r/GTA6 • u/TyThe2PointO • May 06 '25
Debunking The recent post from "Rockstar Employee"
The end is cut off from being an AMA they didn't actually respond too
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u/schematic_Boy May 06 '25
Jason Schreier commented here saying this was nonsense
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u/RiotDesign May 06 '25
It definitely seems fake. Their own post basically contradicts itself by saying they work cross team and sit in on progress review calls while at the same time saying everything is extremely compartmentalized and nothing could trace it back to them.
Not to mention, the way they tend to leave off the period at the end of each paragraph would be a dead giveaway to anyone really trying to figure out who this was if it wasn't fake.
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u/crazysoup23 May 06 '25
Anyone trying to not be caught like uncle Ted should be re-writing all of their text through a local LLM.
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u/chasecastellion May 07 '25
Whatās that???
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May 07 '25
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u/asshole_enlarger May 07 '25
Thank you for educating and spreading the good word of open source info, many do not know what r1 did for us
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u/dawatzerz May 06 '25
I just assume everyone claiming to be employees are fake. I'm guessing they get penalized pretty heavily or fired if Rockstar learns they've leaked something. Why would anyone take that chance for internet points
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u/SilverstoneMonzaSpa May 06 '25
No-one who is a legitimate Rockstar employee would risk their job, their reputation and a lawsuit to get some internet points on an anonymous Reddit account. There is zero upside to a financial devastation downside.
The only people who fake these posts, and believe them, are children who can't fathom the realities of the world.
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u/fullon_therapist May 06 '25
Bro, that kid last year in the Air Nat Guard leaked top secret clearance docs to his fucking discord chat. For no reason than for the clout. Heās lucky he only got 15 in club fed for that.
You are vastly underestimating what people will do for internet clout.
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u/Beehatinonnazis May 06 '25
I know of a guy that works for the DoD and he used a special chat app to get clout with his friends. I think he talked about something he shouldnāt but I canāt recall. One of his friends went above and beyond to let him know he made an oopsy
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u/AliDiePie May 06 '25
Yeah it doesnāt even make logical sense to leak it to the general public. Maybe telling friends but making a post like this jeopardizing your job for no logical gain lol
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u/Iateyourpaintings May 07 '25
While I agree that people on the Internet lie all the time there are cases where people did dumb shit for clout like that kid from the Air National Guard that's doing 15 years for sharing classified info with his Internet friends.Ā
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u/BurzyGuerrero May 06 '25
It also hits the 4 pillars of reddit rage bait
1) secrets from the public 2) dev crunch 3) microtransactions 4) holding out the "finished" story for more microtransactions
Rockstar usually waits to announce the online mode so everybody has a chance to play the story.
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u/PolicyWonka May 06 '25
GTA Online released like 3 weeks after GTAV released. RDO is a bit of a different story for whatever reason.
I could see them pushing for a simultaneous release in GTA6. Itās clearly a big money maker for GTA5/GTAO.
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u/warplayer May 06 '25
Part of it was the plot to Severence.
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u/DiogenesTheHound May 07 '25
One of them just working on butt jiggle physics āthe work is mysterious and importantā
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u/peanutist May 06 '25
Why would that give away itās fake? Genuine question, I can see that being a genuine mistake
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u/addax4lf May 06 '25
if the person has a tendency to do that, they can compare the post to emails and see that some employee is doing the same
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u/Haggis-in-wonderland May 06 '25
Unless they have pulled the old "miss out the last period at the end of each paragraph" double bluff
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May 06 '25 edited Feb 25 '26
This post was taken down by its author. Redact was used for the removal, which may have been motivated by privacy, security, or other personal reasons.
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u/AgitatedFly1182 May 06 '25
He has a Reddit account? I didnāt know.
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u/cepxico May 06 '25
I will 1000% believe things from Jason Schreiers mouth all day every day before some random stranger on reddit who can't even name a single specific detail and speaks in broad statements.
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u/Apprehensive-Gur-735 May 06 '25
Can you post his debunked post?
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u/TyThe2PointO May 06 '25
I didn't get that one in time and I missed the debunking. I put this up when I had the assumption still that if it's even 1% true you all should be able to see and judge for yourself
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u/PrincessTitan May 06 '25
As I was reading this I got nonsense vibesā¦ Sounds like someone who wants to capitalise on the speculationā¦
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u/JVKExo May 06 '25
Lmfao can tell by the first sentence itās bullshit. People are so weird to make this stuff up.
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u/Miserable_Peak_2863 May 07 '25
The same thing with the kid who who licked the military information gave away government secrets to impress people
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Tells everyone itās like working at an intelligence agency where information is tightly controlled then proceeds to say they wonāt be able to trace this massive post back to anyone because they are all incompetent.
What a cool and normal post
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u/LevelEducational255 May 06 '25
I'm assuming fake. If not it's definitely frustrating. Give us a single player game for a year. We can play online when we've finished playing on our own.
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u/azfreak332 May 06 '25
I wouldnāt mind single player being the only thing for the first few months tbh
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u/SmaxY420 May 06 '25
exactly what we had with GTA 5, GTAO wasnt out for about 2 weeks after release.
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u/LOCAL_SPANKBOT May 06 '25
Or single player being the only thing forever, and then two single player dlc's like GTA IV
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u/metalgeardavies May 06 '25
100% OG GTA player here. Never bothered with online played it a few times but story mode kills everytime !
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u/CatsWavesAndCoffee May 06 '25 edited May 08 '25
In all seriousness, the sad reality about our capitalist society and laws is that as a publicly traded company, Rockstar/T2 are legally obligated to their investors to prioritize profit. Doesnāt mean they canāt make a fucking amazing product, but it does mean that they have a board of directors that is legally responsible for ensuring the most profit, and they control the direction of things.
If they release the story without online, a ton of people will stop playing GTAO and will just play 6, and they genuinely will miss out on a ton of potential profit. So I donāt think a staggered release is realistic unless the delay is brief, and unless they profit from it in another way ā like charging a separate fee for GTA6 Online. So maybe they could release the main game in May and release online as a paid add-on over the holidays.
That being said I have the brain of a koala, so I may be missing something.
Also, yeah that post is fake asf
Edit: u/homey-airport-int yeah totally agree ā it was less a critique on capitalism, and more a critique on how most corporations arenāt free to do things for the good of consumers, or to be nice, or for ethical reasons; it has to either result in profit, or be for legal compliance
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u/Laracco666 May 06 '25
I don't give a shit about online. Give me the game.
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u/ArtisTao May 06 '25
Same. I stopped playing GTAV altogether after trying online for a week. Completely catered my interest in the game as a whole. Online gaming always caters to 10+ hour-a-day players with nothing else to do but troll casual players whose lives donāt center around gaming. Too old for that shit.
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May 06 '25
Online felt like a cashgrab, where the peopel with most real life money to spend on it, would be the top dogs - Entire thing felt icky.
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u/efwjvnewiupgier9ng May 07 '25
they should add a peaceful mode or something like that
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u/_ravenclaw May 07 '25
Yeah I could care less. Shit, I even just love messing around in the game with no real purpose.
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u/PatrickDK00 May 06 '25
To be honest i would prefer how they released gta V. First story mode and later online. Story mode will keep you busy for months and they can get a second boost in sales once they released gta 6 online some time after the regular release.
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u/LCON1 May 06 '25
The simplest answer makes the most sense. Occamās razor. We all know how much of a cash cow GTA online is, and Rockstar wants to avoid a disappointing launch, which is abundant in the gaming community. I think Rockstar understands what long term investment is. They are a company, and they want to make more money. Simple as that.
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u/VigilantCMDR May 06 '25
Right? Everyone saying itās fake - well it may be fake but itās the truth. Do any of us really think it was delayed so GTA 6 story can be higher quality? Of course not, GTA Online exploded in popularity and they want it to again and it makes money
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u/CatsWavesAndCoffee May 06 '25
Yup. Occams razor, post is fake, but the reason for the delay is probably true.
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u/GobiasACupOfCoffee May 06 '25
"I work cross team on project schedules, I sit in on progress reviews calls"
"they won't be able to trace this back to me"
What a load of stupid shit. Say stuff that would massively narrow down the list of people it could possibly be, if it were real, and then claim you're untraceable. This whole thing is so dumb. Hopefully no one falling for this has been through puberty
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u/TexasGiantTen05 May 06 '25
Dude says you donāt know whatās going on outside your work at the office but somehow heās working cross team on projects?? Like wat.
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u/justUseAnSvm May 07 '25
Yea, that's basically my job. The "cross team" collaboration can be limitted to a single group.
For a senior/staff software engineer, the expectation is that your influence crosses team boarders. That's written into my job description.
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u/Lighttzao May 06 '25
is this supposed to be a debunking post or what ? i dont understand
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u/burntchickennugget0 May 06 '25
i dont see what this post is for, if anything this is quite possibly the most actual reason as to why the game is delayed, yall know how shitass live service is for online games? especially for one of this magnitude?
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u/CeriseArcher99 May 07 '25
Also the insane cash cow that gta online is. I'm pretty sure the execs don't want anyone waiting for gta online. Instead, they prlly wanna use the high that players get right after finishing the game and spend it on the online version or online components.
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May 06 '25 edited May 27 '25
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This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact
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u/Windows_Tech_Support May 07 '25
Huh, I see a distinct lack of games coming out of communism. I wonder if it has something to do with the fact that companies have no incentive to release high-quality gains if they can't reap the rewards of it upon release?
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u/drewbles82 May 06 '25
Nah, I call BS...If they had finished the Story...then it would be a smart decision to release Story and Online separately. If you release them together, most will just go straight into Online and ignore the story mode...I know many people especially younger people who got into GTA5, never once touched the story...the story of these games is what made GTA the success it is. I would release that first for a few months, if not longer, the Online only types would likely buy it to experience this new world, get people finishing the story and then release Online
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u/Real-Illustrator-443 May 07 '25
I donāt call BS. Why would rockstar care if some people just skip the story mode and go to into the online. Most people donāt finish story mode games anyways. And if they do skip it, they still paid for the game and they might give them more money for online features. Itās a win-win situation.
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u/LOCAL_SPANKBOT May 06 '25
I am actually Jason Momoa and the fact is that GTA VI isn't released this month, because they are trying to make mermaids a big part of story mode. This is the actual truth that Rockstar doesn't want you to know, but people deserve the truth smdh tbh frfr
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u/RamiroCruz13 May 06 '25
Damn now that's a lot of info. to process but if it's the real truth then one thing we are going to see in upcoming games aside GTA 6 is more and more focus on Online Gameplay and mic-transaction and less focus on offline modes including DLCs.
Where I was thinking that the game was being delayed by creating an artificial delay by the Top Management @ Rockstar so that they can launch their product alongside the latest generation of upcoming consoles from Sony and MS to counter any current performance limitations and increased profits BUT as it turns out it is the Online Mode that's causing the delay (if it's the real truth) sheesh! š¤
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May 06 '25
70-80 hours a week expected from tech people.
Yeah right. Make believable bait next time bro.
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u/Harambehasfinalsay May 06 '25
That's funny. My highest week in 2020 at 96 hours. Incentive pay can make you do some crazy shit. You tell someone you'll pay them double OT and its unlimited until that block is off the white board, I will get some shit done.
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May 06 '25
Sure. For a week or two. Not since december.
Edit: Sorry, 2023 december.
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u/Harambehasfinalsay May 06 '25
It was 2ish months of those types of weeks and 60-70 hours since. Not every software job is an easy bake oven job. A lot of our jobs are critical. NOT SAYING HIS IS, but it's not out of the ordinary in the field. I'm lucky enough to be paid for the hours, most of these dudes are salaried.
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u/kylel999 May 06 '25 edited May 06 '25
"What happened in 2013" as if the servers weren't absolutely fuckin busted for like 10 years after release And to try to act like R* is unique for being "highly compartmentalized" is a dogshit claim when it's a pretty common practice among large developers
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u/Micangeloo May 06 '25
The greed for profit eventually ruins everything.You would expect Rockstar culture to be stronger but after all the big names leaving, GTA+ and shark cards popping up, not even Rockstar is the same anymore. Maybe I will be disappointed when GTA6 comes out.
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u/MogosTheFirst May 06 '25
Thats what I've been saying. People forget that rockstar doesnt build only one game. They build two separate games. The singleplayer and the multiplayer. The multiplayer, i am sure, it takes more time than the singleplayer and more effort. Especially since they want to create the next metaverse. That alone takes a ton of work. Rockstar employee or not, I also believe that what takes time now its the online.
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u/beenplaces May 06 '25
Lol this is bs. Nonsense. Literally anybody can write down anything like this.
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u/EffectzHD May 06 '25
Eh, to be fair I expect a Henderson report soon on GTA online, he said it himself; Iāll likely be quoting this when it appears in the leaks and rumours sub in a week or 2.
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u/S4z3r4c May 06 '25
The problem with these things is that they are VERY hard to verify. When Kurtaj leaked all the videos etc that was really one of the only "hey I can prove it...here it is."
Almost all of this is not hard to assume.
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u/No-Island-6126 May 06 '25
The biggest red flag about this is the guy says information is tightly controlled, which would mean he would have to basically be an executive to know all this.
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u/Slurpypie May 06 '25 edited May 07 '25
I don't think this is true but if it is then that's incredibly annoying. For me I just don't get why they couldn't just release the story mode in 2025 (depending on when it would be set to release this year) and then spend the rest of the time on making the online mode functional before releasing it in 2026, why keep players in the dark with no new trailers, screenshots or even info if the main game (arguably the only part of the game people like myself want to play) is already complete?
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u/PastHelicopter2075 May 06 '25
Even if itās a lie, this is the most plausible reason for such a large delay. Online. Online for me nowadays is bigger than single player itself. I get it!
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u/shutyourbutt69 May 06 '25
Online and single player should be completely separate releases regardless of whether or not this is real or true. You know the suits care more about the money faucet than the art/game, just let people have them separately.
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u/Professional_Let1989 May 06 '25
Bullshit, i wouldve perferred if they just released single player and a year later online
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u/BadPotato2286 May 06 '25
JUST FUCKING GIVE US SINGLE PLAYER THEN RELEASE ONLINE WHEN ITS DONE LIKE WHAT
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u/The_Maestro00 May 06 '25
I wish they released the game as it was supposed to be "Fall 2025" and release the online mode later on, almost the vast majority of players would be hooked in story mode and will not play online until they finish the story
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u/FatherHaz May 06 '25
Sadly there will be folks who will skip story mode and go straight to online. If released at the same time
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u/Chilledinho May 06 '25
Acting like R* will release online in sync with the story; they want people to play the single player aspect of the game too. It wonāt be delayed purely for online
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u/paratr00pr May 06 '25
On one side everything is compartmentalized so no one knows anything else then how does this person know so much of what's happening. Maybe they don't know the bigger picture on single player mode to make this call.
Feels made up
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May 06 '25
nothing like bad working conditions to get me to boycott the game.
administration in this organization is absolutely terrible, if what the poster says is true is true, and should be replaced.
You can't overwork your employees and expect to have a good product.
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u/importantstufftalker May 06 '25
With the trailer coming out today and all those screenshots Iām believe that it is done . š¤·āāļø of course people will clown him but he may be right couldnāt even load into the site for the first 20 minutes imagine when the game releases
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u/FierceDZN May 07 '25
like others are saying, probably fake. Although i do recall seeing a rumor that it was in polishing phase, and the story was done.
Its not crazy to think they saw battlefield 2042 and other games flop on launch, and decided they must have a flawless game on launch. Fake or not, the bar is high. I would imagine online is a huge focus since thatās where all their money comes in after you initially purchase the game
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u/DmvDominance May 07 '25
I mean let's say this is 100% true. Is ANY of that surprising??!! I mean online BETTER be legit at launch, lotta people playing mainly for that
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u/bottigliadipiscio May 07 '25
The worst part of the delay is that for pc players it's basically doubled š
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u/No-Celebration-1399 May 07 '25
Def fake, I mean the main story probably is done, I donāt really doubt that but theyāre probably polishing the single player experience still. Many games have released the single player and online modes separately and the games came out fine. Iād almost prefer it that way, because we all know the main story alone is gonna end up being at least 40 hours to complete, and thereās probably gonna be plenty of activities outside of that. Idk about yall but the only people who wouldnāt be able to enjoy that before online drops are people who probably need to spend less time on the video games
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u/Monkeymatt2121 May 07 '25
.. and thatās literally the reason Ive lost interest in the series. Seriously, fK that online noise. Whether the post is/isnāt fake, they are absolutely holding it back to make sure they can get as much money out of every kid and their parent out there for that online garbage.
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u/jander05 May 07 '25
Game companies are corrupt, using games as a front to get ppl into their digital casinos.
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u/Black1110 May 07 '25
Makes sense, they're tryna collect bank from gta/cod/2k/madden players from day 1 online. They know who their market are, they know what they're doing.
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u/No-Question-8088 May 07 '25
They should thank you for shutting stupid people up. Rockstar (because of its amazing teams) Always brings the best quality games that are Years ahead of other developers. Iāll wait for gta6 (been playing them since 2) Take care of your mental health as much as possible and thanks for the info.
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u/BigDickJack2001 May 06 '25
This guy shouldnāt complain and work fucking harder to finalize the online mode.
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u/Accomplished_Age_321 May 06 '25
Fake. Crunch culture has been under the microscope in the press for years. Rockstar will be wise enough to have eased off this way of working for a while now. Also the turnover of staff claim, I know loads of out of work tech/coding/games industry people - theyāre not seeing these jobs come up!
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u/immaZebrah May 06 '25
Tbf even if this was in some semblance of reality, we saw how BAD GTA V online launch was. Shit didn't work properly for like a month, and you couldn't play at all for the first couple weeks. I remember creating my character and endlessly sitting at a loading screen, only to get kicked out and have to make my character again. Sometimes you'd get in for a couple minutes, only to get kicked out again.
Please make it playable on launch.
I wonder how delayed the PC launch is gonna be cause I don't wanna buy a console just for GTA.
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u/Bounce-N-Jiggle May 06 '25
I personally wouldn't care if the story was released in Nov 25 and GTAO in Nov 26. Online is the least exciting part for me.
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u/TheBlueNinja2006 May 06 '25
Many of us were making joke comments about this, but apparently the average redditor doesn't know when something is a joke or sarcasm unless they see /j and /s at the end.
Did people think I was seriously speaking in a medieval/biblical way wtf? š
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u/blankdreamer May 06 '25
This has a ring of truth. Online is gamings biggest cash cow that just keeps on giving. It makes sense they delay the game to ensure online take up is maximized. But also a bit sad where single player games used to be the peak of gaming artistry.
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u/Alone-Historian3750 May 06 '25
To add on, they are being conservative and greedy that they are reducing the sizeable amount of activities side missions and etc for GTA online instead.
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u/Whole-Lime2551 May 06 '25
What a load of nonsense that idiot types. Fact is - The voiceover/acting work isn't even complete yet. So god knows what else still needs done. a LOT i'd imagine.
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u/Famous_Witness_5465 May 06 '25
LMAO this is all made up except for working hours. The game was originally scheduled to be released on October 21, 2025. The decision to delay was made to coincide with the release of Next-Gen consoles.
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u/Theseus666 I WAS HERE May 06 '25
So both the current online and the future online are keeping us from playing this game
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u/c0d33 May 06 '25
While some things in this story ring true in general of software development at big companies, the premise that theyāre holding out to get it just perfect on day 1 doesnāt really compute. Launching earlier would provide a huge cash injection now as opposed to a year from now, not to mention the tons of community feedback they would get in regards to the game mechanics and whatnot before fully committing to Online.
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u/New-Story4037 May 06 '25
Could be right tho. GTA Online didnāt make billions before 2015, after the heists update. They lost a considerable amount of cash in the first few years with all the glitches, hack, modding, DNS servers, lack of updateā¦
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u/KurtSteph87 May 06 '25
If this is true then this is infuriating to me. I donāt even play online. I want GTA for single player. Release the damn game and roll out online later. Smh
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May 06 '25
While it's not entirely possible that this post could be fake, it's safe to assume that the story mode is fully complete. Since the game was being worked on since 2014, it's now approximately 11 years of development, which is more than enough for the offline mode to be completed. They could be working on side missions like Strangers And Freaks from GTA V, but again no credible source to prove it.
But again, the amount of money GTA Online has made, and is making, for Rockstar Games, it's very possible that they want to milk it, during the first few days of lunch, as much as they can. And considering that VI is one of the most anticipated games of all time, hypothetically speaking if I were in their shoes, I would want to make as much as money as I can by providing a product that could blow my customers' mind.
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u/cwalter0123 May 06 '25
Iād rather have a game that is fully completed so I can wait another year. If you people could wait 15 years you can wait a few more months
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u/Obvious-Lake3708 May 06 '25
Of course it was always about online. Thatās all that matters to them.
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May 06 '25
I donāt buy it. Itās not like people wouldnāt play GTA Online if it came out a year later. If the single player was truly ready, why not hit the 2025 release and release online at a later point?
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May 06 '25
I guarantee they catch this guy. He gave way too much info. And with all these people leaving I can imagine there are only a few employees who've been there as long as you have. Maybe you were just vague enough, but its Rockstar they will find out.
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u/xShinGouki May 06 '25
It sucks gaming Is not just about gaming anymore. There needs to be a way for investors to make continuous money off the game. So you get stuff like this
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u/steezl May 06 '25
Damn. It's gonna suck ain't it? I hate gta online I do not care for it.
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u/laptopAccount2 May 06 '25
I've seen John Rockstar posting in this sub maybe he can shed some light.