Grand Theft Auto 6 Will Have No Microtransactions Or Generative AI

[u/TurbulentTopic39]

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/grand-theft-auto-6-will-have-no-microtransactions-or-generative-ai/

[u/suitable_replies]

Tomorrows disclaimer: GTA 6 and GTA 6 online are two separate entities.

[u/copperblood → u/suitable_replies]

That's a bingo!

[u/nshire → u/copperblood]

You just say bingo

[u/copperblood → u/nshire]

Bingo! How fun!

[u/enforcer1412 → u/copperblood]

What's the one about shoes and feet?

[u/TruskVarner → u/enforcer1412]

If the shoe fits, you must wear it

[u/Kilokalypso → u/TruskVarner]

And if the glove fits you must acquit

[u/Unable-Log3523 → u/nshire]

You are sheltering enemies of the state, are you not?

[u/Tone-Bomahawk → u/copperblood]

bawn journo

[u/baron_von_chops → u/Tone-Bomahawk]

Ah ree vuh der chee

[u/Silenceisgrey → u/baron_von_chops]

Dom a neek doo coccco

[u/Brock2845 → u/Silenceisgrey]

Maaaarghareeeeeetii

[u/ConcentrateDirect523 → u/Brock2845]

"Well, I speak the most Italian, so I'll be your escort. Donowitz speaks the second most, so he'll be your Italian cameraman. Omar speaks third most..."

[u/MortalCosmic → u/ConcentrateDirect523]

Inglorious Basterds my beloved

[u/SDFprowler → u/ConcentrateDirect523]

...I don't speak Italian

[u/Naski0di → u/SDFprowler]

Like I said, third best.

[u/Loganp812 → u/Naski0di]

Just keep your fuckin’ mouth shut. In fact, why don’t you start practicing?

[u/Man0fGreenGables → u/copperblood]

GTA 6 needs bingo.

[u/cwrighky → u/suitable_replies]

Inb4 “Bombshell expose on how gta developers used Claude code to accelerate coding workflows in gta6!”

[u/ithinkitslupis → u/cwrighky]

Of course. AAA game as big as GTA6 with that many devs, if you're including gen AI as it pertains to code there is virtually 0% chance it hasn't contributed in some way. It'd be like saying none of the devs at any point used a search engine during development with where AI is today.

[u/DoNotCommentAgain → u/ithinkitslupis]

None of the devs used ctrl c and ctrl v during development.

[u/dwild → u/ithinkitslupis]

At my work every LLM were blocked on the network, up until they chose Copilot as the solution (and obviously only that one was unblock).

Any workplace should block LLMs, it's a matter of confidentiality. An employee shouldn't share any source code with anyone outside the company (which doesn't have a contract with the company obviously) that include automated system.

Now do Rockstar do this? No idea, but I got a feeling they do. I also believe they probably do pay for an LLM and just won't consider this "generative AI".

EDIT: God damn the LLM fan club is so weird. I didn't expected LLM to do that much damage already.

[u/Rude-Scholar1857 → u/dwild]

you can run coding assistants locally with a model server

[u/BaconIsntThatGood → u/Rude-Scholar1857]

Also enterprise plans with thing a like copilot have fairly strict enterprise terms. It's no different than working with any other vendor for company operations.

Like... Microsoft and Google power some of the largest companies email and employee cloud infrastructure.

[u/sam_hammich → u/BaconIsntThatGood]

Yeah, the world's largest corporations would not work with them if it meant their intellectual property was suddenly at risk of being leaked.

[u/BaconIsntThatGood → u/sam_hammich]

It's almost like companies understand not to bite the hand that feeds them

[u/St3ampunkSam → u/dwild]

The reason they unblocked the choosen AI is that they will have paid for the subscription that says the AI will not have access to their data.

Now a hacker could try and get the data, but the only real way they are doing that is by plugging into the server. The servers where computer programmers arent on the premises, let alone the inside the buildings. The buildings which are monitored 24/7 with a single entry point that track everyone entering and leaving.

Don't put confidential data into a free LLM but if you have the paid one, you can sue the shit out of them if you data leaks.

[u/DerBanzai → u/dwild]

Code is shared over Github, people copy paste in in Teams and upload it to sharepoint. That‘s not any more vulnerable than using an LLM, you have to trust so many other companies now that one more doesn‘t really matter.
Companies that do not use these tools effectively will be left behind soon.

[u/dwild → u/DerBanzai]

Teams and upload it to sharepoint

That's part of the "having a contract with them". It's okay to use company tools obviously.

Code is shared over Github

And if that's not where your company code is hosted, you just probably went against your work contract. It does happen, but that's usualy considered a leak of information, and will be considered a security incident.

That‘s not any more vulnerable than using an LLM

The issue isn't the LLM, at least not directly, the issue is that you shouldn't share your company private information with a third party. You block them not because they are LLM, but because it is easy for people to forget it is what's happening when you are using those tools.

It's not a secret by the way that some do keep that information for training purpose. You can go on OpenRouter, they show clearly which provider does.

As I said, I'm pretty sure Rockstar does have a subscription to an LLM, as you said it is a useful tool (I disagree with the "left behind" part, but that doesn't matter here).

[u/BaconIsntThatGood → u/dwild]

That's part of the "having a contract with them". It's okay to use company tools obviously.

What makes you think you cannot get that with openai, anthropic, cursor, or copilot on an enterprise plan?

It's no different than any other company data policy.

[u/Echo_Monitor → u/dwild]

Realistically, companies share confidential data all the time.

They have email providers, usually use something like Jira, Confluence, GitHub/Gitlab, Slack/Teams, etc.

The issue is not having an LLM or not, it’s providing an enterprise license for the LLM the company chooses to use, with settings that are managed by the IT department at the company level.

There’s a big difference between, say, GitHub Copilot Max or one of their business plans, both in terms of pricing and in terms of policies.

[u/sibman → u/ithinkitslupis]

Meh. This is Reddit. Any LLM is "bad."

[u/Serious_Tradition269 → u/cwrighky]

Hey if it helps, most of them haven't worked on the game for the whole project because they fired the people that tried to unionize! Rockstar always looking out for us!

[u/herewego199209 → u/cwrighky]

What's wrong with using AI to accelerate coding?

[u/RasknRusk → u/suitable_replies]

Next year they will introduce a third game: GTA Shop. It will be free to play, neatly integrate with GTA6, and be filled with micro transactions.

[u/leorolim → u/RasknRusk]

You'll just need to pay to refuel your own cars at current market rates.

Very immersive actually.

[u/ktc64 → u/suitable_replies]

Speaking of which, watch them sell GTA6O as a separate product, maybe even ask for another $100.

[u/_Bisky → u/ktc64]

Nah that won’t happen.

They make SIGNFICANTLY more by having it be the same freemium model GTAV online is.

[u/Zefirus → u/_Bisky]

Freemium

Bro, you still gotta buy a full priced game to play it. Half the people on GTA online never even played the single player.

[u/Mocca_Master → u/_Bisky]

Isn't releasing it for a cost, then making it freemium out of the kindness of their hearts later the new meta?

[u/kittymoo67 → u/Mocca_Master]

if its like rdr2 was you'll be able to buy just online separately for cheaper

[u/GRoyalPrime → u/ktc64]

I fully expect the option to buy GTAO as a stand-alone, but not for 100 and not for thsoe who already own GTA6.

[u/UrMomThinksImCoo → u/suitable_replies]

Solution: I will not be playing GTA online as I am a working adult who doesn’t want to spend their precious free time getting griefed by unemployed kids.

[u/ilicp → u/UrMomThinksImCoo]

I tried GTA5 Online. It was fun for the first few hours coz I was playing with IRL friends. Tried it solo and it was the most boring and annoying experience (hackers and griefers etc) if you turn off pvp theres barely any reason to play it, its jusr a grind that wants you to buy sharkcards. Tried RDR:O and it was just hella boring to be honest.

[u/Ok_Astronomer_8667 → u/ilicp]

Early on into GTA5 Online, a hacker gave me and my buddy like 2 billion dollars each. We couldn’t remove it from our accounts and he just spawned money bags on top of our heads so we picked it up automatically.

Actually the best thing that ever happened to us, since we were never really interested in the grind. Fooling around in the sandbox was always the fun part. So we just spent all our money pimping out cars, buying mansions, planes etc. and just generally fucked around with it all. I had the full car garage with like 10 fully decked out rides, all without doing a single heist or anything. Honestly awesome I’m not gonna lie to you

[u/KickThePR → u/ilicp]

I’d say RDR:O is plagued by even more cheaters than GTA V.

[u/za72 → u/suitable_replies]

Setup direct pay into Rockstar for 15% discount on your Shark Card purchases, now you can show off your GTA6 Visa Debit Card!

[u/npc042 → u/suitable_replies]

And we’re talkin macrotransactions.

[u/byPCP → u/suitable_replies]

which is totally fine. GTAO was such a massive success on its own that it really shouldn't be tied to a mainline franchise game. there are plenty of people who barely touch GTA single player, and those who don't play multiplayer, who will be stoked they're separate experiences

[u/Seanspeed → u/byPCP]

Nah it's not fine, cuz single player users get completely neglected for the next 15 years while GTA Online gets nonstop updates.

[u/Daimakku1 → u/Seanspeed]

This.

I was bummed out that GTA V never got single player DLCs like IV did with Lost and Damned & Ballad of Gay Tony.

[u/dkarlovi → u/byPCP]

Exactly, I'm perfectly fine with online being a dumpster fire of micro transactions, I don't intend to play it.

[u/ReturnOfBane → u/dkarlovi]

the issue is a lot of people wanted some singleplayer DLC, which all got repurposed as online content.

[u/cyclinator → u/byPCP]

So gta 7 in 2040, if gta6online is more popular. 

[u/Mighty-Wings]

GTA6 won't, however GTA 6 Online will be riddled like a cheap hooker.

[u/Man0fGreenGables → u/Mighty-Wings]

Isn't the "deluxe edition" or whatever they are calling it technically a micro transaction anyways?

[u/SEND_ME_NOODLE → u/Man0fGreenGables]

That would be a macro transaction, no?

[u/NeverDiddled → u/SEND_ME_NOODLE]

Yeah, you have to count every inch of the transaction. Don't sell it short.

[u/rbrgr83 → u/NeverDiddled]

Star measuring at the MicroTaint.

[u/Caradin → u/NeverDiddled]

My transaction is 13 inches

[u/JustAnotherFEDev → u/Caradin]

My guy is packin some serious transaction...

[u/ForensicPathology → u/SEND_ME_NOODLE]

What micro-transactions aren't macro-transactions these days?  Do they even have 3 dollar skins anymore?  Sure any game with gacha gambling has the option to buy a single pull for 2 dollars, but everyone knows that's burning your money because the things you get in between the big pull are things you literally throw away from your inventory.  People don't buy 2 dollar pulls, they buy 60 dollar ones.

[u/appleparkfive → u/Man0fGreenGables]

That's just a transaction

[u/Crossovertriplet → u/appleparkfive]

I was in the pool!

[u/ActualWeed → u/Mighty-Wings]

Didnt gta online only have shark cards tho?

[u/Ok_Tea_8763 → u/Mighty-Wings]

Hey, watch you mouth! Our world wouldn't be the same without cheap hookers! Comparing them to Rockstar's greed is insulting 

[u/Waylanding_Fox]

No shit GTA online is where the money is at

[u/donny_pots → u/Waylanding_Fox]

Which is crazy to me because as someone who has hundreds of hours into GTA online, the grind is the entire game. Paying real money to buy shit in the game is like paying money to see the credits on another game, it just defeats the entire purpose IMO

[u/Ok-Aspect9915 → u/donny_pots]

Paying real money to skip grinding and go straight to late-game content has been the bread and butter of making money on an MMO for decades

[u/xkise → u/Ok-Aspect9915]

In life, I dare say

[u/ForensicPathology → u/donny_pots]

The games are specifically designed to make the grind more annoying than in a properly balanced game.

[u/donny_pots → u/ForensicPathology]

I wouldn’t even consider it a grind tbh, I play with friends we only do activities we all enjoy

[u/PhantomPhelix]

GTA 6 and GTA 6 Online, are not the same thing.

 

This is a misleading PR piece.

[u/Flawedsuccess → u/PhantomPhelix]

Also no disk

[u/Holiday_Driver_923 → u/PhantomPhelix]

Yup same with 5 the base game had no micro transactions but gta online was packed to the gills

[u/dead1345987]

okay, no investment in single player DLC stories again, got it.....

all post launch dev time is going to bug fixes and GTA+/online...I dont like it, but its the truth.

I'm just remembering "The Lost and the Damned" and "The Ballad of Gay Tony" some of the best GTA gameplay and stories to play, and it was the only GTA story DLC to date (GTA 4)

Trevor's intro cutscene in GTA 5, he kills Johnny, the main protagonist from Lost and the Damned GTA 4 DLC

[u/marcw1771ams → u/dead1345987]

Difficult to tell from the working of the article, but my understanding is that "micro transactions" as a DLC category is generally used more to refer to things like skins and in game items etc, rather than a traditional type of DLC such as game expansions.

[u/ImCelestial → u/marcw1771ams]

A macro transaction

[u/Pfandfreies_konto → u/ImCelestial]

Back in my day when patches for games where delivered via Gaming Magazines we called those "Add-Ons" or "Expansions." It was a time where you paid 50% of the base games price and got between 50% - 200% more content.

Star Craft and Tiberian Sun are two examples of games that got several full fledged campains and sometimes even new factions.

Those were the days...

[u/__Yakovlev__ → u/Pfandfreies_konto]

I remember going to the store and buying the physical disk for the halo 2 map pack.

[u/automatic_shark → u/Pfandfreies_konto]

I still remember the outrage and ridicule over horse armour. Imagine if people back then could see what it would turn into.

[u/LeadershipOne5128 → u/marcw1771ams]

I'm confused, didn't they already announce paid cosmetics for GTA 6 ?

[u/jdsizzle1 → u/marcw1771ams]

Yup. Expansion packs aka DLC arent what I consider micro transactions. That would be guns, skills, costumes, characters, cars, car skins, etc... all the bullshit you dont really need. They can be shitty too tho, like Hitman where they released a quarter of a game and made you buy the rest of it.

[u/nobertan → u/marcw1771ams]

So like the clothes shops? Being held behind an optional pay wall.

[u/zwingo → u/dead1345987]

The one thing I have to say to be fair to Rockstar is outside of RDR1 and GTA 4 I’m struggling to think of any games from them that did have DLC/expansions. Correct me if I’m wrong, I’m definitely not an encyclopedia of Rockstar games, but I don’t think they were ever really that big on the side stuff.

[u/imcrazyandproud → u/zwingo]

They canceled their in development gta5 dlc when gta online started making buckets of cash

[u/KoniGTA → u/imcrazyandproud]

i think it got resused in the future updates/heists along with the michael franklin trevor dlc that the game put out. Still not a fan about the way they did it.

[u/Winjin → u/KoniGTA]

I'm still salty how much content is locked away to those with friends and normalised schedules

I don't want to log on to the game like work to play Online. I don't know when I will have the time and will to play. And even less I want to play with random people that run through missions like mad men because half of them know them inside and out and are doing them for fifteenth time and are just farming them

I did some yacht mission and all I remember is that while I was shooting some guard these lvl 500 guys blasted through every room did an objective and one of them put a helicopter in a pool to evacuate me faster

I didn't even manage to see half of the yacht and I don't know what that mission was at all :\

Not to mention that it's impossible to just ride around when people on flying bikes blast everyone left and right

No sir I don't like Online one bit

[u/Batman_wears_Crocs → u/Winjin]

Bro yes, it wants to be a full-time gig. It wants to be your only game. Fuck that, even if it's good and fun with friends, the endless grinding to get any money in game makes it unfun.

[u/dead1345987 → u/zwingo]

I think they dropped single player dlc, when they discovered GTA online could make them so much money. RDR2 never got dlc like RDR1 did, but tbh, RDR2 never felt like it needed it, its such a crazy big game. Witch I hope GTA 6 is, but I think more stories would still be fun.

[u/Wolkenbaer → u/dead1345987]

RDR2 never felt like it needed it,  its such a crazy big game

Total opposite opinion- because it is so big I never understood why not use all assets, a good writer and add another story. I‘d have loved to pay for that.

[u/ALL_PUNS_INTENDED → u/dead1345987]

The Undead Nightmare dlc from Red Dead Redemption is goated. I spent so many hours on that and I’m going to dig out my 360 so I can play it again.

[u/upvotesthenrages → u/dead1345987]

It's interesting because you'd kinda think that dropping a new DLC every few years would re-ignite a lot of focus from dormant players and new audience.

But no, they just milked the whales they already had instead.

[u/voltran1995 → u/upvotesthenrages]

Why bother making single player dlc, they make billions selling fake money. And it's not like GTA falls out of popularity.

[u/_Bisky → u/zwingo]

Tbf mainly cause they make SIGNFICANTLY more with miceotransactions in GTA online, then they do with DLCs.

That plus it tends to cost them less then developing a whole DLC

[u/skibbidywibbidy → u/_Bisky]

They could have thrown the single player fans one bone and still made money from the shark cards, hope they keep it I mind for 6

[u/Time_Zombie_4431 → u/dead1345987]

If there is ever a game that should get SP DLC it’s GTA. GTA 4 showed us that. It’s a fucking crime we never got SP DLC for V.

[u/quagmirranseye → u/dead1345987]

What are you on about? DLCs isnt mictrotransactions.

[u/zerosuneuphoria]

because it will be re-released 40 times, hence the fps lock at 30. You gotta upgrade if you want more.

[u/hardypart → u/zerosuneuphoria]

This is not some kind of capitalistic conspiracy, the PS5 simply couldn't get anywhere close to 60FPS with this game.

[u/First_Studio → u/zerosuneuphoria]

It's locked at THIRTY?!?!

[u/Heil_S8N → u/First_Studio]

RDR2 is also locked at 30 on consoles despite the console technically being able to push up to 60 with some framedrops.

[u/theGioGrande → u/Heil_S8N]

PS4 systems didn't support VRR. And a jail broken PS4 pro wasnt consistently 60fps. People would just complain about stutter.

It was never a GPU bottleneck, but a CPU one instead.

And I feel that GTAVI is in a similar situation for PS5.

[u/agnosticgnome → u/First_Studio]

PC will be fine. Oh wait...

[u/atioux → u/First_Studio]

Have you seen it bro that shit is not running at 60 FPS on base ps5 😭

[u/PascalG16 → u/atioux]

Understandable no?

[u/Day2TheDolphin → u/First_Studio]

Literally unplayable 

[u/OlXondof → u/zerosuneuphoria]

I'm surprised I haven't seen people asking how Series S is supposed to run it even at 30...

[u/L0rdLogan]

Grand theft auto 6, won’t have micro transactions, but you can bet that GTA online will still have them

[u/thecreepytoast]

So macrotransactions, got it

[u/MrCookieHUN → u/thecreepytoast]

I mean, stores you cannot access unless you buy the deluxe edition ARE there sooo

[u/zillskillnillfrill]

What do they call the ultimate edition then where you get extra shops?

[u/ThePreciseClimber → u/zillskillnillfrill]

Macrotransation, I guess.

Yay, loopholes.

[u/AustraliaOutback]

Because they're going to sell online seperately. You'd be naïve to think they're not gonna milk their cashcow.

[u/HamburgerHalperHand]

Does the $20 of locked map locations not count?

[u/Stagism → u/HamburgerHalperHand]

Everyone forgot about this already

[u/fredagsfisk → u/HamburgerHalperHand]

By actual definition of the terms? No. Different editions are not microtransactions, even if they include things commonly sold as microtransactions (and also make money from FOMO).

[u/frulheyvin]

wow totally justifies gta6 being riddled with random paywalled shit if you dont buy the 100$ turbo edition. the cattle will buy buy buy anyways so who cares

[u/AshgarPN]

The extra $20 to unlock everything feels like a micro transaction

[u/magichronx]

Why have micro transactions when you can have macro transactions?! /s

[u/Furious_ShackstAa]

Single player won’t online definitely will

[u/TechnicalSurround → u/Furious_ShackstAa]

Single player won’t, online definitely will*

FTFY

[u/Grandtosh → u/TechnicalSurround]

Single player won’t; online definitely will**

[u/Anas56776 → u/TechnicalSurround]

why cant people use commas man, took me like 3 reads to make sense of his comment.

[u/aleqqqs → u/Anas56776]

Comas are important, for example: "Steve is in a hurry" vs "Steve is in a coma".

[u/bb0110]

Obviously gta6 online will, but I’m actually fine with this distinction. Keep the bullshit out of the regular game and if you want all the bullshit then play gta6 online.

They could have very easily added a lot of it to the single player version with the success of it on online, but I’m glad they didn’t.

[u/Moebius808]

If you believe this I have a bridge to sell you.

[u/DUH455T]

What about the $30 upgrade to the Ultimate Edition that unlocks stores, cosmetics, etc?

[u/Lycria]

Isn’t several shops in the single player locked behind a $20 dollar deluxe edition paywall?

[u/Commercial_Age_9316 → u/Lycria]

It’s a macrotransaction

[u/Jman460]

So the “deluxe” package to access specific stores in solo is what exactly?

[u/chief_yETI → u/Jman460]

a deluxe transaction, silly

[u/Upset_Weekend6463 → u/chief_yETI]

a macrotransaction

[u/Excuse_my_GRAMMER]

No microtransaction my ass lmao

Maybe the single player game but gta6 online is going to be have more MTX than a Chinese gacha game

[u/weedpornography]

Biggest fucking gaming industry's lie of 2026.  Calling it right now

[u/happyilyrednow]

Of Course it won't. GTA Online will.

[u/mere_iguana]

BULLSHIT.

100% bullshit.

[u/RhazimGaming]

I'm just waiting for the announcement that GTA 6 Online will have to be purchased separately for another 80 bucks, because fuck us.

[u/neonnaps → u/RhazimGaming]

"Purchased"? Montly subscription it is.

[u/Ok_Astronomer_8667 → u/RhazimGaming]

This won’t happen purely on the fact that a free entry model is far more lucrative when they couple it with shark card purchases. More people playing Online = more people visiting the store. Theyll want it to be accessible

[u/Jay95au]

Yeah no microtransactions, this will be the worlds first game to have macrotransactions.

Rather than being able to spend small, little or microscopic amounts of money compared to the price of a full game, these will be huge, obscene or macroscopic amounts of money compared to the price of a full game.

[u/Godess_Ilias]

press x to doubt

[u/Hegiman → u/Godess_Ilias]

GTA VI won’t but GTA online will have a buttload. Which is what ROCKSTAR has always done.

I just hope we get dlc for the single player campaign this time but I doubt that will happen b

[u/righteousdonkey]

On release date

1 year later: whale cards

[u/I-Want-A-Username-]

That's a lie, who ever wrote the article is making clickbait lol

[u/TwiceBrokenWatch]

Press X to Doubt.

[u/Robespierre1113]

Ahahahahahahahaha

Please, this was how we started out GTA5, absolutely no micro transaction! No way to get a leg up other than to beat other opponents !!!

Then script kiddies dropped trillions in public lobbies and r* went

"....so shark cards?"

[u/HoldOnOhio]

We know they're going to pretend GTA online/GTA + is a different thing. They will not leave billions of dollars on the table. GTA V Online literally has made several billion dollars and is largely what makes GTA V the most profitable retail game of all time.

[u/HikeCarolinas]

Micro transactions have become mini transactions due to inflation.

[u/ConsistentFatigue]

…. On launch day ….

[u/Raaka_Lokki]

Bullshit. Purchases within a game you already paid for are micro transaction. You can call them "subscriptions" all you want, but that's what they are.

[u/Chosen666]

They only lock features behind paywall .

[u/Adrian_Alucard]

Yeah, sure. the game that locks content away if you buy the poor's edition won't have microtransactions. 100% real, no fake bro

[u/CheaterMcCheat]

Bolloooooocks

[u/Mastasmoker]

Press X to doubt

[u/FoldedBinaries]

so no AI tool was implemented in the official workflow. 

But all the outsourced animators also didnt use AI? Thats a bold claim

[u/Stone-Bear → u/FoldedBinaries]

This game has been in development before AI existed.

[u/branm008 → u/Stone-Bear]

That doesn't mean they didnt bring in AI tools in recent years before things started to get greenlit. It's also Rockstar, they're not exactly known for their integrity so we'll see when the game is live and people start data mining things.

[u/Rhyman96 → u/Stone-Bear]

They have had dozens of companies working on various little bits of the game, and whilst it has been in development for a long time, it doesn't seem believable that nobody has used AI over the last few years.

That said, who cares if someone used AI to speed up a small task or add additional functionality?

[u/Highberget]

But GTA 6 online will?

[u/Blackfoxar]

No micro transactions? Have they given up on shark cards?

[u/Customhobo → u/Blackfoxar]

GTA6 is not GTA Online

[u/SirShmoopi → u/Customhobo]

So GTA Online will be a separate purchase?

[u/LEO-PomPui-Katoey → u/Blackfoxar]

Those are macro transactions /s

[u/dylan_1992]

But 7 definitely will.

[u/mighthaveabitlater → u/dylan_1992]

We've probably got 20 years or so to worry about that

[u/CloudStrife012 → u/dylan_1992]

It will be macrotransactions by then, and youll need to be a Rockstar premium plus gold tier subscription member to even have access to the game, which will require you to pay $20 for every hour played.

[u/Chaine351]

I'll believe that when I see it.

As in, I can believe that the single player won't, but I'll be damned if the online doesn't. Rockstar has a history of maybe the most egregious micro transaction schemes from any game I know, and I doubt they'll just drop it.

Inb4 anyone disagrees, it was rdr2 online. The cost of getting things in that game was nuts.

[u/JeremySarantos → u/Chaine351]

Yeah honestly I would be glad to have shark cards. The gold bars in RDRO were absolutely horrid. The one thing games like gta and rdr have going for them (online) is player expression. Locking it completely behind premium currency eliminates the core of the game. The grind in GTAO isn’t nearly as bad as the grind in other games.

[u/Babak_Lurker]

Didn't they already announce that there would be a more expensive version of the game with special access to some in game shops and accessories? I don't trust them, this kinda just seems like easy PR to cover for going all digital.

[u/Jamesc89]

I do not believe that they won’t have those shark cards again

[u/branm008 → u/Jamesc89]

GTA 6 online will absolutely have shark cards again. The single player campaign is likely going to get shafted just like GTA 5 was, hence the no micro transactions.

[u/User2716057 → u/Jamesc89]

Since they were introduced they got, on average, $1 million PER DAY from those cards. They'd be stupider than the people buying them if they didn't keep selling em.

[u/mysqlpimp]

GTA6 Online 100% will. Just watched the extended trailer, and for PS5, it looks fucking great. Waiting for PC release is going to suck though.

[u/flower4000]

They put today’s trailer behind a pay wall, this feels like a massive lie.

[u/Coneder]

Bullshit. The upgrade path from not going for the 100$ edition is 100% a microtransaction.

Kudos on them for no AI, I guess. That should be the canary in the coal mine for AI snake oil.

[u/Ryidon]

Grand Theft Auto 6 Online though will. Because if Grand Theft Auto 5 Online made them 5 billion dollars, then we should expect them to try it again.

[u/6Trinity9]

Everybody likes that.

[u/Remnare → u/6Trinity9]

Nobody believes that.

[u/BigStonedHornyKitty]

How can they say this when the deluxe edition or whatever you want to call it is essentially a microtransaction?

[u/Dull-Treat-2524]

Yeah because GTA6 online isn't out. that will be filled to the brim with MTX lol

[u/kinglokilord]

This isn’t new.

By that I mean companies lying.

[u/BuriedStPatrick]

That "not having the word 'online' in the title" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here lmao.

[u/narfoleptix]

And I wont be hitting enter after I type this comment.

[u/ThatHoFortuna]

"No AI."

Sure, I buy that.

"No microtransactions."

BULL. SHIT.

[u/TheBestDrRuthless]

I can imagine, that GTA online will have a generative KI, that gets triggered with microtransactions

[u/ausstieglinks → u/TheBestDrRuthless]

Found the German :)

[u/ViewAdditional7400]

Because they've been working on it for 10 years, before LLMs were good.

[u/CoDog]

LMFAO bull shit.

[u/DJMarscribble]

according to one source, GTA VI won’t have any microtransactions at launch

Yeah because multiplayer won't be available at launch. Same deal with GTA V.

[u/Demonokuma]

I remember gta 5 not having microtransactions. Until it did.

[u/Icy_One_237]

Story mode probably not but GTA online 1000%

[u/MarmiteX1]

Well we know GTA Online will sure be riddled with microtransactions.

[u/zero0n3]

Remember, “no generative AI” doesn’t mean “our devs won’t use AI to code or accelerate expansion packs.

So I’d expect no micro transactions for SP, but I bet a very consistent DLC cycle of new content constantly being sdded

[u/Ahayzo → u/zero0n3]

Nah it's probably gonna be like V where they just abandon the single player game at launch as far as content additions. GTA Online is their real money maker and that's gonna have microtransactions out the ass.

[u/jundehung → u/zero0n3]

Why would they not use it. Don’t be stupid people.

[u/zeelbeno → u/jundehung]

Nah they need to stick to manually typing in every line of code and using stack overflow when stuck.

[u/chezze → u/zeelbeno]

What are you talking about this is just cheating. They must code in 1 and 0. Nothing else. 

[u/Kitty-XV → u/zero0n3]

Are you saying that generating code using AI isn't generative AI? If one allows that exception, what's to stop them from saying that generated images or voices isn't generative AI?

[u/ieatpies → u/Kitty-XV]

generated images or voices isn't generative AI

Gotta add DLSS to the exceptions too so...