I don’t think they care as much as you think they do, it is how the average person would have purchased the game regardless

I don’t understand this. Do something else.

It's more about personal principles and values, not self control. I make impulsive purchases all the time, but exactly 0% of them goes to scummy piece of shit corporations whose board of directors should be put on death row.

Most people just accept anything as "the way it is". They can't reason why things are the way they are beyond a certain point, and that's well before they reach the point where they realize they are being taken advantage of.

It has to be a thing that has a very direct cause and effect for them to not accept it. Like COVID lockdowns for example.

The 'everyone is 12' joke-theory is actually just essentially true.

In the US, the average adult person in fact is no more literate or 'numerate' than a 12 year old, a 5th grader.

The average person literally is a tween, in terms of higher thought capacity.

Again... this is not a joke, it is just actually true.

Apply George Carlin logic to this.

50% of American adults are less mentally capable than 12 year olds.

The entire generation after the Millenials are impulsive and raised entirely on being nickeled and dimed to death.

It's kind of disheartening not having solidarity as consumers. It also feeds this kinda FOMO because you showed restraint and are missing out on something.

People are desperate to latch on to any morsel of media that can distract them from our burning planet, our exploitative society, and their resultant miserable life

Thats why they dont have control, they need this desperately

Consent is actually way cheaper to make than a product that's good for people.

Sad reality

Especially digital stuff. What are they going to do, run out of bytes?

Cyberpunk 2077 was the last game I’ll ever pre-order. I’m more of a wait for the complete edition to go on sale kind of guy now.

Yepp I learned that lesson with Destiny 2

Oh I'll preorder from soft games. Preorder when you trust the source and they don't have a history of fuckery.

Yeah I genuinely don't understand the hype. Maybe I'm just old and fully saturated with GTA already.

I thought it was pretty cool, as a crass story, mockery of aspects of corporations and society, and as a driving sim. My least favourite part of any MMO is its griefing potential. Fallout 76 was okay because while you, a roleplayer/gamer interested in the game, still got hurt by griefers only interested in murdering other humans, it reduced damage to a miniscule level.

GTA V Online required that you either secede from society entirely with a private lobby or become a true pacifist, meaning no PvE. Later on they stopped selling exclusively weapon-free vehicles to players and the entertainment level of free roam for me dropped to zero. After that it became just a hub for racing, FPS or sitting in the apartment watching TV, all of which can be better achieved elsewhere.

I started playing GTA 5 shortly after launch and could make the same statement.

I've bought launch day on this series for a few iterations now.

The last good GTA game was GTA 2.

I don't think the "no patches" thing was all that true for PC games. I've been gaming since the first Fallout and for practically every game I could/had to download one or more patches from the official website. For multiplayer games like Warcraft 3 you had to make sure everyone was using the same patch. One of the major advantages of Steam was automating the update process.