Grand Theft Auto 5 PC petition gains traction

Thread Truncated. Click to see all 56 replies.

• toggle

  Lol, petitions. Also why even bother about one for this series. It's inevitably coming. : vai90
  • toggle

    That's what they said about Red Dead Redemption. ;P : ThomW
    • toggle

      Actually, they didn't. The studio that released RDR has never ported a game to PC and R* were fairly clea... : Alastayr
      • By "they" he probably meant people in general not Rockstar. Also I didn't know about this development mes... : vai90
      • toggle

        I didn't mean "they" being Rockstar -- I meant "they" meaning PC gamers. :) : ThomW
        • toggle

          The difference is that it isn't the voice of the community that dictates Rockstar's decision to release G... : ateam311
          • toggle

            Do you really think Sony and Microsoft are both paying Rockstar for console exclusivity? I'd say it's mo... : ThomW
            • toggle

              I was just doing some absurd hypothesizing. It's likely the sales figures mixed in with piracy concerns. ... : ateam311
              • toggle

                That's me. haha Hell, I bought a PS2 after playing GTA3 obsessively on my PC for months so I could bu... : ThomW
                • Yeah. Rockstar was definitely triple dipping at that point because Sony was obviously paying big for time... : ateam311
        • toggle

          Hey ThomW, I was sleepy and misread your post. Sorry. : Alastayr
          • Nah -- I wasn't specific in my post. No harm done. :) : ThomW
      • Exactly. RDR's dev process was a mess. It wasn't even supposed to be open world. The previous game in the... : st4rdog
      • Yeah but don't R* usually move porting to other studios, such as Leeds. To have a true R* North PC ver... : BornAcorn
      • Which is why I think they should (or outsourced team) port it anyways; bugs, flaws and all. Just support ... : kartooner
    • toggle

      FFS, I knew some idiot would bring it up (no offense, it's just pissing me off, how often this is present... : vai90
      • toggle

        TIL I'm "some idiot" :D : ThomW
        • toggle

          That's why I wrote no offense and an explanation. I really didn't mean it personal. : vai90
          • toggle

            no offense IDIOT : Sapiens
            • toggle

              You obviously haven't read my former post, so kindly shut up. : vai90
              • toggle

                i said no offense wtf : Sapiens
                • sapiDIOTens : ateam311
                • Very funny, hurr durr. As I said, you haven't read it. I didn't only say "no offense", but offered an exp... : vai90
      • toggle

        I made it to the third sentence where I was rewarded with "the greedy Rockfags". What a gem. Unfortunatel... : sonicdeathwalrus
        • Haha, yeah. It was exactly that. : vai90
      • toggle

        Wow, I understand why you're angry but I'm not taking it that hard. If it comes out on xbox I'll play it ... : Snipergen
        • Yeah, was a silly rant about an issue I have never written about anywhere, so I used this news post to le... : vai90
• toggle

  the things that qualify as news... : Korban
  • toggle

    This seems a relevant news item to me after the success of the DARK SOULS PC petition. : David Craddock
    • toggle

      Fair point! : [fry]
      • That's me, [fry]. Fair and balanced. Like a boss. : David Craddock
    • Difference is Rockstar knows how well their games sell on console vs PC already and cosistently release t... : pyide
    • i agree with David on this one.. GTA series is a fantastic one, and it made its mark on the PC first befo... : surferosh
    • Yes, but dark souls is amazing! GTA is... :( : exit button
  • A couple of other gaming sites reported it, so Shacknews has to follow a day after, or else look like the... : Wisp!
• /sign didnt feel like buying it anyway... Oh wait : Frush81
• toggle

  \m/ rad, its going to happen BELIEVE IT , if you have not signed the petition please do, thanks PC commu... : valcan_s
  • toggle

    Valcan's on board. : [fry]
    • toggle

      You go that right [fry] :) your comp is going to love it when it comes out. : valcan_s
      • toggle

        You are the best Internet friend I could hope for Valcan. The trigger rig is still going strong. I am alw... : [fry]
        • :) your a real cool/good guy [fry] like wise. Oh yeah I bought Chivalry, have not installed it yet but I ... : valcan_s
        • We need a case badge for that. valcanized : node
• Petition or not, this game will be released on PC eventually. Maybe the petition should be to release th... : scary_monster
• Man, I wish the RDR PC petition(s) could get so many signatures... http://www.petitiononline.com/rdrpc/p... : aasyranth
• toggle

  Is the Dark Souls petition the only gaming petition that has worked? : nutcrackr
  • Deus EX HR petition got proper FoV controls and HUD options added into the game. : Mr. Goodwrench
• #2055

  Refresh Thread

  By: pizzaput x Show Full Post

  Reply

  The "Up for consideration" line from RS is just marketing scam-speak to increase the console version's sales. GTA IV San Andreas and GTA IV were both released on PC something like 1 year after the consoles. The PC market for GTA V alone is bigger than the market for most well-doing multi-platform games. It's phenomenally huge. Red Dead Redemption didn't see a PC release, but that was because RStar were advised that there wasn't a market for westerns or whatever... so they probably didn't want to take the chance. Of course, the game did amazingly well.
  
  Now they're using that blip on their track record to trick people into thinking the PC version of one of the biggest selling PC series of all time will not happen, in order to maximize the console sales.
  
  
  Gratuity:
  
  GTA on consoles is shit anyway. Look how aliased the screenshots for GTA V are in larger versions: I almost want to puke from the jaggies and cannot bear playing games that look like so anymore. The inevitable PC release will not only look a million bucks better, but will run at higher framerates and have more enjoyable controllability. Console gaming is dinosaurnish. And not the totally-awesome dinosaurish, but the one that's old, lame, and crippled, and can be tipped over with a slight poke from your pinkie, or boner the boner that you got from the last up-to-date PC game that you played, or from the massive savings you got while enacting your latest PC game shopping spree, where every weekend some publisher or developer has their entire catalog on sale for, often, 60% off, on Steam, GoG, Impulse, Origin (yuk, die origin), Gamefly, GamersGate, Get Games, GREENMAN GAMING (fuck yes, and then slap an additional 20% discount code on top of that 60% off, haha)... and more.
  
  (if anyone wants an additional $2 off their first purchase when signing up for Greenmangaming, you can use my referral link here: http://www.greenmangaming.com/?gmgr=colocino , or just copy and paste /?gmgr=colocino after greenmangaming.com)
  
  Console gaming is dead, not only due to hardware limitations, but also due to contoll limitations and steep prices. Fact: the next gen of consoles are already hardware dated by today's PC standards. When they release in 2013/2014, they will be significantly behind modern PC computing. Buying one will be somewhat like buying a wii U today... but a bit better. There's a market, but people who like the greatest and largest games will be looking to alternate pastures.
  
  According to an article released last week, PC is now the largest gaming platform, with a larger gaming base and active customers than any of the consoles. Do you really want to have to break out the dustbroom and start up the flux capacitor just to play a game with obscene jaggies?
  
  GMG's winter sale, running for the next month, has a massive number of games priced at 50 - 75% off, with a discount voucher for an additional 25% after that, plus another $2 off if you use my referral link: http://www.greenmangaming.com/?gmgr=colocino
  
  How can consoles match such deals? The answer: they can't come within the same galaxy. I just finished one shopping spree on GoG.com, and now I'm going to do another on GMG.com. PC gaming is almost TOO superior in too many ways.

  Nov 28, 2012 4:33am PST
  toggle

  The "Up for consideration" line from RS is just marketing scam-speak to increase the console version's sa... : pizzaput
  • toggle

    Yes, but as long as the PC community refuses to pay for software the influx of new software will be stifl... : beef2187
    • toggle

      It's cute people keep saying this when the numbers in every study say otherwise. (For reference, the la : LoioshDwaggie
      • Did you just call me... cute? Thanks. : beef2187
    • There was an article on Shack, I think, a week or so ago, which detailed that PC is now the largest gamin... : pizzaput
• toggle

  This petition is just a reminder that the PC is the red headed stepchild of platforms and when the next g... : Dynotaku
  • Why would nothing get ported anymore? Whatever games they're making for the new systems right now can al... : Mommar
  • Actually, PC is the largest gaming platform now, and when the next gen of consoles is released, they will... : pizzaput
• They're going to release it on PC anyway, just 9 months after the console so that it doesnt hurt console ... : nodebug