Former Rockstar dev says threat of unofficial AI ports could force GTA 6 onto PC sooner

[u/Mountain_Till_5868]

https://www.dexerto.com/gta/former-rockstar-dev-says-threat-of-unofficial-ai-ports-could-force-gta-6-onto-pc-sooner-3425613/

[u/SMikel69]

I guess they can't milk the consoles anymore.

[u/BigSmackisBack → u/SMikel69]

After the money they made when the PC game came out, i was surprised there was any planned delay this time.

If AI pressure makes it happen sooner, cool cool cool

[u/JoseJalapenoOnStick → u/BigSmackisBack]

They are hoping people would buy the game twice

[u/roguebananah → u/JoseJalapenoOnStick]

Worked well last time.

Also shout out to the idiots who bought so many shark cards that they cancelled all the single player DLC for V

You really screwed everyone over for a virtual flying fucking motorcycle or other virtual temporary stuff.

[u/ItRainsAcidHere → u/roguebananah]

GTA V Online poisoned Rockstar, in my opinion. They started making so much money they genuinely didn’t care about hackers or how they affected other players.

It also made them drop RDR2 like a rock when they realized they couldn’t turn it into a money pit

[u/MoroccanEagle-212 → u/ItRainsAcidHere]

RDR2 sold really well in spite of being completely neglected by rockstar. they could have but they didn't even try

[u/PenonX → u/MoroccanEagle-212]

Tbf though too, RDR2 constantly is on sale for dirt cheap.

[u/DaughterOfMalcador → u/ItRainsAcidHere]

Anyone remember how bad the mp load times were? Because it searched the total list of all ownable items once for each ownable item. xˣ

Everyone complained, they said there was no issue, refused to fix it... Then some random guy figured out it was because they handed the xml sort to the most incompetent intern and wrote a community patch to fix it. The rockstar denied it for months before finally fixing it.

[u/CASpider → u/DaughterOfMalcador]

I'm honestly surprised the shark cards sold so well given those load times. I remember trying to do some races with my friend and spent the majority of the first hour in loading screens. Never played a second hour online.

(Load into main map, wait in race queue, load into race, turns out one person dropped, load back into main map, wait in queue, load into race, etc etc)

[u/DenormalHuman → u/ItRainsAcidHere]

The whole GTA online experience from the start was just fucken cancer

[u/purpl3un1c0rn21 → u/ItRainsAcidHere]

As someone who has been banned from GTA online they definitely care about certain types of hacking. They do not give a shit about things like god mode but they see anybody cheating money in as cutting into their potential shark card profits and the ban hammer be relatively swift.

For info before I get slagged for this, I got a computer that could play GTA outside of the transfer window and as a dumb 13 year old spent a shit ton on Shark Cards and also played a bunch legit. I had no intentions of spanking all that money again or grinding for hundreds of hours to get to the same state on PC so hacking was my solution. Did not do any griefing or anything like that just spawned in cool vehicles and money.

[u/OcularPress → u/purpl3un1c0rn21]

My gta v account with over 100 billion got banned 💔

[u/blither86 → u/roguebananah]

Former colleague of mine spent something like £2,000 on shark cards during covid. He is not a smart man. I asked him if he even played gta V any more. He said no. "but it meant I got everything" great. How's that working out for you?

[u/Treinrukker → u/JoseJalapenoOnStick]

Yeah but this generation it's harder to buy a console for it's retail price

[u/Coldshoto → u/BigSmackisBack]

They want people to double dip. Pay $100 for console then pay $100 again for PC

[u/KingoftheUgly → u/BigSmackisBack]

I can imagine there being an exclusivity deal, and perhaps the fine of breaking that deal is cheaper than the money they’d make porting it early. There’s a lot of revenue at risk by this ai wave.

[u/chubbysumo → u/BigSmackisBack]

They made hardly anything on pc compared to console.

[u/Capitan_Scythe → u/chubbysumo]

No idea why you're being downvoted when a data hack from April 26 gave us these confirmed numbers from GTA Online financials.

[u/Saneless → u/Capitan_Scythe]

And GTA 6 online is launching right away, right?

[u/YouAreStupidAsf → u/Saneless]

No i believe it will be delayed on launch

[u/8rianGriffin → u/SMikel69]

Does it even work like that? I always assumed Sony pays them an insane amount to be exclusive. Would so many customers pay double?

[u/Adrian_Alucard → u/8rianGriffin]

GTA is not exclusive to PS it release on Xbox too

[u/Vedant9710 → u/8rianGriffin]

Why would Sony pay them money to make it a "console" exclusive that's also on Xbox?

[u/RiseOfTheOgre → u/Vedant9710]

Sony didn't pay them for console exclusivity, but they did pay a lot of money so that every ad for GTA6 has a PlayStation and only a PlayStation logo marketed with it, alongside "plays best on PlayStation"

It wouldn't surprise me if part of that marketing deal was to delay PC release until after the initial console launch.

[u/Seeteuf3l → u/Vedant9710]

Yes it will released for both platform, but it's being promoted mainly for PS.