10 Things NOBODY Wants To Admit About GTA Online

2. It May Have Changed Rockstar's Focus

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One of the more worrying things about GTA Online though isn't just that it's become a shoddy product, but that it threatens to change Rockstar's focus altogether.

For the past two decades, Rockstar has prided itself as a studio committed to delivering compelling, single-player experiences, with maybe the odd multiplayer mode thrown in for good measure. With the advent of GTA Online though, the studio have developed a completely different revenue stream, and one that can be sustained over a longer period of time.

GTA V is the most successful video game of all time. That would still be the case even without Online, but factor the mode's success on top of GTA V, and you can see why Take-Two would be salivating at the prospect of continuing the mode into next-gen consoles, and then applying it to sequels and other franchises.

It's too early to tell what form GTA VI will take (whenever it arrives), but the departure of Dan Houser from Rockstar could intimate a change in direction, one more attuned to the wants and needs of GTA Online's players, rather than those looking for another of Rockstar's single-player odysseys.

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