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* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'', back in 2013, costed ''seventy dollars'' and being over ''sixteen gigabytes'' on Xbox's Games On Demand service. Some people believe the game is worth that much, and that many stores, even a month later after initial release, were still frequently sold out on GTA V copies, whereas other players are just annoyed because it's both ten dollars more expensive than other big games that year (''Bioshock Infinite, Saints Row 4, Metal Gear Rising,'' etc, which was in itself a BrokenBase for Microsoft's financial department) and that, well, ''it's seventy frickin' dollars for a single game'' (a sentiment echoed for the raising AAA prices of games in 2021, particularly ''UsefulNotes/PlayStation5'' games.

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* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'', back in 2013, costed ''seventy dollars'' and being over ''sixteen gigabytes'' on Xbox's Games On Demand service. Some people believe the game is worth that much, and that many stores, even a month later after initial release, were still frequently sold out on GTA V copies, whereas other players are just annoyed because it's both ten dollars more expensive than other big games that year (''Bioshock Infinite, Saints Row 4, Metal Gear Rising,'' etc, which was in itself a BrokenBase for Microsoft's financial department) and that, well, ''it's seventy frickin' dollars for a single game'' (a sentiment echoed for the raising AAA prices of games in 2021, particularly ''UsefulNotes/PlayStation5'' ''Platform/PlayStation5'' games.
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** [[spoiler:Ending C ("The Third Way", AKA the "Deathwish" ending) is by far the fan favorite due to the sheer CatharsisFactor, but even it has its detractors for being both anticlimactic (almost all of the game's main villains are gunned down within minutes, with none of them except for Devin Weston getting any sort of final interaction with the protagonists) and unreasonably happy, allowing all of the protagonists to walk off [[KarmaHoudini scot-free with no real consequences whatsoever]].]]

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** [[spoiler:Ending C ("The Third Way", AKA the "Deathwish" ending) is by far the fan favorite due to the sheer CatharsisFactor, CatharsisFactor and for allowing all three protagonists to survive into the post-game, but even it has its detractors for being both anticlimactic (almost all of the game's main villains are gunned down within minutes, with none of them except for Devin Weston getting any sort of final interaction with the protagonists) and unreasonably happy, allowing all of the protagonists to walk off [[KarmaHoudini scot-free with no real consequences whatsoever]].]]
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* All three endings of the game have received varying degrees of backlash:
** [[spoiler:Ending A ("Something Sensible", AKA the "Kill Trevor" ending). In general, your opinion on this ending will depend on your opinion of Trevor as a whole, as he is a rather infamous BaseBreakingCharacter. Trevor's defenders argue that, AxCrazy he may be, he's been nothing but loyal to Franklin in particular, with this group decrying Ending A as being horribly out of character for Franklin and a rather unsatisfying ending in general for [[KarmaHoudini allowing all of the game's major antagonists to walk away scot-free.]] Trevor's detractors, on the other hand, will defend this mission as [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty the only way Trevor can receive any karma for his actions]]; or, perhaps a bit more favorably, argue that Trevor is a loose cannon who needs to be put down [[MercyKill for his own sake just as much as anyone else's.]]]]
** [[spoiler:Of the three endings, Ending B ("The Time's Come", AKA the "Kill Michael" ending) is the only one with practically no defenders whatsoever, with even those who dislike Michael admitting that Franklin is horribly out of character the entire mission and that his given reason for choosing to kill Michael (He betrayed Trevor and Brad in the past, ergo he's inevitably gonna betray Franklin in the future) is incredibly flimsy.]]
** [[spoiler:Ending C ("The Third Way", AKA the "Deathwish" ending) is by far the fan favorite due to the sheer CatharsisFactor, but even it has its detractors for being both anticlimactic (almost all of the game's main villains are gunned down within minutes, with none of them except for Devin Weston getting any sort of final interaction with the protagonists) and unreasonably happy, allowing all of the protagonists to walk off [[KarmaHoudini scot-free with no real consequences whatsoever]].]]
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** Mid 2020 also flared up a new debate when Rockstar announced a remaster of the game for the ninth generation of consoles. Supporters say that if somebody's first console is a [=PS5=] or Xbox Series X|S, they're going to need to purchase a copy so it's good that Rockstar made it available, while detractors say that this is just a lazy attempt milking the game for yet more money instead of making GTA VI (not helped when people noted the trailer was literally rehashed from old trailers, particularly those from the ''Xbox 360 and [=PS3=]'' era.)[[note]] Rockstar has stated [[https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/gaming/1269393/GTA-6-early-development-Rockstar-Games-release-plans GTA VI is in its early development stage]][[/note]]. It's gotten so notable that even Elon Musk [[https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1276396101872922625 posted a tweet making fun of it]].

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** Mid 2020 also flared up a new debate when Rockstar announced a remaster of the game for the ninth generation of consoles. Supporters say that if somebody's first console is a [=PS5=] or Xbox Series X|S, they're going to need to purchase a copy so it's good that Rockstar made it available, while detractors say that this is just a lazy attempt milking the game for yet more money instead of making GTA VI (not helped when people noted the trailer was literally rehashed from old trailers, particularly those the ''original'' reveal trailer from the ''Xbox 360 and [=PS3=]'' era.November 2011.)[[note]] Rockstar has stated [[https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/gaming/1269393/GTA-6-early-development-Rockstar-Games-release-plans GTA VI is in its early development stage]][[/note]]. It's gotten so notable that even Elon Musk [[https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1276396101872922625 posted a tweet making fun of it]].

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