And it’s alive. It’s alive everyone. According to SteamDB’s GTA V info, two game testers have been playing the PC version this month. To be more precise, two game testers have been playing the PC version of GTA V this Saturday from 18:00 to 23:00. That’s 5-6 hours, meaning that the game might be nearing its final stages. Add to this its recent registry updates and we may be up to something. Naturally, this does not mean that the game will come out tomorrow or next week, but we should be hearing more about it later this month. You can view below GTA V’s PC stats, and kudos to our reader ‘Rayden02’ for spotting it!
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Only Two Testers!!!??
Seriously i don’t believe it!
Uh… why? Is there a minimum requirement to test Steam integration in a videogame?
delayed to 2016
WHAt!!! You out of your mind???????
They will announce it on release day
Haha… really funny… 😀
this shouldn’t come as a surprise as “fall” is literally just two weeks away, and the PC version isn’t nearing it’s final stages just now, it reached it’s final stages several months ago. it’s been done for a long while now, and you can think the so called “new gen” consoles for the extreme hold up, primarily the xbox 720p.
the release date announcement is coming very soon, and quite frankly, it’s about goddamn time. only rockstar can get away with intentionally holding back a fully complete PC version just to port it over to the new consoles and make triple the profit, and only can they get away with this “coming fall 2014” garbage. every other developer would have the decency to announce a concrete date, but since it’s rockstar, nobody cares.
i’ll be buying the game again for PC, but only because i know the PC version is not a port this time and was actually developed specifically for it. however, they didn’t develop the PC version with such care because they actually cared enough about PC gamers, no, they did so because they knew that the PC version was going to serve as the foundation for the new console ports.
they made us wait so long simply because they wanted to maximize their profits, so i will never, ever, be buying another rockstar game after this.
“they didn’t develop the PC version with such care because they actually
cared enough about PC gamers, no, they did so because they knew that the
PC version was going to serve as the foundation for the new console
ports.”
That doesn’t make sense and it is an invalid statement because they were working on the PC version way back in 2011/10.It was planned from the start to be a separate version of the game and they didn’t want to make the same mistake like with IV.Max Payne 3 is the prime example of that and how they optimized their RAGE engine for the PC platform.
“they made us wait so long simply because they wanted to maximize their
profits, so i will never, ever, be buying another rockstar game after
this.”
Of course they’re going to maximize their profits,nothing wrong with that.That’s the most important thing for them.
How did they make you “wait” when you already played the game? I don’t get it.
You’re going to boycott their games because you had to “wait” for a game that you already played/purchased?
I didn’t touch the game and I don’t mind waiting even if it’s a 2017 release as long as it is a proper PC version and apparently it’s going to be.It’s not the only game in the world.I played over 50 titles since the LG launch.Time slipped for me.It’s like September 17 was yesterday and I didn’t have the urge to play the gimped version with broken online.
STEAM dayONE for every game from RockStar…
They’re a bunch of arseholes for making us PC users wait for a game that was finished a long time ago on PC so “how dare they try and make money” doesn’t even come into it. GTA WILL ALWAYS make money, loads of it, there is just no reason to pull this bullsh*t and that’s that.
Think of it this way: the GTAV the world has now is still in Beta. It’s not finished. I think this is Rockstar’s first big push into online gaming, so they haven’t worked out all the kinks just yet. GTA Online is still horribly broken.
I think it’s less about them ‘making’ us wait, and more about us needing* to wait. In other words, the waiting is for us, not them.
GTA, as a series, has been a cultural phenomenon thanks to consoles.
Rockstar doesn’t owe you sh!t buddy.
And yet it”s better on the PC, LOL
We know GTA V was coming to the PC just like the others anyway but keeping it under raps for such a long time is a disgrace regardless of anything and it’s just bad on customers and fans all round.
“you can think the so called “new gen” consoles for the extreme hold up, primarily the xbox 720p.”
Wow, Much Troll, So Ghey
Bring it and the mods on!
2 tester only? Great. Tell R that dsogaming community would love to test it too. Of course with our minds focused on finding bugs. No carnage at all. Really. This is for a major good.
‘OMG only 2 testers WTF’
Yeah, only 2 for the *Steam compatible* bulid (under the already-known AppID for GTAV). I see nothing wrong with that.
Do you think, say, test drive on the public road is all of the testing and polishing brand-new cars? No kidding.
Finally the long awaited alpha version is nearing it’s arrival.
Check the history you can see that they’re quite active with pushing updates, last update was pushed yesterday.
I need to decide which to get, GTAV or Far Cry 4. If GTAV comes out first then FC4 will have to be a Steam Sale purchase at some distant date. Money is getting tight!
Is Far Cry 4 really something you’d choose over GTA?, GTA’s are easily one of the games that I always come back to even after finishing them and they still hold up, I’ve had GTA V for Xbox since the 17th septemeber and still am playing it , compared to ubisoft games where I play it once and might go back and replay if I’m up to it, it’s your choice but I’d definetly say GTA
On a side note I hope retail uses Steamworks since I emailed them and got the same keep checking newswire.
Well, I guess it comes down to… I’m not sure what. I think I just enjoy the fluid and tactical gameplay of the FC series and the first-person perspective.
I was thinking of this today, how Far Cry got the visceral feeling right for a FPS. Jumping over things, getting out of water, swimming, sliding down ropes, getting in and out of vehicles, stabbing dudes while they’re not looking – it feels like each object and obstacle in the world has presence.
Now, think back to Bioshock Infinite (and previous Bioshocks) – you just run around the world, DOOM-like. It’s merely a shooting gallery. Sure, you could jump on… desks and park benches but why would you? The gameplay was so boring and sterile.
The new Far Cry has pushed that visceral feeling a bit further this time around by adding in kicking, a mini-copter, grappling, car-to-car takedowns, and animal riding. It’s gonna be good fun ‘driving’ an elephant down cliff faces and such, or just cruising down a forest path past temples and Tibetan flags while Easter music plays. I like that sort of thing. Oh, and Far Cry has interesting characters, and stealth, and a pet tiger that you control in a fever-dream.
GTA IV was amazing, of course, but it’s also third-person, so it’s not nearly as immersive to me. I’ve never gotten lost in a 3rd person game like I do in a first person game, where you project your virtual body below you. 3rd person feels like I’m controlling a marionette in a fish tank. Grand Theft Auto is also a parody of American life, kind of like my own life, so I feel less drawn to it as I do to the Himalayas and that culture, which I’ll never experience first-hand.
I also do enjoy the Far Cry series but I feel like with the majority of Ubisoft games I only play once, Far Cry 3 was really good even though again with most UBI games the MP is either hard to play due to matchmaking, very bad netcode (I mean 1 match in FC3 used 25MB’s), Far Cry 4 has defiently improved over 3 and is proving not to be just the same game new map and story but atm Ubisoft have been on their downgrade/Our console game looks like PC marketing in order to sell a few more console copies which I feel hurts not only PC players but the game itself
When it comes to 1st/3rd person I know that a majority of games want to feel like your in the hotseat,But GTA and all to me are about helping that character go through his struggles( so more them over you type games but usually the stories portrayed in 3rd tend to be more thawed out than 1st person).
It’s all on each person’s taste I dont mind either but when I look at gameplay value/replay a game like GTA also seems to prove that it provides endless hours of fun, a game like Far Cry or majority of UBI games start become dull to me once the story has been told and even though there is endgame content I feel that it doesn’t change much
FC3’s multiplayer was so bad, I agree. I’ve played through FC3 from beginning to end about 3 times, and each time I end up totally sick of it by the end. Multiplayer I played once for five minutes, shook my head, then never touched it again.
I know what you mean about 3rd person. It’s easier to tell a story that way, although as far as first-person storytelling goes Far Cry has just about as good as you can get in an open-world game.
But, as much as I like FC I’m still willing to put it aside in order to get GTAV, which is the basis of my original comment. And really I’d probably get GTA JUST for the multiplayer, which looks like entirely too much fun (especially if you’re one to watch the Inside Gaming channel).
So, yes. GTAV > FC4 🙂
Multiplayer is quite fun in GTA Online, I know some hate it but I’ve enjoyed it enough to have spent over 155 hours alone in it plus atleast another 45 or so in single player
But I’ve also put aside Far Cry 4, would love to get it but I’ve started to feel like I’m less important to them than console players, so why should I support company with bad business practices? , I know Rockstar took a year to bring the game to PC but hopefully they make up for it .
Looking at fc3 content gta v sounds like a better deal.
I think it’s perfectly acceptable to double dip on this one….