Time capsule of predictions

[ash-274]

Back in March of 2016 I cynically wrote a nasty mass-reply to a whole bunch of wish-list and whiny posts about “we should have...” or “it’s so stupid that we don’t have...”.

 

Fortunately, before I hit Submit Topic I thought better and decided not to toss the metaphorical Zippo into the pile of Jerry Cans.  However, I stumbled across my list of things I predicted “were never going to happen” and while I was right on most of them, I was pleasantly wrong (at least, partially) on others.

 

Third character

Casino (with gambling)

New areas directly added (new islands that didn’t require loading screens)

Purchaseable Lazer

Legal access to North Yankton

Cross-Platform play

Job Points have a purpose

Editable Pegasus list

Revaluation of Shark Cards

Ability to purchase/store/modify any emergency vehicles 

New heist(s)

Aircraft carrier in freeroam or in a new mission

The Jet Pack (Rocket Belt)

Return of the old freeroam events

Special crates return

Post-Apocalyptic vehicles

Armed and functional JB700

The "$1,000,000 paint job"

Items rank-locked above rank-135

Animals in Online

 

What are your thoughts?  Anything else you’re certain is never going to be added?  Anything you thought wasn’t going to be part of GTA:O that eventually was?

Not sure why the formatting went wonky.  Sorry

[MostlyPonies]

Red are things I doubt Rockstar would do because of game limits. Orange are things that might happen. The rest could also happen but they probably won't bother with it.

 

Third character

Casino (with gambling)

New areas directly added (new islands that didn’t require loading screens)

Purchaseable Lazer

Legal access to North Yankton

Cross-Platform play

Job Points have a purpose

Editable Pegasus list

Revaluation of Shark Cards

Ability to purchase/store/modify any emergency vehicles 

New heist(s)

Aircraft carrier in freeroam or in a new mission

The Jet Pack (Rocket Belt)

Return of the old freeroam events

Special crates return

Post-Apocalyptic vehicles

Armed and functional JB700

The "$1,000,000 paint job"

Items rank-locked above rank-135

Animals in Online

[Tez2]

Job Points had a purpose, it was cut a long time ago.

It was to grant you the ability to become VIP/CEO without having to ensure you have like 200k/500k in your pocket/bank

[ash-274]

2 minutes ago, Fun 2 said:

Job Points had a purpose, it was cut a long time ago.

It was to grant you the ability to become VIP/CEO without having to ensure you have like 200k/500k in your pocket/bank

Was that ever live, or just a planned idea?

[Tez2]

Just now, ash-274 said:

Was that ever live, or just a planned idea?

Quote

0xA9713E28 = Your Job Points have earned you a discount on the VIP Buy-In Cost.

0xB765557C = Are you sure you want to pay 250 Job Points to register as a VIP?

0x9B833896 = Register as a VIP. You have been awarded a discount proportionate to the number of Job Points you have earned in this session.

0x75ADFB10 = Your Job Points haven't earned you a discount on the VIP Buy-In Cost. Play more Jobs to reduce the Buy-In Cost.

In-game texts but I don't remember seeing them so I don't think they were live.

It was definitely a planned idea.

[Lupo-Akane]

18 hours ago, ash-274 said:

Back in March of 2016 I cynically wrote a nasty mass-reply to a whole bunch of wish-list and whiny posts about “we should have...” or “it’s so stupid that we don’t have...”.

 

Fortunately, before I hit Submit Topic I thought better and decided not to toss the metaphorical Zippo into the pile of Jerry Cans.  However, I stumbled across my list of things I predicted “were never going to happen” and while I was right on most of them, I was pleasantly wrong (at least, partially) on others.

 

Third character

Casino (with gambling)

New areas directly added (new islands that didn’t require loading screens)

Purchaseable Lazer

Legal access to North Yankton

Cross-Platform play

Job Points have a purpose

Editable Pegasus list

Revaluation of Shark Cards

Ability to purchase/store/modify any emergency vehicles 

New heist(s)

Aircraft carrier in freeroam or in a new mission

The Jet Pack (Rocket Belt)

Return of the old freeroam events

Special crates return

Post-Apocalyptic vehicles

Armed and functional JB700

The "$1,000,000 paint job"

Items rank-locked above rank-135

Animals in Online

 

What are your thoughts?  Anything else you’re certain is never going to be added?  Anything you thought wasn’t going to be part of GTA:O that eventually was?

Not sure why the formatting went wonky.  Sorry

Some I'm kind of sad to see in the but I really like the idea of a 3rd peep for some reason...

 

[Non Funkable Token]

 

Third character -> 10% chance. 

Casino (with gambling) -> 1% chance.

New areas directly added (new islands that didn’t require loading screens) -> 1% chance.

Purchaseable Lazer -> DONE

Legal access to North Yankton -> 10% chance. They should fill that map before. 

Cross-Platform play -> 0% chance, it doesn't depend on R* will.

Job Points have a purpose -> too late to care. And they had a purpose, as @Fun 2 said.

Editable Pegasus list -> 20% chance. Shouldn't be that hard to implement, but they probably don't care either.

Revaluation of Shark Cards -> These have been revaluated all of the time, with more and more offers.

Ability to purchase/store/modify any emergency vehicles -> 20% chance.

New heist(s) -> 30% chance. They know heists are a win, but are hard to make.

Aircraft carrier in freeroam or in a new mission -> DONE

The Jet Pack (Rocket Belt) -> DONE

Return of the old freeroam events -> 10% chance. They deleted some scripts of them. Seems like they really don't want them back.

Special crates return -> 30% chance. We've something similar going on now, so.....

Post-Apocalyptic vehicles -> DONE.

Armed and functional JB700 -> 20% chance. They could in case they want, but....

The "$1,000,000 paint job" -> probably done, or close.

Items rank-locked above rank-135 -> 5% chance, they are going the opposite way tho, giving newcomers everything without that hassle.

Animals in Online -> 30% chance. With RDR2 success they maybe use that card for GTAO. Cletus as a contact and a new bunch of hunting missions and challenges. Why not.

 

 

My 0.02

Edited December 25, 2018 by Fluffy Sock

[ash-274]

1 minute ago, Fluffy Sock said:

@Fun 2

New heist(s) -> 30% chance. They know heists are a win, but are hard to make.

 

I consider the Doomsday storyline to be "like" new heists, so I call it "done"

[Mach1bud]

28 minutes ago, ash-274 said:

I consider the Doomsday storyline to be "like" new heists, so I call it "done"

Well it's literally called "The Doomsday Heist" so I'd say it definitely counts lol.

[Pedinhuh]

17 hours ago, MostlyPonies said:

Third character

Won't happen ever since the re-release of the game in current generation, R* redid the character selection screen to ensure that there was only room for two characters, and last gen is not updated since 2015.

 

17 hours ago, MostlyPonies said:

Ability to purchase/store/modify any emergency vehicles 

RCV fits the bill here.

 

17 hours ago, MostlyPonies said:

Special crates return

It can be argued that these new cargo events in business battles are the Special Crates, with similar rewards including unique clothes. 

 

17 hours ago, MostlyPonies said:

 Armed and functional JB700

If this were to come, it would have already, the reason why it won't is because the scripts for the weapons aren't tied to the car in question, they are tied to the story mission the car is featured. 

 

This is nothing more than a half a hour work for any modder with a half a brain working, but like I said, it would have come already if they wanted to.

17 hours ago, MostlyPonies said:

Revaluation of Shark Cards

Something tells me that the constant bonuses and discount sales on Shark Cards could be this, because everyone knows how much expensive shark cards are, specially R*.

 

But reevaluation of the game economy? Never gonna happen.

[Non Funkable Token]

1 hour ago, ash-274 said:

I consider the Doomsday storyline to be "like" new heists, so I call it "done"

 

Off course these are heists. I'm referring to a new set of heists, the 3rd one to come.

[idonknowhow]

Discrimination against female character’s  breast.

[kcole4001]

Holy crap that's hard to read!

[ash-274]

3 hours ago, kcole4001 said:

Holy crap that's hard to read!

Yeah.  It’s the problem with this site and certain tablet browsers.  The copy/paste can keep or change attributes that you can’t see until it’s posted.  It’s also a pain to do the Google sheets that the Special Item list on a tablet (still can be done, but not as easily)