GTA Online includes in-game currency microtransactions - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Take_Opal;42293977]Yeah you're right. My gut feeling is that they won't do it. I've got a sixth sense for this. They just won't do it. I'll say it again. They just won't do it, I know it, I can feel it.[/QUOTE] Hahahaha all of you are going to get anally assaulted for the sake of more money. Just ease into it gently, it'll be okay.

Is there a chance that it's just a way to transfer money to another player or possibly even a reward system..? I mean, it doesn't plain as day say how much these things in USD or any kind of currency nor does it really show any evidence that it's bought with real cash. At least, not from the article.

i mean....you could just use cheat codes for cash and NOT play online..... [editline]24th September 2013[/editline] also its not illegal in GTA V to buy stock in Airline A, jack Airline B's planes and crash them, so Airline A's stock goes up [editline]24th September 2013[/editline] or just wait for the PC version to come out and hack your game file to add millions of dollars....

Microtransactions let you spend money instead of time. Time is more precious, ergo, microtransactions are useful.

I'd be okay with it, if it means we'd get free content being added to GTA Online.

ok first of all nobody has confirmed this second, who gives a shit, its not like an MMO where microtransactions affect balance, say they add transactions to buy a golden rocket launcher, it will still work like a regular rocket launcher.....

Being able to get money early by paying for it would suck if it meant that you could just buy anything, but it's highly likely that non-customisation items (i.e. guns, high end vehicles, anything else that would give an edge in modes) are locked into the rep system. If this is true I doubt someone would be able to finish the intro at rep 1 and buy 1.5 million dollars and instantly buy an Infernus & RPG.

I would be ok with it if it doesn't mean pay2win bullshit and that mods are still availble... And if they do implement this system, I don't see how it couldn't affect modding. And if it's true you can buy ingame currency, then fuck that noise, because that means people will just go out and buy the biggest guns, apartments and cars without any effort and steamroll everybody else. Cosmetics, sure, hood ornaments and special costumes would be ok, even a boost on how much money you earn doing crimes and shit would be cool, but don't let people outright buy cash... That would seriously affect gameplay. Time to see if R* sacrifices gameplay for money. I hope they don't. (That is, if they even implement microtransactions)

[QUOTE=Muggi;42295463]I would be ok with it if it doesn't mean pay2win bullshit and that mods are still availble... And if they do implement this system, I don't see how it couldn't affect modding. And if it's true you can buy ingame currency, then fuck that noise, because that means people will just go out and buy the biggest guns, apartments and cars without any effort and steamroll everybody else. Cosmetics, sure, hood ornaments and special costumes would be ok, even a boost on how much money you earn doing crimes and shit would be cool, but don't let people outright buy cash... That would seriously affect gameplay. Time to see if R* sacrifices gameplay for money. I hope they don't. (That is, if they even implement microtransactions)[/QUOTE] why do you hit enter half way through your sentences

[QUOTE=Cl0cK;42295312]I'd be okay with it, if it means we'd get free content being added to GTA Online.[/QUOTE] they already made a billion dollars in 3 days with a budget of 265 million. if they need any more money in the form of microtransactions they are insane

[quote]A Reddit user[/quote] Take it with a grain of fucking salt people.

[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;42295501]why do you hit enter half way through your sentences[/QUOTE] Sorry, weird shit is happening with my netbook here.

Trusting companies is one of the worst possible things you can do.

[QUOTE=Bradyns;42295191]Microtransactions let you spend money instead of time. Time is more precious, ergo, microtransactions are useful.[/QUOTE] But if a game has microtransactions it is automatically designed FOR microtransactions. You will have less fun if you spend less money. Why else would anyone even want to spend money on the game? If there aren't microtransactions then the game doesn't have to be designed in a way that you can skip boring parts for money, they can just leave the boring parts out. Why would they want to make the game deliberately [i]less[/i] fun if there are no microtransactions?

micro transactions are bad, no matter what. it's the reason behind all evil in our modern world. when i buy a game i shouldn't be given the option to pay even more for small things? i bought the god damn game, leave that shit out

Now, I don't personally have GTA 5 yet, but exactly how are microtransactions going to fit into the multiplayer component of GTA 5? Is it gonna be like an MMO where you can't host your own server, and have to play on official servers playing official gamemodes or what?

As long as it's out of the way and doesn't impact the moment to moment gameplay I don't mind microtransactions. Especially if they can fund continous MP development through them.

Why not have two modes, one micro-transaction free, and the other with them. [editline]24th September 2013[/editline] I mean honestly, given online heists and all that, it should be no problem to make your money. Just get creative.

Simple. If you don't want to pay for something, don't buy it.

People worrying about this causing GTA 5 to not be "mod friendly" any more must not have played much GTA...it's never been "mod friendly". They actively went out of their way to break mods in GTA: SA, it took a lot of hacking around and rolling back to get mods running properly. It's been "mod sorta-usable", but never "mod friendly".

[QUOTE=hexpunK;42296679]People worrying about this causing GTA 5 to not be "mod friendly" any more must not have played much GTA...it's never been "mod friendly". They actively went out of their way to break mods in GTA: SA, it took a lot of hacking around and rolling back to get mods running properly. It's been "mod sorta-usable", but never "mod friendly".[/QUOTE] The only GTA's i'd say come closest to being "mod friendly" are 3 and Vice City, simply because they allowed you to upload your own skin. You can probably blame this all on the hot coffee scandal though.

If anything, this will probably be for GTA: Online money, which you use to buy apartments and whatever. So, again, if anything, it'll be something to speed up getting shit if you're into that. I doubt they'd do 'money packs' for single player, nobody would buy that.

While I hate these cash cards, I think the purpose of them is fine. They are going to be more or less paying for future content for GTAO for free. That means missions. I didn't say DLC, car packs, etc., but you must remember Rockstar said GTAO will be ever changing/evolving and will have over 700 missions. I suspect they'll continuously add more missions and such for free. But cash cards are still retarded.

I hope it's just rumors

Microtransactions make more sense on a mobile platform or a game where it doesn't have much effect(I'm probably singular in thinking TF2 is a good example, it's really fun and thrilling when you unlock that item you've been waiting for).

[QUOTE=Nasal_Spray;42293952] Since Rockstar seems to be going down this mini DLC route, won't they make their PC port mod unfriendly as people could just recreate the content?[/QUOTE] They'll do that anyway. R* has been actively trying to fuck the modding community up the ass ever since Hot Coffee. San An V2.0 was nearly unmoddable until someone made a downgrade patch, each successive patch for IV broke the commonly used scripts and slightly altered the file formats forcing modtool makers to start all over again on top of the obscenely overintrusive DRM getting in the way(Want to mod IV? Better crack it or you're gonna be frustrated at every turn!), EFLC went one step further still and encrypted all the game files....yeaahh...I'm half expecting it to take several months after it hits PC before the first car mods start showing up for GTA V. I wouldn't be surprised if this same logic is part of why they still haven't ported RDR to PC. Rockstar has a raging boner for making life as difficult for the mod community as they can get away with. They don't need an excuse. [editline]24th September 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=RichyZ;42297526] if i have a really tight work schedule and i feel like throwing down 5 bucks to buy basically anything i want for a while in the game so i dont need to grind on less important missions, then i should be able to[/QUOTE] Or you could just invoke its health+armor+money cheat a few times. Aside from the one time I played San An and IV cheat-free intentionally I've NEVER wanted for cash in a GTA game.

Your saying it like its confirmed. Stop doing this your annoying as fuck. Stupid Reddit people. OH WE FOUND SOMETHING IN THE FILES IT MUST BE CONFIRMED TOTALLY CAN'T HAVE JUST BEEN LEFT BEHIND WHEN THEY WERE MAKING THE GAME OR ANYTHING. Jesus christ.

I'm hoping it will be like in War of The Roses, you can buy coins but it's pretty easy to earn it yourself and besides the gameplay is fun anyway.

[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;42298326]To be fair why would they even CONSIDER this in the game making process if they werent going to do it>[/QUOTE] Because developers consider many options in the game making process? They don't start out with the final game design and work backwards from that

[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;42298326]To be fair why would they even CONSIDER this in the game making process if they werent going to do it>[/QUOTE] You've never created anything have you? Ideas get thrown around a ton when making stuff like software, development happens on these ideas as prototypes to see if they are feasible. This might be one of the ideas they worked on and thought wouldn't work greatly, but didn't remove every reference to it from the software in case they came back to it.