GTA V PC Port

[killcomic]

I'm not holding my breath. If there's money involved, I'm sure they'll find a way to completely and utterly mess it up in some way.

[-TesseracT-]

I am afraid but Rockstar's latest games have had good PC ports so... not too worried after all.

[XTankSlayerX]

at this point I'm most concerned with that stupid denovo drm that puts extra wear on SSD's...  to the point of considering buying a cheap 60GB SSD just to put GTA V on it...

Linus said that it didn't matter. SSD's last way more than rated.

 

If you want I can find you a video of it.

[kreft010]

They had so much time by now. It just has to work. 

[xAcid9]

at this point I'm most concerned with that stupid denovo drm that puts extra wear on SSD's...  to the point of considering buying a cheap 60GB SSD just to put GTA V on it...

 

Nope, that didn't happen.

[typographie]

I was thinking about it but doesnt pre-order give us 1M starting money?

 

Probably, I don't even know. It's always something like that, I suppose.

 

I have to wonder what the value of that actually is. My past experience with such things is that they are very, very poorly balanced. Does starting you with a million of the game's currency break the starting experience, and make decisions about in-game purchases meaningless? On the other hand, is it like many other open-world games where money ends up so abundant as to be worthless?

 

In any case, there isn't much they could offer me to make me want to give up my right as a consumer to judge the game based on its release state.

[Thony]

Probably, I don't even know. It's always something like that, I suppose.

 

I have to wonder what the value of that actually is. My past experience with such things is that they are very, very poorly balanced. Does starting you with a million of the game's currency break the starting experience, and make decisions about in-game purchases meaningless? On the other hand, is it like many other open-world games where money ends up so abundant as to be worthless?

 

In any case, there isn't much they could offer me to make me want to give up my right as a consumer to judge the game based on its release state.

GTA 5 has many shopping options, there are cars worth over $600 000. Its not like Watch Dogs where money means nothing. U can customize your car, buy outfits etc. so that why i would like a million to start with my own character online , my own car and a garage.

And buying it early doesnt change a thing since as i said, only few % of people will purchase after they have seen the gameplay on PC.  Im not gonna wait just to please that small percentage of people. If my purchase made a difference then surely i would go in favour of PC gaming, but thats not happening for at least a couple of decades...

 

Holding off from purchasing pre-orders would make sense if there was a significant group of people on t hje internet with their own website fighting against pre-orders and bad PC ports. The group big enough to have influence on publishers. For example at least 100 biggest youtubers could fight this but then their videos could be taklen down etc. the system is so corrupted :'(

[typographie]

And buying it early doesnt change a thing since as i said, only few % of people will purchase after they have seen the gameplay on PC.  Im not gonna wait just to please that small percentage of people. If my purchase made a difference then surely i would go in favour of PC gaming, but thats not happening for at least a couple of decades...

 

Whether or not you pre-order has nothing to do with pleasing anyone else, or being part of a majority. It's just about protecting yourself from the backhanded business practices rampant among big-budget publishers. It makes sense not to pre-order anytime it's too risky to pay for a product solely on the word of the people directly benefitting from high [pre-order] sales figures. The only time where pre-ordering truly makes sense is when you're buying a commodity that may actually run out, which is virtually impossible with digital goods.

[Thony]

Whether or not you pre-order has nothing to do with pleasing anyone else, or being part of a majority. It's just about protecting yourself from the backhanded business practices rampant among big-budget publishers. It makes sense not to pre-order anytime it's too risky to pay for a product solely on the word of the people directly benefitting from high [pre-order] sales figures. The only time where pre-ordering truly makes sense is when you're buying a commodity that may actually run out, which is virtually impossible with digital goods.

Its subjective. I would buy game anyway. Im gonna repeat myself hoping u ubderstand my decision: the only thing stopping me from playing the game would be if it run at 15fps on my rig.

That is very unlikely and even if that was to happen they would have to fix it (same as ubishit fixed ac unity issues) otherwise they will get too much negative comments and complaints from customers.

[alexyy]

The fact that they are taking there time eg 2 months of extra dev time for the pc port alone i feel it should be fine.. 

[typographie]

The fact that they are taking there time eg 2 months of extra dev time for the pc port alone i feel it should be fine..

 

Watch Dogs was delayed by six and a half months. At the time, it was lauded as a positive move that should result in a higher-quality product. Maybe it did, relatively speaking.

 

Its subjective. I would buy game anyway. Im gonna repeat myself hoping u ubderstand my decision: the only thing stopping me from playing the game would be if it run at 15fps on my rig.

That is very unlikely and even if that was to happen they would have to fix it (same as ubishit fixed ac unity issues) otherwise they will get too much negative comments and complaints from customers.

Like I said earlier, it's not my intent to tell you how to spend your money. I just think you're taking a crazy risk for a company that hasn't even earned the benefit of the doubt based on past behavior.

[alexyy]

Watch Dogs was delayed by six and a half months. At the time, it was lauded as a positive move that should result in a higher-quality product. Maybe it did, relatively speaking.

 

Ubisoft are dead to me.. 

 

Hopefully rockstar wise up. 

[Thony]

Watch Dogs was delayed by six and a half months. At the time, it was lauded as a positive move that should result in a higher-quality product. Maybe it did, relatively speaking.

Like I said earlier, it's not my intent to tell you how to spend your money. I just think you're taking a crazy risk for a company that hasn't even earned the benefit of the doubt based on past behavior.

Its a risk from your POV not mine. Im not that picky when it comes to games.

Risk would be buying the game that would not get any support after the launch. But there will be patches, dlcs a d other money milking strategies meaning there will have to be support for the game.

I dont understand why u see this purchase risky. Im surely gonna get my playtime out of that game, the game wont be broken to the point its unplayable. U are going little too sceptical on this game.. I dont remember the game that would be released unplayable without any fixing coming later on. Even pre-alpha versions nowadays can be played.

U come along as an extremist if u see a risk in this. Im not gonna lose my money nor waste it.

If they release the game buggy and then fix it later it means i will pay for the game sooner or later ANYWAY, makes no difference unless someone live "hand to mouth" life style and depends on that amount that he would pay for the game.

[typographie]

I dont understand why u see this purchase risky.

 

I should probably clarify: my policy is not to pre-order anything from any company*. I wouldn't even pre-order The Witcher 3, a game which is overwhelmingly likely to be solid, proper, working PC release made by a company that gives their DLC away for free and runs GOG. It's an issue of principle: I would never buy a product solely on the word of the people making it. That, by definition, is marketing hype. And if the marketing hype ends up being the truth, I'll buy the game on day one and regret nothing, having lost nothing of worth.

 

*I guess I'd make an exception if a game I was dying to own was available for like 50% off or more during the pre-order period. Then it might be worth it to me.

[Laurysss]

They might want just to get more money and go ubi style. But why than the delay? Lets just pray.

[Darkman]

Sadly, I could not resist, and joined the beta testing on the peasant hardware. The 30fps made me want to kill myself <3

I did too... 20-30FPS is SO choppy when gaming. Ewwww... It's fine if I'm watching a YouTube video, TV show, or movie though.. Definitely not enough frames for a game.

I am afraid that it will be a bad port that will run like shit, but Max Payne 3 turned out fine. Lets hope they do that well with GTA V as it's one of the better GTA's in terms of what you can do.

[warmmilk]

Linus said that it didn't matter. SSD's last way more than rated.

 

If you want I can find you a video of it.

 

didn't he also say it writes something like 30gb of data in tiny pieces over a period of 40 mins?  I'd rather not risk my 480GB SSD... 60 gb ssd's are pretty cheap these days, and I'll repurpose it for a media pc after I'm done with GTAV

[Thony]

*I guess I'd make an exception if a game I was dying to own was available for like 50% off or more during the pre-order period. Then it might be worth it to me.

GTA V is my own exception in this case and i dont need a discount however getting one would be highly appreciated.

I only own about 5 paid games and ive had steam for over 5 years. I only buy a game if it fits my style and can be played for more than 6 months. Im one of people who play very few games but stick with them for years. I still play counter-strike and warcraft 3. So trust me, when im pre-ordering its not a nobrain action,its a worthwhile investment based on my own experience from previous GTAs that i have played (3, Vice City and SA)

[cab11150904]

Is it just me

Thanks for throwing this in so I knew to skip the rest of this pathetic self validation post. Is it just me? Really? Yep 6 billion people and this is your unique thought.

[Analog]

GTA IV was really buggy in the beginning, but after the seven updates it was fine. I still play it today and I am very happy with it. Considering the amount of time RockStar has before releasing it to PC, combined with the fact that porting from current consoles is much easier I really expect a nicely polished game. 

[Guest]

AFIK GTA IV's main problem was overutilization of the CPU, right? Or was it more than that?

[Thebman712]

when it comes i will liky sell my xbox so it better be good

[Snickerzz]

Im scared too mainly because of DRM "lets fuck this game up" system.

Bugs actually play in GTAs favour, for example the bugged front of a building bug where u can fly inside the building and get behind textures. Youtubers had much fun playing with it.

are you talking about deruvo? Gtav isnt using that

[WolfDeville]

I have a strong feeling this is going to be absolutely terrible from day 0 and they won't do much to fix it just like with GTA4

[Sharkyx1]

You still got bad PC ports from a certain game dev company (*cough cough* Ubisoft)

But really, it wasn't the port that screwed those games, the games performed poorly even on console, they were just poorly coded at their base