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It might be less "how violent were his crimes" and more "how likely is he to keep committing crimes if he's released", and according to the article, he's openly said he will.
Idk, life in prison for threatening to hack people again doesn't seem commensurate. Which is why I have a feeling the articles are understating how bad his mental state is.
 
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I think I just threw up in my mouth a bit. Please don't 1-up already-stupid trend, Sony!
Sony increasing the pricing on their games from 70 to 80 come 2027? Yeah, I can see that being a thing. Spider-Man 3 to be split in 3 parts and sold at 50 dollars each? That would be the largest most ludicrous pissing away of one's goodwill and credibility beyond any current games publisher. I couldn't even see Warner Bros. Games pull that.
 

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Sony increasing the pricing on their games from 70 to 80 come 2027? Yeah, I can see that being a thing.
Us Euro folk are probably looking at €90 then, cuz a lot of Sony 1st party already is 80 for base versions, since they arbitrarily slapped an extra 10 on top last time they increased prices. Real kicker would be if they did that again. €100 games, huzzah. Regardless, all other regions can very likely look forward to an equivalent price hike.
 
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Idk, life in prison for threatening to hack people again doesn't seem commensurate. Which is why I have a feeling the articles are understating how bad his mental state is.
It’s not like a prison for normal criminals. More like a specialized mental facility for highly autistic and the like. He poses a danger to anything that can be hacked. This includes defense networks, transportations systems, medical systems, etc. He has no remorse for any wrong doings and has expressly admitted the desire to go right back to that lifestyle as soon as he’s able. Not exactly someone that should be left back out in the wild in our highly connected, tech-reliant word. We ultimately did this to ourselves.
 
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Well after that STUPID statement from the lead designer, why wouldn't the game's rating go low? I think it deserves to go lower


And I am once again very concerned for GTA 6, and anyone who are excited for it
 
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Which stupid statement? I'm feeling like there's a whole crowd of nominees here. (I promise to give the winner more than thirty seconds to speak.)
Glad you asked; The lead designer recently went on an insane rant basically calling anyone who criticizes the game idiots. Normally I would say to ignore these, but you just have to see how bafflingly crazy this is
 
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Glad you asked; The lead designer recently went on an insane rant basically calling anyone who criticizes the game idiots. Normally I would say to ignore these, but you just have to see how bafflingly crazy this is
I'd almost say he has a point in that we don't know exactly what went wrong in development. But boy howdy is he being a whiny git about it. (And naturally, this kind of attack never gets aimed at praise for the game.)
 

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Well after that STUPID statement from the lead designer, why wouldn't the game's rating go low? I think it deserves to go lower


And I am once again very concerned for GTA 6, and anyone who are excited for it
I knew those fuckers got rid of DLC for GTA Online. Shark Cards, Shark Cards, Shark Cards. Granted I spent 600 dollars on Genshin, but no other AAA game is willing to make waifu on a long-lasting live-service game not called Black Desert Online where I have to suffer other players.
 
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Well after that STUPID statement from the lead designer, why wouldn't the game's rating go low? I think it deserves to go lower


And I am once again very concerned for GTA 6, and anyone who are excited for it
There was also an article that said Vice City was supposed to be a GTA3 mission pack. The presence of GTAO makes it little surprise these DLC bits never saw the light of day. Back on 7th Gen before it really took off we had a couple for GTA4, and then one for Red Dead. But they’ve changed their focus. Chances are GTA6 will go bigger than RDR2 for the main game, because it has to. But after that, they’ll roll out the next GTA Online for it and it would be a miracle to see any other single player content. We never got any for RDR2 but GTA is their main flagship so we’ll have to wait and see.
 
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Huh, I didn't know it had sold so well.
Good for the fans and QD, but I am still not buying that, and David Cage can rot in hell.

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Huh, I didn't know it had sold so well.
I think there's some sort of sub group of people who absolutely love their game and just doesn't mix with traditional video game crowd cause there's a bunch of sign this game sold really well that occasionally pass by. Like every once in awhile I'll see picture of people cosplaying the game and it got a ton of reception, with people instantly knowing who they are cosplaying as, it sometime get reference by people like its some sort of classic game that everyone know and there's also apparently some really popular porn/semi porn twitch (I think?) stuff about it.

I'm wondering if maybe its like the soccer mom/mobile phone game addict crowd that plays it?
 

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I think there's some sort of sub group of people who absolutely love their game and just doesn't mix with traditional video game crowd cause there's a bunch of sign this game sold really well that occasionally pass by. Like every once in awhile I'll see picture of people cosplaying the game and it got a ton of reception, with people instantly knowing who they are cosplaying as, it sometime get reference by people like its some sort of classic game that everyone know and there's also apparently some really popular porn/semi porn twitch (I think?) stuff about it.

I'm wondering if maybe its like the soccer mom/mobile phone game addict crowd that plays it?
Traditional video game crowd member here to say; it's a fun game, actually.

David Cage being a creep notwithstanding.
 

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Traditional video game crowd member here to say; it's a fun game, actually.

David Cage being a creep notwithstanding.
Oh I haven't played it so I can't comment on the quality. But plenty fun game haven't sold 9 millions, and plenty of game have sold far less than 9 millions and have had a much bigger impact on the gaming culture (I'm not even sure if dark souls sold 9 millions).

It's just interesting that the game has the traditional gaming media footprint of a game that barely break 100 K units sold despite apparently being a best selling video game, which is very reminiscent of mobile game or those hidden object game.
 
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