The game hasn't even come out yet, and I'm already sick of hearing about it...

That's $570CAD for a bunch of rebranded Aliexpress tat.

I would be laughing if I didn't know that this game will make sales and profit history.

Gamers: just let us buy a physical copy of the game

Rockstar: lol here's some random swag for $400

Sadly Rockstar knows their market here. This thing will sell out, and the game itself will license like hotcakes.

Can't wait to pirate this fucking game when a crack comes out. It's not like anyone can actually own a copy.

L M A O

As a collector, it's essentially over for me. I don't know how many of us are out there that feel that way, but I used to spend a lot of money on games and now I'm going out of my way to not buy any anymore console games. Switch and their virtual cards can also suck it. If I can't fire something up in 20 years and it can't play a game, I might as well stick to PC, right? I spent 30 years building my library and owning my games. I guess being able to lend a game to a friend was costing them too much. The resale of used games were dollar signs that they felt belonged to them. Fuck it all.

In the last decade or so, this became more common so that they didn't have to make 3 SKUs of the same collector's edition and could also sell these items to digital purchasers. But in this case, there is no disc, so how hard could it be to ship these things with a download code for your $400?

As long as there are consumer whores buying this crap they’ll keep making it. I’m surprised they don’t offer a $1000 version that comes out a week earlier.

Yeah, well. I'll 3D print you some GTA themed swag and put it in a box that also doesn't include the game, except I'll do it for $375. How about that?

This reminds me of when the World of Warcraft Collectors Editions stop including CD soundtracks.

“Oh, a code for lossy MP3s. Yay.”

They're rubbing it in now. Just let me buy a physical copy ffs. I lined up at midnight to get my copy of GTA 5 on the PS3.

To be fair, no retail version of GTA 6 includes a copy of the game.

Outrageous.

Are there really that many people out there willing to part with $400 for a mismash of merchandise?

Holy shit, what a pathetic showing. I've gotten better swag at funerals.

The copy of GTA 6 you get when have games, unlimited games, but no games.

The merch looks nice but not 400$ nice.

As if there's a razor blade and a coke spoon

Merch is a strong term, it look more mediocre low-quality trash.

Lack of an included game isn't really the problem here. Since they're limited runs, it allows customers on any platform to buy the collector stuff separately, instead of one platform's selling out before the others'. The fact that the merch is absolute garbage for $400 is the real story here.

Ridiculous, and people will still probably pay for it.

TIL that cheap fanny packs can apparently now be called "cross-body packs" in a vain effort to make us forget how uncool they are.

Honestly, I think it would've been better if they'd leaned into it as a retro 80s/90s thing and just called it a fanny pack. It's already hideous, anyway.

Edit for clarification: There are things that I would happily and unironically call a "cross-body pack". But IMO the picture on that website is of a fanny pack.

Will it contain the info of those Discord users Rockstar is trying to dox? 🤔

Why would GTA6 need to get itself, silly?