GTA5: Dan Houser would no more commit to PC than he would for Wii U - Polidicks

it's great that they're putting all that effort into a game and nobody is going to be able to actually enjoy it because every version will render 24 FPS and under just like assassin's creed 3 on consoles. max payne 3 and L.A noire weren't developed by rockstar north. last rockstar north game was red dead redemption and even though a PC version would have been extremely profitable it never happened. only way GTA V is going to be on PC is if the PC community overwhelms rockstar with demands, then we'll get a piece of shit port by some unknown developer.

[QUOTE=Zephyrs;38522652]None of that has to deal with piracy. There are a number of 'legitimate' reasons to prefer one platform over any of the others. Piracy just isn't one of them.[/QUOTE] From a marketing and investor perspective, it is seen as loss of revenue. It doesn't matter if 'you' don't see it that way, people aren't going to invest in something as much time or money where there is a large potential for loss of sales.

[QUOTE=ButtsexV3;38523228]saints row 2 is a piss poor port as well[/QUOTE] Fixed

Sign this petition. [url]http://www.change.org/en-CA/petitions/rockstar-release-gta-v-on-pc[/url]

[QUOTE=Edthefirst;38523523]RDR was a different studio. There's certainly a slimmer of hope here because it's Rockstar North. I am starting to get worried though. If this doesn't make it to pc it will be the most disappointing bit of gaming news ever.[/QUOTE] studio doesn't matter, publisher pretty much gets the final say

if rockstar wants GTA5 on the PC, it will come out on the PC

[QUOTE=Woovie;38526431]Sign this petition. [url]http://www.change.org/en-CA/petitions/rockstar-release-gta-v-on-pc[/url][/QUOTE] I would have given it the title "Allow PC gamers to give you our money"

[QUOTE=Jackald;38526439]I don't own a console I do own a pc I would like to play GTA V This isn't an issue of me being pissy about not being able to play it on the bestest favouritest platform pc gaming master racE!!!! I just want to be able to play the fucking game.[/QUOTE] you're one of the poor souls that is just going to have to wait while us console owners buy the game 100 different times

Max Payne 3 was a fucking [b]great[/b] port, I had it running on max settings in dx9 mode on a PC that struggled to run Skyrim on medium. It behaved like an actual pc game, too. I hope they won't fuck a player base that huge because of reasons.

Whereas I really appreciate his creative output, Mr Dan Houser seems to me a bit of a dick when it comes to playing the businessman

Didn't the entire series fucking start on the PC?? They can't just abandon us like that.

Well yeah they can, just because it started on PC doesn't mean they have to ignore what markets are more profitable in the present day. GTA 1 only came out on PS1 like a couple months after PC. I doubt a false sense of entitlement will persuade them

Oh well, its such a high profile title someone will take the time to port it themselves and then we'll just get it for free...

Do you really think it's that simple to port a game without any access to the source? Even if you did somehow get the source code for one of the console versions it would be quite a mammoth task. But hey, "duh programmers are dah magicalist peopolz", right?

[QUOTE=shut up idiot;38524857][B]EA buys Valve Corporation[/B] [B]Half Life 3 cancelled, Team Fortress 3 in production, will be based in modern day[/B] [B]Steam/Origin replaced with Storigineam, monthly fees applied[/B] [B]Interplay revived by cooking mama publishers, will create Descent themed cooking mama games.[/b][/QUOTE] TF3: WaW americans vs russians

I finally managed to migrate completely over to the PC from the console shitfest like 5-6 years ago, and now they're doing this bullshit. If it doesn't come on the PC, I'm not buying it, and I simply won't give a fuck because I'll have other, better games to play.

[QUOTE=nikomo;38528306] better games to play.[/QUOTE] Bit of a stretch given Rockstar's track record.

[QUOTE=ChaosUnleash;38523802]I played 4 on the PC and ended up getting it for the Xbox just so it would run at a decent rate. Even now it barely works for me and I have to drop settings (it's the only game I've had to do that with). I'll just save myself the hassle and buy GTA5 for the xbox.[/QUOTE] i think its funny how people always say this, gta iv ran so much better on my pc than it ever did my xbox, maybe i just have good luck with shoddy ports, because la noire worked fine for me too [editline]20th November 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=J!NX;38528273]TF3: WaW americans vs russians[/QUOTE] ea doesnt own call of duty

I just fucking hope their market analyst or someone finds it worth it to port GTAV on the PC. It better fucking be.

If they don't release GTA V for PC that's at least 40 percent of their profits down the drain.

Once again, I highly doubt GTA V won't hit PC after seeing this, [url]http://www.rockstarnexus.com/article/60/Grand-Theft-Auto-V-appears-in-Social-Club-files-on-PC[/url] It's in the PC social club files now, and has a lot of pictures including a placeholder cover art

[QUOTE=RoadOfGirl;38523436]I think they will undoubtedly release it on PC, but they will say they are not particularly planning to as to make people like myself buy it twice (I will probably buy it twice). PC ports are so easy that there is literally no reason not to, however they are likely waiting just so that potential PC users are forced to first purchase a console version of the game (which are much more difficult to pirate, of course). It's just a sales tactic, IMO[/QUOTE] don't buy the console version I'm so tired of seeing FP'ers go "ugh console version delayed a month?! (ACIII), that's it I'm buying the console version" these people are what's wrong with gaming and what is making the PC get 2nd class support

I'd still rather have a shitty port than no port at all.

Don't encourage them, dude

[QUOTE=The Baconator;38521363]Do we really care? We have Saints Row III, and it doesn't use GFWL (lol GTAIV). A GTAV port would probably be piss poor and break records for terrible PC ports.[/QUOTE] I hope this isn't serious. Saints Row The Third is one of the most abysmal piece of shit games that ever surfaced this atmosphere, there is no good aspect in that shit. BTW: [url]http://rockstarnexus.com/article/60/Grand-Theft-Auto-V-appears-in-Social-Club-files-on-PC[/url]

They probably got hit really hard with MP3 and LA Noire when it came to piracy.

They still made a tidy profit though

I saw GTA V trailer and it looked horribly poor quality and massively aliased for in-game footage. Fuck off consoles with your sub-par hardware. If anything, PC should be their priority.

[QUOTE] Firstly, lets add some clarification. Starting with the PC version of L.A. Noire, the Social Club run times are independent of the game on PC. Essentially this means that Social Club can be updated independently of the game. Every time you launch the game the run times will download an initial cache of data to ensure that it has the latest information in case you go offline. Recently, folders named "gta5" have been appearing in the cache files. In an attempt by Rockstar either at trolling or just simply putting placeholder files, the folders only consist of copied Max Payne 3 data files and the images below. (Note that the truck picture is actually in the images folder two times) If you'd like to check for yourself and have either L.A. Noire or Max Payne 3 on PC, just make sure you've recently launched one of them and check this folder: [System Drive]:/Program Files (x86)/Rockstar Games/Social Club/UI/images/gta5. The path may vary depending on your system. As of 10/29/12, we can confirm the files are still there. EDIT: It seems the "gta5" files are no longer being downloaded by Social Club. If your game had already downloaded the files, it doesn't seem to delete them. As for if this all means there is a PC version in development, signs do point to yes. The only game cache folders to appear in the Social Club framework files on PC so far (besides GTAV) are L.A. Noire and Max Payne 3, both of which have PC versions. Max Payne Mobile is the only other game beside LAN and MP3 to include the Social Club framework and the PC version of the framework doesn't seem to cache files for it. Additionally, the framework only seems to be used on platforms that don't have a set way of handing players, multiplayer, messages and achievements. This means that consoles do not use this framework and use a different, limited implementation of Social Club. EDIT 2: A number of fans are independently confirming the files are showing up for them over at GTAForums. EDIT 3: We've found a number of references to the Grand Theft Auto V codebase in the socialclub.dll file. While it doesn't reveal anything, still an interesting to see. [img]http://rockstarnexus.com/media/news/4033881646.PNG[/img] [/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=SCopE5000;38530567]I saw GTA V trailer and it looked horribly poor quality and massively aliased for in-game footage. Fuck off consoles with your sub-par hardware. If anything, PC should be their priority.[/QUOTE] How many people use the 360 and PS3 combined for videogames? How much do devs/pubs make off of them compared to PC users? Think about that for a second.