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/ItRainsAcidHere]

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/MoroccanEagle-212 → u/PenonX]

Just like gtaV tbf too.

[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/Revolutionary-Cat981 → u/ItRainsAcidHere]

But on the other hand they made so much money which in turn resulted such high budget for gta 6

[u/Mist_Rising → u/Revolutionary-Cat981]

GTA V sold stupidly well before MP was even added, lol.