GTA Online adds a quality-of-life feature players have wanted for years then upsets everyone by paywalling it: 'One of the slimiest things they've done in a while'
GTA Online adds a quality-of-life feature players have wanted for years then upsets everyone by paywalling it: 'One of the slimiest things they've done in a while'
Thoughts are inevitably turning to where the next GTA Online is going with this stuff.
GTA Online's latest event is called Bottom Dollar Bounties and focuses on letting players live that Dog the Bounty Hunter life in Los Santos, but it also adds the new Vinewood Club app to in-game phones.
This app "lets you easily request vehicles, claim all outstanding business safe earnings, and replenish ammo on your in-game phone." Collecting cash from your businesses in GTA Online has always been a bit of a pain, and being able to do it from your phone instead is obviously a massive improvement. The catch, of course, is that it's only available to GTA+ subscribers paying $8 a month (thanks, GamesRadar+).
Thank you!
My favorite feature of GTA Online was when I’d get destroyed by someone with every weapon, only to respawn walking distance from them over and over and over. They’d kill me repeatedly before I even had a chance to do anything. The only way I could escape was to hope I found a car quick, or hope they got bored of spawn killing me.
This game is a fucking joke. Rockstar has been a shell of its former self for years.
I got hooked on shark cards for a while when I played GTA:O, I probably spend thousands of SEK on them for months, then one day I realized what a fucking shit game it is, and uninstalled it.
This was eight or so years ago now, and I have not played it since.
I don't consider the money wasted though, I consider them part of my education, I learned from this, and can now see the signs before I spend money.
Rockstar Education™: Predatory Live Services Edition
Yeah, I never consider it a waste if you got some personal enrichment from it as an outlet. My goal was to never spend any actual money on the online portion and eventually people just got way too overpowered. It was a glaring example of pay-to-play and how it can ruin a game. It shut out any chance of growth and fun.
Greed will do that to any company.
One time I was just trying to do my money laundering restocking in GTA:O (iirc it was money laundering, it was whatever business you got when the game went free on epic games) and a guy on the flying motorbike killed me for no reason and it wasted a ton of time, eventually I killed him back and he spawned in the desert in front of me so I spawn killed him until he apologized.
I'm not saying what I did was right, I did it in the heat of the moment. But man, that game is really good at making you mad at people.
My favorite feature of the game was when you went into a friend's only game, just so that you can get a handle on mp before subjecting yourself to actual mp, and halfway through driving through the city, you would merge into a public game and get shot to hell with no warning, and when you let out an exasperated "awww come on" the game triggers voice chat, which you never set up and didn't know the game had it, and only realized when the 10 year old kid that just fragged you comes on the mic with a "cry more noob" or some similar retort.
Oh yeah, super fun game.
Does this happen? I played GTAO on and off from 2013-2022, primarily in invite sessions with friends, and this has never once occurred to me.
To my understanding, invite only sessions remain invite only. If you’re in a public lobby but alone, it would ping occasionally with “you’re playing solo, find a new session to play with others”. Others could join, but it would say they joined. You couldn’t join a populated lobby without finding a new session, but people could start trickling in.
I’ve never once seen an invite session merge into a public lobby, would dozens of people just show up at once without notice? I haven’t played in a couple years so if they added that, I wouldn’t have seen it
Gta online was a scam long before this.
That's rich, they still can't or won't meaningfully address script kiddies from ruining everyone's fun in open play.
Last time I played GTA Online some fuck wiped everyones' inventory of all their weapons. Teleported everyone to some spot in the ocean. Blew up everyone's cars as soon as they buckled in.
Charging any amount of money for that trashy fucking game is outrageous.
8 Dollar a month? i could get a blue tick on twitter for that!
Imagine how much will be locked behind dlc for GTA6
Rockstar and their parent company slimy? First time I've heard of that /s.
I'm just glad we got the masterpiece that is Red Dead 2 before this company's soul fully evaporated. I also really liked GTA4.
Honestly, I'm still a bit surprised that anyone still plays it.
As far as I'm concerned, it's really never been good.
The online version is so different than the original release. Its like a whole different hand you'd hardly recognise (except for its GTAness).
There is a big streaming scene on various platforms, people doing it as a full time job. They are roleplaying, which is popular with a bunch of 3rd party mods to support it. This probably contributes to the longevity of the game.
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Hundeds of thousands of people.
does not look like they have even added the nextgen update with raytracing etc. to pc yet, or this dumb gta+ thing
lol
I tried playing online once, but even standing still my wanted level crept up and up until I was killed.
Maybe my original ps3 code was outdated.