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At Rockstar, they don’t want to be your friends, just a company that makes money

At Rockstar, they no longer know how to tell you that they don’t want to be your friends. The studio has created a gigantic community of players through its successful Grand Theft Auto (GTA) installments, which has encouraged the creation of a variety of mods by users. However, this popularity has led the company to make drastic decisions regarding the protection of its intellectual properties, as was recently evidenced with the shutdown of the Liberty City Preservation Project. This ambitious project, which promised to transfer the famous city from GTA IV to the graphics engine of the latest game in the saga, was stopped by Rockstar, citing unauthorized licenses.

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Do you want to honor us? Forbidden!

Obbe Vermeij, former Rockstar developer, has commented on social media about these company moves, stating that “Take-Two/Rockstar are a commercial company” and that they will act against mods that interfere with their economic interests. This comment reflects the expected stance of a company looking to protect its products and market, especially with the imminent arrival of GTA 6, scheduled for this year.

The release of GTA 6 is anticipated as one of the most significant events of the current generation of video games, with analysts predicting a considerable impact on the market. However, there are already concerns regarding the game’s price; some experts warn that a cost of 100 euros could be a serious commercial mistake for Rockstar, suggesting that such a decision could alienate the player base.

Meanwhile, Rockstar continues to deal with the production of GTA 6, and there is speculation about its possible inclusion of elements from the successful formula of GTA V, along with new innovative aspects. In this competitive environment for the player’s attention, the company must balance protecting its intellectual property with evolving its relationship with the modding community.

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"Please, stop." A Rockstar actor clarifies that fans are following incorrect clues with GTA VI

The arrival of GTA VI feels imminent, and fans have some of the craziest ideas about what it will contain, especially after the recent flood of speculations about the game’s second trailer. As the release date approaches, followers have started analyzing any detail related to the series, including recent posts from Rockstar, like bonuses in the GTA+ service, in search of clues that might reveal the date of the highly anticipated trailer. Please stop, you’re scaring Roger Clark, the iconic actor who played Arthur Morgan […]

The arrival of GTA VI feels imminent, and fans have some of the craziest ideas about what it will contain, especially after the recent wave of speculation about the game’s second trailer. As the release date approaches, followers have begun to analyze any detail related to the series, including recent posts from Rockstar, such as bonuses in the GTA+ service, in search of clues that reveal the date of the highly anticipated trailer.

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Please, stop, you’re scaring us

Roger Clark, the iconic actor who played Arthur Morgan in Red Dead Redemption 2, has urged fans to stop speculating about the trailer release date. According to Clark, followers do not have concrete information, stating: “Please, stop assuming when the GTA 6 trailer 2 will be released. You have no idea and now it’s more than obvious.”

Despite Clark’s words, theories continue to proliferate. Recently, a series of bonuses in GTA+ have led some fans to conspicuous conclusions. One particular vehicle, which features a very peculiar numerical combination, has generated the theory that the trailer could be released on January 30. However, before this, another speculation had set the possible release of the trailer for December 27, 2024. This last rumor caused numerous fans to call a dealership in Florida in search of clues, which led the company to clarify that they had no information about Rockstar’s project.

The release of GTA VI is expected to generate colossal revenue, putting other distributors on alert, who fear coinciding with this monumental date. The anticipated magnitude of the game has even led experts to predict that it could “devour all the time and money” of players, making the anxiety for its eventual reveal even more palpable.

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GTA 6 on a Nintendo console? At Take Two, they tell us that anything can happen

If we ask you on which consoles you think GTA 6 will finally be released, the answer will probably be PS5 (and all those released afterward), PC, and Xbox Series X/S (and their possible successors). However, sometimes it seems we forget about Nintendo, and that’s always a mistake. Although GTA 5 hasn’t appeared on the Switch (some modders managed to make it work on the console, but with difficulties), we can’t forget that there’s a new system around the corner. We need to make a switch Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Rockstar, had a meeting with investors the other day […]

If we ask you on which consoles you think GTA 6 will finally be released, the answer will probably be PS5 (and all those released afterward), PC, and Xbox Series X/S (and their possible successors). However, sometimes it seems we forget about Nintendo, and that’s always a mistake. Although GTA 5 hasn’t appeared on Switch (some modders managed to get it running on the console, but with hiccups), we can’t forget that there’s a new system just around the corner.

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We need to make a switch

Strauss Zelnick, Rockstar’s CEO, met with investors the other day and was asked if Switch 2 would be a more viable platform for Rockstar games. His response, frankly, is surprising: “We do not tend to comment on the decisions of companies that make hardware, except to say that successful platforms benefit the business, and we support successful platforms. We are happy to do so.”

Moreover, right after, it states that we cannot leave out the Switch 2. Could there be a surprise? Are Nintendo fans going to be able to enjoy GTA 6… or will it be just another port of the fifth part? After all, although the latest GTA games haven’t appeared on Nintendo, Red Dead Redemption and Borderlands, other games from Rockstar and Take Two, have. Why shouldn’t we have the natural evolution?

For that, we have to wait for Nintendo to decide it’s the right time to present the device, after months of playing tug-of-war. The last thing we heard is that it would be fully backward compatible and, in fact, that Nintendo Switch Online will also continue to operate. Whether this means we can play GTA Online or it will be a way to continue enjoying old titles is still a mystery. Nintendo, can you end our agony once and for all, please?

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The detail in GTA V that they included just to tease the fans

Like Mulder in The X-Files, we want to believe. Maybe that’s why we come up with crazy theories about movies and TV shows, cling to video game bugs believing they reveal forbidden secrets (as happened back in the day with MissingNo in Pokémon), or expand the lore of the things we love as much as we can in fanfictions or fanart until we can’t anymore. And the curious thing is that, on the other side, the creators are shrugging their shoulders and saying, “What are they doing?” It’s a mystery! Let’s take the example of GTA 5, a game that has been explored from top to bottom during […]

Like Mulder in The X-Files, we want to believe. Maybe that’s why we come up with crazy theories about movies and TV shows, cling to video game bugs believing they reveal forbidden secrets (as happened with MissingNo in Pokémon) or expand the lore of the things we love as much as we can in fanfictions or fanart until we can’t anymore. And the curious thing is that, on the other side, the creators are shrugging their shoulders and saying “What are they doing?”

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It’s a mystery!

Let’s take the example of GTA 5, a game that has been explored from top to bottom over the last eleven years and whose fans know every nook and cranny. Well, more or less, because there is still a point where everything turns into theory: the mystery of the mural on Mount Chiliad. It even has a subreddit with more than 44,000 people trying to uncover the truth about it.

The problem is that, as one of Rockstar’s former employees, Ben Hinchliffe, just said, the idea was simply to play with everyone’s expectations: “Obviously, we always want to put those really complex easter eggs that we want very dedicated players to follow until they solve them. But like with all easter eggs, sometimes you just put them in to mess with people. They don’t do anything. You just want to drive people a little crazy.” And as an example, he indeed mentioned… the Mount Chiliad mural. There you go, mystery solved: there was no mystery.

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You will never imagine the extent of the craving to kill zombies in GTA Online

Horror movie fans have a saying that is certainly not wrong: everything is better with zombies. Pride and Prejudice? Better with zombies. Call Of Duty? Add zombies. And, of course, GTA Online? Where do we even begin. The online game’s Halloween event, which took players back to North Yankton and featured Ludendorff, the place where GTA V begins, posed an almost impossible challenge. In just three days, the community has already completed more than half. The zombies are coming Rockstar set a goal for users to kill 800 million […]

Horror movie fans have a saying that is certainly not wrong: everything is better with zombies. Pride and Prejudice? Better with zombies. Call Of Duty? Add zombies. And, of course, GTA Online? Where do we even begin? The online game’s Halloween event, which took players back to North Yankton and introduced Ludendorff, the place where GTA V began, proposed an almost impossible challenge to achieve. In just three days, the community has already completed more than half of it.

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The zombies are coming

Rockstar set a goal for users to kill 800 million zombies, ten times more than originally proposed (80 million). In just three days, over 430 million have already been killed by a group of players always eager for new challenges. In fact, not even in Rockstar’s wildest dreams did they imagine that 400,000 people would join at the start of the event and that, very shortly after, the number would rise to 1,300,000.

Not only that, players are also crushing other objectives such as surviving three waves of zombies in the cemetery to earn a cat mask and $100,000 in-game. Is there any doubt, at this point, that GTA VI is going to sweep away everything in its path?

Rockstar believes it is possible that GTA 6 will not be released in 2025

The trailer for GTA 6 broke the Internet at the end of 2023, even though it still promised that we would have to wait until 2025 to be able to try it. Many of us are suspicious of Rockstar because it’s not the first time they’ve ventured with a date and then backed out. In fact, the older ones will remember that GTA 4 was announced for October 2007 and ended up being released in 2008. And now it seems that the same thing could happen again. GTA: Delayed Edition. Although, in truth, it’s all conjecture. The one who has raised the alarm is Obbe Vermeij, who was once a director […]

The trailer for GTA 6 broke the Internet at the end of 2023, even though it promised that we would have to wait until 2025 to get a taste of it. Many of us are suspicious of Rockstar because it’s not the first time they’ve ventured with a date and then backed out. In fact, the older ones will remember that GTA 4 was announced for October 2007 and ended up being released in 2008. And now it seems that the same thing might happen again.

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GTA: Delayed Edition

Although, in truth, it is all conjecture. The one who has stirred things up is Obbe Vermeij, who was once the technical director of Rockstar and who has clarified that he does not have internal information, but does have certain intuitions that he has shared on Twitter. That said, we won’t know if it’s true for at least another six months because if they decide to delay it, we will find out in the summer.

Indeed, according to him, the decision to delay GTA 4 was made just four months before the original release date because once the games start being produced, it’s difficult to turn back. According to him, “Rockstar probably won’t be in a position to determine yet if they will make it to 2025 until around May.” After all, knowing that the sales of GTA 6 will break the industry in two, they can afford to take it easy.

“They won’t release the game until they are 100% happy with it. It doesn’t matter what the trailer said”, Vermeij has stated… although, to be fair, he left the ship fifteen years ago, so he might not be our most reliable source. Rumors are starting to circulate, and usually, as the saying goes, where there’s smoke, there’s fire…

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At Rockstar, they believe GTA VI will be unparalleled in the history of video games

At this point in the game, ‘GTA VI’ could be a ‘Candy Crush’ and still sell millions of copies. The hype is so high that any news about the game only fuels the fanaticism even more. In fact, just this week, the CEO of Rockstar has stated that the game will be “unparalleled in the industry.” So, calmly, without exaggerating in the slightest.

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Return to Crime

No one can deny that ‘GTA VI’ is going to be a huge success. But Strauss Zelnick clarifies why it will be so without being a simple DLC of its previous installment: “I think the world is different from what it was when we released GTA 5. GTA and Call of Duty were tied as the biggest franchises in the market”, unlike now, where, he points out, GTA is the number one property of all time. ‘Minecraft’ and ‘Fortnite’ have something to say about it.

Furthermore, to add fuel to the fire, it states that Rockstar had to “deliver an incredible and perfect game” that “has the ability to have an unparalleled success in the industry.” Frankly, the big problem that ‘GTA VI’ is going to have right now is living up to its own hype, and making sure that the slightest bug doesn’t ruin the experience and become a meme like ‘Cyberpunk 2077’.

Zelnick is also aware that they are not alone in the industry: “Big titles continue to perform well, and with the history of the entertainment business, the big and the best only get bigger and even better, the mediocre ones will go away, and what remains in the middle will have to be really good or it will also go away.” He must be very confident in his game to ensure that these statements will not come back to haunt him in the future.

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The DLC that GTA V cancelled because of its own success

It’s very interesting to analyze the reason why there haven’t been any DLCs for the main campaign: the culprit was ‘GTA Online’.

At this point, talking about ‘GTA V’ is like talking about episode IX of ‘Star Wars’: it’s something that happened, but we’re already looking at something else. However, there are still many things to know and analyze about how one of the biggest successes in the history of video games was created. For example, it is very interesting to analyze the reason why DLCs for the main campaign stopped appearing: the culprit was ‘GTA Online’.

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Night Trevores

Steven Ogg, the voice actor of ‘GTA V’ who played Trevor Philips, has now stated that Rockstar was going to release a whole DLC based on his character, but seeing the success of the online version, they decided to throw it away and focus entirely on that. In fact, he said there was going to be extra content for Michael, Franklin, and Trevor.

In said DLC, Trevor was going to work for the feds, undercover, and even provided voiceover at the beginning of development, but nothing more was heard. Although he is understandably upset, he has one consolation: the future of ‘GTA Online’ is hanging by a thread with the future release of ‘GTA VI’, which will probably sweep everything away and relegate it to a secondary position at Rockstar. Let’s not mistake the saying: misery loves company, but only a few find consolation.

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Why does it absolutely not matter when GTA VI comes out?

The Holy Grail of any company, not just in video games: a product that, regardless of the release date or who is behind it, is absolutely guaranteed to be a success.

It’s a cyclical debate in the world of video games: When will ‘GTA VI‘ finally appear? It is the most anticipated game, Rockstar has already announced that it is in the final stage of development… So, where is it? Why is there no specific release date? The reason is very simple: it doesn’t even matter. It doesn’t matter if the game is prepared for Christmas, Easter or a lost week in October: it is going to be, without a doubt, a huge success.

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Big, Tremendous, Amazing

It is the Holy Grail of any company, not just video games: a product that, regardless of the time of year it is released or who is behind it, is guaranteed to be a absolute success. Rockstar keeps the release tightly controlled because, unlike other titles, it doesn’t need promises of the future. In fact, it is beneficial for them to build the game’s narrative only when it is perfect, without crunches or rush. The perfect game. The Holy Grail.

Of course, this leads to specialized websites filling news with rumors about its future release date, something that the studio may not even have clear yet. What would change if ‘GTA VI‘ came out in July instead of December? Absolutely nothing. The sales, which will also continue over the years, would be the same.

In fact, the ones who should be most concerned about the release of ‘GTA VI’ are not Rockstar or the players, but the rest of the companies that, just like when there is a blockbuster in the cinema, will proceed to withdraw during the month before and after the blockbuster, knowing that releasing games during that time is condemning them to suicide.

“When will ‘GTA VI’ arrive?” is not the right question. The right question would be “Who the hell cares when ‘GTA VI‘ arrives?” Only those who have bitten their nails to the bone and those who have to wait a few more months. Every day that passes is one more day of free marketing, waiting for the exact moment to make the Internet explode into a thousand pieces. Figuratively… And almost literally.

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About to finish ‘GTA 6’, Rockstar makes a decision about its employees for pure safety

At Rockstar, they have decided to celebrate by requiring all employees to return to the office starting in April.

Do you remember the pandemic? Well, of course, how could we forget. It was a time when we truly believed that we were going to come out better. Even old-fashioned companies like Rumagosa SL (fictional name, mind you) had realized that workers didn’t need to spend over an hour commuting to an office for a job they could perfectly do, better and more comfortably, from home. Time passed, remote work remained, and at some point, Rumagosa SL decided that everyone should return to the office with flimsy excuses. Now replace “Rumagosa” with “Rockstar”… because that’s exactly what just happened.

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Stars, yes. Rock, not so much

There is not much left to finish ‘GTA 6’, after years and years of development, and at Rockstar they have decided to celebrate it by forcing all workers to return to the office starting in April. The reasons they have given, of course, are far-fetched: productivity and security. The first one is, to say the least, questionable. The second one has to be recognized as making sense: it hasn’t been long since that massive leak by a hacker who exposed the game on the Internet and reportedly cost the company 5 million dollars.

Furthermore, the trailer for ‘GTA 6’ was also leaked a day earlier than expected. Regarding productivity, in an email Rockstar has stated that they have found tangible benefits in people working in an office, especially during the final sprint. Without giving examples, for whatever reason. Obviously, and to the surprise of absolutely no one, the workers have reacted with icy coldness, probably thinking about traffic jams, buses, and how nice it is to be at home.

Just what you want at the end of your game development, angry employees with the company! As some comments on Twitter say, it is possible that the best developers, upon hearing the news, are already looking for another job, and they can turn this end of the road into a real journey through the desert. Don’t be surprised if in a few weeks we are talking about Rockstar backing down. It would be the right thing to do.

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