With the large number of players from GTA VI, it's certain that it could give good exposure to Bitcoin if Rockstar Games really promoted Bitcoin in their game.. But that's most likely not going to happen because Rockstar doesn't get anything when they promote Bitcoin.. Looking at their business tendencies, it's better for them to promote their own coins that they built for the game. From the trailer they released, the name "Dacity Coin" popped up and sparked speculation among people.. However, there's no official confirmation from them whether they will launch such a coin, even though unofficially that coin has already been launched by someone else.

I feel like they may have considered the possibility of having a bitcoin wallet option in the in-game but maybe they think it is not just time yet. You know that there are so many things they need to consider especially how to integrate it smoothly so that to prevent hacks and frauds. That would be a big blow for them if they that happens. And it is another layer of concern. They do not have to integrate bitcoin because everyone else is doing it but because they are ready.

No game will do anything to expose bitcoin unless they accept it for payments directly. Remember when Steam did? That did expose bitcoin the time it lasted, but the fools used bitpay and left during one of the tx fee spikes as the argument.

This of course won't be done in Chinese games, both because they banned bitcoin and because they all like to circumvent a refund local law by adding an extra useless virtual coin in all their games, in case you ever wonder why all their gacha games are like that*.

Of course there is no reason for western games to not accept bitcoin directly, or is there? I think most publishers are still too conservative, despite the many years bitcoin has been around. So the main payment method remains the debit/credit card. Maybe if you use one that can be funded with bitcoin? But that's the card merit, not the game. Some exchanges have virtual and even physical cards.

(*) So you use fiat to purchase virtual currency A, by law you can demand a refund from that. But in game, you can do nothing with currency A but obtain currency B, and there is no path to turn currency B back into A.

Bitcoin adoption has already increased. What remains it's for popular platforms to incorporate it into their system. For GTA VI, it is going to be massive it they do that. But the adoption has increased. People know and some are using it. And i have a concern about hacks. GTA have once be hacked and they managed it well. This now will involve them putting Bitcoin in their system. Hope they have good security was so ever to prevent hacks and if the hacks occurs, hope they will be ready to secure their system.

18 to 34? C'mon, I expect more around 45 or 50.

I would love to see it happen though, and not just send and receive. It should work more like a real transfer. I mean, that can also help with self-custody adoption, but that will depend on whether it's only about the name "Bitcoin" or the name and the usage.

To me, it will only make sense if they try to create a way to understand both store + usage. Otherwise, it's the same as just using the normal in-game currencies with a fancy name BTC.

Ya, I expected to see a lot more news about this by now so I'm assuming we won't see any crypto integration in GTA VI.  I don't think Bitcoin was ever in the picture if we're being honest, but I thought there was a legitimate chance of Rockstar making the leap and using some sort of decentralized Solana implementation that let people use memecoins in the game.  I even thought the "hack" with the memecoin release could have been the start of GTA's memecoin evolution.  It seems that was all just wishful thinking though.  Probably will be obvious in hindsight.  The game plays at 30 FPS...  It is technology people were using 10 years ago.  I guess that's the problem with such a long development cycle.  Maybe we'll get memecoin implementation in GTA VII in 2040.  By then people will probably pay for things in some sort of units of energy and memecoins will be 15 year old tech...