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Somehow it feels like Rockstar Games and Take-Two don’t really want to deal with PC gamers, only as an afterthought…<\/h4>\n

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This lack of respect can also be seen in a new blog post from Rockstar Games, where the studio details how Grand Theft Auto Online will be expanded. It’s been eleven years since Grand Theft Auto V launched on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in the fall of 2013, followed by PlayStation 4 and Xbox One a year later, and finally PC in the spring of 2015, when the online component of the game became such a moneymaker for Take-Two and Rockstar that GTA V didn’t get any single-player DLC, even though there were plans for it (and we reported on them).<\/p>\n

“Plans to bring Grand Theft Auto Online’s long-awaited PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series features to PC in the new year.” This sentence fragment is the second-to-last sentence in the blog post. It’s as if it was half-heartedly added at the end to say, “Here you go, PC gamers, now shut up. So it will come with ray tracing support, improved textures and visibility, higher population density, more varied traffic, denser vegetation, improved lighting quality in shadows, water reflection, improved anti-aliasing and motion blur, improved explosions and fire…<\/p>\n

Grand Theft Auto VI is scheduled for release on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series in the fall of 2025, raising questions about Rockstar and Take-Two’s approach to Grand Theft Auto Online. Will there be a completely new version, or will they slowly abandon the current version? That would be interesting because there are still a lot of updates and new content coming this December. In October, more than 400,000 players signed up just to play the survival mode in Ludendorff Cemetery in the region shown in the prologue of Grand Theft Auto V…<\/p>\n

So the PC catch-up is FINALLY coming.<\/p>\n

Source: WCCFTech<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, Rockstar Games<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Somehow it feels like Rockstar Games and Take-Two don’t really want to deal with PC gamers, only as an afterthought…   This lack of respect can also be seen in a new blog post from Rockstar Games, where the studio details how Grand Theft Auto Online will be expanded. It’s been eleven years since Grand Theft Auto V launched on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in the fall of 2013, followed by PlayStation 4 and Xbox One a year later, and finally PC in the spring of 2015, when the online component of the game became such a moneymaker for Take-Two and Rockstar that GTA V didn’t get any single-player DLC, even though there were plans for it (and we reported on them). “Plans to…<\/p>\n

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