Grand Theft Auto Online, the multiplayer portion of Grand Theft Auto V, has been an unrivalled success story for Rockstar Games – but with triumph comes cause for concern. Many are worried that, beyond Red Dead Redemption II, the company – which is renowned for its story telling and sprawling single player campaigns – may double down on multiplayer like so many other publishers appear to be. Fortunately, it doesn’t sound like that’s going to happen.
“As a company, we love single player more than anything, and believe in it absolutely – for storytelling and a sense of immersion in a world, multiplayer games don’t rival single player games,” director of design Imran Sarwar told Game Informer.
It begs the question, then: why hasn’t Grand Theft Auto V received any story expansions? After all, both The Lost and the Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony contained some of the best moments that Grand Theft Auto IV’s Liberty City had to offer. The answer is simple: time.
“With Grand Theft Auto V, the single player game was absolutely massive and very, very complete,” Sarwar added. “It was three games in one. The next-gen versions took a year of everyone’s time to get right, then the online component had a lot of potential but to come close to realising that potential, also sucked up a lot of resources. And then there are other games – in particular Red Dead Redemption II. The combination of these three factors means for this game, we did not feel single player expansions were either possible or necessary.”
Would you have liked a single player expansion for Grand Theft Auto V, or have you moved on from Los Santos now? Steal a car in the comments section below.
[source gameinformer.com]
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@BLP_Software That's a bit misleading as 2014 they did the remaster and RDR2 was supposed to be out this year, but fair enough I guess. That picture is pretty revealing.
Who the heck wouldn't want GTA 5 single player dlc the game is so good I bought it for 360 then ps4 then pc it's the game you can just put in for like 5-10 min drive around and have a blast!!
Oh ya, max Payne 4 please !
@BLP_Software Hey, at least there's a bit of hope here, compared to EA, who totally isn't hiding the fact that single player games are a thing of the past for them.
I was wondering why GTA V didn't have anything like Lost & The Damned but I figured that GTA Online replaced that.
@whoisbdub max paybe 4 make it happen rock star.max Payne 3 is so good.easily one of the best game ever.word up son
also I want manhunt 3 word up son
Wow! 🙀 I don’t care if they’re lying. I’ll drink the Kool-Aid. At least there is some good news out there about single player gaming. My faith in humanity is restored.
@BLP_Software Man, that pic is kind of depressing.
You know RockStar is going to add a multiplayer portion to RDR2 and milk that sucker like a fresh cow.
I would have loved some single player dlc for GTA V, especially if it was a zombie apocalypse like Undead Nightmare. Imagine running across the tarmac at the airport towards a helicopter and a horde of zombies running behind you. Even just implementing the zombies into Online would have been amazing. Completing objectives with your friends while trying to hold off hordes of zombies with your buddies would have been so cool. I do respect Rockstar though, and hopefully the effort that they would have put into a singleplayer dlc has gone towards making RDR2 even better.
Can't forget about Undead Nightmare, Rockstar created amazing expansions for GTA IV and Red Dead Redemption. GTA V really deserved a single-player dlc, the map is huge, i still remember of many people thinking that the expansion could be related to an alien invasion because of some missions on the game.
Anyway, i still liked GTA V even if i missed single-player dlcs, it's also great that Rockstar is supporting single-player experiences, can't wait for Red Dead Redemption 2. It's also crazy that only next year will be their debut on this generation. (not counting GTA V versions, L.A. Noire remastered and classic PS2 games).
At this point, we don't need SP dlc for GTA 5. Been way overdue upto a point GTA 6 should have been here already.
Rockstar is making SOOO MUCH money on GTA 5 online, it could easily open an extra studio to enable the output of more games. And expecting RDR 2 online to be successful as well it's actually unacceptable Rockstar isn't making more efforts to push out more games, either new excellent franchises, or sequels to proven franchises. Regardless what they would do, it will sell. It's a shame they kept busy with GTA 5 online this long.
Yeah, RDR 2 is underway and I'll buy that day one. But for Rockstar, I would easily put down a lot more money for more SP games. Rockstar, imo, is that brilliant in creating awesome SP games!! Sadly not brilliant enough for current output of games.
Rockstar, for the love of god and your fans, make something happen!!!
@Aexurion Mind your language, please!
@playstation1995 #wordupson
@get2sammyb @BLP_Software It's not just microtransactions, though. Let's not forget that GTAV has sold an utterly ridiculous amount of copies and continues to do so week in, week out. Rockstar's games have been successful for a long time but GTAV is something else entirely. In that sense it's no real shocker that the company's been biding its time.
Our champion Rockstar ! Can't wait for RDR2
That pic is stupid. No one on Earth, except for the person building that narrative, would hold up ChinaTown Wars and any console GTA and say "Yup, these are equal efforts".
Its getting harder to deal with with multiple teams making multiple different series; now it takes multiple teams to make ONE game, hence why the variety of GTA, Red Dead, LA Noire, and Max Payne is missing. In the transition from PS2 to PS3, they killed off series like Manhunt, Bully and The Warriors because they needed to refocus talent on less series, now in the transition between that gen and this one they kill off LA Noire and Max Payne to focus on GTA and Red Dead. That's what y'all want, stop complaining when they don't make these massive, complicated games fast enough :/ Go play other games in the meantime - not nearly enough of you bought Sleeping Dogs, for instance.
Making games is extraordinarily complicated, especially ones like GTA. That's the reality - deal with it, nerds. There's gonna be year-long gaps between major single player releases of this type from Rockstar going forward.
@BLP_Software Lol, rockstar release nothing (except la noire remaster) from 2013 to now. Well at least rdr2 single player story will be great, I don't have problem with online if rockstar separated it from the single player portion of the game, no lootbox/micro-transaction like shadow of war or assassin creed origin.
@Deadlyblack I prefer that rather than adding micro-transaction or lootbox in the single player portion of the game. Let's hope rdr2 doesn't do both.
@ShiggleMan Yeah definitely also a factor. Like you say, it used to be that the various global Rockstar teams each worked on their own franchise, but it now seems like they’re all on RDR2.
@teatimed oh..... My......... Good god! GtaV online zombie apocalypse edition!!!! Rd nightmare style! YES!
Fair play. While I expect a massive Red Dead online experience I don't expect it to be at the expense of a long single player campaign which is, in my mind, how it should be.
@BLP_Software That timeline is hard to ignore, but I welcome their comments all the same. Hope they follow this up with actions!
@BLP_Software great chart BLP. Gob smacked really.
I want table tennis 2!
@BLP_Software L.A. Noire was developed by team Bondi and Max Payne 3 by remedy. I don't know how involved rockstar was with these games beyond publishing.
Dissappointing that read dead redemption 2 will just be single player hoped it would be more like GTA V. Will wait till it goes down in price before buying. if they want me to spend a significant amount of time with the game you need a good online experience which takes me beyond the single player campaign.
@Rudy_Manchego exactly. They're not mutually exclusive, ala GTA V.
@PS_Nation word up son.ratchet and clank easily my top 10 video games franchise ever
Action speaks louder than words we'll see when the time comes but if GTA5 online made over $500 million dollars then sorry they would drop single player at a heart beat. Remember its the share holders that speak for them not gamers .
The explanation given for no Gta 5 sp dlc seems reasonable. In many ways the depth of online play is comparable to sp dlc like what Gta 4 received.
Time, resources, and the success of online beyond R* wildest dreams all factored into the decisions made. I would not want RD2 delayed any longer than it already is, and any less time spent on Gta 6 because of working on sp dlc for 5.
a new Max Payne next please Rockstar word up son.
GTA Online is a success financially for rockstar but for those who no longer play GTA Online it's a failure, in my opinion they have and continue to ruin the game by making it increasing hard to have fun. I sold my copy 3 days ago after not playing it for months. They are trying so hard to force pvp in every aspect of Online and it's not even balanced but I guess many people love the chaos.
You have to do all your CEO activities in a public session or you can't do them at all, so if you don't have an empty session all to your self prepare to get harassed by other players and loose lots of time and money, I thought we would be able to have like 12 friends working for a CEO instead of just 4, 4 players cant protect anything in a public session with 25 crazy players. The racing is another failing area, if a clean, fair fun race is what you are after just forget about it, non-contact races are few and far between.
I could go on and on but in short they have made many aspects of the game tedious rather than fun.
As I said before you can't beat a single player experience by multiplayer. He is right in what he says. Single player experience are essential to the game industry. Then theres is wow call of duty battlefield smite and many others for the others who like online. With a fine balance all can co exist. If they go all to one side the industry will fail big time.
@Nesstark88 non contact races in GTA? It seems your expectations were a bit unrealistic..
@Flurpsel The feature currently exists in the game for players who don't want to deal with idiotic racers who like to block the road with their cars, drive in the opposite direction and crash into other player or simply push or ram other players off the track!
At least rockstar understands that it is the stories they tell in the single player game that bring life to the multiplayer game. When the current set-up of strong story based single player game working as the background and introduction to a very lucrative multiplayer environment they would be crazy to risk all that cash by dropping or diluting the single player. When what you have is the best selling combination in modern times why would you risk messing with it.
See EA, even Rockstar can make single player games and make millions too without the excessive need for money.
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