(rumor) GTA 5’s Story DLCs, Bully 2 and Midnight Club 5 weren’t cancelled in favour of GTA Online

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GTA 5’s Story DLCs, Bully 2 and Midnight Club 5 weren’t cancelled in favour of GTA Online according to devs speaking anonymously.

According to sources in 2014 Leslie Benzies (One of the most important producers at Rockstar) and the Housers got into a huge disagreement due to Leslie’s desire to focus more on Online titles solely over Single-Player for the future of Rockstar. Proof of this is what Benzies is currently making, an online Fortnite-esque “platform” titled Everywhere.

This disagreement reached a breaking point resulting in Leslie Benzies leaving the company in mid-2014, Alongside him, a large number of the developers who were working on GTA 5’s Expansions left the company alongside him, pausing the work on the DLCs indefinitely as Rockstar got to hiring new devs and training them to work with RAGE.

During this, the GTAO team was making great progress on their work and seeing huge success so Rockstar decided to lend them more resources to build out GTAO which ultimately paid off hugely.

By late 2015 the dream of a GTA 5 story expansions had died as the Housers decided to shift all their focus to Red Dead Redemption 2, By 2016 a Liberty City expansion to GTA 5/GTAO had been prototyped but ultimately also cancelled as RDR2 kept growing in scale, adding in New Austin very late in development and expanding the game's insane scope even further, the scope of RDR2 got so large that every single Rockstar studio fully dedicated themselves to RDR2, placing Bully 2 and all other ideas on ice until further notice.

Ultimately, RDR2 became by far Rockstar's largest ever title in sheer scale and detail, GTAO made sure Rockstar was secure financially during this time which allowed them to fully focus on one singular title over releasing multiple smaller titles so in that way, yes GTAO affected how Rockstar makes games.

Rockstar now focuses on Bigger games that take way longer to develop over smaller games that release more often.
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GTA 5 Leak Suggests EIGHT DLCs Were Scrapped

In a recent leak that saw the entire GTA 5 source code appear online, several pieces of cancelled DLC were discovered.
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GTA 5 LEAK SUGGESTS EIGHT DLCS WERE SCRAPPED​

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Earlier, we reported on a sizeable leak that saw GTA 5’s source code, some fresh code from GTA 6, and files from the cancelled Bully 2 project appear online.
It was a follow-on from last year’s super-sized leak that saw more than 100 GB of content break out following a hack that slammed Rockstar Games and GTA 6.
Now, some eagle-eyed gamers have dived deep into the content dug up from GTA 5, which includes thousands of lines of code, conceptual maps, renditions of buildings and characters, and much more.
It has been determined that as many as eight pieces of DLC originally destined for GTA 5’s single-player portion were scrapped over the years.

Why Did GTA 5 Never Get DLC?​

It was back in 2017 when representatives of Rockstar Games lifted the lid on why there was no DLC for GTA 5. It was party because GTA Online was so successful and such a huge money maker that it hogged resources, but it was also because GTA 5’s story was ‘very, very complete’. It also took a lot of effort to produce the next-gen versions that dropped a year after the game’s original release.
In the recent leak that saw the entire source code and a slew of content for GTA 5 hit the airwaves and social circles the world over, the following planned pieces of DLC were uncovered.
They never managed to see the light of day:
  • ‘SP Assassination Pack’
  • ‘SP Manhunt Pack’
  • ‘SP Norman Pack’
  • ‘Agent Trevor’
  • ‘Relationship Pack’
  • ‘Enterprise Pack’
  • ‘Prologue DLC’
  • ‘LibertyV DLC’
So, according to that list, we were set to return to Liberty City, explore what happened before the game took place, and potentially hold down relationships across Los Santos.

There was potentially going to be a DLC that would let players run sizeable businesses outside of those already available, and we could have seen Trevor assume the role of an ‘Agent’ of some kind.

There’s a nod to ‘SP Manhunt’ pack, which (and this is a reach) might have been some kind of crossover from Rockstar’s gory 2003 game of the same name.

They’re confined to history, sadly.
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Chris Cool said:
When 5 first dropped, they were talking about how they would like to add the other cities to online. I think it was a Houser that said it though.
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:mjcry:Yup….December 9, 2013
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