Ooh the plan to announce something!
How very interesting, right!? Right?
this post was submitted on 08 Nov 2023
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Actually, it's an article about "sources" speculating about the plan to maybe announce something next week. Front-page news!
Now imagine if they announced things like no more predatory monetisation. Consumer-friendly licensing. No more crunch. No more sexual harrassment and bullying in the workplace. Fair compensation for workers. Humane working hours and PTO?
Ah, well...
This announcement is to distract you from those things so in a way it’s the next best thing
Either Dunkey’s video worked, or this will be in a follow up video.
B-but you don't understand! Rockstar has been hinting at it with the moon phases and the constellations present in some random promo art! It's happening any day now!
Second most anticipated game of all time (half life 3 still not confirmed).
Edit: for clarity, if Steam announced that they were going to announce Half Life 3 tomorrow, the news it'd generate would completely drown out any and all noise relating to the GTAVI release announcement.
GTA is more popular than HL by orders of magnitude. HL is popular, but HL3 has more meme power than anything. I don't think many console-only players care too much about Valve titles.
...Or maybe your comment is also part of the meme and went over my head.
Edit: But personally I also look forward to HL3 more... If it ever materialises :(
I would trade HL3 for no new GTA game ever again and I loved GTA V
Honestly, I think I'm giving GTA too much credit to put it next to HL3 like that.
So no, hard disagree there.
This is a whisper. HL3 announcement would be a bang that would grind the internet to a halt.
GTAV is one of the best-selling games of all time. I also prefer HL but there are hard numbers here.
Even my 'non-big-gamer' friends talk about GTAVI coming out. It's FIFA, CoD, and GTA for that crowd.
Edit: Second highest selling game of all time, only behind Minecraft, with RDR2 being no. 8.
The avg gamer/person doesn't give a fuck about Half Life. That ship has looooong sailed. Without the memes that game series would just be a historical footnote somewhere when discussing Counter Strike.
Exactly, like duke nukem for example.
There are millions of GTA players, all the kids seem to love it, IDK about the halflife user base today.
150k people went out of their way to buy a $1k headset on top of a fancy PC so they can play the half life VR spinoff. People today would absolutely pay $30 for Half-Life 3 if it was innovative and impressive. The ship hasn't sailed, the bar was simply raised.
Exactly, like duke nukem for example.
There are millions of GTA players, all the kids seem to love it, IDK about the halflife user base today.
You're comparing steak and a big mac here. They have largely separate target buyers and operate at different levels of quality/craftsmanship. Yes, HL3 would grind the gaming news media to a halt while this fluff article about GTA6 is just fluff.
But the steak isn't selling more copies that the big mac. This is what people are arguing with you over.
That's not what is meant by "anticipated release", though.
FIFA2025 will outsell GTA VI. No one is biting their nails waiting for it to happen. It is in no way a highly anticipated release.
GTA VI is a pretty highly anticipated release, yes, but to compare it half life 3 is... Silly.
By this metric, Half Life 3 is way, way way way more highly anticipated. Steam servers would go offline.
Mmm, Take Two stonks go brrr
Gooners unite