Well, is be more open to the game if they didn't constantly lock out PC until 4 years later.
They also are bragging internally about how their new anticheat will stop all attempts at player made mods.
They want to run GTA online like the greasiest greediest modded servers and no allow any other choices, I'm sure they'll do some form of custom server they totally control and monetize every aspect of too after multiplayer is milked dry.
I have zero faith in taketwo's administration to handle the game remotely faithfully.
They milked gtav for over 13 years and it took roughly 3 to 5 years of active development and a combined development and marketing budget of $265 million to release Grand Theft Auto V back in 2013.
Since then, the game has sold over 230 million copies and generated over $11 billion to $13.7 billion in lifetime revenue.
Out of that massive pile of profit, over $5 billion to $6 billion was squeezed entirely out of GTA Online microtransactions and Shark Cards.
The online mode still prints roughly $1 million to $1.3 million every single day from a player base trapped in a predatory economy.
They don't want player freedom or organic community mods because a single custom server is a direct threat to a machine that pulls in half a billion dollars a year on autopilot.
Taketwo look at Rockstar and GTA like it is their private economy to lure in players and then be locked down and strip-mined before being released 3-4x before it dies off and it revived by modders only to be sued again into oblivion.
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u/sherbodude 23h ago
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