Pre-Order/Preload GTA V

[spartak89]

When can you pre order gta v? Will you be able to preload it?

[Vro]

Pre-Order through Steam

I'm sure a good number of us received that R* Propaganda email referring to the preorder bonuse for migrating players to the next gens, will the pre order bonus be available through steam or just brick and mortar places like gamestop?

[mimizukari]

steam too.

[OmegaIV]

Well man, the preorder bonus as of now is just 1 million USD to spend in game, and the migration bonuses that I think you're referring to are most likely tied to your character / Social Club account, meaning we will almost certainly get all these unique vehicles that were revealed on the email! It's not that long to go now, just a little under 3 months more waiting and we'll be there!

[Vro]

I just want the money to buy as much guns an armoured SUVs as I can.

Just Remember: Never Ever.

[Yatys 93]

Lack of pre-order??

either I'm missing it, or it's not there, and if not, why not!?! there are perks to pre-ordering the game so if we all are getting it why is steam being so slow you add a pre-order button?

[BUCANERO HOMOSEXUAL]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Eurotrash:

You'd have to be ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up in the head to buy this on PC. Let alone pre-order.

I'm the "<buys 50 Spiral Knights boxes> Money Well Spent!" person so... yeah. I'd buy it.

[Ictiv]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Fizαя:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Eurotrash:

You'd have to be ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up in the head to buy this on PC. Let alone pre-order.

hello, mods? that's the entire point of buying it on pc, + they have more than the consoles did in content.

To be fair, they are going to release an equal of the PC version on the latest consoles a bit earlie,r albeit without the replay/video editting feature, so it's not that much more that the PC has,

That being said:
If you don't own a console and don't want to own a console, and are frankly quite happy with your PC which to this day is the only real way to play some entire genres of games to begin with. (Strategy fans anyone?), then yeah, I doubt there is much reason to get this on anything other than the PC.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Most likely the Steam PC pre-order will be available once the game actually hits Xbone/PS4; by then we should have a clearer understand of PC Spec Requirements and such.

If don't like it, go pre-order it from Amazon, GameStop, etc...

[Yatys 93]

i already have done, just coz i have a feeling rockstar will have only done the pre-order deadline for the extra 1 mil to the console release date, and lets be honest, pc's can be far better than consoles, and im not biast, I have a xbox 1 right here

[Starosta88]

This is ruining my mind. Why don`t you open pre-orders as soosn as you announce the game? Whats the point?

[Ictiv]

Diposting pertama kali oleh famiak:

This is ruining my mind. Why don`t you open pre-orders as soosn as you announce the game? Whats the point?

Actually, Pre-Orders are available, but not on Steam. The reason quite likely, is that GTA V's last gen sales barely kept the publisher afloat, so they save whatever money they can. For example, they don't let Steam take a large cut out of the pre-order price, and instead make you pre-order from them directly, or one of the alternatives which lets them keep more of the money.

If you really want to pre-order it, just visit their site, there will have to be relevant options for you. And if you're going to buy it on Steam no matter what, even if you don't get to pre-order, it's not like you'll miss much by getting to pay now, as opposed to later, when it comes out.

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Diposting pertama kali oleh Ictiv:

The reason quite likely, is that GTA V's last gen sales barely kept the publisher afloat,

LOL I HOPE YOU'RE JOKING HAHAHAHAHA

[Ictiv]

Diposting pertama kali oleh V1ceC1ty:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Ictiv:

The reason quite likely, is that GTA V's last gen sales barely kept the publisher afloat,

LOL I HOPE YOU'RE JOKING HAHAHAHAHA

Odd. I was going to link here an article from about 9 months back where Take 2 (Didn't mean Rockstar) admitted that even with amazing sales, they ran into some issues, but can't seem to find it. I guess I could be mixing up stuff from the beginning of the year. Still, if they don't allow for Steam pre-order, but allow for other forms, then they probably want to maximise their personal profit.

EDIT: Actually, now I remember. The issue wasn't that 2013 put them in a difficult place, but that 2012 did. You can look up their financial data anywhere, but here's a good example: https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:TTWO&fstype=ii

They took a giant dip in 2012, and it wasn't all that much that helped them crawl back on top in 2013. Granted, now they are doing MUCH better, but it probably has to do with bering very careful with their income. (Limiting places people can preorder their games from, for example.)

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Diposting pertama kali oleh Ictiv:

Diposting pertama kali oleh V1ceC1ty:

LOL I HOPE YOU'RE JOKING HAHAHAHAHA

Odd. I was going to link here an article from about 9 months back where Take 2 (Didn't mean Rockstar) admitted that even with amazing sales, they ran into some issues, but can't seem to find it. I guess I could be mixing up stuff from the beginning of the year. Still, if they don't allow for Steam pre-order, but allow for other forms, then they probably want to maximise their personal profit.

EDIT: Actually, now I remember. The issue wasn't that 2013 put them in a difficult place, but that 2012 did. You can look up their financial data anywhere, but here's a good example: https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:TTWO&fstype=ii

They took a giant dip in 2012, and it wasn't all that much that helped them crawl back on top in 2013. Granted, now they are doing MUCH better, but it probably has to do with bering very careful with their income. (Limiting places people can preorder their games from, for example.)

Switch it to annual, not quarterly. It wasn't a "giant dip", they almost made $1bn that year.

Rockstar have never had issues with money. Every single GTA game they've released has topped all time sales. All GTA 3D era games were the top selling PS2 games of all time, GTA IV broke the entertainment launch record back in 2008 before it was beat by Call of Duty and GTA V re-broke that record by over $700m.

Look at all the list of the most expensive games to create. Most of the list are Rockstar titles. If they had financial issues they wouldn't spend over $400m to create GTA V.

On to the Steam pre-order thing. That's totally not true. If Rockstar wanted to maximise profits from non-Steam sales they wouldn't put GTA V on Steam at all. They wouldn't have GTA IV on here, or Max Payne 3. Like EA and Ubisoft don't put most of their games here, specifically for that reason. Not Rockstar.

[Ictiv]

Diposting pertama kali oleh V1ceC1ty:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Ictiv:

Odd. I was going to link here an article from about 9 months back where Take 2 (Didn't mean Rockstar) admitted that even with amazing sales, they ran into some issues, but can't seem to find it. I guess I could be mixing up stuff from the beginning of the year. Still, if they don't allow for Steam pre-order, but allow for other forms, then they probably want to maximise their personal profit.

EDIT: Actually, now I remember. The issue wasn't that 2013 put them in a difficult place, but that 2012 did. You can look up their financial data anywhere, but here's a good example: https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:TTWO&fstype=ii

They took a giant dip in 2012, and it wasn't all that much that helped them crawl back on top in 2013. Granted, now they are doing MUCH better, but it probably has to do with bering very careful with their income. (Limiting places people can preorder their games from, for example.)

Switch it to annual, not quarterly. It wasn't a "giant dip", they almost made $1bn that year.

Rockstar have never had issues with money. Every single GTA game they've released has topped all time sales. All GTA 3D era games were the top selling PS2 games of all time, GTA IV broke the entertainment launch record back in 2008 before it was beat by Call of Duty and GTA V re-broke that record by over $700m.

Look at all the list of the most expensive games to create. Most of the list are Rockstar titles. If they had financial issues they wouldn't spend over $400m to create GTA V.

On to the Steam pre-order thing. That's totally not true. If Rockstar wanted to maximise profits from non-Steam sales they wouldn't put GTA V on Steam at all. They wouldn't have GTA IV on here, or Max Payne 3. Like EA and Ubisoft don't put most of their games here, specifically for that reason. Not Rockstar.

I did switch it to annual, and it was a huge dip. They went from well over a billion dollars in 2011, to 800 million. And the question, is not wether Rockstar has issues, it's wether Take 2 had issues, since it is their policy that dictates access to the game and preorders.

Losing over 200 million dollars for a company this size is not a good sign. It's not crippling, but it signals for caution, which is exactly what I said the are using.

Also again: Yes, yes they would put it on steam.

Why? Because a lot of people like Steam, like it in the sense that they think it's convinient, more so than a disk. More importantly: Steam is a giant advertisement billboard. You may think that GTA V needs no introduction, and it may be true, but people need to be reminded of its presence every now and then. Where better, than on Steam of all places, a service people check out when they want to find something new to play. Maybe they can't pre-order it here, but it will shove it in their face, and they will (would) do a google search, and find the proper way to pre-order if they like.


On top of that, their goal is not to maximize non-Steam sales. Their goal is to maximize their own margin. They want people to buy it on Steam, they just want them to buy it off team a little bit more. They give incentive to do that, by making pre-order avaialble only/sooner at their own outlets. It's not all that complicated a marketing idea to wrap one's head around.

But let's asume I'm wrong. What do you propse would be a more logical reason for them to both put it on Steam, and not allow for pre-orders? Did they simply forgot? Would the over a billion dollar company be this abscent minded?