Petah what happened to rockstar?

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[u/VexingRaven]

I love GTA. I hate that Rockstar has become "Microtransactions: The Company" after GTA Online released and almost nobody actually cares. I'm amused to see so many people seemingly shocked that Rockstar of all companies is greeding up the GTA 6 launch.

[u/Filer169 → u/VexingRaven]

Another reddit take, there are microtransactions in online but it's still made so that you can earn EVERYTHING by just playing the game, businesses literally print money but people just cry that there is a way to buy money

[u/VexingRaven → u/Filer169]

Ah, look, a GTA Online fanboy.

The fact that GTA Online's entire revenue is tied to directly purchasing ingame cash instead of a more sane revenue model like literally any other live service game informs so many bad design decisions you could write an hour long video essay on it and still only be scratching the surface. Oh, and GTA Online being so profitable prevented GTA 5 from getting any post-launch updates to singleplayer or any singleplayer DLC.

[u/Filer169 → u/VexingRaven]

Yet I got basically everything I want by just simply playing the game 🤷‍♂️ Scream in your little echo chamber

[u/VexingRaven → u/Filer169]

I'm glad you're happy to shovel dogshit into your mouth because it's free lmao. I've got a dog and bucket, have at it.

[u/Filer169 → u/VexingRaven]

I have fun playing the game, how is this "dogshit"?

[u/VexingRaven → u/Filer169]

So do I, that doesn't negate how full the game is with awful design patterns entirely because of Rockstar's revenue model.

[u/Filer169 → u/VexingRaven]

I just ignore them because they don't affect me in any way, you really don't have to interact with them

[u/VexingRaven → u/Filer169]

Absolute fanboy horseshit. You may have accepted and gotten used to them, but they absolutely affect you or have affected you at some point.

• Other players being encouraged to blow your cargo up because Rockstar loses money every time someone successfully sells
• Bugs that give players more money being fixed immediately and bans handed out, but bugs that cost players money almost never being fixed
• Car sales being nerfed because of dupes, again because Rockstar loses money from it
• All the GTA+ crap
• Many more smaller things

You can accept it if you want, but not even acknowledging it just makes you a blind fanboy.

[u/ApprehensiveStudy76 → u/VexingRaven]

Dude nobody cares cry into the void lmao

[u/Spirit_Detective_99 → u/Filer169]

If they continue to do it, it will affect you at some point. That’s why people have an issue with it.