Whatever the reason behind it, it was poorly executed and has left quite a number of users outraged. The game was on sale for a price of $20 for a short window of time, then it disappeared, then came back with no discount. Rockstar has given amazing discounts in the past on Steam but for whatever reason this time they aren't doing so. Also the 3.5 million in-game currency is nothing when you consider that GTA V Online for PC is running rampant with hackers left and right, that currency is practically worthless, at least last I've heard it was.
They are hellbend to teach PC users that games shall cost 60 bucks as a general pricetag, apparently.
So even if they do sales, they just bundle it up with some trivial stuff just to hike up the price so it will once again come down to 60 bucks.
Just cause people on console are okay with paying that much for a game does not mean they can pull this on PC users as well. I know I will never pay that much for one game. 45 for a brand new release is more than justified. 30 for a slightly older one. But 60 for a single game is just ridiculous.
By all accounts GTA V on PC is a massive hit, so they do seem to be "pulling this" on PC users too, and PC users are happily paying for it.
I also think the price is ridiculous, but it's ridiculously cheap. You play most of these games for 40-60 hours, that's approaching $1 per hour of entertainment. Almost nothing except books approach that, and those are usually written by 1-3 people at most, AAA games take orders of magnitude more people than that working on them over a period of years.
I think $60 is a steal for a good well-produced game compared to other forms of entertainment with which they're competing, and clearly the market agrees since consumers are buying them in droves.
I agree. Obviously some activities are cheaper (staring at a wall is free, and you can do it as long as you like), nonetheless, enjoying $265 million worth of production values for say $2/hour is really not such a bad deal.
This not including the rise of negative comments against GTA V is a valid point, but the thing was they've had fantastic sales in the past where they've given out such games. They're treating GTA V like some sort of Minecraft which is sad, it's not the only game they're ever going to make ever again. Not implying that Mojang wont ever make other games (to the same magnitude as Minecraft).
Fantastic sales that generally happened more than two months after release, to be fair.
I realise, of course, that it was released on other platforms before then. But it seems a little odd to pick on a two month old release. (Actually not quite two months, now that I check)
