Grand Theft Auto 6 will make billions of dollars when it launches, but Rockstar has a 'significant online mode' that will generate money for years.
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Anyone who bought a shark card here is to blame

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Will the netcode be as crappy as in the original GTA Online? Sources say yes.

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GTA Online was/is peer to peer. Imagine a world where they chose to have dedicated lobby servers…

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When you say peer to peer, does this mean every player communicates with every other player, or does one person act as the “server”?

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I believe one person acts as the host. That’s why sometimes it’ll kick you out of a session and start loading again, that means the host has left and someone else needs to take over.

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Oh good this is here, I don’t have to post it.

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We all figured that. The question is will there be any additional single player content.

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Oh joy. What an important cultural contribution that will be.

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GTA 6 will be the last one this century.

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🤮

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Lemme guess: microtransactions next?

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As well as macro

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I’m fucking done with Rockstar after GTA5. Took a great franchise and fucking ruined it with online mode. One of my first sessions ended up with a hacker teleporting everyone to a single location on the map and dropping millions on everyone.

Also, I can’t play Vice City (still my favorite) on PC without the Social Club bullshit or downloading a cracked version (I gave up on pirated software), despite it being a single player game. Just another company I’m happy to boycott forever.

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You should try playing Vice City on a PS2 emulator. Connect your emulator with retroachievements.org and try to get all the achievements. If you can find a legit PS2 copy, it won’t be piracy.

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That’s a good wisdom! I still have my original PS2 disc packed away, but I’d have to get a DVD drive for my PC (I haven’t had one for years). They’re cheap enough, and I’ve got a few other games as well. Thanks!

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If you’ve got a legit copy then just download a copy and run that on the emulator, no DVD drive needed.

It’s not piracy, it’s a backup.

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Just download an image if you have a legit copy.

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I only ever bought RDR2 from them, which is still bringing me a lot of enjoyment, and after seeing how they squandered RDR online for the heinous crime of not printing money fast enough, I don’t think I’ll be buying anything from them for the foreseeable future.

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That’s my big problem with the online mode as well. They could have actually made it fun but it’s totally unplayable because they don’t do anything about hackers while at the same time even by legitimate means giving players access to fucking sci-fi death machines.

I’m so sick of spawning in and instantly getting blown up by a flying motorcycle with infinite rockets. That’s not even fun gameplay for the person the flying motorcycle.

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The only reason they even doing more than an online mode at this point is cause they might lose out on a couple of greens otherwise

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I don’t think so personally. Without a story campaign, there is just not enough force to push the launch sales. I think that’s why since Black ops 4, all cod has a campaign.

Just hope they don’t make the campaign need online connection too, lol. Rockstar launcher is shit enough as it is.

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How sad is it when gaming companies first advertise to their shareholders before the gamers…

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Hate it or love it, GTA has become one of the world biggest brand. GTA6 might be one of the biggest mainstream game. And you just don’t make the biggest game without the biggest parachute to get every share holders on-board.

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Oh well I’m definitely going to get the game then. I was concerned that it wouldn’t be maximally profitable for shareholders.

I don’t need to know anything about the gameplay just that someone who isn’t me will make a lot of money out of this.

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This game is looking less fun every day

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GTA 5 was so lame for me already (I just can’t relate to predefined characters, especially when they’re THIS unlikable) and GTA Online ruined the rest of it for me. Now that they decided to also block Linux I’m seriously questioning why I should even bother with GTA 6 at all? Or this company in general? There’s enough games out there I can buy for that money that can keep me busy for longer and with less annoyances.

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Blocking Linux on GTA V was a huge point for me to avoid GTA6, at least for a while after launch.

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So sad that Rockstar now too is “one of those”, but that is what always happens when small companies making great products grown into large corporations. Gta6 will be shit, it will ring in the end for Rockstar and nobody at the exec level at Rockstar willl care because they will have filled their pockets and can jump ship.

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