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Despite a couple of delays and a really long wait for PC gamers, Rockstar still wants you to pre-order its 2013 hit game, Grand Theft Auto V. Following this week's delay announcement, the company has decided to offer up a free game to those who pre-order for the PC, in addition to the extra $1,000,000 in-game cash.
You need to pre-order through Rockstar's Warehouse site to take advantage of this. The game will cost £39.00/$59.99 to buy digitally and orders need to be placed before the 1st of February. The games on offer are all titles from Rockstar's backlog.
Those who pre-order can redeem: Max Payne 3, Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, LA Noire, Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City, GTA IV, GTA: San Andreas, GTA: Vice City, Midnight Club I, Manhunt, Grand Theft Auto III or Bully: Scholarship Edition.
Grand Theft Auto V originally released on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 back in September of 2013, petitions from fans to get the game on to the PC platform were met with a long silence from Rockstar, right up until mid 2014, when the game was announced for the Xbox One, PS4 and PC.
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KitGuru Says: If you are still set on buying GTA V for the PC, then an extra incentive isn't such a bad thing. However, it is always best to wait until a game releases, particularly on the PC, where performance issues can really hurt the player experience.
so basically we now know its going to be shit? why else would they entice pre-orders before the specs are released?
Lol they released the specs 3 days ago……
Minimum Specs
OS: Windows 8.1 64 Bit, Windows 8 64 Bit, Windows 7 64 Bit Service Pack 1, Windows Vista 64 Bit Service Pack 2* (*NVIDIA video card recommended if running Vista OS)
Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz (4 CPUs) / AMD Phenom 9850 Quad-Core Processor (4 CPUs) @ 2.5GHz
Memory: 4GB
Video Card: NVIDIA 9800 GT 1GB / AMD HD 4870 1GB (DX 10, 10.1, 11)
Sound Card: 100% DirectX 10 compatible
HDD Space: 65GB
Recommended Specs
OS: Windows 8.1 64 Bit, Windows 8 64 Bit, Windows 7 64 Bit Service Pack 1
Processor: Intel Core i5 3470 @ 3.2GHZ (4 CPUs) / AMD X8 FX-8350 @ 4GHZ (8 CPUs)
Memory: 8GB
Video Card: NVIDIA GTX 660 2GB / AMD HD7870 2GB
Sound Card: 100% DirectX 10 compatible
HDD Space: 65GB
#nopreorders
It’s still not a good idea to preorder this. The GTA complete collection is 8€ during the sales, if I remember correctly, so it’s more intelligent to wait for the price of the game to drop and then buy the other games with the money saved
Pre order incentives are just to drive up pre orders. Nothing else. Companies don’t secretly hide the quality of their game behind preorder incentives.
Why?
The requirements are nothing… I had Athlon 6000+ and Radeon 3870 + 4GB RAM and GTA 4 ran like sh it. Maybe GTA 5 will be optimized well but until i see the game i won’t believe.
already ordered by amazon :/
Go watch TotalBiscuit for 2mins and youll figure it out
The same offer is on steam aswell
well its good ot know its 69.99 CAD now…. sigh
The entire game was built optimised from the start. It had to be to run on the Xbox360
Cant just explain it instead of plugging some youtube guy I don’t care to watch?
#IWillSpendMyMoneyAsIWant
That doesn’t always directly translate to PC requirements, as evidenced by GTA IV.
Theres a store in Belgium offering them for 45 Euro’s which is like 57 dollars maybe, don’t know about Canadian dollars though 🙂
no thanks … I just torrent this 18 month old game
And you are the reason why developers are releasing broken products and games and then complain when the user experience is bad. These developers should EARN the preorder, not have consumers blindly throw money at them hoping that all their desires come true. I really detest people like you
Because Assassins Creed unity, Farcry 4, Watchdogs, Dragon age origins and a slew of other games have been horribly optimized. These games are released with piss poor optimization, bugged to all hell and in some cases have severely BROKEN launches. Why should we keep throwing money at developers, buying a game pre-ordered and waiting 2-3 months post release for solid playability and a plethora of bug fixes to follow. These developers need to EARN the consumer’s priveledge of preordering a product. Not just blindly throw money at them. Plus with how so many games bait and switch and show pre rendered screen shots as gameplay(Cough Darks Souls 2 Cough) I really urge you to wait till the game is released and see the state of the game at launch. There is absolutely NO REASON to not wait a few days, even one day and see how the game is before purchasing. You don’t go buy a brand new 2016 car and not do ANY research on how it performs and how the USER experience is. Same philosophy goes with video games.
Umm what? No it wasn’t. It was designed for specific hardware and rans like SHIT on that hardware anyway, sub 30 fps on both Xbox and PS3. GTA IV is so CPU bound it’s not even funny. GTX 980’s on MAX settings getting sub 60 FPS unless running a high end overclocked I5/I7 is a joke.
dat feels :/
I’ve watch too many GTA V video’s on youtube, and I won’t be buying that game anymore, I got used to it.
Rockstar games have always been highly polished.. Ubisoft and ea are terrible examples of producers..
Why don’t you want to watch him? He’s great!
People used to say that about Blizzard and Bioware. Rockstar is next.
So cancel it and order this one.
Except for GTA IV on PC when it was released.
This is the whole reason for the delays in my opinion.
The developers who did the port of that were not part of rockstar. They have kept this one in-house (same guys who did the Max Payne 3 PC port)
Ubisoft and EA are to blame for that. Rockstar and Take2Interactive are a totally different group.
People like you are why Rockstar was hesitant to bring this to PC. Knob.
So you want to wait several more years when nobody is playing and Steam wants to cover the cost of servers for it?
Being done by the guys who brought Max Payne 3 to PC. Believe.
Watch Dogs. That is all.
#SteamForce!
So by that logic, the tag should be #somepreorders. Only SOME people should buy the game and play it, so they can tell you whether or not it’s good. Instead of watching gameplay videos, and the myriad of betas/alphas that are out, you’re going to wait for someone else to spend money, then tell you what to think about the game.
Got it. Everyone follow the leader. Let’s drag down all companies for the actions of maybe 3 developers.
I don’t find him great, and I find the shameless plug up there to be apalling.
Then tell people to stop pirating.
That logic is completely flawed, especially in this case. We’ve seen the game already. We know how it plays, and we know most of the secrets to it. Pre orders are not what causes crappy gameplay. If you buy the game 10 days after release, its gonna have the same gameplay. If it’s not what you want, complain. If you’re complaining about bugs, I suggest you learn how the development process works, and protest publishers rather than developers. Publishers are the reason games ship with bugs.
I really detest people who have one or two bad experiences, with one or two companies, then condemned the whole Damn industry because of it. It’s pathetic.
You’ll be saving 80% in games sales alone.
Not to mention the hardware to play the game at max settings will be cheaper and more availible.
You have to optimize the game for each type of hardware…. you cant just press the “optimise” button and have the game run screamingly fast on everything
EXACTLY!
I meant how the specs would translate into something like FPS
How do we know “recommended” means “the only think that will keep the FPS above 24”, the kind of stuff assassins creed pulled with their “cinematic” framelock
I would have been pissed about this, having already pre-ordered from Game’s website, but the free game choices they’re offering are pretty crappy, or I already own them. Whatever. I’ve completed the story a couple times on the 360, and 100%’ed the game, I just want the PC version for the extra content, the sweet graphics, and the modding capability XD.
Shadow of Mordor released on PC first, and looked the best on PC. Hardly any performance issues.
The developers for that game are an example to follow. There is absolutely no reason all multiplat games cannot achieve the same. Any developer that delays a release for a thriving doesn’t deserve my custom.