There’s one quality-of-life function that GTA On-line gamers have needed just about for the reason that sport got here out, and Rockstar’s simply bought round to implementing it—behind a paywall. GTA On-line’s newest occasion is known as Backside Greenback Bounties and focuses on letting gamers reside that Canine the Bounty Hunter life in Los Santos, but it surely additionally provides the brand new Vinewood Membership app to in-game telephones.
This app “helps you to simply request autos, declare all excellent enterprise protected earnings, and replenish ammo in your in-game cellphone.” Accumulating money out of your companies in GTA On-line has all the time been a little bit of a ache, and with the ability to do it out of your cellphone as an alternative is clearly a large enchancment. The catch, in fact, is that it is solely accessible to GTA+ subscribers paying $8 a month (thanks, GamesRadar+).
“Since day one there have been already issues GTA+ would begin locking out genuinely good options from non-subscribing gamers,” writes Select_Ad3588 on the GTA On-line subreddit. “The automotive dealership and shit was already stretching it, however now together with a QoL replace behind a fucking paywall? That is genuinely unhappy and makes me much more involved over GTA 6 On-line.
“So many gamers requested this function, yeah they’re ‘listening to our suggestions’ and determining how one can monetize it. One of many slimiest issues they’ve completed shortly.”
“Think about locking a most requested function behind a paywall…..in a ten yr outdated sport,” says Xplosiv84. “Pay extra to play much less,” provides MaxAliga. “I’ve GTA+ and even I believe that is dumb AF to not give to all gamers,” says IDKRedditsz. “This is not a function, it is bettering in your cumbersome fucking administration system.”
In the principle thread about this there is not a single optimistic response to the addition of a function everybody needed. The power to assert your earnings with out having to go to each bodily location has been a long-term want of this group, however going by the response it is like Rockstar personally insulted everybody’s mom.
That is not even the worst of it: play on PC? You are screwed buddy! Regardless of making a killing on the platform, Rockstar’s assist of the PC model of GTA On-line maintains parity with the last-generation console variations slightly than the next-gen console variations, that are the one place you may subscribe to GTA+.
So not solely has Rockstar paywalled some fundamental performance for GTA On-line gamers, but it surely’s made it inaccessible on PC. That is the type of factor that makes peoples’ ideas flip to subsequent summer season and the discharge of GTA 6: Rockstar hasn’t mentioned something in regards to the multiplayer factor of this however, on condition that GTA On-line makes half-a-billion {dollars} a 12 months, it is a certainty that it will include a brand new model of the net sport.
The course of journey for GTA On-line, significantly for the reason that introduction of GTA+, has left quite a lot of gamers grumbling about monetisation and exploitative ways. On the identical time, this hasn’t stopped it completely raking within the money for Rockstar and Take-Two, so it is arduous to see something altering. If the following iteration of GTA On-line would not launch with a subscription service from day one, I would be astonished. The unhappy factor is, going by this instance, Rockstar has no qualms about taking a look at what the folks need, after which giving them it: for a excessive value.