Grand Theft Auto V was a pleasant surprise when it was released. Although the PC version was delayed, Rockstar managed to offer a really polished and optimized game. And according to SteamSpy’s data, the game has managed to hit 3 million sales on Valve’s digital platform.
The interesting part here is that GTA V is also offered via Rockstar’s Social Club, so these are not the game’s overall PC sales. For comparison purposes, GTA IV has sold 3.6 million copies on Steam. And from the looks of it, GTA V will surpass it.
The only downside here is that the game’s modding community is not as active as the one in GTA IV. Whether this has anything to do with Rockstar’s new DRM or not remains to be seen.
Here is hoping that we’ll get more Texture Packs and mods in the coming months!
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It’s great that R* is now taking PC more seriously and putting effort into visuals, optimization and robust options. That said, they’re still woefully behind on things like DRM and mod support. Their bullshit with Social Club and its “periodic entitlement verification” crap in particular pisses me off, I shouldn’t need their damn permission to use a product that I paid for offline. I understand that a big game like this gets pirated a lot, but for f*ck’s sake the Xbox 360 version was on torrent sites before the game even came out. I’d really like to buy the game, but with that system in place it’s nothing more than a glorified rental in my eyes, so I’ll only pay rental prices out of principle.
Don’t delude yourself, they’re not taking us seriously, as evidenced by how they’re treating us;
– They launch a 1.5 year old Port onto our Platform & they expect us to pay full-price for it, justifying that with some claim of “improved visuals (seriously, check out Comparison videos) in order to quell the inevitable sh*tstorm over the price tag.
– After having us pay full-price for this already several years old Game (counting from the original PS3/X360 release) that had to have a facelift 2 years ago when they ported it over to PS4/XBONE, they give us intrusive, Anti-Consumer DRM & attempt to break our Modding Community, because.
They’re not “woefully behind”, they’re doing this purposefully, they’re purposefully acting Anti-Consumer. Why? Because they think it helps Sales. Don’t ask. I really don’t understand how they think either. The delusions of AAA Publishers never cease to amaze me.
Honestly I am simply amazed they didn’t release a PC Port of the PS3/X360 version years ago, only to release this “Enhanced” version a few years later just to double-dip into Sales; They were after all denying that they’d be doing a PS4/XBONE Port for ages in order to maximize PS3/X360 Sales.
More like SONY and MS payed up R* to not release it at PC so old gen would have a glorious end.
Rockstar Social Club version is much cheaper so u can easily assume the sales on PC are over 6 million easily. That is not bad for a 1.5 year delayed game
Yeah, no.
90% of the population would still buy it on Steam, because “I want all my Games in one place.” The lower price probably snagged a few people yes, but 3 Million+? No.
possibly but alot will buy retail as well since most of the world still goes for retail.
I’d say a lot bought retail but I doubt most would. I can understand consoles yes but in the PC space, most get their games off steam. Anyway, doesn’t steam sales count retail as well? Reason is because I know buying games retail just ends up needing to be activated on steam anyway so doesn’t that retail sale count towards a steam sale?
it depends, if you buy MGSV retail or on steam and they both use steam, if you buy witcher 3, retail version count with GOG and steam version is digital only. if you buy retail version of GTAV it don’t need steam, it activates only on social club and steam version will count as digital only.
Ya, I’m holding off until Steam price drops. I try to keep all my games on Steam and GOG mainly because most other services are crap. I’ve heard Social Club is terrible with downloading/installing, and I’d like to be able to re-access the game from Steam in the event that I switch to a different computer.
get a greenmangaming key. it’s 47$ today 🙂
Even Greenmangaming has been selling the Rockstar Social Club version only so 6 million+ sales of GTA V (PC) is much more plausible than some people may think.
The Witcher 3 has sold 1 million+ copies on GOG/Retail and 850,000+ copies on Steam so it is not hard to imagine GTA V selling 3 million+ copies on Steam and another 3 million at Rockstar Social Club/Retail. Especially since you can get Rockstar Social Club version of GTA V (PC) for $45 compared to the Steam version which is $60.
A DRM-Free service vs. a DRM Servie like uPlay (in this case Rockstar Social Club)
Ya, good comparison there mate.
Witchers didnt sell 1 million+ …but ACTIVATED…we can guess easily…that more than 300k W3 key bundle with GTX cards!
yeah, no
you dont know crap
Great argument there.
Who wrote it for you?
Hopefully Rockstar will now port another game to PC *cough* Red Dead Redemption *cough*! Or at least remaster it for the PC.
They haven’t even brought it to PS4/XBONE yet, no Remaster exists, whatsoever, unlike the GTA V Port that was basically the PS4/XBONE version + a little something.
Plus I think they’re heavily focused on the rumoured RDR2 coming in 2016 at the moment, so if they do a HD Remaster of the original, it’s probably after that launches, & then some.
More like next Red Dead to arrive at PC too.
And R* investor will demand dayONE at PC. As we all know if GTA V arrived back there at 2013 would selled way more than that!
RDR2 will definitely be on PC yeah, but I’m still thinking 4-6 months delay, because “we need more time to make it proper.”
Rockstar hasn’t given any indication that they stopped believing delaying the PC version is a good thing, regardless of what some investor thinks, so yeah.
There wont be RDR2…neither its sequel…Red Dead Revolver > Red Dead Redemption > Red Dead ****
There are rumors about that. Since they ported gta v to max payne 3 engine and then to next gen, it is possible.
3.6m and that is on steam, the retail version and the rockstar site version are not counted here.
Had it not been for the awful DRM, I too would’ve happily bought it.
There were 3 games on last gen that I always wanted to appear on PC. Red Dead Redemption, Vanquish and Dragon’s Dogma Dark Arisen. 1 down 2 to go. Come on Rockstar.
vanquish sucks and it’s tedious, it was a disappointment for me. I always wanted uncharted on pc and demon souls
Pc gaming is dead they said. I hate it when they say that. And when i see such reports i’d like to shove it down their throats.
then they will call pc gamers “PC Elitist” or whiny or entitled. it’s fine if they do it but if you do the same you are a pc elitist and article after article on Politically Correct Gamer (ex PCGamer) about how it’s bad and you should be ashamed of yourself. it doesn’t matter if you want or demand higher FPS or better ports or showing sale numbers or comparing graphics.
Its only a beginning.
PC STEAM MASTER SELLING RACE
Peasants: “only that”?
Hype aint what move PC gamers to buy a game! GTA V after 2 years has selled 3kk. Thats confirme it!
And GTA V would never sell that on consoles if not for it being the ONLY avaiable game late that year. Apart Last of Us.
Even more, PC and STEAM game market has tons of great games being released at the same time of GTA V…as Dying Light, Witcher 3, Evolved and those great indies.
#SteamFtW
sold well, months past, now remove that DRM before M$ rolls a new update and make the game unplayable and at the same time we might be able to mod it properly.
drm in gta v is as s**t as DAI, not the same but as s**t, you played too much offline, now go online and verify your game again or you can’t play at all. but i guess we don’t get any GTA anymore, the focus on GTAO shows they are much more interested in GTAO than the single player game, next GTA might as well be an MMO or something like that.