Volo Relinquere

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Cake day: March 25th, 2026

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  • I’m still fondly remembering GTA 4 as a game that released as a complete product, with DLCs that gave you another games worth of content. And the multiplayer had no monetization and was just a nice, big sandbox for you and your friends (and possibly other, random people if you wanted).

    GTAV was their first time monetizing the fuck out of GTA, and I am still pissed off about the additions to multiplayer that have not made it to singleplayer. Between this experience and the union busting, I’m never paying for 6; I might pirate it if the singleplayer isn’t enshittified for the sake of milking whales but frankly they’ve already done it to the multiplayer and nothing is sacred anymore, so I fully expect a shitty singleplayer experience as well. This news only further cements that expectation – if they’re whipping the devs this hard, imagine how much they’re gonna squeeze the players. And I suspect that divide between singleplayer, included-in-your-purchase-content and what gets added to multiplayer after launch will only continue to grow larger the longer the game is updated if they do it the same way as 5 – so I’m aiming to get my first (and likely only) playthrough in soon after launch, before that gaping maw of missing content is too upsetting to ignore. Hopefully it’s cracked relatively quickly, I expect it will be.


  • I suspect that, given it’s just a controller, they likely won’t run into the same supply issues that might hit the steam machine or frame. That and I’m anticipating it will sell stronger, for longer, than their first steam controller; so even if stock does sell out at some stage I wouldn’t expect them to discontinue it for some years, any stock shortage would likely be brief.

    Lastly, the staggered release cycle will probably help them manage supply issues (if they do arise) better than if they were to release all of them at the same time (the people buying a controller now, won’t need to buy one bundled with a steam machine later, etc).

    I really wouldn’t worry about this while on a job hunt. Wait til you’re financially secure and then treat yo self.