TAKE-TWO CONFIRMS AGGRESSIVE MICROTRANSACTIONS FOR RDR2

>Chief Executive OfficerStrauss Zelnick explained that the strategy is always to “captivate and engage consumers” and revenue is a function of that strategy, and not the other way around.

>The goal remains to keep consumers excited and make them happy. The effect of doing that is that is that there are “really great results” in terms of recurrent revenue as well.

>According to Zelnick, the world has changed. If you do it right, there is an opportunity to keep people engaged. The most exciting element is seeing record numbers of people actually playing.

dualshockers.com/gta-publisher-focused-players-not-payers-talks-microtransactions-quality/

RDR 2 IS FUCKED

>captivate and engage consumers

Rockstar is dead

Im going to buy so much in this game. Thank god im not poor.

>Chief Financial Officer Lainie Goldstein explained that recurrent consumer spending is continuing to grow for Take-Two, and it’s a “big focus” for the publisher in all of its games. They feel that there is are a lot more opportunities in the field.
>Lainie Goldstein

I wonder who could be..

Basically, making a great game makes good money.
Do you disagree?

Thanks for the support goyi- I mean loyal consumer

Well it looks like god made you a cuck

>people unironically believe that microtransactions are going to kill this game
Hahahahaha, im sure r* cant hear you over the billions of dollars they made off V.

No

But GTAV and RDR2 won't be remembered as fondly as their predecessors because they were more interested in making a product than making a profit

Yes. I frequently buy microtransactions in video games. Does that upset you when i spend money on my hobby?

Fucking good. All the poor gag salty tears fuels me. If rdr2 online wmis going to be as fleshed out and supported as gta online, then I'm excited. As long as there's a way to make the money in game, I see no problem with some cash cards. I for one plan to be a high roller, so I'll pick up a few cactus cards and get the nicest stage coach, horse, rifles and tent. It's a sustainable model of gaming and one more developers should use more often

Nobody believes it's going to fail but it's not going to be as good as it should be because of this

I know it's hard to proof read an entire sentence, but if you want to discuss something with people and have them take you seriously, do try.

Yeah, but if it's like GTA 5, where the singleplayer itself fully justifies the purchase price, then I don't see the problem. Just don't play the online portion, or play it without spending money. It's still good entertainment.

I sincerely don't understand what's the problem, as there's still the good old offline singeplayer that, to my knowledge, won't have microtransactions. But obviously this is not certain and nobody should preoder the game.

What if the campaign or story mode is just a shallow glorified tutorial for the multiplayer?

I wouldn't have a single problem with them wringing money out of GTA online players if they didn't cancel all plans for singleplayer dlc because it's not as profitable

I just hope the online will have co-op missions like rdr 1 had, except more fleshed out. I'm sure they learned a thing or two from the heists

remember about that frog and the boiling water?
that water is the gaming industry and we are the frogs.
me smart.

Then don't buy the game. Problem solved.

This does suck, yes, but it doesn't change the fact that GTA 5's singleplayer was worth the full price.

arthur is rockstar and the guy hes grabbing is us
WHERES OUR MONEY

You literally never ever need to spend real money om gtav. I dont understand why this is so hard to grasp.

Right, like all of rockstars other games. The reason they get away with heavy microtransactions in MP is because they've always had a decent singleplayer to justify your $60

They promised more Heists in DLC didn't they? Then never delivered on it.

That's my only real beef with GTA5. (some) heists were extremely fun and the online would've benefitted greatly from more of those. Instead we got ridiculously priced vehicles to incentivize you to buy shark cards.

Who the fuck cares.
Im not gonna pay for fucking horse cards thats for sure

It's going to make a shit tonne of money, but it won't be fondly remembered.
The only people still playing GTA 5 are youtubers/twitch streamers or their fans aka people who have a vested interest in its continued play.
They don't sit back and talk about how much they love the game. In fact, they probably complain about it. Criticising Rockstar for yet another pointless, jewy update with another reskin or whatever.

But, it gives them a new goal. New targets to reach. New grinds. Maybe they'll be the first to show something. Then when something becomes MORE viable than GTA 5 for them, they move onto it.
I don't think anyone honestly looks back fondly on GTA 5. They'll say it was pretty good, or that they liked X about it. But that's all.
Meanwhile with just about every main instalment in the GTA series people have strong feelings (good and bad) about the games, and this was also the case for RDR.
The game will do fucking AMAZINGLY and everyone in this thread will fucking buy it in the end, whether at launch or years from launch.
But hype alone won't keep it in peoples memories.

Even Skyrim is grinding to a halt, hype wise. The most normal of normals is starting to laugh at the shitty practices.
RDR2 will probably be a pretty fucking good GTA with Horses but it too will die only to be carried by youtube/twitchfags.

Finally somebody said it. Unironically GIT GUD and youll never need to buy.

>captivate and engage consumers
they always use this choice niggery language to straight up lie. when did they get taken over by jews?

>T2 confirms it is still T2

Wow, my mind is just blown, OP.

Everything is so expensive, you need to buy shark cards

Wrong.

I don't give a single fuck about RDR or GTA, what really worries me are pic related's games. Civ and XCOM, despite being AAA games, are already niche enough that they can't risk losing a parcel of the playerbase it might end up fucking the franchises' futures pretty bad.

I think I read somewhere that only 30% of people who bought RDR actually beat it. I think it makes sense to find ways to incentives people to play long enough to actually enjoy the whole thing of what they bought.

>heeeheee goy yes just play the game for 1 month straight and youll have enough to buy 1/300 vehicles.
stupid fucks

this, just hack spawn it

lol, dropped

sad part is that they could make it worse than BattlEAfront 2 and the faggots on here would still say ROCKSTAR IS THE BASED DEV DID NOTHING WRONG despite fucking up GTA5 with this shit as well

This is what you've created Sup Forums.
Make something a hot topic and there will be hundreds of contrarians to show you your place.

You must really really suck at gta

still gona be goty so who cares
pcbros lose again console were the right choice
feels good not falling for the master race meme

i played since the beta fuckboi pretty sure i know how much of a grind it is

>he isnt making millions on his pot farms
Lmao

This, just get 3 friends and do the heists. They don't take that long, and they aren't hard. Eventually its just easy since you know what is going to happen. If you play with randoms, its not only going to take forever but people will leave and GTAO's awful loading times and lobby will kill your drive.
Don't buy a gold plated plane or something fucking stupid then

>people didn´t expect this after the shitshow that was GTA: Online

What a shame, RDR multiplayer was an absolute blast

>revenue is a function of that strategy, and not the other way around.

so confident of this that you had to clarify it for us, thank you for telling us the sky is red and the sun rises in the west and sets in the east

>john jacob jingleheimer schmidt flys by in his rocketed delorian and lights your convoy up
yea dude so easy

>Don't buy a gold plated plane or something fucking stupid then

>Don't play with the content that's on the disc and should be available for all players

>Strauss Zelnick
OF.FUCKING.COURSE

new industry crash when

>wahhh people buy things that i cant afford

Do you genuinely believe they would even bother to sell shark cards if the game wasn't designed to sell them?

I believe they sell them to idiots that cant just play the game and make money for free

You've seen the thread. Plenty of faggots are going to happily buy it, buy all the extra content, shill for it endlessly, and then forget about it when the next shiny AAA lootbox simulator comes out.

This is the future of mainstream gaming: cucks shelling out money to jews who pay feminists to lecture them, while the few who actually enjoy games go full indie. We're finally reaching the point where indie games are beginning to surpass the mainstream, it took longer than I expected, but it's happening.

Yes you can grind for the money in game, i don't understand how this is even a discussion right now. This is BASIC microtransaction strategy 101.

Igfthe microtransactions are fun i'll buy them

>indie games are surpassing AAA
>gtav is the best selling game of all time and made over a billion dollars
You arent very smart are you

profit =/= quality

Shill AAA loot box simulator Cuck jew feminist mainstream

Is engage the code word for milk?

More buzzwords Trumptard

>Hundreds
That's literally one troll larping that he has money. Shut your guilible ass up

Does this mean instead of having to scour the land to find the horses of the apocalypse, I’ll have to pay for them $4.99 each? Wonderful

I wonder if it will have GTA Online's abortion of a matchmaking system.

>troll
No my man, im literally going to buy a fuck load of stuff in this game. No joke. Rdr is my shit.

So dont fucking buy it then

>Waiting the GTA V complete edition
>It never came
>Instead of the new glorious SP content like in GTA IV DLC
>We got shark card and modding fiasco.
Somehow Sup Forums is okay with this.

Poorfag detected, just change hobby we don't want you

Mmm yes.. suck that cock good.

I will. Stay poor.

i don't mind it to be honest, who cares

Reminder that pc and nintendo isnt getting this game. Keep that in mind when arguing in these threads.

Nu/v/ is filled with nugamers who are for the most part complete fucking faggots

Poorfags commies are so sad jesus

This Sony always wins babe xD fuck Nutella And PC Principals hehe

I fucking love GTAV and rockstar, but playing the latest dlc disgusted me with how low effort the content was and how overpriced everything was, and how much grinding you had to do to even unlock it.
Im very worried for this game

This Tbh. Cowboy kino will be GOAT

>i fucking love the worst gta
>i love rockstar
What the fuck

Dunno about switch but why the fuck wouldn't they release on pc? Like delayed of course so they can reel in the double dippers but if you think it wouldn't release at some point or another then you are just fucking stupid and should stop existing

IV is objectively the worst but it has some of the best physics in the series. That said, IV is more "fun" than V in terms of goofing around but V is the better game.

Yeah, as fucked as all those other games with aggressive transactions that people bought in the millions. For example star wars battlefront, that sold 6-8 million copies.

Keep dreaming, most gamers don't give a shit.

>Best Story
>Best Characters
>Best Map
>Best Atmosphere
>Worst GTA
Ok

>Strauss Zelnick
>Lainie Goldstein
ah yes, the greatest ally does it again

>That said, IV is more "fun" than V in terms of goofing around
> but V is the better game.
Explained, I need a good laugh.

>best story
Arguable. The other "arguments" are also false unless you like going bowling with your deadbeat cousin.

GTAV did dumb down some things but it's still all around a very good game and you'd have to be delusional to say the opposite, i honestly can't think of any rockstar game that i could call truly bad

>GTAV did dumb down some things
>Only some.
oh boy.

i like how they call being scheming, greedy jews "recurrent revenue"

$5 says the new Red Dead will have a Battle Royale mode

I playing fucking trading card games but that doesn't mean I'm a cuck and buy loose booster packs.

>GTAV did dumb down some things but it's still all around a very good game
Hey bud, stop ignoring my question.

Gta already had one. It wasnt great.

I play GTA V for a week or so when new DLC's get released, then I get bored again and stop playing. But that's only because I have glitched money so I don't have to grind

Also Skyrim has plenty of mods coming out to keep it alive until TESVI (Skywind, Skyblivion, Beyond Skyrim, etc)

V has more shit to do, more activities, more vehicles and more landscape and the online isn't a glitchfest. IV is more fun because the vehicles have weight, ragdolls aren't neutered and you had more interaction with the world around you.
V has a lot of downsides, but offers more direct content than IV. The story and characters are arguably better in IV, but the game as a whole is a lackluster.

Yes, you are cancer

Dont care.

not me retard i'm only the first post in that chain and i also love both games

RDRO will be a blast as well, for those who pay at least. I assume there will be plenty of money glitch opportunities as well so I won't write it off. Yeah it's shitty business practice but I won't deny GTAO can be really fun when you actually have all the cool shit

>im a cuck
>that makes everyone else poor
looks like you didn't grow up properly. have some spare pity

Stay mad and poor.

Does this mean single player is going to get shafted for the multiplayer again

It will, easy mode to implement and easy way to get people playing online and paying for cosmetics
GTA5 BR's problem was it was a gimmick twist that focused on vehicle shit.
RDR2, everyone starts with a lasso only. I think you should randomly spawn somewhere, do a waking up near a campfire thing. Then its just normal free for all BR. Lasso is used to get vehicle/horse, maybe have automobiles be very rare spawns.

I am not sure how you fit healing into it, maybe just use GTA's snack menu and you pickup snacks or hunt for food.