GTA 6 Ultimate Edition Pricing Could Beat $100—Here’s Why Fans Think So
For years, players have tossed around guesses about how much Rockstar Games’ long-awaited Grand Theft Auto 6 would cost. A common theory was that it might land at $100, especially if the release included the multiplayer component right away—something fans now know won’t happen. Even so, the $100 Ultimate Edition price does match the expectation, since it comes with a set of Vice City-themed outfits and access to a few exclusive in-game shops. Still, seeing the standard edition priced at $80 initially felt like a win. That goodwill doesn’t last, though, once you remember that $80 is being asked for games that are roughly fifteen years old.
While players continue waiting for official release dates for Black Ops and Black Ops 2, Activision has only indicated they’re arriving sometime in July. In the meantime, users on other storefronts have already spotted price adjustments for these older titles. Naturally, many assumed that if Black Ops and Black Ops 2 dropped to $40 elsewhere, the PlayStation versions (PS4 and PS5) would follow at the same rate. The debate over two classic entries costing $80 total is already tense, but the real frustration comes from how expensive the downloadable content could be—potentially pushing the combined price well beyond the kind of milestone many players associate with GTA 6.
The first Black Ops game is set to arrive on modern PlayStation consoles sometime in July, so it’s a good moment to revisit what the best weapons are.
Black Ops 1 and 2 Ports Apparently Aren’t Content Complete
If the recent pricing logic holds, and buying BO1 and BO2 together on PlayStation really does come to $80, then the current DLC discounts are also telling. For both Black Ops 1 and Black Ops 2, map packs have reportedly fallen from $15 to $10. Meanwhile, the BO2 Season Pass has been reduced from $50 to $30. The only plausible reason for making these changes right now—especially after modern PlayStation versions of older Call of Duty titles have just been announced—is that the same discounted DLC pricing may be applied to the new port releases. If that turns out to be accurate, finishing each game’s full content could mean players pay:
- Black Ops 1 base game: $40
- Black Ops 1 DLC packs: $40
- Black Ops 2 base game: $40
- Black Ops 2 Season Pass: $30
- Grand Total: $150
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There’s an extra wrinkle here: the original Black Ops didn’t include a Season Pass, which means collecting all of its DLC ends up costing more than doing the same for BO2, the newer of the two. Some players may argue that you can simply skip DLC and compare the ports to GTA 6 on a basic, sticker-price level—but that ignores how essential the extra content is to these games. Maps like Kowloon are still fondly remembered, and Grind has been reworked and reintroduced so many times in later shooters that plenty of players may have assumed it was a regular multiplayer map in BO2 from the start. And then there’s the bigger issue: Call of Duty Zombies. While Kino Der Toten is beloved—and even Five has its fans—missing out on favorites like Call of the Dead and Moon just feels incomplete. The same argument applies to BO2, where Mob of the Dead and Buried are widely treated as must-play experiences rather than optional extras.
The one upside, based on what these DLC price changes suggest for PlayStation buyers, is that the BO2 personalization items will reportedly be free. That’s a shift from the earlier model where camos were priced at $2 each.
The Complete Version of GTA 6 is $50 Cheaper Than BO1 and BO2, and That’s Simply Not Okay
Even putting aside the broader controversy, having the two base Black Ops games priced the same as a brand-new, technically impressive release from one of gaming’s most respected studios was already hard to justify. But the backlash gets louder when you compare the GTA 6 Ultimate Edition—framed as a “complete” version at $50 less—against unchanged pricing for older Call of Duty ports like Black Ops 1 and Black Ops 2, which are ports rather than remasters or remakes. Right now, whether players will need to re-purchase DLC is still mostly an assumption, but fans will know soon enough if that’s something they’ll be forced to do. Activision could potentially bundle the games and DLC together for dedicated players, allowing them to own everything in one package, but there’s no certainty on whether that will happen. For now, though, it appears that buying the first two Black Ops games and their major DLC on PS5 could total $150—and that number is going to be extremely difficult for many players not to take personally.
