In August 2023, Rockstar shared some big news. Rockstar said that they’ve teamed up with Cfx.re, the folks who made GTA 5 FiveM and RDR 2 RedM. And just yesterday, during Take-Two’s earnings conference call, Strauss Zelnick talked about their plans to monetize both FiveM and RedM.
There's a big comment here on https://t.co/3W0ziUWaST in the Q&A.
Zelnick plans to monetize FiveM and RedM in the foreseeable future and goes into deep detail about how he wants to protect Take-Two IP. Expect big changes for both platforms in the coming months, https://t.co/UUdvTpeK9F
— Ben (@videotechuk_) November 8, 2023
This shouldn’t of course surprise anyone. The writing was on the wall and most of us saw that coming. After all, we expressed our concerns about this in our previous article. So yeah, this doesn’t come as a shock to us.
In case you didn’t know, FiveM and RedM are some of the best mods for GTA V and Red Dead Redemption 2. These mods let people who play on PC get together and have fun online. These cool mods make it possible to play on custom game servers that people can set up just for fun. And guess what? Some folks say that FiveM is even better than the official online mode in GTA 5.
Ironically, Rockstar Games claimed back in 2015 that FiveM was an unauthorized multiplayer mod for GTA5. Rockstar was claiming that the mod was violating its rules. Not only that, but Rockstar banned that mod. Hell, they even banned players who were using it (who weren’t part of the modding team). Then Take-Two sent private investigators in an attempt to shut down this project. And now, almost a decade later, the FiveM team is a part of Rockstar Games.
My guess is that Cfx.re will be a big part of Grand Theft Auto 6. Take-Two will release the first trailer for GTA 6 in December. And it will be funny as hell if this new GTA game is only announced for consoles and not for PC. It will be truly hilarious since the GTA6 leaked build was playable on PC. But hey, this is Rockstar we’re talking about.
Stay tuned for more!
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The stupidity of the masses, strikes again. If the braindead cattle of humanity didn’t pay for this crap and clap like seals while doing it, subhuman garbage like “Strauss Zelnick”, would be where they belong in this world. Serving hotdogs on a street corner.
Trevor hitting a clown (mime) in the face with a baseball bat is a perfect analogy for what the AAA industry does with its fans.
helyah get some dumbos!
My Genuine reaction https://media3.giphy.com/media/YsBi2MkVbmaHthmtb8/giphy-downsized-small.mp4
Man, the gaming industry sucks… I really want to start a game development studio to try to make some impact on changing things for the better, but I just don’t see any way to do it. Unless you can find volunteers to help you make games in their spare time until you publish a game that’s successful enough to be able to establish a company and pay employees, you’d need investor cash to pull it off and investors wanting big profits are one of the major issues with the industry.
then you dont really want it, look at No Man Sky, Sean Murray almost lost home and all he ever owned to make his big game happen. If there is a will there is a way.
I never trained in game development, and I lack artistic skills of pretty much every kind, so while I could certainly learn the technical aspects I could never actually do the artistic stuff (3D modelling, textures, sound effects, music, etc) and actually make something that doesn’t just look and sound like a bad joke.
Also, No Man’s Sky was an indie game that sold for AAA game prices, and was promoted through a series of massive lies. If that’s what you’re saying I should do to start a game development studio, then I’m sorry but that doesn’t fit with my goal of wanting to try to change the industry for the better.
no mans sky makes tens of millions of dollars every year without selling any dlc, i dont like it, i agree but it is the truth.
I think that money mostly comes from corporate deals such as Sony paying them for PSVR2 support. They can’t be selling many copies of their game these days, I don’t recall seeing any microtransactions in No Man’s Sky, and as you said they don’t sell DLC so I don’t know where else they could be getting the money.
While I appreciate the sentiment, I expect them to be bought out by Tencent in due time.
Sven and his wife still hold 60% of the company but Tencent owns 30%.
Some foul play, a desperation move or pure greed could easily make the company wholly owned by that Chinese black hole.
We saw this with Platinum games and Epic.
To do it the organic way you describe it’d have to be after hours garage hobby type of thing w some buddies while you work a job to pay the bills, big commitment. A basic game or two for just android to make scratch to then fund what you describe would help too, gofundme once you have a plan and some basic experience, relatives or wealthy people you could pitch for private money. There are basic 2d and older looking 3d games that are successful and indies are really where the good stuff is but mid sized ones w art style heavy stuff, not those w jank ue stuff(greedfall or etc). Give me some snappy direct play and good entertaining writing with a basic art style any day over a hulking massive bloated game. I think Techland and RS are still able to make great games in the aaa large space but who knows in the future the way things are going.
Yeah, mobile games are probably where the money is at, I just hate having to shake hands with the Devil to do The Lord’s work.
As for writing, that I can do. Or at least when I was a teenager people said I was good at it. I haven’t tried writing stories in a long time.
dont, just make indie games from your home.
I have so many different ideas about making videos games like favourite games from my childhood But you will face ground up reality of game development
1. Choose right Game engine for learning and start game development, recent controversy related unity changed my mind about game engine, where unity charged money on every install by players,they delay the policy for next year, but unity is not right engine to start
some game engine used for learning basis like Godot but godot force you to use GDscript which is similar to python language which is not good, C++ and C# are recommend language for learn game development
2. you must know how to do art and music
3. you must have good budget and time to develop the game
4. the gameplay and story should be satisfied with gamers
5. Game should be fun and enjoyable not like clear the maps quest
6. your main object of making video games is earn money , if the game flopped or got pirated then you are screwed
7. Avoid any controversy with twitter mods, who will try to destroy your game but it gives attention on your games it’s free advertisement for your game like Hogwarts legacy and The Coffin of Andy and Leyley etc. They are successful because good controversy by twitter meltdown which boost game sells
8. avoid to get censorship by store page like steam and sony they are censoring indie games nowadays where they don’t censor first party or AAA games
9. you should not change your vision with character , just because your publisher has own bias, just for increase ESG scores which force make changes on your game , which is different from your creativity vision
10. NEVER trust your game publisher , if they wanna screw your game they will screw you really hard , because they will become ownership of your video games also owner ship of game name , source code and all the time you have put into this game
Game takes lots of time to develop if you wanna make good game like stardrew valley by yourself it would take 5 years to develop the game, it’s also depend on which country you are living if your country doesn’t value game develop as job you won’t get funded on your work, also try to avoid any game which has own level of drama like Yan simulator etc.
You can blame greedy Twitch streamers who own servers & have benefits from this
Everyone but players benefit from this.
Modern gaming in a nutshell.
Run by Jews? Run by Jews.
P.S. Death to all Jews.
what a moron, let me guess you are muslim trash?
Nah sand monkeys should be killed too
Why else would they buy them , there out to make money. As soon as i seen Rockstar had bought them I knew it was to turn it into a payed service somehow.
When the Financial Times and Forbes start writing about a game developer, it’s a good time to put that developer on ignore. Because that developer is in the hands of Wall Street and it is all about maximizing profits.
Activision/Blizzard, Take 2, EA, Microsoft.
I don’t buy any game published by them.
Ah yes, the socialised gaming industry model yields far better results. If only I could find an example of it…
The best selling PC game this year will be BG3. It will likely also win GOTY.
Larian said they refused the offer by Microsoft to buy them out. Larian said they are not for sale. Larian is not on the stock market but privately owned.
There is your example.
Your big greedy stock traded corporate developers like Activision/Blizzard/Microsoft/EA with their microtransactions and Battle pass garbage can stuff their games where the sun doesn’t shine.
Bg3 has thousands of bugs, half of ACT3 was cut and game is unfinished, it doesn’t even have epilogues. Its not owned by corporate yet does woke propaganda all the same. They will also release GOTY in few months that will add endings and you will buy it again for full price. Makes no difference to me how you get scammed. Also maybe you should start buying single player games, dont remember last time i had any battlepass in single player game
Woak woak woak, dumbass sounds like a frog
you are a dumbass frog and he is right.
correct how anyone can downvote this?
larian is woke and gay.
big monopoly capitalism IS the fulfillment of socialism it’s just that we get them focusing on the corpo bad guy owns the governments(cp77 whole message) aspect, never mentioning that the corps are owned and controlled by the bankster tribesters and thus the socialist state is really what we have, not the fantasyland version but the animalgoy farm version. But when you’re focused on quarterly earnings/stock market swindle stuff and such you don’t care about anything but the first rush of sales, so lie lie lie aka marketing bs see cpdur etc lots of dumbos buy stuff just on that nonsense, ezmarks.
microsoft buying all those studios and them agreeing because they dont even have to worry about making money, ms will fund their crap forever.
so you dont play games at all? cool.
Greedstar
Oh no! A business trying to make money! What will happen next? People working jobs?!?
at this point they got more money than god.
I try not to lower myself to vulgar language in general on here, but in this instance. F*k Rockstar! they are a trash tier dev.
On a personal note, I honestly dont get what people see in the posthat is the GTA series.
Won’t be surprised if this sets up a trend where other big gaming corpos allow mods just for them to be extremely monetized
Who’s betting GTA6 will be only for consoles ?
My expectations are so low it is not even funny anymore.
last good game they made was bully, so i dont care.
i have zero interest in cockstar games precisely because they do things like this and their games suck.
The worst of GTA Online is Rockstar doesn’t have servers allowing easily hundreds of players in a map, just a few players with that cheap lazy p2p system.