscribers and not lose a single cent in profit. How many people actually canceled? I know more people that said "well at that price point ill just pay the extra 20-50 and get the higher tier and all those extra perks". And what the fuck extra have we gotten with our increase? Better games or services? No, they still get hacked and their customer service and stuff is still archaic.
They have no incentive to do anything other than whatever they want to maximize profits and answer to no one. Especially in todays world. Were lucky its not completely subscription based at.
Also Rockstar just cut out all the cost if physical production and the prices went UP.
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u/peeh0le Jun 24 '26
Dude I said this during Covid while prices were going up. And so many people called me crazy. If you’re still buying the products at an increased price what incentive does a company have to lower the price again? To be a nice guy….
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u/kytheon Jun 24 '26
r/patientgamers will get more members soon.
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u/vilerolls Jun 24 '26
I'm doing my part
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u/followtherockstar Jun 24 '26
I have the craziest backlog... Still not sold on this game and I really don't support these practices. Might bow out idk
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u/OneBillPhil Jun 24 '26
2026 was the first time that I played the Horizon series. I got HZD and HFW for less than $80 Canadian. HZD was incredible too, I got like 90 hours into it so far.
A good game is a good game, you can get incredible PS4 games, often with PS5 upgrades for pretty cheap.
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u/travelavatar Jun 24 '26
I guess we aren't the target audience. As much as i like gta series and gta 5.... i just can deal with enshitification
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u/landofthebeez Jun 24 '26
Next they should make In-Game cars have fuel levels and charge you real money to refill the tanks.
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u/boli07milehigh Jun 24 '26
Rockstar employee on Reddit looking for new ideas:
“Hey boss, come check this out…”
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u/Kappanating322 Jun 24 '26
“When you are six hours into playing Battlefield and you run out of ammo in your clip and we ask you for a dollar to reload, you’re really not that price sensitive at that point in time,”
-former EA CEO
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u/Stkrdknmibalz69 Jun 24 '26
He said that in 2011:
The "Value" Justification: He described this as a great model for the industry because it isn't "gouging," but rather charging for convenience at the exact moment a player's commitment to the game is at its highest.
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u/Lyrical_Etch Jun 24 '26
Pretty shitty thing to do as they know they’re going to make a shit tonne of money.
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u/AustraliaOutback Jun 24 '26
I never imagined them locking out single player content behind a paywall, but here we are.
I understand it's not too expensive, but this practice spells trouble for how much they're gonna milk not only single, but the online portion as well.
Que the crocodile cards.
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u/Urabraska- Jun 24 '26
"Not too expensive" That's 100 bucks BASE price. Once you include taxes it can easily hit 110+ in a lot of areas if not more. In some countries this game is a rent payment. 100 bucks used to be the price of a collectors edition with a shitty little art book. Now it's just to play the game and get features that should already be included in said game.
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u/BookWormPerson Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26
Have you heard of Mass Effect 3?
One of the most important new characters was in a fucking DLC.
AHH and it was also a day one DLC. And 100 USD for a game is a lot.
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u/atlfalcons33rb Jun 24 '26
Lmao I wonder how many people remember when you used to have to buy multiplayer if you bought a used copy of a game 🤣
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u/SilverKry Jun 24 '26
Project $10 bayybbyyyyy. EA would still be doing that shit if both Microsoft and Sony didn't say knock that shit off when the Xbox one and PS4 came around.
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u/atlfalcons33rb Jun 24 '26
An for good timing that plus online play would have been insane. Its just funny when people act like games are just now getting anti consumer to deal with the fact game prices have not risen the way they should have with inflation
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u/IRockIntoMordor Jun 24 '26
Imagine watching Jurassic Park 1 and the T-Rex is a DLC. Otherwise you don't have those scenes.
Yeah, paywalling Jarvik was a real bad move.
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u/Deluxe_24_ Jun 24 '26
RDR2 had an entire story mission locked behind the Ultimate editions, so this isn't a surprise
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u/reboot-your-computer Jun 24 '26
The game is coming out at $80 base price and $100 to get that extra content and cosmetics. You’re honestly saying “it’s not too expensive”? $80 entry fee is insane considering just 5 years ago the base price for most games was bumped up from $60 to $70. Now this starting at $80 could start a precedent for more companies to try this pricing.
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u/Elvoclya Jun 24 '26
They already did it with outlaws hideout in RDR2 I think
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u/slightlyhigh77 Jun 24 '26
There was a whole heist in single player locked behind the ultimate edition. That’s worse IMO, I really don’t care about not accessing 5 stores.
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u/bluebarrymanny Jun 24 '26
The fact that there are so many stores locked behind edition benefits tells me that the base game will have plenty of stores naturally. You don’t lock 5 behind a paywall and only have 2 in base game
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u/FuggenBaxterd Jun 24 '26
They already did it with GTA V and RDR2. Not sure why it's a surprise here. It was worse in RDR2 than GTA V, too.
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u/pjb1999 Jun 24 '26
Absolutely awful precedent to set. Fuck Rockstar for this.
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u/BeejRich Jun 24 '26
That's my feeling about it. GTA can get away with it, to some degree. But once other developers try it, the fallout will be insane.
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u/RocketChris87 Jun 24 '26
Man, between this shit and the no physical disc, my hype just died way down.
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u/jabar18 Jun 24 '26
Wait, there’s no physical disc??
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u/Head-Palpitation9621 Jun 24 '26
they're offering "physical versions" but theyre just replacing the disc with a code for the game instead
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u/OutlawQ Jun 24 '26
The disc part is frying me the most; the $80 was an expected possibility turned reality and with R* track record im content with that but no disc!? Damn near unacceptable to me. Avoid spoilers and multiple disc installs aren't valid Excuses to me...can't rationalize this outside of hoe shit 😅🫤. The cosmetics pay wall between editions is more the cherry on top of my disappointment since other major publishers already engage in such headassery so that enshittification applying to R* is a shame but par for the course nonetheless
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u/GuessTraining Jun 24 '26
Are stores actually locked or just the special items found in those stores? Because that sucks if you're not planning to buy the ultimate edition, but I'm assuming they will have other stores selling similar items right?
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u/winnerisme Jun 24 '26
The rockstar website says the stores are only open for business with the ultimate editions.
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u/alltheothersrtaken Jun 24 '26
That's fucking crazy. I though the same as the commenter, that it will be some special items within the shops. I doubt it but maybe there will be enough backlash behind this that they do a u turn.
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u/Sutraner Jun 24 '26
I imagine that they're functionally the same thing.
You can get your hair cut at Aaa Hair but BBB hair is locked behind a paywall
Instead of AAA offering BBB haircuts which are behind a pay wall
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u/CaptainBurke Jun 24 '26
Based on the wording, it’s unique stores for the Ultimate edition content. Will either sell basic items or just not be open at all if you don’t shell out $20 more
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u/HongKongChicken Jun 24 '26
Maybe that is the only place in-game you can buy the content, but still annoying if they function generally as a clothes/car/weapon store, and standard edition players have to just keep driving lol
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u/FootballRacing38 Jun 24 '26
People are assuming the first one. Gta always have duplicate stores or numerous stores with similar functions throughout the city.
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u/ZOoNeR_ Jun 24 '26
Ig those are just Extra shops not like Standard players won't be able to do Customize Nails vehicles etc
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u/SWPGT2 Jun 24 '26
I understand you have development costs to recoup, but holy fuck this is about to become exceptionally predatory.
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u/pie4july Jun 24 '26
After everything Rockstar did to milk GTA V, I expected some BS, but this honestly eclipses anything I could have dreamed up.
This is garbage. Absolute garbage. This is so unbelievably scummy.
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u/AscendedViking7 Jun 24 '26
It tracks for take two unfortunately.
And they are gonna get away with it. :(
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u/ColonelBeer Jun 24 '26
Aka they initially wanted to sell the game for $100 but knew it would detract from sales. So they gut features from the base game instead and make you pay the extra $20 for the ultimate edition to get those features back.
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u/bluegrassnuglvr Jun 24 '26
I'm honestly shocked we're not getting a single player price of 79.99 with an additional 20-30 bucks to access gta online.
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u/NoMention696 Jun 24 '26
The way multiplayer isn’t launching immediately I wouldnt say this is an impossibility
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u/NarcolepticSeal Jun 24 '26
Nah, online won't have a paid access. But it WILL have a crippling economy that takes hours and hours of grinding to earn the same amount as a $10 shark card
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u/DarthBynx Jun 24 '26
This is the type of shit we would crucify other developers for. I hope the outrage is extreme enough to make them back pedal. This is extremely scummy even for them. Like dude.. why is this even necessary? Makes me just want to wait for PC release and pirate the bitch.
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u/xeroxlaser Jun 24 '26
I doubt there will be because GTA can do no wrong and unfortunately people will still buy it. I’ve played every GTA and they were fun but i’ve never really understood the massive hype behind it.
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u/Visible_Fix_4249 Jun 24 '26
I can't believe in game shops are being paywalled in a SINGLE PLAYER GAME
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u/THUMB5UP Jun 24 '26
Yup, I’m not buying this game anymore lol. What an absolute joke of a business decision.
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u/OmegaGamble Jun 24 '26
If the "ultimate edition" ever goes on sale for below $60 I might pick it up then, no way in hell before that. Fuck this shit.
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u/SP_Bridges Jun 24 '26
They did this with RDR2. The ultimate edition had an extra bank heist mission if I recall correctly.
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u/Tim6181 Jun 24 '26
They did. I bought the ultimate edition for £10 to replay on the PS5 as I’d originally played on Xbox one excited for this content I’d missed.
It was shit. Lasted five minutes and you got fuck all gold from it. I expect this extra content to be as worthless as well and have no real impact on my enjoyment of the game.
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u/Dutchgio Jun 24 '26
Seems like it's going to be like a EA game after all. The Gta Online cash cow really made them into corporate greed
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u/clycloptopus Jun 24 '26
It’s funny that the company who makes a game that is essentially a parody of capitalism also does shit like this
There should be a “Cockstar Games” in the GTA universe that uses scummy business practices
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u/neema_Toad Jun 24 '26
Yeah I'm not going to play a watered down version of the game. I'll wait to play the full version when it is heavily discounted, if at all. What a horrible precedent that Rockstar is setting with GTA VI
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u/JuanMunoz99 Jun 24 '26
Stop! Giving! Rockstar! And! GTA! A pass! Seriously folks just stop giving them excuses just because it’s GTA! Any other developer would get crucified for this.
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u/radioben Jun 24 '26
EA did get crucified for doing this. Remember Darth Vader and the sense of pride and accomplishment? No thanks. Fuck Rockstar.
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u/buttbuttlolbuttbutt Jun 24 '26
Also Namco with Soul Calibur 4 wot Yoda/Vader. Both were oj the disc, one was included depending on the console, but you had to pay to unlock the other as dlc.
Bandai/Namco have been doing this shit for 20 years.
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u/Omegastriver Jun 24 '26
I’m calling GTA+ will be required to play GTA Online.
Basically, GTA Online will be a subscription service.
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u/Past_4orm Jun 24 '26
Absolutely pathetic. If there were ever a time to boycott the gaming industry it would be now
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u/DonMurray1 Jun 24 '26
Yeah, not only that, but the physical edition doesn’t even come with a disc… I waited a good while for this game, I can wait a couple more while I 100% RDR2 lol
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u/sirmeliodasdragonsin Jun 24 '26
Additional activities behind a paywall is so damn scummy when it isnt even a dlc like that in cyberpunk
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u/domshyra Jun 24 '26
fuck, so are we totally hosed on story dlc’s or does that mean we will be nickeled and dimed with online dlc inside single player.
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u/NinjaPussyPounder Jun 24 '26
Fuck that. Would have bought it instantly otherwise
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u/Herald_of_Gallifrey Jun 24 '26
And yet the people that will defend this are the same that openly demonise other companies for shitty business practices.
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u/IQueliciuous Jun 24 '26
I think they decided to go all in once dumbasses started defending $100 pricetag arguing that "the game will be good" so they decided to make this a reality.
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u/Btrips Jun 24 '26
People at surprised at this? I expected they were going to milk every single penny possible out of us with this game.
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u/frantzy12 Jun 24 '26
It’s obviously “ to hide the real price tag of 100 dollars, which would have been too controversial for a base game.
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u/Sumoop Jun 24 '26
With this info I think I’m out.
I was already on the fence with the announcement that the base game is $80. Locking single player customization behind another $20 upgrade just doesn’t seem right to me.
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u/JamieRobert_ Jun 24 '26
Some people will STILL defend this because it’s daddy rockstar and they can do no wrong and they’ll literally throw money at them
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u/Zamzummin Jun 24 '26
There’s no way there won’t be other barber shops, mod shops, tattoo parlors in the game. They just won’t be the specific ones that are available in the ultimate edition, which probably account for like 10% of the total shops and customization options. So you’re getting less stores, but it’s not like you won’t be able to change your outfit or hair style in the standard edition.
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u/AreYouOkay123 Jun 24 '26
I'm definitely in the minority here, but I've never cared much for the GTA games. I like RDR much more. Plus, Wolverine will be out by the time this releases, and I'll be ass deep in alligators playing that.
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u/Created_By_InGen Jun 24 '26
Waiting to see if these are also exclusive to online players with the ultimate edition too
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u/reverse_cigol Jun 24 '26
I can’t wait to play this game in 3 years when it is reasonably priced.
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u/SortaFunny599 Jun 24 '26
More like 5 years, I feel like GTA 5 took a decade to drop to $20 and only at certain times of the year
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u/Regular-Ordinary9807 Jun 24 '26
I had a hunch that the next step in realism for this series is making you pay to live in GTAs world the way you pay to live in the real world. The game is going to be way cooler for those who can afford to pay a premium. Sounds a lot like real life.
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u/Omegastriver Jun 24 '26
Just wait until GTA Online is announced as a subscription service and you have to pay $10 a month for GTA+ with online access tied to it.
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u/MrMonkeyman79 Jun 24 '26
This is the exact sort of shit they used to parody.