Maybe I just can’t read sarcasm, but I genuinely don’t understand why so many people are acting like GTA 6 being $80 is some outrageous scam. This is the biggest entertainment release of the decade, and people are losing their minds over paying $20 more than the standard price.  
The Deluxe Edition isn’t forcing anyone to spend $100. It’s an optional upgrade with a handful of extra features. The base game is still the full game, just like it’s been with countless other titles. Rockstar has done special editions before, and so has pretty much every major game studio. Somehow now it’s suddenly “pay-to-play?”  
Pay-to-play would mean you *need* to spend more money to experience the core game. That’s not what’s happening here. You’re getting the same massive open world, story, online mode, and everything that makes GTA 6 what it is for $80. The extra $20 is there if you want some bonus content, not because it’s required.  
People have no problem spending $100+ on a night out, concert tickets, or collector’s editions of games they’ll play for 20 hours. GTA 6 is a game that many people are going to sink hundreds, if not thousands, of hours into over the next decade. If any game has earned the right to charge a premium, it’s probably the one that’s taken over a decade to develop and is expected to be supported for years.  
If you don’t think it’s worth $80, don’t buy it. But calling it “pay-to-play” because there’s an optional deluxe upgrade just feels like people looking for something to be mad about.

You guys really CANT be serious.