Rockstar’s acquisition of FiveM may turn out to be a huge mistake in the end.
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Rumor: GTA Roleplay Server FiveM Victim Of Hostile Takeover - And One Of Rockstar's Own Is Involved
Submitted 4 days ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to gaming@lemmy.zip
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Not surprising.
If you’ve ever interacted with any of the actual devs or FiveM staff on discord or anything, say you’re looking for actual technical support because their own function calls are incorrectly documented… they’re basically the same as hugely egotistical Gmod RP server devs of yore, happy to powertrip and scam people with reckless abandon, massively overstating their own technical competency and taking any question or criticism as if you’d just personally tied them down to the cuck chair while their gf laughed.
BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Out of interest, when GTAVI comes out will it matter?
Will the next game need a new from-scratch RP mod? Or will some of the open source components of FiveM be reusable?
FiveM have an advantage being owned by Rockstar but if it all has to be done again from scratch, FiveM may be irrelevant? Interested members of the community will make their own thing like they did before. Or is that wishful thinking?
moody@lemmings.world 3 days ago
This is only speculation on my part, but it makes no sense to buy FiveM this late into the game’s lifecycle and not use the existing system for the next game. At the very least, if significant changes need to be made, there’s already a framework there to build on. If they shut down FiveM with the release of GTA6, that’s just opening the door for someone else to build a new system to replace it.
But I don’t run a corporation and am not exclusively motivated by short-term profits.
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
There is no way to know for certain.
Rockstar almost certainly acquired these idiot clowns because they decided they could make more money by officially/unofficially endorsing and regulating RP servers that fleece people for money with paid memberships tiers and in game item purchases, than they would by suing them all out of existence.
Rockstar very, very easily could have sued them out of existence, and probably put many of them in jail.
There is 0 chance that FiveM devs were not personally enriching themselves in some roundabout manner with their product, before they became official employees.
They very likely got an offer from Rockstar that basically looked like ‘Hey, we know you’re making money off of illegally modifying our product, you can either work for us and make that money for us, or we sue you into an early grave’.
My guess to the future with GTA6 is that if a clear winning group emerges from this current drama shitfest, Rockstar will put them in charge of basically licesensing out a framework for GTA 6 online servers.
Or, if the shitfest is too stupid and obnoxious, they’ll shit can basically everyone involved, maybe keep a few who can actually code decentlt around to work on other parts of the game, and any GTA 6 RP system would have to be built basically from scratch.
… And most of the people trying to build it from scratch would most likely be those people who just got shitcanned, and they would most likely be cease and desist / sued into oblivion.