Rockstar lastly introduced that it has a sequel for Grand Theft Auto V cooking, and that’s a very good cause to have fun. GTA V is often seen as top-of-the-line video games ever made. It’s the crown jewel for Rockstar, and a sequel for the sport, which was launched in 2013, is one thing followers have appeared ahead to for greater than 5 years.

Many of you might have been asking a few new entry within the Grand Theft Auto sequence.
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But extra essential than GTA V is its multiplayer counterpart, Grand Theft Auto Online. The sport is a money cow for each Rockstar and its mother or father firm, Take-Two Interactive. And the following entry within the Grand Theft Auto franchise, whether or not it’s named GTA 6 or one thing else, will probably be a turning level for GTA Online. The massively standard on-line Grand Theft Auto title should change to go well with no matter GTA 6 finally ends up being, and that change has to come back with gamers in thoughts first.
Hand in hand
Despite the truth that Rockstar is releasing GTA Online as a stand-alone title — it’s launching alongside GTA V‘s next-gen model on March 15 — it and GTA V go hand in hand. They have, from the start, shared extra than simply fundamental DNA.
Like GTA V, Grand Theft Auto Online is about in Los Santos. It options the identical characters and places because the single-player sport, and it has the identical vehicles and weapons. Sure, Grand Theft Auto Online has expanded previous the single-player sport it sprouted from. GTA Online has gotten extra vehicles and weapons by common updates. The sport even sports activities extra heists than GTA V, one in all which, the Cayo Perico heist, takes gamers to a completely new space.
But nonetheless, the 2 are inseparable and can proceed to be even when GTA Online is offered by itself. Currently, if you wish to play the sport, you must buy GTA V and progress by the sport’s prologue. That’s going to alter quickly, in keeping with at present’s Rockstar Newswire submit, however for anybody who’s performed the sport up to now, that’s been the expertise. If you need to play GTA Online proper now, you must undergo GTA V.
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Once the sport is stand-alone, the remnants of GTA V will nonetheless be in there. Two of the sport’s protagonists, Trevor and Franklin, seem within the sport as quest givers. Players work intently with them, particularly Franklin, who’s the main focus of the sport’s newest growth, The Contract.
For GTA 6, the identical should be true. Players can have to have the ability to discover wherever the sport is about, speak to its characters, and have entry to the identical suite of automobiles and weapons out there within the single-player sport. They need to be equal in each respect, in any other case, there’s going to be a wierd disconnect.
That applies to no matter up to date engine GTA 6 runs on as effectively. We’ve already seen the enhancements Rockstar could make in a brief time frame with Red Dead Redemption 2, which got here out 5 years after GTA V and nonetheless manages to appear to be a contemporary masterpiece. GTA 6 isn’t going to launch this 12 months, and should not even come out subsequent 12 months, so it’s affordable to count on an analogous graphical leap as that seen with RDR2. GTA Online should be up to date with that as effectively, it could actually’t feel and appear like a sport from 2013 whereas a mainline entry sports activities cutting-edge tech.
Taking care of gamers
Whatever bounce GTA Online finally takes with GTA 6 — whether or not it’s overhauled completely or just strikes to a brand new location with new characters — Rockstar wants to make sure it’s achieved in a manner that doesn’t harm gamers. Like some other sport, GTA Online lives and dies by its participant base, though it has a devoted one which hasn’t let go for practically 9 years.
Consider for a second that there are individuals who have been enjoying GTA Online for the reason that sport was launched in 2013. That’s 9 years of rising one character, incomes cash with them, and shopping for garments, properties, weapons, and vehicles, then customizing all of them. GTA Online was designed to be a time sink, and other people have certainly sunk tons and tons of time into the sport.
What occurs when GTA Online strikes to a brand new location? What occurs to the properties gamers have purchased, the vehicles they personal, the weapons they’ve, the garments they put on? But most significantly, gamers will marvel what’s going to occur to their characters.

Rockstar hasn’t precisely been forgiving up to now with gamers shifting their GTA Online characters. They may beforehand be moved as soon as, with gamers opting to convey theirs to the PS4 or Xbox One as soon as they launched. If you need to transfer your character now although, you’re out of luck. If GTA Online goes by an enormous revamp, it’s not clear what’s going to occur to participant characters, though historical past doesn’t paint a hopeful image.
That’s an enormous deal contemplating how a lot GTA Online has continued to develop. According to Take-Two Interactive’s 2021 annual report, the corporate noticed a bounce in shopper spending for GTA Online of 31%. That’s all for Shark Cards, which give gamers extra of GTA Online‘s in-game foreign money. These gross sales are nothing however revenue for Take-Two.
For Rockstar, that is all doubtlessly an even bigger deal than releasing GTA 6. That sport will, inevitably, promote tens of millions of copies. That’s virtually written in stone at this level, contemplating how massively standard Grand Theft Auto is as a franchise. And whereas the corporate can count on GTA Online to proceed rising with the sport’s launch, Rockstar has a dedication to satisfy for present gamers.
GTA Online will virtually definitely be altering with GTA 6‘s release. The game will move to a new place, look different, and feel different because it has to. It can’t be disconnected from GTA 6, since it might simply wreck the sport’s longevity because it begins to actually present its age. However GTA Online inevitably finally ends up altering to suit GTA 6, Rockstar wants to make sure that gamers can observe alongside as effectively, with none problem.

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