Strauss Zelnick is their CEO, for reference.
Source: https://seekingalpha.com/article/41...-results-earnings-call-transcript?part=single
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Take-Two (Rockstar/2K) wants "recurrent consumer spending" in every game they make
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This is in no fathomable way surprising GTA Online has made them money that other game developers and publishers could only dream of. Hopefully, it won't get any worse forcing the grind for those who don't pay up than it already is.
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I don't care as long as they keep it separate from their single player aspect.
I'll gladly buy RDR 2/ The Next GTA/ ETC, play through single player and never touch the "ONLINE" part
I'll gladly buy RDR 2/ The Next GTA/ ETC, play through single player and never touch the "ONLINE" part
To the surprise of absolutely no one...
Better hope for those custom multiplayer mods if you want to avoid this garbage. Or prepare to grind for the rest of your life.
It'll be Buffalo Bucks, just watch.
Better hope for those custom multiplayer mods if you want to avoid this garbage. Or prepare to grind for the rest of your life.
It'll be Buffalo Bucks, just watch.
Smart way to do business, honestly. I see no surprises here. Why let people buy everything? For a business to continue to make money, they need to always have something to sell to someone.
I bet they do.
Don't kneecap your campaigns like Wardor and NFS did and maybe you'll pull it off. Ruin your game balance by demanding further tribute and people will flee from that game.
It's art that the dealers have no faith in and the artist has no say in.
Don't kneecap your campaigns like Wardor and NFS did and maybe you'll pull it off. Ruin your game balance by demanding further tribute and people will flee from that game.
Oh it's art. Sold piecemeal over the course of months, with extremely little regard in the viewer ever seeing the complete picture.
It's art that the dealers have no faith in and the artist has no say in.
Disgusting, please don't fuck up RDR2 MP.
They've been this way for years.
They've been this way for years.
Well, aren't they doing that already?
GTA 5 has GTA Online. That's huge when it comes to microtransactions. Then they have NBA 2k which is horrible in that regard (do not buy it, ever). Civilization and XCOM have DLC - especially Civ always has a lot. Remember that RCS isn't ONLY microtransactions. I doubt they will put them in the next XCOM...
...I hope they will not.
GTA 5 has GTA Online. That's huge when it comes to microtransactions. Then they have NBA 2k which is horrible in that regard (do not buy it, ever). Civilization and XCOM have DLC - especially Civ always has a lot. Remember that RCS isn't ONLY microtransactions. I doubt they will put them in the next XCOM...
...I hope they will not.
I feel for the poor consumers spending monies on these schemes designed to fuel your dopamine.
(Says a guy who spends money on useless shit himself to spike that dope).
I've yet to buy a game brand new as of last year. Sorry devs, but this is on he pubs, and you are made to suffer it.
(Says a guy who spends money on useless shit himself to spike that dope).
I've yet to buy a game brand new as of last year. Sorry devs, but this is on he pubs, and you are made to suffer it.
Y'all paid for this by supporting cut content via DLC/season passes etc. so this is the next logical toll booth for games. There's no going back now.
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I mean, Borderlands already had a system where they continually sold you cosmetics and DLC.
Why wouldn't they? I mean, most mediums have recurring methods of payment from customers. Music has concerts, record and streaming. Books have hardback, paperback and pocket. Movies have theatre, Blu-ray, dvd, tv and streaming. Games have a tiny cramped window to release and is pretty much dead sales wise afterwards. Not having it is pretty much stupid, from a business point of view, if you're making a AAA game.
I mean, considering they're making all of their money from GTAO and not GTA5, you not doing so isn't sending any sort of message.
Dare I say, speaking with your wallet, in this case, would mean you bought and enjoyed GTA5 but completely ignored GTAO, never once logging in to it's service.
It makes me wonder how the ballad of gay tony did in the end. I'm sure it wasn't GTAO money, but for that revenue stream to be completely ignored...couldn't have been a lot.
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I think you might see some in something like Ken Levine's next game, which based on an older job postings, I think might work like the new Hitman did.
Mind, that's a game with a 30 person team, not a 300+ person team like Borderlands 3 or 1000+ person team like Red Dead Redemption 2.
They should have taken it a step further and let you buy the original protags from across the GTA series to use in multiplayer. Bank on nostalgia.
Why stop there, characters from ALL Rockstar games usable in multiplayer.
Why stop there, characters from ALL Rockstar games usable in multiplayer.
Companies are so greedy now that they just want a group of gamers to just play their game and only their game all the time and find ways to monetize the same.
This has nothing to do with art and is just them being greedy assholes.
I can't see this succeeding in the long run.
This has nothing to do with art and is just them being greedy assholes.
I can't see this succeeding in the long run.
I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.
It's only going to get worse from here on out, people have voted with their wallet and the mainstream gamers doesn't care about MTs.
It's only going to get worse from here on out, people have voted with their wallet and the mainstream gamers doesn't care about MTs.
The singleplayer campaign is great and worth the $60. (or whatever it currently costs)
I think I went on GTA Online 1 time since 2013. Felt like a waste of time. I would have been totally fine if they never had GTA Online.
It has nothing to do with the long run. It's about soaking up the consumer's cash until the next post-purchase monetization structure is figured out. Pure greed as you said.
If they're having financial success with this business model I see no reason why the wouldn't be doing this in all their future games, can't blame them for wanting to make as much as they can as long as consumers are more than willing to hand over the cash