There's absolutely no evidence that this is going to be the case. All that happened is that the CEO made a dumb comment and CEOS are always making dumb comments doesn't mean anything.
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The President (Rockstar doesn't have a CEO) is also the founder of the company and made every single Grand Theft Auto up to now.
Who's talking about the president of Rockstar? OP was referring to the CEO of Take Two, the person who made the pricing comment
It's just inflation. The value of a dollar in 2036 is a lot less than now.
You know, I've read stories on how money was so worthless after Black Friday that workers transported their wage with a wheelbarrow. How come that nowadays, inflation just means that everything is fucking expensive, but you still get the same jack-shit paycheck?
I'm pretty convinced it's not inflation that drives up prices, it's greed.
In the past inflation was seen as a bad thing and destabilizing to an economy so governments put actual effort into making it go down. The easiest way to do that is to keep employee wages in line with inflation, but at some point someone, probably with an R next to their name, decided that that was evil socialism, and so shouldn't be done.
So now inflation goes up and the government just sits there and goes "oh nothing we can do".
In the past, governments didn't have inflation targets. The black friday event involved the government flooding the gold market, dramatically reducing the value of gold. At the time the value of a dollar was directly tied to the value of gold. In hyper-inflation events (that don't often happen in developed countries but do still happen in some countries around the world), inflation may be 50% or 100% or 200%. Sometimes way more.
These days (the last 30 or 40 years), inflation and gold have been decoupled, and instead the government has a target range of approx 1-3% inflation (depending on your exact government, but if you're in a developed country then it is probably close). This was intended as a target that would allow businesses to have some certainty and was low so they could ignore inflation in their forecasts. The original target range was 0-2% set in New Zealand, but as it spread around the world it got slightly adjusted to a 1-3% range.
The governments now try to directly control inflation by changing the cost of borrowing money. You might have recently had inflation hit as much as 9%, but this is nothing like what happened in the old days.
We're in a lot of trouble if inflation cuts the value of the dollar by more than half in 13 years.
!We're in a lot of trouble!< Agreed
There's absolutely no way they're not putting an aggressive DRM on it.
Good luck.
Oh son you underestimated the pirate scene
Only 1 Denuvo cracker left. And their plate is full.
Just means the crown is clear for usurping
I'm a patient gamer if something is too expensive I just end up trying something else until I remember that I was interested.
At that point it's usually on sale.
But, I wouldn't trust any rumor right now. We've had rumors for years
With inflation, $150 is about $40 in 2021 money.
It'll probably be free to play without single player but in order to play it you need to keep buying shark cards. Basically what they've done with GTA V after release.
Ps just joking I really hope they won't do that.
The leaks did have some singleplayer aspects but its pretty much guaranteed to have multiplayer with all the bs they got in gta 5. Its rockstar after all, they wouldnt pass on that.
Please stop giving them ideas
Do you really think sharks need training from fish?
lmao I'll probably not even crack it, like ig it will be 500gb download
they'll probably do the fallout 76 method with a timed subscription,
which is why i play san andreas ps2 still