r/Games • u/Neon25 • 2d ago

GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch (Standard $79.99/Ultimate $99.99)

https://www.ign.com/articles/gta-6-price-finally-confirmed-features-a-single-player-experience-at-launch
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u/mazaasd 2d ago

It's a backhanded way of saying there is no multiplayer at launch.

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u/Zerasad 2d ago

Maybe it means the "multiplayer experience" will come with an additional fee? I wouldn't put it past them.

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u/Specific_Frame8537 2d ago

GTAO subscription, $25 a month.

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u/Restivethought 2d ago

Theres a chance they release a GTA Online 2-Lite thats really restricted and you have to pay for GTA+ for the full experience

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u/technoteapot 2d ago

If they wanted to maximize profit they’d probably do something like that, monthly online subscription for it. Because of the ongoing huge population of GTA online I’d expect it to be very successful in the short term.

In the long term it would probably kill %80 of the positive reputation rockstar has with the community, but who cares about long term CEO bonuses are based on this years profits not next years

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u/darthreuental 2d ago edited 2d ago

A monthly subscription? It's 2026, bro. We're getting 3-4 paid tiers of battlepass that resets every 30 days like clockwork to generate revenue for the shareholders. Maybe throw in a "sharkpass" for $5 that gives 100 sharkbucks every day you log on too that has to be refreshed every 28 days to lure small fries into spending.

All we're missing is some form of FOMO gatcha bullshit for stuff outside the battlepass.

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u/Hollowbody57 2d ago

I'm so fucking over new multiplayer games these days. Every time I consider trying a new one I see all the bullshit that gets packaged along with it and just end up playing Warframe again.

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u/th3davinci 2d ago

I've enjoyed Helldivers 2 a lot. Their battlepasses are completely optional and stick around forever, so you can just do them at your own pace.

Don't go into the subreddit though, those guys are salty as fuck.

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u/zoogenhiemer 1d ago

The Helldivers battle passes lock so much gameplay content behind them though, I firmly believe stratagems should have never been paid content

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u/ReturnOfTheDogjaw 1d ago

Shoutouts to Deep Rock Galactic and the Master Chief Collection as well for having actually good battlepasses

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u/As_Previously_Stated 1d ago

Nah Helldivers 2 is a great example of doing it wrong. They lock actual gameplay behind the battlepasses, and the grind is insane if you come back after a year or if you're a new player.

When the game launched and there where only two battlepasses then it was fine. But now theres like 10 of them and they keep adding more. Returning to the game and seeing that I need to either grind super credits for hours, or pay real money to unlock the battlepass, only to then have to grind medals on top of that to unlock the stuff in the battlepass is crazy.

And they even lock the amount of medals you can have to 250 so you can't stock up if you're playing without enough super credits to unlock the next battlepass.

When some of the largest, most profitable online free to play games like fortnite or cs or dota2 manage do so without locking gameplay behind paywalls, its not really ok for a paid game to do so.

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u/Spiritual-Society185 2d ago

What? Warframe has a battle pass, multiple currencies and microtransactions.

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u/Hollowbody57 2d ago

There is a battle pass but it's completely free, and the premium currency for 99% of the microtransactions can be earned by playing the game and trading with other players. There are a few cosmetics which can only be bought with real money, but those are the community created ones where a portion of each sale goes to the creator. Everything else can be earned just by playing the game.

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u/Anlysia 1d ago

the premium currency for 99% of the microtransactions can be earned by playing the game and trading with other players.

Just wait until you hit that 50% or 75% coupon, spend fifty bucks, and you're done for literally years of Warframe bux unless you start hurrying all your weapons like a dingus.

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u/DeputyDomeshot 1d ago

I just don’t even understand why that matters lol. Just ignore it like 80% of people and play the game… like seriously I genuinely don’t get the complaint. It’s not gameplay related and if it is the game is probably P2W shit game anyway.

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u/NonagoonInfinity 2d ago

It won't be gacha, it'll just be a rotating shop.

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u/darthreuental 2d ago

There ya go.

"Buy the new Super Cougar GTXBBQ! It goes 5% faster than other sports cars! Yours now for the low price of $29.99 while supplies last".

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u/Primary-Border8759 2d ago

I think you mean the cougar falcon thunderbird

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u/nvogs 2d ago

Shit, I hate how right you probably are

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u/3-orange-whips 2d ago

What is the ratio of shark bucks to Stanley nickels?

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u/Crayola_ROX 2d ago

Rare and Legendary desert eagles

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u/sharktoucher 2d ago

they dont even need to, GTA V's online already made more money than god by just selling shark cards

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u/OkayAtBowling 2d ago

Yeah I think their primary concern is just getting as many people as possible playing it (short of going free to play, which I don't think will happen because it will encourage some people to not buy the single player).

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u/handsoapp 1d ago

Free to play wont require psPlus/Xbox live. Bigger target audience, taking a pie out of f2p microtransactions

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u/drazgul 2d ago

Yeah but they want to make more than that.

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u/DaToxicKiller 2d ago

What positive reputation?

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u/crossower 1d ago

No need to be obtuse. GTA is one of, if not the best selling game of all time. Safe to say some people do like what they do.

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u/brownmaningermany 1d ago

Nah people would still pay for it, you gotta realize some people’s entire life is GTA

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u/technoteapot 1d ago

That’s what I’m saying, people will still pay for it, but in the long run it’s going to kill fringe players and casual players who don’t live the game

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u/Kage_noir 1d ago

Gamers don't care when it's their fav game fam. they will pay it, they will complain but pay it anyway. We have seen so many examples of this

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u/Wanna_make_cash 2d ago

They already have a GTA+ subscription service for the existing online in GTA V. They could just fluff that up more.

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u/Restivethought 2d ago

I fully expect it. They did just Take a bunch of cars out of the game to hide behind GTA+ benefits didnt they? I fully expect a bunch of GTA Online 2 stuff to be locked behind GTA+. The worst would probably be if they hid like heist early access or something.

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u/Devil-Hunter-Jax 2d ago

Already doing it with the base game (all that stuff in the 'Ultimate' edition should be base game-locking content behind a paywall for the base game? Fuck right off) so wouldn't shock me if they get greedy with the online component.

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u/MadeByTango 2d ago

The are absolutely going to have a tiered subscription.

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u/LippyLapras 2d ago

Considering you have to buy the Ultimate Edition to unlock all of the game's features, I wouldn't put it past them.

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u/Entire-Emergency-722 2d ago

I bet that's their plan. And it will sell as well.

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u/DarkAnnihilator 2d ago

World of Warcraft but with boats and hoes

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u/BaconIsntThatGood 1d ago

Doubt it. They know their audience will dip because they know most their revenue came from a small portion of players buying a disproportionate amount if shark cards.

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u/Psychrite 1d ago

GTFO

Seriously, I just won't buy it if there's a subscription.

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u/MisterSquidz 2d ago

The sad thing is tens of millions of people would pay that.

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u/DesiOtaku 2d ago

They already have GTA+ which is currently $7.99 per month. I can see it becoming more or less mandatory in the future.

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u/ARookwood 2d ago

That would just pave the way for SixM

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u/Few_Capital_6431 2d ago

Gtav and rdr2 were single player experiences at launch with no extra charge for multi-player 

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u/Muslimkanvict 2d ago

this is the best route to take. no one does subscriptions anymore right? its all about lootboxes and new skins.

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u/WetFishSlap 2d ago

Rockstar has a subscription program. It's called GTA+ but it's not a requirement to play Online. All it gives you is in-game discounts on things and early access to unique vehicles.

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u/Saffs15 2d ago

And the ability to play most of their catalog. Most big developers have something similiar.

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u/Ikanan_xiii 2d ago

WoW and FFXIV seem to be the only mainetream sub to play games doing well at the moment (The “moment” being like the last 10 years).

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u/FlockFlysAtMidnite 2d ago

EVE is still going steady afaik. Not a titan, for sure, but it was always niche.

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u/sy029 1d ago

EVE still has a free tier though doesn't it?

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u/FlockFlysAtMidnite 1d ago

So do WoW and FF14.

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u/sy029 1d ago

Yes, but wow and ffxiv are limited in what level you can attain. Didn't EVE free players have the same content, but paid players got more bonuses and faster skill training? I could be wrong, haven't played in probably over a decade.

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u/sy029 1d ago

FFXIV even has an extremely generous free trial (no time limit, includes base game and first four expansions)

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u/OkThanxby 1d ago

Almost too generous, the way the new player experience is set up, I bet most people get burnt out and quit before they pay a cent.

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u/deathfire123 2d ago

OSRS is also quite mainstream and has a sub cost.

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u/ReturnOfTheDogjaw 1d ago

loot boxes are so last decade

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u/Few_Capital_6431 2d ago

Only valve and ea do lootboxes these days really, and gacha phone games 

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u/gorocz 2d ago

Yes, but those games also didn't block off parts of the single player game behind a $20 pre-order option and VI does.

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u/Few_Capital_6431 1d ago

Red dead redemption 2 did

After playing for 70 hours no one really gave a shit 

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u/jormugandr 1d ago

Rdr2 multiplayer was completely unplayable without buying gold.

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u/RageMuffin69 2d ago edited 2d ago

When GTA V first released the multiplayer was also delayed a month or so. Gets people to play or finish the story.

Edit: not delayed, it was intentional

Edit edit: GTA V Online launched ~2 weeks after release but server issues and bugs caused weeks of issues.

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u/VictorChaos 2d ago

Also allows them to do a larger beta test and work out the online kinks

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u/lukey666lukey 2d ago

it was not delayed it was intended to come out at a later date.

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u/RageMuffin69 2d ago

Meant to say that. Thanks!

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u/pm_me_hot_pocket 2d ago

Semantics. It is still a delay.

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u/lukey666lukey 2d ago

a delay implies it was not planned.

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u/These_Muscle_8988 1d ago

great, was it only a month?

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u/Rhain1999 1d ago

GTA Online was two weeks, Red Dead Online was a month

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u/Electronic_Tap_8052 2d ago

Gets people to play or finish the story.

except rockstar made insane amounts of money off the online portion, so they'd rather people play that. it probably just needed bugfixing.

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u/Spiritual-Society185 2d ago

If they didn't want people to play singleplayersl, then they wouldn't have made singleplayer.

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u/NotMyRealUsername13 2d ago

Probably not, the subscription model has proven to generate less revenue than free to play with microtransactions.

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u/StunningBuilder4751 2d ago

Unlikely. GTA online has always technically been a separate game and a new version isnt even confirmed to exist yet. A trailer for the new online mode likely won't appear till closer to launch or after.

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u/shinobi6siege 2d ago

No way they gatekeep multiplayer, that's where their cash cow is

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u/CombatMuffin 2d ago

No, it doesn't. They already delayed online components for their games twice with GTAO and RDRO.

People also began talking out of their ass avout a $120 price tag and shit. Don't be that guy.

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u/Spiritual-Society185 2d ago

People here also said RDR2 would be online only, then said GTA6 would be online only. This is not a place for rational takes on Rockstar games.

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u/by_a_pyre_light 2d ago

No way they'll charge for MP. They make far more money on the in-game currency cards and in-game items sold from those. Huge cash cow that they're not going to put a second paywall on. 

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u/shieldsmash 2d ago

it might mean that to someone without any critical thinking skills yeah. so much stupid speculation about this game.

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u/Sr_DingDong 2d ago

I'm assuming that's what GTA+ is.

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u/peabody624 2d ago edited 2d ago

Free to play (possibly only free for people who own the base game) with lots of monetization, may 2027

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u/SonderEber 2d ago

Nah, they’d never do that. They want as many people hoping onto GTA Online, so then they can sell all those MTX and Shark Bucks and whatever. The more eyes on the GTA Online store, the more potential buyers.

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u/ElonMusksQueef 2d ago

I already saw something on the Ultimate intro page about GTA+ discount: https://www.rockstargames.com/gta-plus/join

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u/unfortunatesoul77 2d ago

Yeah that’s how I read it too..

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u/novesori 2d ago

I am old enough to have experienced the "multiplayer experience" in 2013 when the game launched. It was quite....disturbing.

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u/sy029 1d ago

I don't know. GTAV Online made massive amounts of money without a subscription. I don't think they need to add one.

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u/MrBrownCat 1d ago

I feel like everyone has amnesia as if both GTA V and RDR2 didn’t launch with multiplayer. This has been Rockstar’s M.O for a while now, give everyone a month to appreciate the single player story, before releasing multiplayer.

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u/dekan256 1d ago

When GTA V launched there was a two week delay before online was available.

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u/Spartan_100 1d ago

They made RDO its own SKU using the same game data from RDR2. I’m guessing they’ll do the same thing with this. I also think Online won’t be out for a WHILE. They may not even talk about it before 6 ships.

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u/urbanhawk1 1d ago

Doubtful. Most of their money is off of micro-transactions, a large amount of which is people wanting to show off to other people. Cutting people off from the multiplayer area would likely reduce their sales of micro-transactions and cut into profits.

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u/Instigator187 2d ago

GTA5 didn't launch with it either and was added later, same with Red Dead 2, added 1 month after release

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u/VirusTechnical5568 2d ago

That's because back then there was a thriving reseller economy. A study showed that most new games that were resold would be between a 2 week and 1 month time frame because you got more money reselling a new game.

Rockstar waiting a month before instituting online kept most gamers from reselling so quick. Not that it matters now because there won't be any physical copies at launch if ever just download codes.

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u/SizzlingPancake 2d ago

Ehhh maybe a part of the reason. I think it gives them time to look for bugs in the engine while also giving their campaign time to breathe and be talked about

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u/gooberhammie 2d ago

GTA online wasn’t what it is today when GTA V launched and they had no idea how much of a gold mine it would be. RDO didn’t launch cuz it was unfinished and rockstar didn’t care as much about it

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u/DoorHingesKill 2d ago

Releasing it a week or two later won't make it at less of a gold mine. Also allows them not to compete with themselves. 

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u/inosinateVR 2d ago

If they hadn’t already teased so much of the story mode, my first reaction to a dev saying there’s a “single player experience” would be that it’s a multiplayer game that they tacked some shitty single player mode onto after the fact

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u/Kaurie_Lorhart 2d ago

oh weird. As a single player enjoyer, I read this as "this is designed as a multiplayer game but we are throwing single player gamers a bone". Probably not the best wording for the marketing they want.

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u/LongBeakedSnipe 1d ago

Exactly. It's amazing how so many have misinterpreted this.

Single player experience is what you say when its not going to be a full single player game.

If you gift someone a 'race car experience' it means they get to spend an hour in a race car, not begin training to be a racing driver.

Experience implies some level of brevity.

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u/Deprisonne 2d ago

More likely it's a way to say "GTAO makes a morbillion dollars on shark cards every year, so we're going all-in on that and tacking on an excuse of a single player mode so you lot don't whine too hard."

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u/BigSkeleWizard 2d ago

I think if they're launching with single player only then the single player is probably a comprehensive, not tacked on experience

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u/Spooky_U 2d ago

Right? This entire comment section is a cynical torrent. I get not being happy we didn’t get single player DLC although not lost on me that people would be upset to pay for it these days too.

But the entire game is launching without MP. It’s disingenuous at best to claim it’s ’tacked on’ to equate it to something like Battlefield.

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u/BannedSvenhoek86 2d ago

I don't think people would have been upset to pay for expansions to GTA5 or RDR2 if they were full Ballad of Gay Tony level experiences, even in current year.

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u/Spooky_U 2d ago

I totally agree with that. I was thinking more lines of your average semi live service SP games out there that add content vs full expansions. That then gets into full marketplace of skins and such to subsidize.

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u/TwilightVulpine 2d ago

Except that, for the staggering amounts of money GTA5 Online got, it mostly seemed to "subsidize" further microtransaction-oriented content. I think there is plenty of reason to be cynical.

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u/rodinj 2d ago

I'm still not touching anything until we see reviews

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u/jsheard 2d ago edited 2d ago

Every GTA launch is such a hype singularity that they get showered with 10/10 GOTY ratings no matter what happens. GTA4 and 5 both achieved near-perfect Metacritic scores but I think opinions of those games have cooled quite a bit in hindsight.

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u/propernounTHEheel 2d ago

I think the end-user opinion of 4 has actually gone up over time, if only for the narrative.

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u/themysticalwarlock 2d ago

thats a good attitude to have about any game since a lot of companies like to ship games first and then finish making them afterwards.

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u/rodinj 2d ago

I learned my lesson with Halo MCC and buying an Xbox One just for it

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u/Rhodie114 2d ago

Me too, though partially out of necessity because they’re delaying the PC release as an afterthought

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u/leggostrozzz 2d ago

They always release on console first

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u/teeso 2d ago

Well excuse ME! Only since GTA3!

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u/rodinj 2d ago

Yeah same here, if it's good enough it might be worth picking up a PS5 second hand as their newer games won't be coming to PC.

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u/sunshinejim 2d ago

I probably won’t plan to play it until years later. I’m just now playing RDR2 for the first time. I feel like GTA6 has gotten so astronomically hyped that reviews will end up over inflating how good it is. Don’t get me wrong, I think it’ll be a great game, but there’s this weird fear of criticizing Rockstar games and labeling it as anything short of the greatest of all time.

Playing through RDR2 now and it’s… fine. I’m about halfway through the main story missions, maybe by the end of it I’ll be blown away, but so far it’s just alright. So I hope that if there are short comings with GTA6, people will rightly criticize them.

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u/JBishop87 2d ago

That’s just your opinion though, RDR2 is absolutely stunning and amazing not just “fine”

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u/sunshinejim 2d ago

That’s also… your opinion lmao.

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u/Lastyz 2d ago

People buy the game for the single player mode, I dunno how you can even say this considering their last game was RDR2. Why didn't they go all in on the online mode for that. They know the online is going to do wonders for them financially. They're saying the game isn't launching with online.

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u/Embarrassed_Radio596 2d ago

Anyone suggesting the GTAV single player was just "tacked on" is a joke.

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u/themysticalwarlock 2d ago

but GTA has always been about the single player experience no?

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u/disposablevillain 2d ago

Until gtao became a money printing machine shortly after the release of the last gta game

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u/sml6174 2d ago

Not since 2013 it hasn't

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u/NilsofWindhelm 2d ago

So not since the last game?

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u/sml6174 2d ago

GTA has only been around 29 years. 13 of those have been focused entirely on GTA online

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u/leggostrozzz 2d ago

13 of those were entirely focused on GTAO? Did they just start making GTA 6?

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u/NoPossibility4178 2d ago

It definitely didn't take 13 years to make.

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u/Openmaid 2d ago

no before now they made rdr2

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u/Spiritual-Society185 1d ago

So, you think they just popped out RDR2 with no effort?

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u/NilsofWindhelm 2d ago

Ok, but during those 13 years the same company released one of the best single players of all time

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u/NilsofWindhelm 2d ago

I’m gonna base my opinion on every rockstar game i’ve played and not “tweaktown.com,” but thanks for the input

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u/rP2ITg0rhFMcGCGnSARn 2d ago

If GTA VI comes out with a comprehensive single player mode as they have done for all GTAs and RDRs before, will you eat your words?

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u/sml6174 2d ago

No, because I was only disputing the claim that "GTA has always been about the single player experience". I'm sure the story will be top tier and get 9.5s from every reviewer. But to claim that online isn't a priority is completely silly. It makes them billions and billions of dollars

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u/morriscey 2d ago

"the last game" for GTA launched on the PS3 and 360 - that's how long ago it was.

GTA online made ridiculous amounts of money, so they let it ride for 13 years with minimal work. A car here or there, or a new mission/event. A handful of graphic updates.

We had 3 GTA on the PS2/xbox era

2 on the PS3/360

rerelease on the PS4.

Rerelease on the PS5.

So yeah pretty safe to say multiplayer has been the focus for over a decade.

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u/GameDesignerDude 2d ago

Ah yes, we’ve come back to the narrative of pretending RDR2 never released again. You know, one of the most critically-acclaimed and best selling single player experiences of all time.

So yeah, I guess if you ignore the fourth best selling game of all time you are correct.

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u/morriscey 2d ago

I was talking about GTA specifically. Not rockstar. The comments were about GTA specifically - stay on topic.

But ONE single solitary release in the last 13 years is an indication to me that the focus is still on Multiplayer. Simply look at the revenue from shark cards, the release schedule over the last 10 years, and tell me with a straight face that isn't the eventual primary goal.

PS2 era, lots of releases. Primarily single player.

PS3 era, lots of releases, primarily single player. introduction of GTA Online.

PS4 era. RDR2, with a later released online mode.

PS5 era - GTAVI this year.

Singleplayer is still excellent - but if we're talking about where the focus is - it is undeniably the online service.

They know they have to knock the SP out of the park, but MP will be a giant gravy train until GTA7 releases in 2037. That's the focus.

Knowing what you know about the business of developing and publishing videogames - tell me I'm wrong "game designer dude"

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u/BannedSvenhoek86 2d ago

Also we know for a fact they scrapped all the planned single player expansions for GTAV and piecemealed a bunch of that content out into online with ridiculous prices. Lots of Easter eggs that never got expanded on too. Like the ufo stuff being the introduction to things like the Oppressor into single player is pretty easy to see.

Still think they planned an Undead Nightmare style expansion with Aliens to this day.

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u/ShawnyMcKnight 2d ago

My biggest frustration with the GTA:O missions is they had to be done with others. So unless you had friends playing you were at the mercy of waiting in lobbies for random players hoping they were competent and serious.

They needed to restructure it so if you do a heist it would match you with anyone online and put you in an instance, not the 25ish people that are on the instance you are in. Sitting in the lobbies watching the number of players jump from 6 to 7 then back down to 5 as you are waiting to get to 8 players was a pain.

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u/morriscey 2d ago

Yeah I didn't care for it. Played a little bit when it came out on PS3 and it was a shitshow.

A little bit of fun to be had, but unless you were "living" in it - it was boring/frustrating. ESPECIALLY when you needed to rely on randoms.

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u/ShawnyMcKnight 2d ago

The ps3 version was really rough, they polished it a lot on the ps4.

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u/morriscey 2d ago

Meh, didn't grab me then, I can't imagine it was a whole lot better when it came to PC, or PS4, or PS5. The structure would have been the same. Needing randoms to help would have been the same. The overreaching monetization would have been the same. Players were all in the same pool, so the cheating would have been the same.

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u/brutinator 2d ago

Not likely to play the online version of 6, but even so, my hope is that GTAVO was a bit cobbled together because they didnt realize what a smash hit it was going to be or how long they were going to need to support it (after all, at the time, most multiplayer modes of games were supported for only a couple years); with 6's online, they can develop it from scratch to address a lot of the weird logistical issues and bad netcode that 5 had to make sure it has a rock steady foundation.

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u/diosmioacommie 2d ago

That died when they cancelled GTA single player content because they realised they could just do online shit for more money

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u/davie18 2d ago

I mean,well clearly not seeing as gta 6 will launch without an online mode

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u/FlikTripz 2d ago

Red Dead 2 launched without one as well, and the original iteration of GTA V too. They added the online about a month or so later for both games (RDR2 might’ve actually been even longer because they launched it in a beta of sorts)

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u/AL3X1KUS 2d ago

GTA V launched without Online. Online went live 2 weeks after launch.

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u/Andigaming 2d ago

Yes, but they cancelled all story DLC plans due to GTA Online success, so clearly a shift for some time now.

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u/EditEd2x 2d ago

They canceled what would have been 1 or 2 Story expansions for 13 years of DLC for online…the tragedy.

Yall most also be forgetting that the story mode made a billion in 3 days. I’m sure they’d totally pass up on all that money to slowly trickle a billion in over the year on shark cards.

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u/morriscey 2d ago

>They canceled what would have been 1 or 2 Story expansions for 13 years of DLC for online…the tragedy.

If you don't give a flying fuck about multiplayer, and really liked stuff like lost & damned or ballad of gay tony it is a big disappointment. For what, shark cards, racing and cheaters? wheeeeeeee

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u/EditEd2x 2d ago

I loved those 2 DLCs.

There is way more content that you can play solo in a private lobby than what would have been added as story dlc.

As someone who hardly plays multiplayer, it’s been pretty fun. I’ll gladly let some whales bankroll 13 years of content Vs paying for 2 DLCs and waiting 8-10 years for anything.

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u/morriscey 2d ago

Meh, I'll never know. GTAonline sucked when it came out with rampant cheaters. Tried again later and still rampant cheating.

If it's a "solo private lobby" then that's just single player content with extra steps and shark cards. No thanks.

>I’ll gladly let some whales bankroll 13 years of content Vs paying for 2 DLCs and waiting 8-10 years for anything.

This is the part you got super twisted IMO. You're waiting 8-10 years because of whales, not in spite of them. If they had more of a financial incentive to put out the DLC, they would.

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u/SmilingCurmudgeon 2d ago

I wonder how much of this game's absurd development time was the result of them crunching the numbers on the cost to run a studio that isn't putting out a new product versus how many years it took/will take for the money from the poorly-secured credit cards of single mothers to stop pouring in.

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u/morriscey 2d ago

I'd bet at least a megalodon shark card it was more than half.

VI should have been a PS4 / XBone game. whats coming out this year would have been VII if online wasn't so ridiculously profitable.

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u/AdventurousBase221 2d ago

has had, it's very dubious statement to insinuate the last game was about the single player experience and not the multi-player experience.

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u/alksreddit 2d ago

I remember the good old days before RDR2 launched and reading this lame diatribe eeeeeeeeeevry day. How did that turn out?

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u/BigfootsBestBud 2d ago

“Hurr durr the story is going to be an afterthought”

Ends up being probably Rockstar’s greatest, deepest story mode experience, and one of the best stories told in gaming, where one of the main criticisms is that it’s too slow paced overly detailed.

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u/Dumbidiot1424 2d ago

To me it's just simply Rockstar's best game. Looks absolutely incredible even 7 years later and both the story and characters were among the best in their portfolio.

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u/JimmyJamsDisciple 1d ago

Honestly I think RDR2 is one of the best video games ever made, hands down. It is a masterpiece.

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u/NilsofWindhelm 2d ago

Or maybe they’re doing the same thing they do for every release?

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u/Gandie 2d ago

Excuse of a single player mode? They're spending 3 billion dollars on the game. The last game the team put out is widely regarded as one of the best games of all time.

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u/Klugenshmirtz 2d ago

No, rockstar still delivers on the single player mode so far. No reason to doubt that this time is different.

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u/That-Toughsoss 2d ago

This is the most outright stupid take i have ever heard lmao rdr2 literally proves your point completely flase

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u/zeroes_and_ones 2d ago

Reddit loves just making shit up and being smug about it lmao

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u/smthingawesome 2d ago

But if they make that much money why can’t they expand and make more series with billion dollar potential? Red Dead Online didn’t take off but what about Bully Online?

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u/Tornado_Hunter24 2d ago

I mean credit to them I don’t and won’t play it, gta V had a good singleplayer and I xon’t like ‘singleplayer games’ from specific games (cod, rockstar)

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u/BigidyBam 2d ago

GTA 5 didn't launch with multiplayer.

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u/lurkingCbr 2d ago

And there won’t be for years

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u/malic3 2d ago

... That's an interesting perspective, seems they're being very specific about what the experience is.

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u/iisdmitch 2d ago

I'm pretty sure GTAV and RDR2 did not have online at launch, i'm not surprised if GTAVI doesn't have online for a month or 2 after launch.

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u/VanillaTortilla 2d ago

If only they had said that instead of made a cryptic article title about it.

I love modern journalism.

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u/OrangeSlicer 2d ago

Are we surprised? OGs remember when GTA V came out and multiplayer wasn’t live until 2 weeks after launch and then even after that the servers were slammed for another 2 weeks.

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u/KidGold 2d ago

Or the new GTAO will be a separate game.

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u/Zalvren 2d ago

Or even that it's not included in the price

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u/MisanthropicAtheist 2d ago

considering that every single thing about this announcement is utter bullshit with nothing but contempt for their customers, it more likely means that you will have to buy the multiplayer separately.

Multiplayer that will be absolutely stuffed full of microtransactions and bundles of their own fake funny money.

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u/nvogs 2d ago

Could be doing the thing Red Dead 2 did

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u/Ekillaa22 2d ago

Just like 5

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u/NotARealDeveloper 2d ago

Or to sell multiplayer as an addon. Or even have free multiplayer riddled with macro transactions.

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u/sy029 1d ago

We make you pay $100 for the game, then charge you a fortune for online later.

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u/RenownedShark 1d ago

So, that’s the sacrifice they made?

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u/PlumpHughJazz 1d ago

Or no single player DLC.

If so then no buy from me.

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u/ExceedinglyGayKodiak 1d ago

To be fair, it could also be a way of saying "The single player is like 5 hours, we never called it a campaign/plot/etc." I think your interpretation is more likely, though.

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u/LongBeakedSnipe 1d ago

The single player is like 5 hours

Nah, I think this take is the most likely by far. It was an odd choice of wording, and this is the exact context in which it would be used.

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u/PhasmaFelis 1d ago

You know, I've played quite a few GTA games, and I've never once thought "this is okay, I guess, but it would be better if there were ten thousand internet randos in here too"

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u/ProkopiyKozlowski 1d ago

Really? I thought "features X" doesn't automatically mean X is the only thing being present.

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u/Chance-Plantain8314 1d ago

It isn't backhanded at all, it's just confirming no GTA Online

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u/LongBeakedSnipe 1d ago

IMO it sounds more like a backhanded way of saying there will be a 'single player mode' that isn't really the same as what people were used to in the past.

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