• Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        It’s been dead to me since they dropped talk of expansion stories on gta v.

        GTA is dead. What they are calling GTA today, isn’t. The multi player trash killed the franchise.

        For the vast majority of today’s gamers, gta v is all gta has ever been so I’m sure it will sell well but gta v was the weakest gta in the series because they pivoted hard in a direction that has nothing to do with the original concept.

        The point was starting from nothing with a story that lead to be top of the areas crime world. The moment they added a never ending competition where no one can ever achieve full domination of the environment, the escapism died.

        • GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          Whoa. Are well articulated positions still allowed on today’s Internet?

          Tbf, i enjoyed the shit out of gta online. For about a month.

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    and potentially their brand sponsors

    Well, there it is. In-game ads in the form of “user-generated content”, from the sound of it. Also has paid mod vibes.

    Hope I’m wrong and it’s actually great.

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    Fuck off trying to describe anything as ‘a metaverse.’ That’s like trying to own ‘an internet.’

    If there’s more than one, there are zero.

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    Makes sense, considering what people have been doing with it like with Fivem. Players did more to extend the life of GTAV (and IV) than Rockstar.

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    The now I hear about GTA6, the more confident I get that my pessimism towards this franchise’s future is warranted.

    No Dan Houser, no Lazlow Jones, hell - probably NONE of the same dev team at all from GTAV (let alone earlier).

    This is likely going to end up some weird “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” style monster where some gatcha/shark card filled “live service” is going to go around masquerading as the next entry in this franchise.

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    GTA V Online already are those in a way, no? I can’t blame them for leaning into it. I’m not interested anyway.

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      Basically. Though official scripting support is what turned Roblox from a social lego game to one of the largest videogames on earth. In my own time on roblox, the biggest thing was cloud persistence for the scripting API that allowed people to make studio-level games.

      Modding on GTA is still technically unsupported and unofficial. You really have a restricted sandbox for anything that R* will accept on their servers.

      GTA is more like a secondlife or club penguin than it is a roblox atm.

      EDIT: so modding is going towards an “official” capacity apparently. That’ll be what turns GTA from clun penguin to Roblox, proverbially.

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    With buzzwords like metaverse being thrown around, I’m imagining a GTA6 that has brand partnership NFTs. Like when Madden/FIFA added Nike items in 2023.

    But that would never happen, since GTA is known for satirizing brands and corporate behavior, right? Besides, these brands would never want to be shown alongside gamer-generated content…

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      GTA online apparently made them a crazy amount of money so it’s going to be more of that type of game for a long time.

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      they are always released first as a console exclusive and then the PC version comes out later. they make more money that way because of contracts and capitalism. every single game they have made so far has been extremely good

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    I was going to be mildly upset I couldn’t play multiplayer If I pirate it. Now I’m dodging a bullet.

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    Basically GTA VI is Rockstar trying to monetize FiveM and so on? How they expect to work until the game is released on PC?

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      They will monetize GTVI like GTAV, they will double/triple dip with exlusivity on both hardware (console) and PC launcher (Epic): customers wallet voted for this to the bone.