GTA Online makes half a billion dollars a year even though it's a hot mess

[Ezekiel 25:17]

#GMB #Get Money Brehs


Gamers are dumb as fukk, if only I could develop a hot game and do the same thing

GTA Online makes half a billion dollars a year even though it's a hot mess

Grand Theft Auto 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 look and feel like money. Rockstar's attention to detail is unmatched, and every new game the developer releases feels deeper, broader, and more intricate than any other open world game of the era. Each makes a statement when it lands: This is what you can achieve today with a thousand people and a budget of half a billion dollars.

Grand Theft Auto Online, the multiplayer counterpart to GTA 5, makes a very different statement, which I will now sum up with a gif:


Seven years after it first released, Grand Theft Auto Online continues to make crazy amounts of money for Rockstar and publisher Take Two. Playing GTA Online while knowing that it earned $600 million just in microtransactions in 2019 gives it the opposite feeling of Rockstar's singleplayer games, where you can see and feel every dollar of polish. How is GTA Online this rickety, this confusing, this full of cheaters, this slow? To play Grand Theft Auto in 2021 is to wonder continuously how a game so profitable, played by millions of people, could basically be The Homer.

 

[Collateral]

it earned $600 million just in microtransactions in 2019

Jesus

you can just imagine what that figure is going into 2022. Rockstar been pouring funds and resources into this damn game for a reason. People are fukking addicted to this crap. You can’t even compete unless you do these micro-transactions, or play the game for 8 hours a day like a bum. Not to mention being ass for a while.

 

[Afrodroid]

GTA and COD must be the biggest hustle in the gaming industry of all time



Those companies keep milking these games and mfs just buy whatever they throw at them

 

[Kornball The Conqueror]

GTA and COD must be the biggest hustle in the gaming industry of all time



Those companies keep milking these games and mfs just buy whatever they throw at them

madden

 

[richaveli83]

They're making that much money that they don't have to make GTA 6.

 

[Code]

its so popular on twitch you would think it was a new game

 

[Bumblebreh]

GTA and COD must be the biggest hustle in the gaming industry of all time



Those companies keep milking these games and mfs just buy whatever they throw at them

Fortnite skins, imagine spending hundreds of dollars for new character skins.

 

[SuaveyBoi115]

GTA and COD must be the biggest hustle in the gaming industry of all time



Those companies keep milking these games and mfs just buy whatever they throw at them

Throw in 2k as well

 

[King Kai]

GTA and COD must be the biggest hustle in the gaming industry of all time



Those companies keep milking these games and mfs just buy whatever they throw at them

You gotta respect the hustle because they keep interest alive after 8 years. shyts crazy

I honestly think i'd still be fukking around with GTA if the map didn't feel so small

 

[Afrodroid]

You gotta respect the hustle because they keep interest alive after 8 years. shyts crazy

I honestly think i'd still be fukking around with GTA if the map didn't feel so small

Man, i can't believe cod franchise ranks 3rd in game sales OF ALL TIME


The same recycled shyt from 15 years ago and people just eat it like it's brand new

 

[King Kai]

Man, i can't believe cod franchise ranks 3rd in game sales OF ALL TIME


The same recycled shyt from 15 years ago and people just eat it like it's brand new

They capitalized on the same shyt the recycled sports games do.

They got teens and even people in they 20s on that "you still on last years game? " shyt and the pressure is on to "update" so you playing what they playing

 

[xXOGLEGENDXx]

And fans keep asking when GTA 6 is coming

 

[richaveli83]

They capitalized on the same shyt the recycled sports games do.

They got teens and even people in they 20s on that "you still on last years game? " shyt and the pressure is on to "update" so you playing what they playing

I wish for games like Madden and 2k that they only release a new game every other year or every three years. Just do downloadable content for new players, trades, jerseys, etc for every season.

Yeah I know EA and Visual Concepts would never do it because they make too much every year but it's a thought.

 

[CouldntBeMeTho]

This is exactly why we'll never get a GTA 6

 

[Adeptus Astartes]

Fortnite skins, imagine spending hundreds of dollars for new character skins.

Hats in TF2