GTA VI Speculation & Discussion - Part ∞ - The Leonida Drought

[Agent Edward]

4 minutes ago, Tez2 said:

One can never forget the time they took down a save game file with 65% completion.

Imagine if it was 100%, dude would become teapot's cell mate.

[Devdevi45]

Yall will go back to loving R* and T2 soon 

[Agent Edward]

5 minutes ago, Devdevi45 said:

Yall will go back to loving R* and T2 soon 

I sure hope so, because for now all we're seeing is a extremely long VI news drought, GTA5 being released for PC a second time and mods being taken down for no reason that could hurt their income.

 

So yeah, I sure hope they can make us love them again eventually, in fact it's one of my biggest wishes when I wake up every morning, no sarcasm.

 

Edited January 15 by Agent Edward

[RaphealPenguin]

5 minutes ago, Devdevi45 said:

Yall will go back to loving R* and T2 soon 

We're about 4 or 5 months away from that lol.

[Retro_Causality]

Rockstar is a strange company. They are an amazing developer, but it feels like they are really anti-social. You don't really get the same fan interaction that you do with other  prestigious developers like Naughty Dog, Santa Monica, Capcom etc. etc.

 

their almost overtly too secretive, like Nintendo

[nomoris]

I think that in 2017 Take Two ordered the end of a mod that would bring the RDR1 map to GTA 5 claiming that it would interfere with a future remaster. So, since you say that something like what happened with the Liberty City mod is an indication of a remaster, since 2017 T2 were planning to release RDR1 on PC?

(And why did it take so long?)

Edited January 15 by nomoris

[franloradr]

2 hours ago, Xilurm said:

I think the saddest part about this is that the people that made this wasted years working on it.

they knew t2 would shut them down, they always do if you reuse assets from other rockstar games

 

anyway, the mod is out there on torrent, nothing has been lost

[boomboom5950]

i dont think rockstar took down the mod. Im pretty sure the devs decided to take it down themselves after a "conversation" rockstar

[mdqmatias]

The mod is out there, the community already has it and T2 can't do anything about it. The legacy of those who created it will remain and the community will surely make use of it.

 

Hopefully one day Rockstar will give us a remaster of IV, the fact that they removed this mod so quickly may indicate that they are already working on it. 

[REVENGE777]

5 minutes ago, mdqmatias said:

Hopefully one day Rockstar will give us a remaster of IV, the fact that they removed this mod so quickly may indicate that they are already working on it. 

Im genuinely doubtful of anything IV related coming out anytime soon. VI is right around the corner and they’re all hands on deck with getting it out the door. A IV remaster is kind of redundant at this point because it would be completely overshadowed by VI and I sincerely doubt they’d put in the time and effort to respectfully bring it up to modern era standards.

[Jason]

It sucks that this is T2's stance on stuff, but it's at the point that I question why anyone tries stuff specifically like map ports. It is on the record as a no go for Take-Two, and they've proven it multiple times by putting a stop to it. As soon as I saw that latest attempt doing the rounds I said it in a Discord, it will be taken down because again, it is publicly speaking against T2/R* ToS for modding.

[Spider-Vice]

Doesn't really change the outcome but just FYI there seems to be more to it than an actual aggressive DMCA takedown, which it wasn't, but rather there's some sort of ongoing conversation between them and R*, as one of the mod team members even told people to not exaggerate and wait for the situation to unravel.

 

 

[REVENGE777]

I don’t understand why rockstar doesn’t scoop these guys up and officially hire them as part of the rockstar team. Years and years of talented passionate modders have been crushed under take 2/R*s feet. Even FiveM was only bought out because they couldn’t compete with it, not because they cared or believed in it.

[Spider-Vice]

1 minute ago, REVENGE777 said:

Even FiveM was only bought out because they couldn’t compete with it

...yeah no. Their stance on certain mods sucks but this has already been disproven and argued against a million times lol.

[REVENGE777]

1 minute ago, Spider-Vice said:

I mean, how is everyone taking the situation at face value assuming the worst? The facts are Rockstar contacted them to take the mod down and then the mod was taken down. A “friendly” takedown or not doesn’t really make all that much of a difference when the results are the same. 

[Agent Edward]

Well, they're missing from social media, but certainly not sleeping.

[REVENGE777]

3 minutes ago, Spider-Vice said:

...yeah no. Their stance on certain mods sucks but this has already been disproven and argued against a million times lol.

Proof? Because I’ve only ever seen and heard that was the true narrative behind the acquisition. 

[NightmanCometh96]

36 minutes ago, nomoris said:

I think that in 2017 Take Two ordered the end of a mod that would bring the RDR1 map to GTA 5 claiming that it would interfere with a future remaster. So, since you say that something like what happened with the Liberty City mod is an indication of a remaster, since 2017 T2 were planning to release RDR1 on PC?

(And why did it take so long?)

I think it’s more to do with New Austin and West Elizabeth being set to appear in RDR2. 
 

I suspect the decision to port the original to PS/Switch/PC was a much more recent one, likely made in 2019-2020, around the time (I don’t remember the specific date) Zelnick publicly stated the desire for more consistent releases from R*. Hence, the rereleases to “make up” for the long gaps between new entries (and possibly a factor in why the PC port came out a year after the console versions). 

[Gentlebreeze]

1 hour ago, Devdevi45 said:

Yall will go back to loving R* and T2 soon 

I do hope so. Either way, they'll be critiqued until the end of time. 

[Agent Edward]

13 minutes ago, REVENGE777 said:

I mean, how is everyone taking the situation at face value assuming the worst? The facts are Rockstar contacted them to take the mod down and then the mod was taken down. A “friendly” takedown or not doesn’t really make all that much of a difference when the results are the same. 

Yeah...

 

"Could you please get rid of this work you've been doing for more than 7* years?"

 

Doesn't really sound that friendly to me, even saying it in a nice way.

 

I mean, I get it, no one wants to be in the bad side of Take-Two/Rockstar, but everyone here knows what is going on.

 

Edited January 16 by Agent Edward
It's 7 years, not 10.

[daley86]

Rockstar have taken down more fan-made mods/expansions in the past 10 years than they've released games.

[Ogivaldelta]

1 hour ago, Retro_Causality said:

Rockstar is a strange company. They are an amazing developer, but it feels like they are really anti-social. You don't really get the same fan interaction that you do with other  prestigious developers like Naughty Dog, Santa Monica, Capcom etc. etc.

 

their almost overtly too secretive, like Nintendo

It wasnt always like that either. Rockstar leads used to do a lot of interviews and discuss how the sausage was made back in the 00s.

[Agent Edward]

I hope that Rockstar don't go after the GTA Stars and Stripes team as well, that one is even more impressive, it basically realizes Leslie Benzies' former idea of having the entire USA in a GTA game, but in GTA San Andreas, not GTA5.

 

It's basically a new version of GTA Underground, only even more ambitious.

[Dick Justice]

It's mid-January already. If we are assuming that VI will come out at the end of the October, we are already 5% of the way there. 

[Nyfyr]

1 hour ago, Dick Justice said:

It's mid-January already. If we are assuming that VI will come out at the end of the October, we are already 5% of the way there. 

That’s it we keep the spirits up here!!! Great man 

[mp412rex]

1 hour ago, Dick Justice said:

It's mid-January already. If we are assuming that VI will come out at the end of the October, we are already 5% of the way there. 

not to mention the earnings call is less than a month away

[xHDxREMIXx]

Wonder how there going to start the ramp up for the game announce a date for trailer 2 or shadow drop it and watch the internet burn next few months are going to be interesting 

[Dick Justice]

18 minutes ago, mp412rex said:

not to mention the earnings call is less than a month away

"Rockstar Games are working hard on something truly special. Grand Theft Auto VI is scheduled for release Fall 2025. We will leave any further announcements to Rockstar Games themselves." – Strauss Zelnick (February 6th, 2025). 

[Gentlebreeze]

Lets not all go 2020 @Zello, there's still hope, faith, trust.....

[TheBigX]

2 minutes ago, Gentlebreeze said:

Lets not all go 2020 @Zello, there's still hope, faith, trust.....

Lol that you tag that person, curious what the story behind it.