There's really only one reason for Rockstar to release Grand Theft Auto 6 later on PC
There's really only one reason for Rockstar to release Grand Theft Auto 6 later on PC
Too bad many of the people in my generation who grew up with GTA games stopped caring since we're all middle aged now anyway.
Also the impact of a new rockstar game today is very different from what it was in the 2000s. There's so much to play now that waiting a year isn't that big a deal when you have a giant library of Steam games.
Rockstar wants people to double drip. That's why, like they did with GTA5.
And RDR2. Although GTA5 they got an extra layer with the original and next gen console releases as well as PC.
I’ll wait even longer bc I’m not giving those assholes $70.
I think I will be skipping all together or go the libre route due to that nasty launcher
I was just wanting to play gta 5 on steamdeck. But it has some anti cheat and stoped working on Linux.
It was just added this past week. So I literally cannot play a game that I bought.
It didn’t even occur to me to go the Libre route. I’m 100% doing that so I can play a game that I own.
when has long-term growth and stability ever been prioritized over short-term wins in the games industry?
I dunno, maybe Valve's entire approach to Linux and devices. Maybe GOG's dedication to only selling DRM-free games. You'd think PC Gamer magazine would be well aware of these.
True, but I expect that wasn't meant literally; it was expressed that way for rhetorical effect.
Most of the capitalist system we're in has incentivized short-term cashflow over long-term revenue for most stakeholders (annual bonuses, for example), and AAA gaming is almost entirely following those trends, too.
Fuck them for using us for their financial strategy.
I think that's just called "business"
Lol
There's only one reason to clickbait that hard
And it's the same reason as the one alluded to in the title.
Money. That's why.
People double dipping and people that buy it on pc release for full price when that is just too much to ask at that point.
I waited years and years for RdR2 to be at a reasonable price, only bought it because I had a gift card and only needed to pay what amounted to a candy bar. Still managed to get disappointed with the start of the game. In hindsight I should have gotten a refund for it because a candy bar would have been the better choice.
It's not like the reason has changed since GTA 3, when this "tradition" first started.
GTA online ruined the whole series for me, even though I liked the single player. Just unplayable. Only for rockstar to fully focus on it, cause micro transactions. I just don't care anymore.
Why do you believe online is unplayable?
On PC, cheaters are the problem. They never fixed online gameplay or stopped cheaters on PC. I join a server only to be immediately killed or hunted mercilessly by some asshole who thinks it's fun to ruin other people's games.
Online is unplayable for the reasons posted but I’m more pissed they scuttled the single player DLC to focus on online instead.
Cheating, every lobby has several of them and you'll play for a few minutes only to be teleported somewhere and killed, or run into a guy with god mode turned on.
Whenever I try to go online my wanted rating goes to 4 stars within a minute and the cops immediately kill me.
Maybe because I'm still using the ps3 version.
I was mostly talking about multiplayer at launch being unplayable. I tried to play with friends but the loading times were just abysmal, and lots of crashes which caused you to go through all the loading screens again. And just annoying people on the map. This was before all the cheaters showed up. Gta online made them a shitton of money so I don't think single player is their priority.
There are many reasons you can think gtao is unplayable, but in my opinion micro transactions is not one of them.
I believe they meant Rockstar puts their full focus on gtao because of the revenue brought in by micro transactions. Not that gtao is unplayable because of micro transactions.
I got banned on it using cheats as an anticheat, because it got so bad. Don't regret the ban.
For me it was the systematic destructor mods and cheats. Modded GTA5 was awesome, thenbthey removed the script hooks and everything got way too complicated.