I expected it to be crap the first time they showed gameplay. They certainly exceeded that expectation, as it was an even bigger crap than I could have imagined!
The average Metacritic score for this is around 50, and the user score average is around 0.6 (no platform higher than 0.9).
Everyone who bought this in its current condition is the reason we get buggy, unfinished games. And it wasn't only casuals who bought it regardless of how poor of a product it was.
The haven't updated the game for over two months (patch 1.05) either. They're promising updates but they seem to be in no hurry to fix even minor bugs.
"And it wasn't only casuals who bought it regardless of how poor of a product it was."
While I'm sure plenty of 'hardcore' gamers bought it too, the casuals vastly outnumber them so even if no core gamers bought it, it would still have sold millions and millions. Most people see a GTA on a shelf or on their digital store of choice and just buy. Don't blame the people who expected the product they bought to function as intended, blame the devs/publishers.
We did because we expected them to honor the legacy of these games! I was going to buy day 1 but once I saw San Andreas was coming to Gamepass I decided to wait on a purchase. Now it's a pass, I'll wait for GTA 6 thanks.
I played it on Gamepass, what’s your opinion with me? I thought it was fun too *shrug*, I wouldn’t pay 60 dollars for the same exact game I bought 18 years ago tho.
Yeah I pre ordered it digitally and I believe a large number of other players would have also done so I don't think blaming people excited about a game prior to launch is the reason it launched in a buggy state I think it's greed and poor qa that did it
Both Take-Two and CDPR have now boasted about sales for their buggy games. They both most love the fact that one was being pitched as superior to another on websites like this. Nope. Birds of a feather.
(PS5) The fact that if you close the game during a mission and the game has saved on a checkpoint in the mission that the save gets corrupted is pathetic. It still hasn't been fixed.
"Hey guys! We need to fix this mess ASAP!!!!" "Wait...hold on a sec...It's...OH MY GOD!!!!" "What?" "It significantly exceeded expectations!!!" "Are you sure? No way?" "Yes way!!!" "Lol. Gamers are so mid." "Yup."
It's sad how we as gamers continue to not only reward terrible, shoddy work, but then turn around and DEFEND those practices because "muh favorite game" or "muh favorite company." We'll never get past these terrible launches until we change ourselves.
It does feel a little bit gross with how there were treated... It's just business but it kinda felt personal. These three games deserved better. They gave Mafia a full on remake but bastardized their biggest franchise in this manner 😧🤦
It's official people will buy anything if its new and shiny probably worse now since many bought it digitally it just virtually new and shiny. In times like these I thought people would be more picky in their casual hobby spending not wasted on shitty products nope I guess, they just bought three ugly buggy games in one fell swoop.
There is a lot of gamers, specially console and casual gamers that don't follow gaming news so they don't know what they're buying, it's says GTA it's gonna be good.
Unreal.
The average Metacritic score for this is around 50, and the user score average is around 0.6 (no platform higher than 0.9).
Everyone who bought this in its current condition is the reason we get buggy, unfinished games. And it wasn't only casuals who bought it regardless of how poor of a product it was.
The haven't updated the game for over two months (patch 1.05) either. They're promising updates but they seem to be in no hurry to fix even minor bugs.
And again the wrong behaviour gets rewarded
well it just goes to prove that people really are born without a brain
People why? Its such an obvious cssh grab least amount of work shovel ware they could have ever made.