You sound so convinced that a good number of people already know about Bitcoin, and therefore, the GTA games will not make much of an impact. That is quite a way to underrate their efforts. Firstly, you may think that Bitcoin is already getting fair attention, but do not be surprised by the number of people out there who still do not know about Bitcoin or those who are not fascinated by Bitcoin and what it stands for.

We should not underestimate what a little exposure can do. Bitcoin has indeed gone global, and it will even do GTA VI a lot of good, but there are still people that Bitcoin will reach through GTA.

The majority of the people who play GTA know about Bitcoin. There are very few young people who are active online, or active enough to be fans of GTA, that haven't heard of Bitcoin. I'm not saying they know or understand what it is, but they have heard about it before. It's not all of them, but the majority of them. At least 60% of them have heard about Bitcoin. So seeing it in the game won't suddenly make them start buying Bitcoin.

I did not say it has no relevance. What I mean is, on its own, it doesn't really do much, but when there is a collection of different little gestures like this, then it will have an impact. That is why I said the more ads, the more videos, video games, movies, etc., that Bitcoin gets mentioned in, that's when it will have a huge impact.

With these contents, even if the popularity of bitcoin has reached its peak, people wouldn't still be convinced to buy and hold bitcoin especially that these contents are drawn in a negative way. Maybe because even the producers of these movies have also adopted that kind of mindset towards bitcoin.

They don't see it as a means to get freedom from the government and be a bank of their own, they only settle to what the government wants to convey to the people. Unfortunately, innocent people easily believe on what they can see on the movies without having their own research first about bitcoin.

Everything has Bitcoin in products, contents or marketing can contribute to Bitcoin exposure to the community globally and locally but Bitcoin has gone to mainstreams and GTA won't change it too much. It will have exposure contribution for Bitcoin but it's like one of many contributors for Bitcoin exposure and adoption, it's not the only contributor.

It's a little bit weird with some people but it's fair to say even scam projects with buzz words for marketing and shilling like "Our coin is a Bitcoin killer" or any scam products, services that use Bitcoin in marketing content for attracting potential victims can bring Bitcoin to more people too.

Even "Bitcoin is dead" has contribution to Bitcoin exposure.
https://bitcoindeaths.com/
https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin-obituaries/

Even fuds have their contributions too.
https://endthefud.org/

Not all transactions will take place on the main chain either. This would obviously be extremely slow and costly if you were making lots of small payments. There are other solutions such as the Lightning Network. However I do agree that using Bitcoin in a game such as GTA would require a proper payment system. Players don’t want to have to deal with complicated wallets and paying network fees. Most gamers just want to play!

Many thanks for explaining, that way it will be easier to test.

GTA V already conducted this experiment with BAWSAQ and LCN, a fake stock exchange that players could trade on for years. If fake assets in a GTA world had attracted real investors, you would have heard about it, but I haven’t. Fake money seems to teach the game, not the real market.

If fake sats perform in the same fashion, we'll see a brief spike in memes and that's it, no adoption. One way to test this after the 17th is to use Google Trends to check for the trend of "buy bitcoin" during the launch week, relative to a “normal” week. Searches for purchase is better indicator than consumers typing the name.

If they hold up the realism, then the existence of a shitcoin, implies the existence of a coin that actually has value, i.e. something like bitcoin.

So like:

If the shitcoin is being advertised on the plane for the whole beach to see,
and some influencer has them get on the plane for some Red-Bull style marketing pump,
there might be a super duper serious mission involving a very wealthy but anonymous person,
asking them to do something even more insane for bitcoin (or something like bitcoin).

It certainly gave Monero some exposure when hackers were demanding XMR for leaking some footage from the game. I don’t remember if it was the actual hacker or some opportunist pretending to be them. There was even a Solana memcoin named CYBERLEEK that may or may not have been launched by the hacker.

The audience that is likely to play the game is probably already aware of cryptocurrency, so I don’t think it will make any difference if Bitcoin, or some parody of it, is included in the game or not. If it is, it could be in the context of being used in money laundering. After all, the game is all about glorifying a life of crime.

I don’t really care if a fictional game wants to portray Bitcoin that way. People who are educated on the subject are intelligent enough to understand that the game is depicting an exaggerated fantasy. In real life, Bitcoin has more good use cases than bad ones.

Adding Bitcoin into the game, what's this idea?

Bitcoin can be used as the money to play the game, and players will either win or lose games so they will get more bitcoin or lose their bitcoin. Bitcoin can be added into the game as an icon, something similar but only in graphic mode.

Adding Bitcoin into GTA-6 game as a blockchain, I don't have any idea for doing this and I think it's unnecessary.