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I've seen way way way more here on Lemmy bitching about GTA 6 than I have seen actually about it. The complaining about rockstar and GTA 6 is probably 80% of all the rockstar content I see here.
Seriously there has been maybe 3-4 posts about GTA 6 on this community in the last 2 months and every single one of them is full of people whining that they don't want to hear about it. It's so overblown.
GTA 6 is one of - if not the - highest budget games ever made. In one of the most popular and successful franchises of all time. It's the biggest release of the last few years whether they like it or not. Now... You're telling me we should stop talking about it in gaming communities because Lemmy users want to get back to talking about Linux and whatever 6/10 open source game is doing the rounds?
Sorry for the harshness but these posts and comments are so annoying. If you don't want to talk about AAA games then why are you in the gaming community?
P.S. I've seen posts talking about GTA or any major company (PlayStation, Nintendo, Bethesda, etc) just get huge amounts of downvotes on this platform because "we're tired of hearing about it". Why do people do this??? Just move on to the next post.
I wouldn't be as annoyed by hearing about it if Rockstar were an upstanding company. The union busting though means they should not be given any good PR at minimum, and ideally none.
I don't care if people want to discuss big games. We shouldn't accept positive discussion of games that are made by companies who treat their employees poorly. That should be a bare minimum rule people on this platform hold to. I don't care how excited you are for the game. You don't get to promote it.
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I actually do agree with you. I am tired of people only complaining and brigading on anything GTA. Its so cringey to me, they could simply ignore the content, but instead have to make sure everyone knows they're on the Lemmy bandwagon. They're hipsters, plain and simple. They are too cool for the next star wars and biggest game of the decade, and they have to make sure eeeeveryone knows this. I am excited for the game and wish I could engage more with that side.
And posting genuine news about what is going to be one of the biggest gaming events of our lifetimes just gets downvoted here. Come on, people; it's clearly relevant. You don't have to upvote it, but then when people downvote anything they personally dislike, you end up with people who only get their gaming news here saying, "I've never heard of [one of the biggest games of the year]."
One of the most nonsensical things I see, the whole downvoting things that you don't like or don't agree with, even if it's still being put in a negative light or the person is just curious and asking about it. Happens all over reddit, especially in comments. Obviously if someone's stating rather than questioning and being bad faith or argumentative then I can understand it but it still happens all the time when they aren't
Seeing as Lemmy does nothing different than Reddit on a fundamental level, it's no surprise we see the same problems. We're just partially shielded from some of them by way of being a smaller community.
It's that it's not downvoting at this point. It's brigading. That's what I'm really annoyed at. It's not that people disagree, it's that everyone dogpiles on because GTA bad must hit downvote to send it to -1000. That ruins it for those who do want to enjoy it and makes it harder to see, and then we can't have an honest conversation about it until someone posts "hey it's kind of annoying that it's being brigaded"
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Interestingly this post of yours is the first I've heard of GTA6 in weeks.
edit: In 10 days seem more correct.
Same. This post gives guerrilla marketing vibes.
Here's a thread to discuss at great length the thing I'm sick of seeing discussed.
Also sick of hearing about it. Not because I want to play it, but because I don't care about it, at all.
Congratulations, you added to that kind of noise. For no reason, too.
I'm not buying GTA6, and I wouldn't care if R* burned to the ground. They're union busting assholes, and all the money they'll harvest from GTA6 will simply tell them they can continue being union busting assholes.
I’m not buying GTA6, and I wouldn’t care if R* burned to the ground.
I’m more like I'm not buying GTA6 for more than 15€ after less than a year of patching, and I wouldn’t care if R* burned to the ground.
Thanks for contributing to the exact thing you hate lol
I feel just like I'm back on Reddit.
It's reddit with blackjack and tankies, to paraphrase Bender
I’m so tired of this thing that I’m gonna talk about it more.
Use one of the Lemmy apps that filter keywords or even an RSS reader. You can solve your own problem here...
Easy enough not to read something if it bothers you. Personally not all that excited by GTA6 yet until it releases on PC anyway.
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Yeah, unless it's a FitGirl release, I don't really give a shit.
Bold of you to assume that the hype isn't going to continue after launch.
When it's released you're going to hear about nothing but bugs and plot points and patches.
If we go about the history of Rockstar games, I don't think we expect many bugs and such issues. If anything, people will complain about performance and graphics. And car handling. And woke. And woman.
Agreed, same for pretty much and major game that gets a lot of media attention.
I'll stick with my indie games. Got dins champion recently, still think drox operative 2 is my favourite soldak game but after making a second char after a few hours and learning how to play a bit I am starting to get into this a bit more.
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Fuck that where is GTA7? Can I play it when I’m dead?
I heard GTA6 broke its containment and tried to burn down a rival studio, but there was no-one there anyway due to mass layoffs.
Too bad Epstein isn't here to control the narrative with Bannon and make a bunch of ostracized, angry gamers get angry at games journalists and go vote for Trump again ans somehow call GTA6 woke ~~ (though some grifters were trying somehow lol)
Still wild to me that that was actually a thing. I only recently learned Steve Bannon was the CEO of a WoW gold farming and RMT company before he got involved with the "news" and the Trump campaign.
(This video was a decent watch imo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpHHSFF_CBY )
Live and let die I guess. This is an interesting case of what people's bubbles look like. I saw the thing on Netflix, don't think much of it, but I'm not in spaces where people think about this enough to put it in my face. Sorry that's not the case for you, I'm sure it's annoying, but I haven't seen it much, or I scroll past it I guess.
I'm not interested in it, because it was written for a console, Sony, I think, and will be ported to PC by AI (you know it's true) which means we'll get the usual port drama, only worse.
Anyway, it's like GTA5, the only difference is one digit, big deal. It's like those footy games…
I think they already have a PC version ready. It's probably the "real" version they developed first. But they're going to release the PC version later in order to get some sweet money from Sony and Microsoft.
I mean I'm no GTA fanboy and probably won't get it (or if I do, much after it's released and goes on sale), but I don't think the comparison to FIFA is warranted, the last installment was released 13 years ago and the new one is sure to have a massive jump forward and will be a completely new game, whereas the footy games release every year without missing a beat with barely any updates besides the team rosters.
I've got some bad news for you: Once it releases, everyone will talk about GTA VII
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Me too. Thank's for making my day's first gta6 post.
I'm sick of it too but if you think the release will quieten the internet down I've got some bad news for you. Same thing happened with GTAV.
I kinda feel like it's going to struggle to live up to all this hype, no matter how good it is.
I haven't heard anything about them using Generative AI, or not as the case may be, so I think you're just going out of your way to find content to be annoyed by it.
Welcome to the current state of all video games. It's more than a theme these days to rally people to hate on everything game related, it is it's own group of people who have found a market to complain or make up controversies to get views and subscribers. It's not just GTA its most games that end up having some crazy thing to complain about to stir the pot. I've been sick of this trend for years now. Anyone who actually loves games should always be celebrating a new release and not caring about stuff like is this game woke... thankfully I avoid most social media and don't watch those videos on youtube, but sometimes i hit it by mistake or see some article online hearing about what preasure the game is facing.
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Youre going to probably hear about it more for a while after it releases. Maybe even more so
I just want to hear about the free build floating out in the wild. Or how long it will take for Empress and her Glorious Might to crack the damn thing.
It took over a year for them to crack RDR2
You think people will stop talking about GTA 6 when it's released?
Actual playable gameplay will fuel games media for at least 7 months straight as people discover singular easter eggs and make a whole 12 minute video to talk about someone else finding the easter egg.
Unless the game is genuinely unplayable. Then it will only be like 4 months of people talking about the end of Rockstar and what they might have to do to come back.
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