Will Rockstar imedeatly abandon GTA6 single player?

[Mechanical]

Will RS ignore the existence of the single player game and go straight to only developing for the mock-mmo?

[FxMxRx]

I hope so, Rockstar is doing a great job in delivering a full game at launch instead of selling their game through multiple paid DLCs like other scummy dev/publishers do.

[Zero McDol]

They're all about the money after all. So it's pretty much a given that they won't invest in a single player game.

Either way, I'm only interested in GTA Online.

[Fives5555]

Originally posted by FxMxRx:

I hope so, Rockstar is doing a great job in delivering a full game at launch instead of selling their game through multiple paid DLCs like other scummy dev/publishers do.

This is the kind of brainless response someone who has no knowledge on the gaming space would say. Ehem, GTA+? Sharkcards? No? How can you say that other gaming publishers are scummy, when R* is even scummier? Releasing the game first on consoles, then on PC, and any other console generation that comes after. Now add in the in-game currency that you can buy with real money. And on top of that, add in the GTA+ Subscription model only on current gen consoles and you have the trifecta of milking. Oh, and removing content (188 cars) out of the in-game websites to rotate them on the showroom floors. In other words, FOMO.

Originally posted by FxMxRx:

a full game at launch

This is an utter lie. How do you explain every 2 updates a year we have had for 10 years now? It wasn't like GTAO was finished 10 years ago? In fact, R* wasn't even planning on having an online portion of GTA5. The players wanted it more than R*. Want proof? There were leaked game files back when R* got hacked that showed we were going to have singleplayer DLC's, rather than GTAO DLC's. Both of these show that none of it was 100% completed at launch.

My thoughts now. R* SHOULD and WILL have a Singleplayer mode for GTA6. We already have the characters names. Now will R* continue work on singleplayer? That remains to be seen. Judging on GTA5, not likely.

[FxMxRx]

Originally posted by Fives5555:

Originally posted by FxMxRx:

I hope so, Rockstar is doing a great job in delivering a full game at launch instead of selling their game through multiple paid DLCs like other scummy dev/publishers do.

This is the kind of brainless response someone who has no knowledge on the gaming space would say. Ehem, GTA+? Sharkcards? No? How can you say that other gaming publishers are scummy, when R* is even scummier? Releasing the game first on consoles, then on PC, and any other console generation that comes after. Now add in the in-game currency that you can buy with real money. And on top of that, add in the GTA+ Subscription model only on current gen consoles and you have the trifecta of milking. Oh, and removing content (188 cars) out of the in-game websites to rotate them on the showroom floors. In other words, FOMO.

Originally posted by FxMxRx:

a full game at launch

This is an utter lie. How do you explain every 2 updates a year we have had for 10 years now? It wasn't like GTAO was finished 10 years ago? In fact, R* wasn't even planning on having an online portion of GTA5. The players wanted it more than R*. Want proof? There were leaked game files back when R* got hacked that showed we were going to have singleplayer DLC's, rather than GTAO DLC's. Both of these show that none of it was 100% completed at launch.

My thoughts now. R* SHOULD and WILL have a Singleplayer mode for GTA6. We already have the characters names. Now will R* continue work on singleplayer? That remains to be seen. Judging on GTA5, not likely.

I'm talking about single player, and more specificly about addition of single player content, your rant about the online aspects are just whataboutism since I dind't even mentioned that, and yes my man, I dont like it either, thats why I never bought shark cards or subscribed to GTA+, I get the argue OP made about the online and he is right about that, I just dont agree with the idea of keep lauching content for narrative driven games you know, the ones who follow one or more story lines, these ones should be selled as a whole or in sequels of stand alone games if you want to keep working on the characters, that way you have a full story per game and not a full game being selled in parts, but that is just my opinion.

Back to my original poit, from your random mumbling the only relatable points are "the console first", who surely sucks and is the only of your points I really hate, and the "game files SP DLC's", who are for a game which already have a well tied end, so no need for cash grab DLCs. I hope the only work R* put on GTAVI after launch are patchs and updates to correct bugs and keep the game stable/well optmized, then move on to the next GTA or, even better, to create a fresh game instead of using all the time in the making of SP DLCs or "mock-mmo".

So yes, R* is doing a better job than other scummy publishers when it comes to single player games, if R* keep their milking tatics only in the online aspects of its games I would be ok once I could just ignore it, if they become like Ubisoft, EA, Microsoft and few others who fill SP modes with overpriced DLCs and microtransactions we will be doomed.

Edit: typo

[Maizel]

I think so. The singleplayer might be good, but I dont expect it to hold a candle to RDR2.

Seeing the obscene amounts of money they make with GTA online, I expect GTA6 to more or less be a vessel for GTA:O

[AlexSledge]

Observant people might notice that it's "GTA Online" and not "GTA 5 Online".

There's a strong chance GTA 6 is single player only, and GTA 6 related content will be sold as DLC, and dribbled out piecemeal to GTA Online and GTA+ subscribers.

[globefish23]

Highly likely.

Strauss Zelnick, the CEO of Take Two Interactive, the parent company of Rockstar Games, has said a couple of years ago that they want to focus more on online-only DLCs.

This was well after the cancellation of single player DLCs for GTA V, and long before the announcement of GTA VI.
However it's pretty obvious that this game-as-a-service business model of GTA Online was a huge financial success.
It would be very surprising if they would backtrack any suddenly support the single player part any more than necessary.

In fact, I fear that they will even cut it shorter at release and deliver single player content in the same dripfeed style.

[zuniger]

Originally posted by FxMxRx:

I hope so, Rockstar is doing a great job in delivering a full game at launch instead of selling their game through multiple paid DLCs like other scummy dev/publishers do.

Why cant they make undead redemption 2? :(

[zuniger]

Yeah, they'll put out one of the best single player experiences we have, then destroy their reputation with the online mode being as horrible as they can! They dont fix the modding issue, however I dont think Ive ever gotten a money drop in RDR2 online.

[Joe Cool]

Originally posted by globefish23:

However it's pretty obvious that this game-as-a-service business model of GTA Online was a huge financial success.

They actually consider GTAV online to be a failure as it was "under monetized"

Look at it this way. They completely abandoned and ignored single player in both GTAV and RDR2. They cut content from single player GTAV in order to focus on the online mode, they scrapped the promised single player DLC's to focus on extremely overpriced "free" content for online. They cut MASSIVE portions of RDR2's story mode in order to focus on it's garbage online mode.

The chances of them providing a quality single player experience are literally non-existent. Their endless levels of greed have caused them to shift 99.9% of their focus to scamming online players into overpaying for shark cards to obtain the "free" DLC content.


It's pretty much guaranteed that GTA 6 will be the worst, lowest quality game that Rockstar has ever created. The people at Rockstar responsible for making Rockstar games so great, detailed, and polished, are all gone. They left Rockstar to be replaced by new developers who will be much more subservient to the suggestions of their non-gamer, anti-consumer, greed focused bosses at TakeTwo. (The ones who think raking in 1 billion dollars per year is "under monetized")

GTA 6 is literally the first game ever produced by this new "Rockstar games" team.

[Maviba]

Originally posted by Joe Cool:

Originally posted by globefish23:

However it's pretty obvious that this game-as-a-service business model of GTA Online was a huge financial success.

They actually consider GTAV online to be a failure as it was "under monetized" .

Where did you get this nonsense from? Did you pull it out of your back?
The financial success of GTAO, that started after the "gunrunning DLC" got released, was the reason why R* eventually ditched the single player DLCs but started focusing on GTAO instead.
https://www.gtaboom.com/gta-online-success-axing-gta-v-dlc-ex-rockstar-dev/

If they had considered it as being a flop, R* wouldn't have supported online for more than 12 years now for sure.

[BORG]

I think GTA6 is the end of GTA single player and that the campaign will be short lived. It's all monetization here on out.

[ProperCharva]

probably I'm fine with a completed game at launch anyway

[Dezktop]

devs can move on to other project, they don't have to cut their games up prior to launch to then sell them in bits and pieces over the next year like ubisoft. or do most ppl still pretend post launch content was developed post launch 100% of the time?

[Joe Cool]

Originally posted by Maviba:

Originally posted by Joe Cool:

They actually consider GTAV online to be a failure as it was "under monetized" .

Where did you get this nonsense from? Did you pull it out of your back?
The financial success of GTAO, that started after the "gunrunning DLC" got released, was the reason why R* eventually ditched the single player DLCs but started focusing on GTAO instead.
https://www.gtaboom.com/gta-online-success-axing-gta-v-dlc-ex-rockstar-dev/

If they had considered it as being a flop, R* wouldn't have supported online for more than 12 years now for sure.

They are actually on record stating that GTAV online was "under monetized"

It doesn't matter if you or I or anyone else thinks that it was a financial success because it was, in their own words, "under monetized"

They are so insanely greedy that 1 billion dollars per year just off their shark card scam alone is a failure in their eyes. They believe that they should've made even more money off of their shark card scam.

Thus they will redouble their efforts to scam players in GTA 6 online.