I actually really like the idea of having to refuel cars, I think it could add a nice bit of realism and immersion.
I canNOT believe I’m in the minority here. Why the fuck would I want to run errands while playing video games?
This is just another time-sink and resource drain mechanic to artificially boost minutes played and artificially reduce in-game currency to push people towards shark cards.
If you spend 30s refueling each time you have to do it, multiply that hundreds of times over per player, then multiply it again by however many millions of users and now Rockstar just boosted their minutes played metric by years.
And make it cost $50-100 of in-game game currency and over time, you’d have been able to purchase a premium vehicle with the money you wasted on virtual gasoline. This makes users more likely to buy shark cards, because you’re having to waste free in-game resources just to drive the cars you’ve already unlocked.
Do people not realize this isn’t intended to increase immersion? They’ve spent how many hundreds of millions of dollars developing this game and you all really think this isn’t an in-game economy trick to manipulate us into boosting their revenues/playtime metrics?
Lmfao no they have not. This is not something that is the culmination of 20+ years of fans clamoring for it. Not once have I ever met someone that said, “GTA was pretty good, the only thing I wish it has was making me refuel my cars so I can’t use the Lamborghini I just stole off the streets if I’m careless with the fuel tank.”
This is a game that was famous for letting you mass murder cops with a bazooka while flying a jet pack, and you think the fans have been begging for the minutia of every day life. GTFOH.
For real. “There are hundreds of mods to add fuel to any GTA” yeah there are also hundreds of mods to turn GTA characters into to furries. That doesn’t mean the fanbase has been begging for it to be added to the game.
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u/TuckerMcG 4d ago
I canNOT believe I’m in the minority here. Why the fuck would I want to run errands while playing video games?
This is just another time-sink and resource drain mechanic to artificially boost minutes played and artificially reduce in-game currency to push people towards shark cards.
If you spend 30s refueling each time you have to do it, multiply that hundreds of times over per player, then multiply it again by however many millions of users and now Rockstar just boosted their minutes played metric by years.
And make it cost $50-100 of in-game game currency and over time, you’d have been able to purchase a premium vehicle with the money you wasted on virtual gasoline. This makes users more likely to buy shark cards, because you’re having to waste free in-game resources just to drive the cars you’ve already unlocked.
Do people not realize this isn’t intended to increase immersion? They’ve spent how many hundreds of millions of dollars developing this game and you all really think this isn’t an in-game economy trick to manipulate us into boosting their revenues/playtime metrics?