It just made me start thinking with the direction Rockstar wants to go with the series in the future. Are they going to even have a single player anymore? What if they decide to mesh online and single player together in a single game where you have a story arc presented in series of missions loosely sewn together with some side missions thrown in between.
I know, but complaining about how bad things are without offering a solution would just be whinging.
I would doubt it because a Rockstar Single Player campaign still sells a ton of copies. I mean hardly anyone bought RDR2 for the Online world right?
Yeah, I actually doubt this, actually. Bethesda has been burning through their good will for awhile now. First Fallout 4 was a massive disappointment. Then Fallout 76 shit the bed, and now Starfield is their biggest failure to date, and even the usual shills aren't defending them anymore; everybody just agrees it was bad and has moved on. Whatever good reputation Bethesda had from Skyrim is long gone; hell, Skyrim is over a decade old at this point. There's a whole generation of gamers now that don't remember the hype from when Skyrim was new, because they were too young to care or play it. So Bethesda has been alienating their core audience and failing to grab a new one. No game they've produced since has come close to Skyrim's sales or concurrent, consistent player base.
You guys still say this when absolutely everything points to the opposite.
Fallout 4 typically only has about 5000 less players than Skyrim Special Edition at any time on Steam.
The most fun I had in GTA Online was finding exploits in missions/heists and watching Rockstar furiously patch them out ASAP back in the first few years of it.
I remember this exploit with accessing your personal vehicle within the Pacific Standard Job heist finale.
People really need to remember that the general population of gamers is, above all, very stupid.
Skyrim is far older than Fallout 4. The fact that it maintains such a player base till this day is a testament to its enduring popularity. Its not a feather in Fallout 4's cap that its "only" 5000 less players than a game that's over a decade old at this point.
If that's true, then what does Fallout 4 having about 20000 more regular players than New Vegas mean?
Hell, they didn't even patch the helicopter thing for the Auto Shop Union Depository heist either.
GTA IV's PC original port was infamously terrible, with a lot of graphical and performance issues, and even today, with the 2020 re-release of the complete edition, many people can't play it due to it being tied to Rockstar's social club launcher. The online mode, which was fun in its day, is probably dead at this point, because it was never as big at GTA Online, which is another reason that GTA V still has such a large number of concurrent players.
For as legendary as New Vegas is, its a buggy mess of a game, and it takes effort to make it play stably, much less allow you to play it all the way through. Skyrim is, at least, far more stable in base, even without modification.
Just wait til you have to start doing maintenance on your own personal vehicles or else they won't start.
I couldn't even fathom a game that passively TAKES your earned currency.
I'm pretty sure the "you can no longer afford to pay your utilities" was a bigger issue when the game first started, as some people would side step the banking system by withdrawing their money onto a second character as their *bank* so the utilities wouldn't be withdrawn on their main character. (back when every little bit actually mattered)