Grand Theft Auto Grieving Thread - Yep, I've been drinkin' again...

[The Last Stand]

So what do you guys think about the future of GTA Online? Will Rockstar shut down it's servers once VI's online is up or they will simply leave it in an abandoned state?

I feel it will reach a point where the engine cannot handle any more and support will stop. I wouldn't be surprised if GTA Online lasts ten more years.

 

[X Prime]

If people are playing it, and spending money on it, they will keep it up as long as it is profitable.

This is actually not how it works sometimes.

Sometimes, an online service can be making money and still be shut down.

That happens when it's not making enough money for the suits, meaning the staff should be relocated to theoretically more profitable sectors of the company.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

Sometimes, an online service can be making money and still be shut down.

That happens when it's not making enough money for the suits, meaning the staff should be relocated to theoretically more profitable sectors of the company.

Yeah, that's specifically why I put "as long as it is profitable"

 

[A skinny fat man]

So what do you guys think about the future of GTA Online? Will Rockstar shut down it's servers once VI's online is up or they will simply leave it in an abandoned state?

I think GTA V online will be up for a few years with minimal life support/maintenance updates, but you willl get some token GTA VI online bonus if you played GTA V as an incentive to move to VI online which will otherwise be a mostly blank slate.

 

[X Prime]

Yeah, that's specifically why I put "as long as it is profitable"

Sorry, I didn't say it properly. To be clearer, it can be shut down for being profitable, just not profitable enough. This has happened to some gachas.

 

[The Last Stand]

This is actually not how it works sometimes.

Sometimes, an online service can be making money and still be shut down.

That happens when it's not making enough money for the suits, meaning the staff should be relocated to theoretically more profitable sectors of the company.

Sorry, I didn't say it properly. To be clearer, it can be shut down for being profitable, just not profitable enough. This has happened to some gachas.

That doesn't make sense. If servers are shut down for an online service, those resources aren't used for the defunct service. Allocating them to other products does not mean that online service is "making money." Servers cost money; if it's NOT making money or having a sustainable population, typically companies would discontinue that particular service.

 

[X Prime]

That does not counteract what I had stated.

I am explaining that there is a difference between "profitable" and "profitable enough to satisfy executives."

The former occurring does not guarantee the latter, and thereby does not guarantee online service continuance.

 

[Lone Wandering Courier]

I don't think GTA Online would cost that much to keep going when it's pretty much p2p rather than using dedicated servers

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

I am explaining that there is a difference between "profitable" and "profitable enough to satisfy executives."

You can just assume that when I say profitable, I do mean "profitable enough"

I mean, we're talking about Take Two here.

 

[30+GameOvers]

I don't think GTA Online would cost that much to keep going when it's pretty much p2p rather than using dedicated servers

If that were the case, they wouldn't have shut down the last gen versions(ps3 and x360) online mode

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

If that were the case, they wouldn't have shut down the last gen versions(ps3 and x360) online mode

Yeah, I'm honestly surprised they kept it going to 2021 when they stopped updating it in 2015, and presumably most people would have stopped buying shark cards shortly after that. (the only major shark card update prior to this was Ill Gotten Gains which was basically the *first* shark card update)

 

[The Last Stand]

If that were the case, they wouldn't have shut down the last gen versions(ps3 and x360) online mode

Some stuff was still kept server-side with R* Social Club. I think it was shut down because of hardware limitations and declining playerbase. Remember that GTA V came out on 15 year old consoles at the their end of lifespan.

On to GTA3: I just like how Claude's first safehouse just had a mattress, sink, microwave and oven. Man was living in a studio.

 

[East_Clintwood]

Ned Luke was apparently swatted during a GTA V livestream. Absolute dick move tbh:

 

[Shekelslovakia]

Ned Luke was apparently swatted during a GTA V livestream. Absolute dick move tbh:
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Well he has been kind of a dick in recent times, didn't he say he was a hardcore liberal it took shots at the fandom for crying about GTA VI not coming out? What goes around comes around, I guess.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

It is claimed that Rockstar sacrificed Agent and some shitty generic zombie game on the altar of GTA:

https://www.eurogamer.net/ex-rockstar-north-dev-talks-agent-abandoned-zombie-game-in-fascinating-new-blog

It would have been like a Naughty Dog game, I take it, being set pieces with things like submersible cars, shootout on skis and a shootout in space. Superspies, not realistic Cold War fiction (both are empty genres in vidya).

 

[The Last Stand]

It is claimed that Rockstar sacrificed Agent and some shitty generic zombie game on the altar of GTA:

https://www.eurogamer.net/ex-rockstar-north-dev-talks-agent-abandoned-zombie-game-in-fascinating-new-blog

It would have been like a Naughty Dog game, I take it, being set pieces with things like submersible cars, shootout on skis and a shootout in space. Superspies, not realistic Cold War fiction (both are empty genres in vidya).

More bad news. Ex-R* developer Obbe Vermeij had created a blog detailing his work with R* based games. Now, R* North gave him a cease and desist for disclosing secrets. Bullshit.

 

[Ser Prize]

GTA Online and the shark cards that print money ruined Rockstar's priorities.

It is claimed that Rockstar sacrificed Agent and some shitty generic zombie game on the altar of GTA:

https://www.eurogamer.net/ex-rockstar-north-dev-talks-agent-abandoned-zombie-game-in-fascinating-new-blog

It would have been like a Naughty Dog game, I take it, being set pieces with things like submersible cars, shootout on skis and a shootout in space. Superspies, not realistic Cold War fiction (both are empty genres in vidya).

The only game I can recall that did anything like that were the James Bond games and Alpha Protocol. Guess we'll have to see how that IO Interactive JB game turns out.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

I figured pretty much everything was sacrificed on the alter of GTA and Red Dead since we haven't gotten anything but those games in a fucking decade.

Kind of funny they're blaming Obbe for ruining the "Rockstar Mystique" when they pretty much did that by caving into feminist and LGBTQ faggot pressure.

 

[Ventrue]

That cease and desist came from Sam Houser. He is the only one at Rockstar that cares about protecting their secrets.

 

[The Last Stand]

Kind of funny they're blaming Obbe for ruining the "Rockstar Mystique" when they pretty much did that by caving into feminist and LGBTQ faggot pressure.

I see other developers have the freedom to talk about game development and such. It's not like he was divulging confidential company secrets. I hate how R* loves to SIT on their beloved IPs, but refuse to do anything worthwhile with them.