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GameReactor: Pre-orders for GTAV on PC starting this Friday
- Thread starter Poetic.Injustice
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Corronchilejano
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Felix Lighter
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Rockstar, stop being jerks.
Aaaaand nothing. Usual time for announcements has passed. It is really unprofessional from R*/T2 to treat part of their customers like this. Dead silence for months, deleting all PC related questions from Newswire and banning users from comment section, refusing to answer what will happen to GTA IV and GFWL, etc.
Ok i understand you don't see PC platform as profitable but at least have courage to tell that directly to your customers.
Ok i understand you don't see PC platform as profitable but at least have courage to tell that directly to your customers.
this was their response (sorta)
http://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/1pugf7/looks_like_gta_iv_never_going_to_remove_gfwl/
UnrealEck
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I really do hope it's all marketting strategy. Either it's marketting and so they won't tell us why they're not releasing the game on PC (yet) or they don't have the balls to tell us the real reason they're not releasing it on PC. I have a feeling it's drifting more and more away from it being about marketting and about the typical piracy claims. They're even ignoring the GFWL issue with GTAIV. It seems they just completely ignore the entire PC consumer base now.
Next GTA I buy will only be for PC and only if it's released within a respectable time frame from the console versions. Tired of them blanking out the PC platform for months or years to squeeze the possibility of extra profit.
Next GTA I buy will only be for PC and only if it's released within a respectable time frame from the console versions. Tired of them blanking out the PC platform for months or years to squeeze the possibility of extra profit.
I wonder how much Sony and / or Microsoft is to blame for R*'s silence. Didn't Sony have commercials with the PS3 version of GTAV, and bundles and such? Might be a reason for the continued delay, but who knows.
I just wish, like the rest of you, that R* would break the silence and simply shed some light on the PC version.
I just wish, like the rest of you, that R* would break the silence and simply shed some light on the PC version.
The ironic thing is, if you look at their quarterly reports, the PC platform has actually been extremely profitable for them.
The long-tail sales of GTA series alone has kept them quite comfortable, despite the GFWL inclusion.
Felix Lighter
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I wonder how much Sony and / or Microsoft is to blame for R*'s silence. Didn't Sony have commercials with the PS3 version of GTAV, and bundles and such? Might be a reason for the continued delay, but who knows.
I just wish, like the rest of you, that R* would break the silence and simply shed some light on the PC version.
I doubt the console manufacturers have anything to do with the silence. I personally assume it's completely up to Rockstar Marketing and the exact marketing schedule they have laid out. Maybe more than any other developer/publisher, Rockstar takes marketing VERY seriously. They are not the types to be pressured into breaking their plans.
And they are still getting unpunished for their behaviour. In past years we all saw how much criticism many publishers/developers got for smaller things related to PC community and yet R*/T2 is untouchable. I really hate double standards in this industry.
Dictator93
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I am really hesitant to buy this and reinforce the precedent that it is "cool to milk your consumer base."
I mean... that is the only logical reason for this coming out later.
In fact, I will not buy this.
I mean... that is the only logical reason for this coming out later.
In fact, I will not buy this.
I was thinking about buying GTA 5 once it was 75% off on a sale, but now I think I'll just skip it(and other R* games) altogether.
That's the final nail in the coffin for me. The games obviously sell well, as evidenced by the frequent sales, but they continue to treat us with contempt. Clearly buying their games at all, let alone at launch isn't going to change this. Rather than supporting their childish behaviour, my money will go to companies who actually deserve it.
zerodeefex
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didn't have time to play it when it was out on PS3. now I have a 780 Ti and so I'm glad I waited.
Felix Lighter
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That added language could just as easily be referring to a future replacement of the GFWL portions but it does leave open the option for them to do nothing. It pretty much just indicates to me that they are aware of the July ending of GFWL and at the time they added the extra text, they did not yet have a specific plan.
speculawyer
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I want to believe
Trevor was undoubted the star of the game.
Yeah, he was a sociopath . . . . but definitely fun.
speculawyer
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I can't imagine that they would ship a PC version but not PS4 and Xbone versions.
Balmung421
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Sadly it looks like more bullshit :/
TheSpoiler
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Thanks GameReactor. Now that you've learnt about a non-existent pre-order announcement, can you give any word on The Last Guardian while we are here?
Felix Lighter
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You feel like he's bursting at the seams. He's probably pushing it a bit already based on the stories you hear about Rockstar.
It was still pretty fun (singleplayer at least) even if it didn't meet the admittedly sky-high expectations, so playing it on hardware that isn't almost a decade old will be satisfying either way methinks.
TrantaLocked
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Why did so many gaming sites hype this up if it was fake? And what about Elgiganten? I mean, do we complain to them? GTA V PC is obviously not listed on their website.
Check this out: http://www.gamepur.com/news/13526-g...c-retailer-elgiganten-no-announcement-ha.html
The pricks deserve to lose customers for that. Please don't buy, let alone pre-order, from that store.
Check this out: http://www.gamepur.com/news/13526-g...c-retailer-elgiganten-no-announcement-ha.html
The pricks deserve to lose customers for that. Please don't buy, let alone pre-order, from that store.
TheSpoiler
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Because in the journalism world, hype equates to clicks. I'm not saying it isn't real - it probably is, but it's annoying that people just make shit up without base. By base, I mean a legit source.
Dragonborn
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Rockstar is going to make end up with 3 copies of this game.... I ain't even mad. It's bound to happen.
Haha, are websites using my screenshot in their news now? Check on page 3 in this thread...that's the first, and only, place I put up my screenshot on.
And who knows what happened. The news blew up quite a lot two days ago when Elgiganten first said they would take preorders on Friday. Maybe R* went in and said "uh, no you don't."
Chance Hale
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It won the second most amount of awards after the Last of Us and made the vast majority of most top tens where it didn't win. Not sure why people try to act like it was forgotten.