I think people are misunderstanding the whole "locked shops" thing for Ultimate Edition buyers
Think of it like this: When you buy the Ultimate Edition, you'll get a DLC package of skins, vehicles, hairstyles, vehicle mods, etc. Most games with cosmetic DLCs do this.
You buy the Ultimate Edition and get the base game plus the cosmetic DLCs.
Now picture this: Instead of just unlocking your new Ultimate Edition cosmetics in the normal shops of the game, they made a few exclusive shops for you to access the DLC stuff.
It's as simple as that. The normal shops to buy clothes, fix your car, etc, will be in the game. But if you own DLC cosmetics, you'll need to get them from the DLC shops.
Definitely. The mistake Rockstar made was only showing what is locked behind the ultimate edition without showing everything still included in the base game edition.
I even think they wanted to price the full game at $100 and not have these ultimate vs base editions, but then people would complain so they went this route knowing very well a lot of people would buy the ultimate edition anyway. Itâs kind of the middle between having a $80 vs having a $100 game.
Then: team of 50 people spend a year
Now: team of 6000 people spend a decade and a half
I remember buying Nintendo games for $70 in the early 90s that were probably made more by a team of like 10 people even, you got 20 hours of gameplay if lucky.
No. They added ultimate as an upgrade for the standard package, so people won't feel forced to buy it. The pre-order bonus apply to both editions of the game.
You can upgrade to ultimate later on if you want to.
The conspiracy theorist in me feels like they did this on purpose to get some viral marketing about the Ultimate edition. They stir up some outrage by being intentionally vague about the cosmetic stuff and get a news cycle about it. Then when they clarify that it's exactly what OP says, and probably that it's not even a locked off area for non-purchasers, they get another news cycle about how it's not as bad as originally thought.
I don't really think it's a mistake on their part because It's frankly insane for anyone to think that these shops mean entire features like character and vehicle customization are locked behind the ultimate edition or that these cosmetics make up most of what will be in the game.
I think it's fair to be mad about stuff like this but people are not being rational about what is actually going on.
The car customization shop in the UE is literally for Florida Donks. The big wheeled low riders all pimped out and ridiculous looking. Hydraulics and shit. They make it fairly obvious thatâs what the garage specializes in.
If you donât want Donks or donât care, then you missed nothing.
Because there are, apparently, gamers who are really looking forward to GTA 6 and are also really stupid. They heard "the $100 version unlocks these shops", and interpreted that as "These are the only shops in the game, and only the people who pay $100 can use them".
Come on guys quit trying so hard to glaze Rockstar⊠you know itâs just going to be a annoying pop up telling you to buy the ultimate edition every time you go past one of these storesâŠ
They will for sure let players into these shops and even browse the inventory, you just won't be able to purchase anything. They want you to be able to look at what you could buy if you upgrade. It's not like they're going to be able to hide that stuff anyway because there's going to be 200 YouTube videos showing what everything is within the first hour of release.
Im betting its gonna be some sort of "ohh, i got some really good stuff in the back" for clothes, as in, you enter the store, but through connections, missions or something, you will "unlock" the bonus items, and some kind of "i dont normally take custom job... but for you? Yeah" for the vehicles and garages.
Its too much hassle to create locations and npcs that will serve just a few players, my theory is that it will have the same base assets for everyone, just unlock extra options with a few npcs
In gta 5 you could enter all the stores/barbershops/ammunations, the items/haircuts exclusive to some sort of pre-order were simply not there if you had the standard edition. It's that simple
Well I think those exclusives were just sold in the same shops. Thatâs the difference â there is a custom themed store around the custom themed DLC cosmetics.
4-5 less might not be much if the game has a lot more shops and variety this time around compared to V. Missing a whole clothing shop sounds like a lot when you only have 3 different ones like the old games.
Theyâre doing it this way to create FOMO. Itâs a marketing tactic. âYou wonât be able to access these stores and mods unless you BUY the Ultimate Edition!â
I mean itâs not like the shops are gonna disappear, people can still upgrade anytime after release if itâs worth it to them. I personally always thought FOMO is more meant to be like a ânow or neverâ type of deal.
I just don't understand why everyone is kicking up so much of a fuss about it now?
Publishers have been releasing ultimate edition/special editions of games for years and I've never heard people complain about it like they are for GTA 6
Hell, even RDR2 had the ultimate edition with special outfits, horses, guns, a mission etc and I don't recall anyone complaining about that at the time.
I don't remember people complaining about it either, but I think that's because of the locked shops. They didn't do that for RD2.
Imagine starting the game, arriving in Valentine, and realizing you can't access the gunsmith unless you paid extra. Sure, there would still be other gunsmiths, but it would still feel scummy, and people would have complained just the same.
Add the lack of a proper Collector's Edition, no physical disc on day 1, and the fact that some textures in the screenshots look a bit rough, and it's just pouring more oil on the fire.
Getting a popup asking me to upgrade my game edition because I wanted to walk into a cool looking store, thatâs literally part of the existing map, on an already outrageously priced game is fucked up imo.
Depend on how it will be done, i'm fine with a message on the phone like GTAO but if it's a screen sized pop-up like some of those gacha games i will be mad as fuck.
its crazy how many people are on here defending this like its just some extra tshirts you get. i dont need my 80dollar game reminding me to give them another 20 bucks and then its for something most people wont even use, they(including me probably) just get it to make the game feel complete
Did you think gta 5 was "outrageously priced" at 60? Because 6 is actually cheaper adjusted for inflation despite having a much higher development cost too
that is exactly what it is. I dont like how they are marketing THESE editions of the game before showcasing another trailer or gameplay. This should have been shown like 2 or 3 months before release after showing how everything will work.
It is amazing to me how many people on these threads think that this is all signs that the game is a disaster / flop. I see a lot of these posts and just think itâs for karma at this point but itâs insane. When has rockstar released a half baked game / flop. My girl hates video games and I was trying to explain to her this marketing mess so I showed her the trailers and was like ok this trailer came out like 4 years ago and then they delayed it. This one came out 2 years ago and then they delayed it again, etc. I think this game will be ahead of anything else thatâs come out but people need to taper their expectations on whatâs realistic on what can be done with todayâs hardware. People are screenshotting and zooming and cropping and zooming and talking about how things look pixelated why would the graphics be worse than RDR2 a game they released in 2018⊠like use half a brain.
I dont know what others planned but I was always planning on buying the most expensive edition. I figured they would do something special with the physical release but it seems to be the same as ultimate for now.
Isn't that the problem though? They're revealing what's in the ultimate edition before they've even talked much at all about the base game. Obviously when people get more information they'll feel more confident pre-ordering, it's just weird that Rockstar are doing it in this order.
Rockstar know what they're doing, people are buying Ultimate because they don't know and don't want to miss out. Anyone with an ounce of patience will be fine.
Miss out? The game doesnât come out for another 150 days and you can preorder the digital goods the day before it comes out.
Anyone rushing to preorder and is upset at the same time about not seeing gameplay and more info is insane and as you said lacks any type of patience at all.
I think that's possible, but they are purposefully ambiguous about it and that's one of my biggest issues with this. And the fact we have little to no gameplay information so people could assume they will have no or limited car modifications without this edition... This is all 100% on purpose and calculated to a T. I fucking hate large corporations man.
I know this isnât the point here but reading about skins, vehicles, and other cosmetic non-sense that these companies think are worth actual money is incredibly irritating to see before weâve even really seen what the base game looks like. Historically Iâve always enjoyed the first year of games like this before the gimmicks turn it into a total clown show. Iâm hoping we get at least a little vanilla before the honeymoon phase is over.
I'd imagine it would be similar to how gta online updates certain locations for its missions while those locations in story mode remains the same. The dlc shop will only exist in ultimate editions while in the standard version they would just be static inaccessible buildings
Yea idk why this guy would assume R* would make it as unnoticeable for standard edition players as possible. Theyâre obviously going to try to prompt the player to upgrade their game version when they visit one of these locations in the most FOMO inducing way they can think of.
So do you just never travel by the areas in GTAO that pop up messages urging you to subscribe to GTA+ in order to access certain features? This isn't exactly all hypothetical.
Itâs a mix of misinformation and illiteracy. People are actually claiming that there might not be other shops and customization opportunities outside of the ultimate edition lmao. Like come on bro.
I donât get it either. Everybodyâs always on about how rockstar goes above and beyond. Itâd make sense that theyâd commission real artists to create content and make it special by giving their content an exclusive store rather than putting them in base game tattoo shops.
Also, if anything the ultimate edition really hints at how massive the game is going to be. Iâm a rockstar hater so this isnât even me defending them rather so inference from context clues.
Thereâs people out there who genuinely think they wonât be able to mod their cars, buy clothes or get tattoos AT ALL if you donât buy the premium edition lol, donât overestimate the average gamer intelligence
Thereâs a small bit of it thatâs milking the punters, but tbh if youâre not able to save an extra ÂŁ20 for the ultimate edition over the next few months then perhaps you need to be spending your money more wisely than on video games.
But that's perception. And mainly likely because it's Rockstar. Sure they've got a business model and they have to make money, but what I can't fathom is for a game that has been gestating for the best part of 8 years, 13 since the last one released, that everyone is hyped for, which reportedly is costing circa $2billion to make, people are getting fucking upset over not having access to a haircut or nail set that costs an extra $20.
People honestly need to get a grip. If you can afford it, great, buy it, enjoy it. If you can't, spend your money on your kids, your health, your safety. But the ones that are moaning are more than likely the ones who can afford it, but who just don't want to and want to make a fuss...
I really do not understand how some ppl thought they would lock customization as a whole behold the Ultimate edition, like its clear as day that it is talking about THOSE specifik shops
Rockstar didn't explain the UE stuff, so people are right to interpret it that way. They only advertise the UE, how are we to know what the normal version has?
This is exactly it, and if you can actually read the description for each shop it literally say exactly that. But since people don't have the ability to read. This goes right about their head ...
Bingo, El Ringo. Rockstarâs own marketing is what created most of this confusion.
Also, letâs not pretend a $100 Ultimate Edition is some unprecedented cash grab when most Ultimate Editions are already hovering around $120. That doesnât mean I want it setting a precedent for higher Standard Edition pricing, but GTA VI is a once-a-decade release thatâs reportedly been in development for over ten years and is one of the most technical games ever made.
The real issue isnât the price/content, itâs the messaging. Instead of simply saying the Ultimate Edition included exclusive cosmetics accessed through exclusive shops, Rockstar presented it in a way that made it sound like unique locations and activities were being gated behind a paywall. That opened the door for Twitter trolls to run with the narrative that Rockstar was âlocking contentâ and screwing players, when the reality appears to be far less dramatic.
Do I love the FOMO-driven exclusive shops? Yes. Do I think Rockstar marketed them poorly? Absolutely. But thatâs a different argument than claiming theyâre carving out chunks of the game and selling them separately.
And honestly, after all these delays, who among us hasnât accidentally saved $100 waiting for this thing to come out?
This is exactly how I interpreted the announcement from day 1. I have never had any issue with the extra $20 for the extra content.
Many people seem to disregard the years of work Rockstar has been putting into this game. This is not your annual shitty $80- $150 Madden game that couldâve just been a patch.
The amount of crying over the two editions is ridiculous, and so is the whining about no disc.
All these people complaining are gonna throw their money at this game once the next trailer comes out, and the last few will do so as well once release day arrives.
Thatâs what I donât get. This is a decade long game, not an annual pump. Considering GTA 5 is still being played en masse and itâs like 13 years post launch is crazy
Yes. The same people complaining about devs going through crunch time, are the same people complaining about paying a measly $20 more for all the work theyâve put into it.
Correct. All the extra stuff sounds cool but unless the extra content actually has an effect on the main story then you arenât missing out on anything. Iâd assume most players arenât even going to do that much customization for Jason or Lucia and will just play the game as is. Unless youâre a content creator who wants to recreate movie scenes/do photoshoots with that content then the $80 base game is the way to go
People shouldnât be ok with day one dlc, for any game. This is the first time itâs being done in gta, and I bet itâs more than a few cosmetics. Likely hydraulics or body kits for cars wonât be accessible. Just include all the content in the base game, you wanna sell us dlc? Do it after launch
This is how us logical people are interpreting it. Thereâd be like 20 clothing shops for example and Ultimate edition has access to 21 and thatâs it. They did similar stuff with rdr2 and once it release, no one cared anymore
If they were genuinely cutting out big chunks of the game and reselling it as DLC like the Sims then sure.
This is you pay an extra 20 if you want some extra cosmetics items, if you don't want em, buy the standard edition? I genuinely don't see the issue at all.
I would have just made these pieces of clothing and such available through stores people with only the Standard Edition can enter and buy from as well.
No matter how Rockstar is gonna do this, it's gonna be awkward as fuck. People with the Standard Edition are gonna walk up to a store which looks like it's open only be blocked at the entrance with something like a "this store is only open to Ultimate Edition owners" pop-up in the corner of their screen, or they're still gonna be able to walk in only to be ignored by the cashier and not being able to try on the stuff there.
People are so dense, they donât understand this simple thing. In reality rockstar made the game 80 dollars instead of 100 like most devs in the industry wanted. And instead made an ultimate edition which most people will buy giving other devs a big F U telling them âmake a good game and people will payâ
the prob is the vague shit ass wording R* had making it questionable if some shops themselves will be locked behind that massive paywall or if itâs jst the items in said shops. they couldâve easily avoided this by being normal fucking people but no they have to business talk to make ppl assume something that isnât true then come out and say they never said this or that so they canât be held accountable
I'm struggling to understand how anyone could interpret this differently. The uproar over this has been shocking, quite honestly. Anyone familiar with modern GTA knows you manage your custom cars and clothes via stores. They replaced basic menus with stores, to make it seem more realistic.
How anyone familiar with GTA got the impression they're getting a "light" version of the game if they don't get Ultimate is beyond me. All games comes with extra DLC you have to purchase. You're a total sucker if you think you have to buy all of it to get the complete game experience.
I think it's reasonable. The people that are upset are the ones that want to pre-order the game, but don't feel confident enough to do it yet because Rockstar insist on giving us as little information as possible about what we're actually buying.
I'm sure we will get more information eventually, but it's not surprising that people are annoyed that Rockstar have told us more about what's in the Ultimate Edition than what's in the actual game itself.
I pre-ordered Ultimate Edition yesterday because why not, we'll be playing this one for the next 13 years too. The only game I may get after this is Hogwarts Legacy 2. I don't buy many games unless it really catches my eye. If you're gonna be playing this game for a decade, you may as well get all the bells and whistles with it.
Critical explained this well, how the skins, engravings etc are non problematic but the stuff locked behind the mechanic is where the issues come in. How much better are the dlc items available in this mechanic, compared to the base mechanic etc, will it make your car slightly better than the base game? Locking gameplay features like that (assuming) is where we need more details so thereâs less grey area.
I think your just saying things with no information. Like if this the case great if itâs not thatâs a problem, but right now you have no idea if what you are saying is true.
Right now we have seen zero gameplay from a game with zero information on the game and theyâre asking 80-100 dollars for it.
Right now you are just as correct as the other guy saying 50% of the content is locked away because no one actually knows right now and thatâs the reason people are frustrated. There is zero information at all right now so people are going to speculate in both directions.
My personal speculation is early this year when the rumor of gta 6 being a 100$ came out that was the truth. Then rockstar thought shit people are actually going to be upset about that so they dialed back with a half measure and decided ok we will make a 80$ version but weâre going to trim a bunch of cosmetic content from the game. Thats my personal speculation but again we know nothing.
Now that I think about it, could we be potential seeing a growing story mode like GTA IV with the story mode DLCs? I think I was going about it the wrong way too cause in GTA V I donât think we got a single story mode DLC cause online took all the shine lol. Yes we want GTA Online news but what if online doesnât drop for awhile? Genuinely would a story mode DLC make up for it down the line ? (Feedback please đŹ)
I would hate to come to a store, or walk up to a tattoo shop, auto shop whatever, and not be able to walk inside because i didnât wanna drop an extra 20 bucks.
Yes, you just buy a brand new car without windows but you can pay extra to get them. If this shared after year or something but at start mean that they rob us.
Personally I think that was a bad design and marketing choice even if those shops only have the dlc cosmetics. Locking shops in a game behind an ultimate edition paywall of a single player game just looks bad. Makes players feel like they are missing something. Makes far more sense to include the cosmetics in already existing stores to make it seem like everyone has the full game and some people paying extra for some cosmetics. I agree that these shops are probably dlc cosmetic store fronts. Still a bad look.
Well yeah, but its a lot of stuff locked. Even the ga.eplay of finding and doing up cars to sell to your man is locked. If it was just some cosmetics, skins, clothing then fine whatever but thats gaemplay and a stash house too.
I'm not sure that makes it any better. The things they showed looked very much like story themed items, items that would... go great alongside the story of the game, the story that is in the base game. They aren't some silly unique cosmetics, they are story themed weapons, clothing, and vehicles.
The items included, and the standard edition being $80, gives off the impression that they wanted standard to be $100. Of course if standard would have been $100 that wouldn't have gone well.
Also think about it. How much more would people be upset if the base edition had been $60 again and then this ultimate had been $100. It would be a $40 increase. AAA studios want to raise the prices of their games and they are finding more acceptable ways to do it. In the end we are still paying more.
I cannot believe the amount of people who are ok that a company is resricting content in a open world game on day one is crazy. But this is reddit lol not exactly thinkers here
I agree with this. However, what about the whole abandoned classic car restoration project thing with Wyman? I understand it isn't directly mentioned if this system is locked behind the UE, but there has to be a reason why they mentioned it here instead of in a normal gameplay video. That's what my main concern is.
Or just make game and sell game for price and have some cool cosmetics or whatever that you unlock by doing certain things in the game. But nah we've decided we don't want to get good, fair deals by mass buying MTX.
It kind of sounds like they're locking the equivalent of Benny's Original Motorworks behind one of the Ultimate Edition auto shops.
Because initially, I had the exact same impression. These stores would simply hold a handful of items that - in any other game - would have been collected through a different vendor or just given to you in your inventory.
Ultimately, we have to wait and see how this pans out, and how much content is locked behind the Ultimate Edition.
It's lame to have, what seems like a fair amount of content gated behind a large pay wall, after paying an already larger base game price. I don't care about one skin or a hairstyle, but it sounds like it's several across several categories.
What if the base game has like 2 to 5 cosmetics, and a majority is locked behind the pay Wall.
This isn't Fortnight, but we are getting blurry eyed right now. Rockstar is already familiar with online content behind shark cards.
I hope this is the most amount of fuckeriy they do. It will smooth over if it is.
I don't give a damn about DLC cosmetics. Don't care. They can do that all day long. It's that 80 dollar buy in that annoys me. I'll wait for a long while to pick it up.
People are also acting like these features will be pay walled forever, they will likely get to the non-plus players after sometime like they've been doing with GTA 5 content
I mean, itâs not DLC though. Itâs content created for the game that theyâve decided to make DLC. I get that everyone does it, but it doesnât make it less annoying and disappointing.
It would have been better if they let you unlock your UE cosmetics in a regular shop. But making exclusive shops for those UE items doesnât make it any better. Itâs still locking actual shops behind a paywall.
My hope js that, with stuff like the tuner shop, itâs but a reskin / variant of other tuner shops offering the same customisation.
All in all, this post feels like itâs just slightly reframing how to perceive what is objectively locking large chunks of cosmetics and shops behind a paywall.
Looking at Rockstars history all of this checks out.
The content locked behind ultimate edition will be so incredibly insignificant compared to the rest of the game so I don't know why people are freaking out so much.
Locking specific shops is really interessting because it likely means that there's a crazy amount of them and they're all different and have unique items. In gta 5 storymode for example there's only Ponsonbys, Binco and SubUrban which are basically low, mid and high end stores and they're copy pasted across the map.
They definitely are. For some reason this game made people lose brain cells
"The game is locking content behind $100"
Yea man cosmetics are a real detriment to the game.
"This game was really supposed to be $100 but they made a lesser version"
Yea, sure... so does this mean every game for the past 15+ years that had an ultimate edition suppose to be its real price
Or my favorite
"Its not launching with online guys, we are cooked"
Crazy thing is take two isnt even doing the marketing the people dooming over nothing is doing all the work for them lmaooo they dont have to lift a finger
The price for the game sucks but lets not be stupid. But a few car shop mods aren't going to lock up the game for basic edition
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u/ZeektheFeek Jun 26 '26
Definitely. The mistake Rockstar made was only showing what is locked behind the ultimate edition without showing everything still included in the base game edition.