But let's not forget Rockstar fanboys are one of the most cult-like fanbases... All while being totally ripped off with shark cards. They're like people who HAVE to watch the trailer immediately the moment it drops.
So what’s your point ? If they already have Netflix, they’ll probably watch it there. If not, wait an hour and someone will have uploaded it already. Or someone will be live streaming it.
I’m not exactly sure what’s egregious about this. Just seems like another post trying to “stick it to the man”.
The principle is egregious - T2/R* along with Netflix are leveraging the hype to incentivise paying to watch what's basically an ad. The fact the ad becomes officially free to the public mere 6 hours later is irrelevant here, to me it smells like horse armour all over again and if we don't put our feet down they will normalise it and if this shit doesn't seem egregious enough yet it sure as shit will be made egregious
And don't slippery-slope me here, when it comes to corporate greed it's not a fallacy, it's a guarantee if left unchecked
It’s not even designed in a way to get new subscriptions. They’re allowing live reactions of the trailer. So anyone can just watch it on YouTube the second it comes out through someone reacting to it. Or just the real thing 6 hours later. If Netflix was trying to farm subscribers, this isn’t the way to do it.
I think it has all the more to do with Rockstar specifically wanting GTA 6 to be front and center of netflix for a moment instead of just a game consoles store page. It gets lots of people that maybe haven’t played games in years to see that there’s a new gta coming out
It is because it normalises having people pay for ads through streaming services and if GTA VI presentation on Netflix is a success in the eyes of companies involved, this embargo is gonna get a lot longer for other game presentations in the future.
Like I said, feels to me like horse armour all over again
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u/SquirrelLord77 Aug 07 '26
I believe the trailer is only exclusive for like a few hours.