This teller can scarcely believe it, but it will be magical if GTA6 doesn't sell ludicrously.
Based on the law of camel inertia, even if is a bonfire of a game with masses of alphabet soya soup swill, it should sell since most people are still either low awareness or high tolerance.
Yet...
There's a teasing chance, between the shifts, the sheer disgust, the shoggoth tier abominations walking in daylight and most crucially the price point...
We may see.
It could happen.
A historical failure of epic proportions.
Wishful thinking, but ever do some of us hope for the fires to come down.
I am begging them to slap $100 on that abomination. Watch if fail like The Outer Worlds 2 when they thought they could justify $80.
It's been 13 years since GTA 5. They've killed their own momentum. To cover their disappointment, people have found reason not to play and move on. Some, an entire generation, grew up without a new GTA and never cared in the first place.
It's become a joke, a meme, a cultural artifact.
It will sell millions in the first week. But in order to sell the 10s and later 100s of millions it will need to cover its insane budget, it cannot rely on impetus and weight of the franchise itself, having ground that to a halt themselves. It needs to be a great game without woke controversy and WITH the edgelord controversy gamers expect. (Would modern Rockstar dare to let you sleep with a prostitute, pay her, then murder her and get your money back--not a chance.)
And it will need to overcome the built-in resistance to an inevitable price hike. Gamers don't want 80-90-100 dollar games. And they will take it out on GTA if they try.
It feels to me like this game is going to start a gaming civil war, with a $100 price tag representing the first shot on Fort Sumter.
A key matter for sure is if it turns out to be a bad (quality) game or not.
If it's of good quality but tainted and with a big price, you'll see more division.
If it is bad quality or mediocre, there'll be a lot less of that as various people won't feel comfortable backing it. From the serious to the grifters every will happily dog on it in thay case scenario.
It's always worth remembering that while there's a number of gamers and "influencers" who have fully committed against the poison of this age, a great many have only cared due to the impact cancer convergence has on the quality, not the substance of their games. They don't truly understand how all slopes are slippery.
There's still people who think we can just go back to the culture of the 90s and early 2000s. Admittedly one has to have some knowledge of history to know that some of gaming's problems actually predate videogames reaching into the Enlightenment like many woes.
Maybe this teller underestimates how badly a 100 tag will go over even if the game is good or mediocre. Times are certainly tough for the masses, and those ordinary gamers are where the sales are.
It's definitely going to be interesting to see, regardless.
"The Gayming Pride Parade is described as 'a virtual experience featuring LGBTQ+ games and the talented people behind them,'"
"with confirmed or rumored appearances including GTA 6, Marvel’s Wolverine gameplay, Gears of War: E-Day, Phantom Blade Zero, The Witcher 4, Naughty Dog’s Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, Blood of the Dawnwalker, and Lara Croft: Legacy of Atlantis."
But then you repeat yourself.
It would be nice to think that those games, all entries in once beloved franchises or new work from once beloved developers, are more of what made gaming so enormously popular in the first place.
They aren't.
Stop fooling yourself.
Stop pretending.
After years of turnover, takeovers, and attrition, these game companies are the modern day answer to the riddle of Theseus's Ship.
Turns out, if you force out, minimize, and replace every person at a company that made something great, the new "modern" workforce is not the same as the old one. The old company is dead, the new one incapable of following in its footsteps. Only the name and heritage, burned out and squatted upon by cultural vandals, remains.
Don't be fooled. Every one of those games is gay: gay games made by gay companies for a gay audience.
Let them fail.
Play something from the vast back catalogue of good games made by good, and good-intentioned people.
I forgot "Summer Game Fest" is a thing. Now I remember why, it's cause they love promoting gay.
They will destroy everything you love. Create new events and do not allow the filth and scum to participate.
What do you expect from a corrupt gaming outlet like Gayming(*groans*)? Or an event still being runned by Woke Millennials?
This teller can scarcely believe it, but it will be magical if GTA6 doesn't sell ludicrously.
Based on the law of camel inertia, even if is a bonfire of a game with masses of alphabet soya soup swill, it should sell since most people are still either low awareness or high tolerance.
Yet...
There's a teasing chance, between the shifts, the sheer disgust, the shoggoth tier abominations walking in daylight and most crucially the price point...
We may see.
It could happen.
A historical failure of epic proportions.
Wishful thinking, but ever do some of us hope for the fires to come down.
I am begging them to slap $100 on that abomination. Watch if fail like The Outer Worlds 2 when they thought they could justify $80.
It's been 13 years since GTA 5. They've killed their own momentum. To cover their disappointment, people have found reason not to play and move on. Some, an entire generation, grew up without a new GTA and never cared in the first place.
It's become a joke, a meme, a cultural artifact.
It will sell millions in the first week. But in order to sell the 10s and later 100s of millions it will need to cover its insane budget, it cannot rely on impetus and weight of the franchise itself, having ground that to a halt themselves. It needs to be a great game without woke controversy and WITH the edgelord controversy gamers expect. (Would modern Rockstar dare to let you sleep with a prostitute, pay her, then murder her and get your money back--not a chance.)
And it will need to overcome the built-in resistance to an inevitable price hike. Gamers don't want 80-90-100 dollar games. And they will take it out on GTA if they try.
It feels to me like this game is going to start a gaming civil war, with a $100 price tag representing the first shot on Fort Sumter.
A key matter for sure is if it turns out to be a bad (quality) game or not.
If it's of good quality but tainted and with a big price, you'll see more division.
If it is bad quality or mediocre, there'll be a lot less of that as various people won't feel comfortable backing it. From the serious to the grifters every will happily dog on it in thay case scenario.
It's always worth remembering that while there's a number of gamers and "influencers" who have fully committed against the poison of this age, a great many have only cared due to the impact cancer convergence has on the quality, not the substance of their games. They don't truly understand how all slopes are slippery.
There's still people who think we can just go back to the culture of the 90s and early 2000s. Admittedly one has to have some knowledge of history to know that some of gaming's problems actually predate videogames reaching into the Enlightenment like many woes.
Maybe this teller underestimates how badly a 100 tag will go over even if the game is good or mediocre. Times are certainly tough for the masses, and those ordinary gamers are where the sales are.
It's definitely going to be interesting to see, regardless.
According to the Gayming Foundation website, Robin Gray is a white guy.
"The Gayming Pride Parade is described as 'a virtual experience featuring LGBTQ+ games and the talented people behind them,'"
"with confirmed or rumored appearances including GTA 6, Marvel’s Wolverine gameplay, Gears of War: E-Day, Phantom Blade Zero, The Witcher 4, Naughty Dog’s Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, Blood of the Dawnwalker, and Lara Croft: Legacy of Atlantis."
But then you repeat yourself.
It would be nice to think that those games, all entries in once beloved franchises or new work from once beloved developers, are more of what made gaming so enormously popular in the first place.
They aren't.
Stop fooling yourself.
Stop pretending.
After years of turnover, takeovers, and attrition, these game companies are the modern day answer to the riddle of Theseus's Ship.
Turns out, if you force out, minimize, and replace every person at a company that made something great, the new "modern" workforce is not the same as the old one. The old company is dead, the new one incapable of following in its footsteps. Only the name and heritage, burned out and squatted upon by cultural vandals, remains.
Don't be fooled. Every one of those games is gay: gay games made by gay companies for a gay audience.
Let them fail.
Play something from the vast back catalogue of good games made by good, and good-intentioned people.
Summer gay-fest...oh wait Lol