I'd say a very simple rule of high street retail, if you don't display it you can't sell it. TWO copies of each game are 'gutted' for a very simple reason to tell the customer they have that game. EVERY retailer that stocks video games does the same thing. supermarkets, hmv they do it too.

thats what dummy sleeves are for, is that what you're gona say ? the problem with dummy sleeves is they often leave out important information. hardrive requirements, specs, languages etc. sometimes infos wrong on dummy sleeves too.

also bare in mind. companies like activision,ea etc don't send many sleeves for all titles. e.g like deadpool. so how can any company tell customers they have that game if they don't display it. Need for speed came out last november EA didn't produce enough dummy sleeves and many stores didn't have a way to display the game.

TRUST ME 75% of customers who come into a game shop, looking for a specific game will walk out if they don't see it on the shop floor.

AS for mishandling of discs...well every company hires morons...case in point, I presume you got a job.

oh and 'short term console market' lol.

Pretty much a wild goose chase actually finding a PC game in Game these days. They really can't be bothered. All the focus is on the short term console market. And do bear in mind Game staff have a factory seal opening fetish. Their reason given for opening your games for you was so forgettably weak I can't even recall but in addition to this do remember that they do love chucking your discs around the shop. I have witnessed this happen. They also like you to have a little memento of them on your discs by smudging them liberally with their pawprints.

since gta v launched there have been numerous free content add on packs.

lowriders,executives and other criminals, freemode events,ill gotten gains patrs 1 &2, last team standing, capture, sanandreas flight school, 'i'm not a hipster, highlife, beach bum, creator & heists.

each one of those includes a combination of 100's of new missions/jobs, 1000s of new items (clothing, hair,tattoos) 100s of new vehicles, loads of new weapons,loads of new properties, new gameplay mechanics (create jobs, build and run a criminal empire, emotion system) a new radio station.

you say heists were already there, thats not true, they announced the online and when heists were bought up it was immediatly stated they'd add it after the game launches. there's a reason it took over a year for them to add it. besides the fact remains thats the kind of added on content other companies would make you pay for. eg they showed off the giants map for cod, then afterwards revealed you had to pay extra for it.

the content they've added is far more content than most companies put in season passes (even rockstar themselves had season passes on la noire and red dead, so it's not as if rockstar give everything for free normally) the micro transactions does nothing but give people in game money quicker, and alot of people are lazy, which helps us get all this free stuff.

oh and as for your 'new jumper(of which you have to buy in game)' hissy fit you realise you always had to earn your stuff in gta. if you want that new rocket launcher you go to Ammunation and buy it with money you earned in missons.

as for your I bought this on 360 so it should be cheap bs. the current gen and pc version, has a first person mode (built from scratch) improved graphics and framerate, more players on multiplayer, 100s of new radio songs and banter. its a worthwhile investment, considering the previous gen release is still relatively expensive.

Must mean it's £10 everywhere else!

Not this price anymore. :-(. Just went into my local game (Gloucester), priced up as, and scanned in at £34.99

£24 in Swindon game.... :-(

Fortunately I don't need a grown up to edit my posts :innocent:

more rockstar fanboys.

There's always one who defends game developers. Donut.

Not single player :smiley:

http://www.pcgamer.com/rockstar-says-you-wont-be-banned-for-using-gta-5-single-player-mods/

Not a bad price this. Online is hit and miss. Modding is where it's at.

LSPDFR (Awesome "become a police officer" mod. Tons and tons and tons of addons with this).
RDE (Cops actually behave more realistic, new textures, army at 5 stars etc).
Riot aka The Purge Mod.
Red House (30+ new missions, a new heist, protection missions etc).
VisualV.

Then you've got new animations, gun sounds, car sounds, new maps, etc. too many to mention

Thanks op - have been waiting for the price on this to drop.

Just picked a copy up from the High Wycombe store. There was just an empty case on the shelf with no label. Sales assistant got one from the stock room and it scanned through at £14.99.

Happy days :wink:

Pretty much a wild goose chase actually finding a PC game in Game these days. They really can't be bothered. All the focus is on the short term console market. And do bear in mind Game staff have a factory seal opening fetish. Their reason given for opening your games for you was so forgettably weak I can't even recall but in addition to this do remember that they do love chucking your discs around the shop. I have witnessed this happen. They also like you to have a little memento of them on your discs by smudging them liberally with their pawprints.

Thanks

Available to buy online now :laughing: @that price now if your local Game don't have it edit (not only available in store now)

I agree with you here. Look at Rainbow Six Siege. All maps will be free as well as operators. However all the season pass gets you is exclusive skins early access to the new operators. As well as XP boost. This is what I hope to see more of for future titles.

Makes maps and game modes free so the community is not divided. Sell weapon skins, XP boosts ect. As people buy these things. Counter Strike on PC has been doing this for a long time now.

Thanks OP!

I was on the verge of paying £21.50 for it a few days ago, glad I waited!

Picked it up from GAME Leicester Highcross. They had 4 in stock (including mine).

And like blockbuster sell me your stock.

GAME... just accept your fate like Blockbuster already.

people still shop in GAME?!

I picked up the "last one in the shop" after a lot of arguing in Game, Westfield this afternoon. Initially, the staff seemed to think I was on drugs: (Paraphrasing) "£14.99? No, Mate, it's not available for that price anywhere, you're mistaken!" Thanks, OP.

Heat, managed to get one in Milton Keynes earlier. You can install without the discs apparently, very handy since I don't have one attached usually.

https://support.rockstargames.com/hc/en-us/articles/205359647-Support-For-GTAV-PC-Owners-to-Re-Download-GTAV-As-a-Digital-Copy

Every server has at least one modder in it, cba to play it online anymore due to this.

Work my *** off gaining money through bank heist then you have these clowns spawning money or using exploits.

Pointless.

In terms of story, great game, and heat added!

some are not priced correctly but scans at 14.9o

Got this a week ago for 20 from CDkeys, didn't think it could go down any more this fast. Great game, had it on ps3 so thought I'd get the PC version and not disappointed and the first person mode gives it a fresh new look.
Was worried about hackers but haven't come across many just a few people who just go around shooting everyone.

well not exactly...yup current PC games use internet activation but of course the base game is stored in the disc. i.e. version 1.0. Let's say steam. You can choose either installing from disc or downloading from internet. The base game can be installed from your DVD player pretty quick or from the steam server (if your broadband is faster than the DVD reading speed!) then the rest of the updates will be downloaded from the steam server.

To be fair, as broadband becomes very common, disc version for PC games is more like a collection rather than a necessary media.

Nice one! Just been down to my local game and picked up their only copy! Thanks

Save yourself a wasted Journey like I just had..checked stock at local store...."Hurry Low stock", 20mins later I walked into store, none on shelf so queued up for 15mins only to be told they were out of stock. Gets home and Online stock checker for my store still says "Hurry low stock"
Less than Twenty quid on CDKeys.com, should have just bought from them in the first place. Downloading and installing now, should be ready to go in less than an hour (thanks Virgin 200Mb Fibre :smirk: )

I tried playing yesterday:
First session I was chased around by a hacker with a Christmas tree and cupboard on his head.
Second session I was stalked by a teleporting sniper and constantly spawnkilled.
Third session I tried joining a race and it had a hacker generating explosions on every other player.

Then I gave up.

Due to the game's P2P infrastructure the game is inherently exploitable and will never be fixed.

​ :smiley:

Take the mostly Russian GTA Online hackers out of the equation and the PC version is the best one by a mile.

Very true. That is the goal of every merch, to face as much product as possible. People generally don't buy spined copies of games, they buy what they can see.

I agree with you. But in this case this is one of the few games it would be worth to have a physical copy.

Singleplayer: Excellent game, well worth the money.

Multiplayer: Do not even consider buying this game if you are only interested in the multiplayer, on PC the sessions are full of hackers which after a year of being released on the platform developer Rockstar has made next to no progress on addressing. It is literally an unplayable experience.

Salty?

Full price in my locals.

This version is 7 discs which you use to install the games takes many hours and you also have to have internet connection to put in cd for rockstar social account.

I asked rockstar support if they allow download for the disc version which they stated yes they do.

This is worth £15 if you have a system that can run it but online is a mess.

Prices do drop though, but I think they may have a unique case as most of their games are "exclusive" to their consoles, whereas something like GTA is multiplatform, so no excuse the price hasn't dropped yet.

Thanks saved me making an explanation.

I don't understand why you would not have enough dummy sleeves that contain the wrong/missing information. Surely all they need to do is make more sleeves than disks. Why would they go to the trouble of making a dummy sleeve with missing info when it costs next to nothing to print a few more of the actuall sleeves? Is the entire gaming industry full of these idiots you keep mentioning.

Have it on PS3 ,PS4 ...which are excellent and would have no hesitation buying it at £14.99 ....Amusement for hours ......differernt strokes for different folks really ....I'd rather spend 15 quid an get hours of enjoyment than blow it down the pub on a few beers each to their own though ....Heated...:wink:

Is this a disc or a code in the case, does anyone no. Do I have to leave the disc in to play? As I don't have a drive so would have to add one to install if it's a disc?

Yeah I know, I wish I was in the same boat. I get about 1.2MB/s in real world uses making a 60GB download very daunting.

This should be the standard price for this game now of it's "Sealed". The daft prices retailers are charging for a game that's nearly 2 and a half years old - I don't care if it's "remastered", this came out in September 2012 so prices should reflect that. I refuse to pay £30-40 for this on PS4/Xbox One.

Never going to happen, many PC's and laptops are sold with no optical drives these days. Because of places like Steam, physical media are dying, just like music CD's. Plus as time goes on internet speeds are getting quicker, for me I live in an area where its quicker for me to download a game than install it off a disc.

Found the cd key plus bonus for 18 quid here...

If any of you hates the game just don't buy it. Meanwhile, the rest of us would like to buy it and even have a pc where it doesn't crash every 5 minutes or even every week (weird, hein?)...!!! Everybody knows its not the most stable game of all time, but it is really worth the money you pay for it.
The important thing is that code doesn't seem to be working.

So this is a physical copy? Is there a way to authenticate and download it digitally?

What add ons... Oh new jumpers(of which you have to buy in game) the heists were already there and "free content" I remember paying £40 for the game, I bought it on the 360 first for the same price.

Does this come with a download option?

​It's not for me. Crashes very regularly. Sometimes I'm lucky I can even get past the intro/loading screen and actually start to play.

Well said

Had about three in the Westwood cross store (Thanet)

The steam version is just a fancy shortcut, it still uses social club. The only difference is that the Steam won't launch if you click the play GTA 5 from the folder, it has to be done through Steam itself that's it.*

*At least in my experience.

​Kinda true. They all redeem via Social Club, but buying on Steam seems to be the only way to have achievements and overlay and all that steamy goodness people enjoy. Buy from anywhere else and there's no guarantee that it will activate on Steam.

I'm sure I read on hear that if u got it through steam then u didn't have to go through rockstar social club?
Or maybe I had dreamed that and that would be weird lol
Time to lay of the booze tonight :disappointed:

Store name would help
£29.99 online

Considering how rockstar brought in "micro transactions" I think the game should have released at this price.

Heat for that reply

Would be even better if it was a stable game to play. Rather unstable!

£14.99 near my store too, london area.

it's £14.99 in store. every store.

Nationwide price, disks form

Must mean it's £10 everywhere else!

Does it redeem on Steam?

Which store?