Yeah no shit.
Of course they were to go the low effort; high payout capitalist way.
This really show their lack of creative vision, compared to Cygames for example that made bank with a low maintenance gacha RPG that runs on chrome, but just released an entire fighting game and action rpg based on Granblue with a great presentation and gameplay. They didn’t need to do it, they already have all the money from their gacha games, these premium games are just for fun.
This is frustrating to me because I love GTAVs story but couldn’t care less about online.
Care about it? I haven’t even played it!!
They gotta work on that ten-year load time.
They did.
Well, someone did.
You’re a very small fraction of the audience, it shouldn’t be surprising they focus on the majority who prefer online play as it adds a social element into an otherwise predictable and static environment.
I tried it briefly but I really couldn’t get into it
If you’re careful enough like myself to cheat billions of dollars and XP in to skip the pay to win grind without getting detected it can be a fun time killer. The Map is much more developed than the story mode, and the buisnesses/ heists are a blast.
People hate on GTA online, but it’s really because it’s all grindy to experience it all without feeling forced to buy shark cards. If you have infinite money then it essentially is another GTAs worth of impressive content. The vehicles alone have hours worth of customization.
That sounds even less appealing to me tbh. I’m happy enough with the single player / story, which as long as Rockstar puts time into for the original release, will be good.
wow gta 6 is going to be total trash, isn’t it
Most likely just like 5, the base game gonna be okay to awesome but it will be devoid of content post storyline in offline mode, it’ll be filled up by online-only content.
Not likely, R* haven’t released a bad (original) game in a long ass time.
Will it be abandoned as a Single-Player experience for the inline aspect? Probably
And still gonna sell by millions.
We know. It sucks.
And this is why I’m afraid the series going forward is dead. Why would they do anything other than the bare minimum on VI to get it to sell so that they can then start milking the online cash cow again.
When your core audience are a bunch of 13 year old kids, you don’t really need to worry much about story. Just give them rocket powered cars and floating pipes in the sky and watch the cash roll in.
Plus the ability to grief constantly
Could’ve told you that 10 years ago. Literally the moment online came out and they suddenly they stopped talking about story DLCs, I knew we weren’t getting them.
The story-mode campaign is now just a gateway drug to their online cash-cow - I bet you it’ll be the same for GTA 6
How much you wanna bet the online portion of GTA6 is gonna be like a “story mode lite” kinda like in 5?
I’m pretty sure there were reports about this shortly after GTA Online’s relaunch, that they had moved everyone from DLCs to fix Online.
This was not exactly subtle anyway - oh, they just happened to stop making DLCs just as they discovered their horrible online platform could print cash with close to zero effort.
This is also why RDR2 didn’t get its own Undead Nightmare
The worst part is, I played GTA Online and it… totally sucks.
This abusive business model is the dominant strategy. If we allow this to continue, there will be nothing else.
welll… no shit…
:O
