GTA 6 Fans Are Losing It Today Over Rumored Pre-Orders

Best Buy emails circulated among GTA fans claiming physical GTA VI pre-orders would go live between May 18 and May 21 with a 5-percent discount. Multiple individuals shared screenshots and proof, including a livestream showing an email opened on a phone, and a Reddit thread collected the evidence. By 10am ET, no pre-orders were available, leading to renewed disappointment and speculation. A GTAForums post claimed internal Best Buy emails indicated pre-orders would not launch that day. Forum moderators said they verified the poster’s role and credibility, increasing confidence in the correction. Fans then searched for alternative signs, including a recent update to an Xbox GTA VI page and other potential clues from the prior night.

"Last week, GTA fans were whipping themselves into a hype frenzy over multiple plausible reports of Best Buy emails advertising that Grand Theft Auto VI pre-orders would be going live today. But it's now 10am ET, there are no pre-orders to be found, and those same fans are starting to spiral as it starts to look more and more likely that the origins of this rumor were just a Best Buy screw-up after all."

"The source was a number of individuals all separately sharing emails from Best Buy offering a 5-percent discount to individuals pre-ordering physical copies of GTA 6 from the store between May 18 and May 21. Several of those claiming to have received the emails went to great lengths to show that the emails were legit, including one person livestreaming themselves actively opening the email on their phone. There's a whole Reddit thread of people showing proof."

"But with no pre-orders live yet today, distress is starting to creep in again. This is being exacerbated by a post on GTAForums from a user claiming that "internal company emails suggest that Best Buy has got it wrong and no pre-orders will be launching today." While that wouldn't mean much coming from a random poster, forum mods have stated they verified this person actually is in a position to be receiving internal Best Buy communications and is probably telling the truth."

"The collective disappointment is strong enough that fans are poring over any crumb they can find suggesting there might be pre-orders today, or at least soon. One person pointed out that the Xbox GTA 6 page was apparently updated just last night, which could mean...anything, I guess. Also from last night, someone thinks they've found what will be the GTA 6 o"

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