A Reddit user heading to sea for three months pledged 20 free Grand Theft Auto 6 Ultimate Edition copies on his return, with no strings attached.
A seafarer heading out for three months at sea just pledged to give away 20 copies of the Ultimate Edition of Grand Theft Auto 6 when he gets back.
Since the GTA 6 pre-orders opened, we've seen players get the next Grand Theft Auto for "free" using Microsoft Rewards points and for as low as $2 with Best Buy credit, but this way has got to be the cheapest yet.
The Reddit user, who works as a professional seafarer, posted that he is leaving for a three-month contract at sea and expects to return about two weeks before GTA 6 launches. As a way to give back after a hard stretch of work and time away from home, he pledged to buy 20 people the Ultimate Edition when he gets back. The entry is dead simple too. All you have to do is leave a comment. There are no strings attached.
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According to the user, he will choose the winners randomly and publicly, even flagging a Discord community offering to match the giveaway.
Thousands of comments poured in, a mix of quick "entered" replies, genuine well-wishes for his safe trip, the usual memes, and a bunch of wholesome chains where people offered to gift their copy to someone else if they won. It became one of those rare community moments where a subreddit that spends most of its time arguing about pricing and trailers just collectively rooted for a stranger.
Here's the thing, though, because GTA 6 is such a big deal that fake sites are popping up all over.
Giveaways like this aren't always what they seem. A promise to hand out 20 copies of a $100 game, made before the game is even out, by someone about to be unreachable at sea for months, is the kind of thing that occasionally does not materialize, whether from a change in circumstances or, in the worst cases, because it was never real.
This particular post may come across as sincere, and there's no evidence it's a scam, but the general rule of the internet applies, and that's to never pay, never DM personal or payment details, and never treat a promised giveaway as a guaranteed win.
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With that said, taken at face value, it is a genuinely nice gesture, and the community treating it as a bright spot is fair. A guy about to spend three months on a ship wanted to do something good for people who share his excitement about a game he has waited 20 years for.
Whether all 20 copies land or not, the spirit of it is real, and the thread full of people wishing him a safe voyage is the wholesome side of GTA 6 fever that does not usually make headlines.
It is the flip side of the anger over the discless physical copies and the pricing frustration, even reaching politicians in France and Brazil, but so is a community finding its own ways, cheap tricks and pure generosity alike, to make sure people get to play. This contrast between grievance and hustle, with a dash of kindness, is the GTA 6 waiting game in a nutshell.
