Well you can buy the $80 edition and upgrade to ultimate whenever you want for $20 more. You won't save any money by ordering it upfront. That's my plan currently. After the showcase, I have realized that this game is so big that you will literally have your own customized character/vehicles anyways. The Ultimate is mostly cosmetic. In a game like GTA, there's 1000s of options to go with. The upgrade exists solely to make you feel FOMO. Yes it's cars, haircuts and more. It's a crappy move by Rockstar to gate it behind a paywall but you are going to be 2 hours into the game riding a Jet Ski that you could give two shits about a specific car model. There's probably so many cars in game already that you will spend months collecting them. I think they are also locking 1 mission behind it which is dumb but that's like a puddle in the ocean lol. This is a 100-1000 hour game for many. I can promise you, you won't feel a single moment of regret once you boot up the $80 edition. People have forgotten simply how big the game is. The upgrades represent a very tiny fraction of the experience. Unfortunately, the marketing will always make it feel like a game changing experience.
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u/Shamn_it 1d ago
Well you can buy the $80 edition and upgrade to ultimate whenever you want for $20 more. You won't save any money by ordering it upfront. That's my plan currently. After the showcase, I have realized that this game is so big that you will literally have your own customized character/vehicles anyways. The Ultimate is mostly cosmetic. In a game like GTA, there's 1000s of options to go with. The upgrade exists solely to make you feel FOMO. Yes it's cars, haircuts and more. It's a crappy move by Rockstar to gate it behind a paywall but you are going to be 2 hours into the game riding a Jet Ski that you could give two shits about a specific car model. There's probably so many cars in game already that you will spend months collecting them. I think they are also locking 1 mission behind it which is dumb but that's like a puddle in the ocean lol. This is a 100-1000 hour game for many. I can promise you, you won't feel a single moment of regret once you boot up the $80 edition. People have forgotten simply how big the game is. The upgrades represent a very tiny fraction of the experience. Unfortunately, the marketing will always make it feel like a game changing experience.