They’ve monetized GTAV so thoroughly via Online that they’ve given the game (including single player) away for free because they still made a profit off of it.
Charging $100 for a sequel they’ll definitely monetize even worse is the epitome of greed.
“The internet would be a series of tubes if we rolled out fiber, but as the literal chairman of the Senate committee regulating the internet I’m somehow against that.”
Scotch Bonnet sure sounds like a novelty strawberry cultivar with a whimsical name.
The “support” was clearly a hallucinating AI agent, and Ubisoft has already clarified that the game is still supported and should get a patch in the future. This is yet another example of how replacing employees with LLMs doesn’t actually work.
GTAV has made over ten billion dollars, one billion of that in its first three days. They would have earned more than double its entire lifetime development costs (estimated at ~200-250 million) if they’d charged a twentieth of what they did.