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I like how aAanah Pearce put it. (Summarized) GTA online makes obscene amounts of money, like crazy amounts. Personally I'm not someone who wants to spend money on online, but others do. When you think about it, rockstar is able to build things like red dead redemption 2 thanks to the online players. Games do cost money to build, and it's directly thanks to online players that they've had enough money to build these games for us.
I like this take. Is GTA Online slimy? Probably, and it can even lean on greedy. But people still pay for it, and thanks to them rdr2 and now gta6 were funded. The fact that GTA 6 has a single player experience proves they're still committed together single player narratives, but at the end of the day they need to fund them. So thanks online players for funding our single player experiences.
I understand the logic behind this, but the $80 price tag for a game that is forecast to sell incredibly well kind of undermines that thought. If they are using the absolutely absurd amounts of money they have made from GTA online to fund the game there would be no justification for the higher cost for this game in relation to other AAA titles. So this is purely driven by greed, and Rockstar is happy to increase profits and enrich their executives through predatory behavior.
We should not be making excuses for corporations that will happily embrace profit with no regard for morality or ethics.
Do remember though that they cancelled Gta V DLC to focus on online.
didn’t we also miss out on planned rdr2 dlc for this same reason?
I give them so much credit for RDR2 but also have so much hate for them for abandoning it and not creating any extra story DLC or really finishing any of the online aspect.