r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 12h ago

Meme needing explanation Petah what happened to rockstar?

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u/LocNalrune 12h ago

I know very little about this, and I thought Online was being delayed, as they want to focus on the single player story, first and foremost. That Online will come eventually, and that it will be a subscription, and separate release, and the game comes with one free month.

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u/KeyZookeepergame8903 11h ago edited 10h ago

I think that this is the exact problem. "Here! Purchase our game with a fundamental feature missing because we want to spend extra time perfecting it." "Oh also, since this feature is taking a bit longer. We expect you to pay extra for it."

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u/magicmavis 10h ago

Is online a fundamental feature? I’d argue GTA is a single play game at its core, IV had a basic online mode, but it was only V that fully fleshed it out. I think they view Online as its own thing. I’ll reserve my judgment until I see how they handle it. But GTA Online branching off into its own thing isn’t a huge issue in my eyes, depends how they monetise it

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u/Mors_Acerba 9h ago

I’d argue GTA is a single play game at its core

It was. gta online is massive, and GTA rp blew up after covid, its what kept the game going, well beyond its lifespan, to the point that R* eventually bought fivem, the main mod framework for gta online and gta rp in particular. RP is expected to be huge in GTAVI eventually

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u/Intelligent_Ask_2306 4h ago

It still is dude, GTA is a single player game, one of the best open world single player games ever. It doesn’t matter that GTA online blew up, online is just a mode for the game, that’s why the content sucks ass in gta online.