I've read that there is some complaining about the Grand Theft Auto 6 pre-order. I'm posting this the day after the two options went up for sale. Now, I haven't read any actual complaining. I avoid comments and social media like they are literally toxic. I've only seen articles about some very predictable complaints. I'll address the major themes I saw:
- I don't care that it is download-only. If there was a physical release I'd have to download at least 300GB of updates before I'm allowed to play it anyway. Discs are now pointless unless they include the final, fully patched, game.
- $80 to pre-order a game with a trailer and no actual gameplay footage? That's fine too. I bet it's going to be like Grand Theft Auto 5 but with better graphics. It seems unlikely that when it finally downloads I'll find it's anything other than that. I didn't watch a single trailer for Breath of the Wild before pre-ordering that either.
- $100 to pre-order it with vague descriptions of extra stuff. Sure, whatever. That's what extra stuff in a game costs now. Is it worth $20? Guess I'll find out the hard way.
- Some of the usual suspects are upset that a game set in a fictionalized version of Miami seems to have a lot of non-white characters. Good. I hope they are miserable. I wonder, do they understand who the talk radio stations in previous games were mocking?
Look, I paid $70 to pre-order Mortal Kombat II on the Super Nintendo. This is a real number:
The gift certificate part of that receipt is how things worked back in 1994. A pre-order was rung up as a gift certificate, trust me on this. Mortal Kombat II on the Super Nintendo was incredible. I'm sure I played it for 100+ hours. If I do the dollars-per-hour math, I predict Grand Theft Auto 6 will come out ahead (even without adjusting for inflation).
I have two actual concerns:
- The Grand Theft Auto remake trilogy was a buggy mess that they never fixed. I doubt that will happen for a major release like this though. I mean, it will be a buggy mess at first but they will fix it.
- There are no details about the length of the story mode. There's a chance it will be short because they want to emphasize the online service instead. I figure if the story mode is only as long as, let's go with Grand Theft Auto 3, then it's still a good enough deal.
So yes, I just clicked "buy" on a $100 download-only game that I know almost nothing about. I'm totally fine with that.
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