Comment on Rockstar Games Plans Age Verification For GTA Online

Lfrith@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• real_squids@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  On the flip side, it’s given it insane longevity and made it feel more modern. Playing singleplayer feels so annoying at times because of their arbitrary rules (which are still in online, but toned down a little) and gameplay/mission design.

  At least GTAO showed everyone rockstar’s true nature, and you couldn’t turn away or say that it’s a small alternative game mode.
  So shoutout to online and 5 as a whole for showing me enough to avoid all future rockstar titles lol

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  • tootoughtoremember@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    GTA5 was released in 2013. GTA6 is being released 13 years later. If there had been no GTAO, we would have had at least one or two more “modern” GTA releases in that window.

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    • real_squids@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I wouldn’t be so sure. Modern AAA games are insanely big and resource-intensive. Just look at rdr2

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      • Lfrith@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        We would have had story DLC like Ballad of Gay Tony and the Lost and the Damned GTA IV got as well as Undead Nightmare for Red Dead Redemption.

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      • Lightor@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        They want money though, they would be selling content instead of shark passes or whatever.

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    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I would think so.
      Considering for how detailed the world is, I can see them working for a long time on it (maybe not 13 years but longer than between 4 and 5).

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Then they double killed it when they started introducing nonsense like flying cars with rocket launchers.

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  • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Don’t forget when they triple killed it by not enabling Proton support.

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• TheMonk@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t understand why people needed to give them constant money. For real, I played for a minute but never spent a dime. Why buy things when you can achieve them?

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  • binarytobis@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    To be honest I regret spending so much time earning money and buying so many cars. It would have been more fun riding around in a stolen piece of trash robbing liquor stores with a friend than grinding the bank heist over and over.

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  • SuperSpecialNickname@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Because it’s extremely annoying to earn enough money. Payouts are pathetic and things are extremely expensive to push you towards buying money. I didn’t spend any money on it thankfully, that’s just my reasoning behind it.

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    • Lfrith@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      People are really weird. Stuff like that makes me not play, but for most it makes them spend. I find those consumers bizarre as hell, but they are the mainstream consumer so we are the weird ones.

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      • TheMonk@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        This is definitely the way I feel. Even if I really want to do something, if I find out they’re doing this to squeeze me or they’re putting some wild shit in the privacy policy, I just don’t engage with their shit. Fuck those companies. I’m more angry with capitalism than I am susceptible to the desire they try to garner

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    • FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It was great the first couple years when people were just throwing piles of in game money around so everyone could play with all the flashy things. After they cinched up every money glitch and started pushing shark cards…online instantly lost any appeal. As you said, grinding for things in game is purposefully tedious and geared to make you spend more money.

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  • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Because number go up. lol

    Also everything is insanely expensive in online.

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• lechekaflan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Unfortunately, the online component easily becomes a profitable sideline. Sarcastically, it’s what keeps some game corporation CEOs afford their lifestyles.

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  • madcaesar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I fucking hate how there is starvation and homelessness in the world, at the same time as there is morons blasting cash away into imaginary online points.

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