GTA On-line Success Shocked Even Rockstar

March 5, 2023 Gabriel Stanford-Reisinger

GTA On-line wasn’t like mainly something that Rockstar Video games put on the market earlier than. The developer was established within the single-player area, but right here they’re, raking within the dough because of its online-only GTA recreation spanning a number of generations.

Throughout an interview with GamesRadar, design director Scott Butchard expressed that the three phrases that come to thoughts in terms of the net crime-fest are “sudden,” “neighborhood,” and “enjoyable.” He additionally stated how the studio was nonetheless discovering its toes when releasing GTA On-line and that they by no means dreamed that it could nonetheless be going 10 years sturdy.

From the sound of it, Rockstar aren’t planning on stopping now, persevering with to hawk out free updates and dole out larger updates like its current huge replace, The Contract, which options rapper and document producer Dr. Dre within the combine alongside the reprised position of Franklin.

Butchard’s Full GTA On-line Assertion

“After I first began engaged on GTA On-line we had been nonetheless discovering our toes. Primarily, we had been pushing these smaller updates whereas working onerous to deliver collectively the primary Heist, so it’s been an epic studying expertise – with tons of enjoyable and sudden twists and turns thanks in no small half to the unbelievable suggestions from our neighborhood. After we began out, I don’t suppose we might have ever dreamed we’d nonetheless be going 10 years on. The success of GTA On-line is nothing we ever anticipated.”

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