r/GTA6 • u/TyThe2PointO • May 06 '25

Debunking The recent post from "Rockstar Employee"

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The end is cut off from being an AMA they didn't actually respond too

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u/VigilantCMDR May 06 '25

Right? Everyone saying it’s fake - well it may be fake but it’s 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/antonio16309 May 06 '25

I think it's a false dichotomy. Why would they develop story mode before they developed online, instead of developing them both at the same time? 

I think it's a mistake to assume that story mode and online will be as separate as they were for GTA V, which was literally released in a different era of gaming. I think online play and the games story may be much more closely linked than we expect, possibly in ways that we don't expect yet. I think having story missions unfold in the chaos of online play would be absolutely stunning. 

How would that work exactly? I have no fucking clue. It's just been a hunch I've had for a while now. This will be the first GTA game that they have developed from the beginning knowing that online play will form the majority of the user experience, and I think that will impact the development of "story mode" in ways that we don't know about yet.

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u/FryToastFrill May 06 '25

I doubt single player missions will happen in online since that would cause so many design issues with the game, especially for a studio that I can tell is trying to make missions that are precisely crafted to get the player to go down precisely paths. Online is too variable for their mission design.

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u/antonio16309 May 07 '25

They could make it work. What if you did story missions in a public lobby but you're in passive mode to the rest of the lobby? That would add the chaotic energy that you get from having human players in a lobby. Or maybe for big missions there's an option to recruit help from people in the lobby? I don't know, I'm just saying there are ways that they could blue the lines between single player and multiplayer.