GTA VI fans book vacation days for launch, WSJ reports

Ashley Wong's report finds players meal prepping and clearing their schedules for the November 19 release.

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Bud Burruss has a room called "the cave," and a plan to shut its door. The videogame streamer and father of three is taking five days off work to play Grand Theft Auto VI, according to The Wall Street Journal.

He's among the players reporter Ashley Wong profiles in a short report about the vacation planning surrounding the game's November 19 release. Anna Ray, a medical sales representative and professional wrestler, is preparing meals ahead of time and taking a week off to play.

That is the human-scale story behind the video's "work blackout" headline: people arranging their working lives around a game that has kept them waiting since GTA V arrived in 2013. Wong places that anticipation alongside the franchise's commercial scale, reporting that GTA V made a billion dollars within days of release.

The report drew about 64,000 views since yesterday. Its comment section offers more versions of the scheduling dilemma: viewers describe booking extra days off, fitting launch night around a shift, or planning to play while still going to work. Burruss's solution is less complicated: time off, a closed cave door and the game.

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The vacation-planning report was The Wall Street Journal's most-watched new video since yesterday.

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