Rockstar Plans to Announce Much Anticipated ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’::Rockstar Games, a division of Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., plans to announce the next highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto game as early as this week, according to people familiar with its plans.

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      Actually, it’s an article about “sources” speculating about the plan to maybe announce something next week. Front-page news!

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    Now imagine if they announced things like no more predatory monetisation. Consumer-friendly licensing. No more crunch. No more sexual harrassment and bullying in the workplace. Fair compensation for workers. Humane working hours and PTO?

    Ah, well…

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      B-but you don’t understand! Rockstar has been hinting at it with the moon phases and the constellations present in some random promo art! It’s happening any day now!

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    Second most anticipated game of all time (half life 3 still not confirmed).

    Edit: for clarify, if Steam announced that they were going to announce Half Life 3 tomorrow, the news it’d generate would completely drown out any and all noise relating to the GTAVI release announcement.

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      GTA is more popular than HL by orders of magnitude. HL is popular, but HL3 has more meme power than anything. I don’t think many console-only players care too much about Valve titles.

      …Or maybe your comment is also part of the meme and went over my head.

      Edit: But personally I also look forward to HL3 more… If it ever materialises :(

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        Honestly, I think I’m giving GTA too much credit to put it next to HL3 like that.

        So no, hard disagree there.

        This is a whisper. HL3 announcement would be a bang that would grind the internet to a halt.

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            Gross sales is not predictive of hype surrounding a series, especially when that series hasn’t had a release in nearly 20 years.

            You… Are out of your element.

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              Out of my element? I think we only know about as much as each other mate.

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                You’re comparing the release of FIFA to the release of HL3.

                That’s adequate information to know you are out of your element.

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                  I don’t mean the release of FIFA, I mean the games that groups of people play and are aware of. If even non-big-gamers are hyped for a game, then oh boy.

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          The avg gamer/person doesn’t give a fuck about Half Life. That ship has looooong sailed. Without the memes that game series would just be a historical footnote somewhere when discussing Counter Strike.

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            Exactly, like duke nukem for example.

            There are millions of GTA players, all the kids seem to love it, IDK about the halflife user base today.

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            150k people went out of their way to buy a $1k headset on top of a fancy PC so they can play the half life VR spinoff. People today would absolutely pay $30 for Half-Life 3 if it was innovative and impressive. The ship hasn’t sailed, the bar was simply raised.

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            Exactly, like duke nukem for example.

            There are millions of GTA players, all the kids seem to love it, IDK about the halflife user base today.

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          You’re comparing steak and a big mac here. They have largely separate target buyers and operate at different levels of quality/craftsmanship. Yes, HL3 would grind the gaming news media to a halt while this fluff article about GTA6 is just fluff.

          But the steak isn’t selling more copies that the big mac. This is what people are arguing with you over.

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            That’s not what is meant by “anticipated release”, though.

            FIFA2025 will outsell GTA VI. No one is biting their nails waiting for it to happen. It is in no way a highly anticipated release.

            GTA VI is a pretty highly anticipated release, yes, but to compare it half life 3 is… Silly.

            By this metric, Half Life 3 is way, way way way more highly anticipated. Steam servers would go offline.