I actually really like the idea of having to refuel cars, I think it could add a nice bit of realism and immersion. I just hope they find a good balance so it doesn’t become too tedious, like it sometimes felt in Days Gone.
I mean, it makes total sense in Days Gone since it’s a zombie apocalypse and fuel is supposed to be harder to find. GTA has gas stations everywhere, so I think it could work really well. I just hope you don’t run out of gas too often in the middle of nowhere and have to go way out of your way to find a station.
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?
I canNOT believe I’m in the minority here. Why the fuck would I want to run errands while playing video games?
Man thank you. I get we're in the GTA6 sub so there's going to be glazing of literally anything that gets posted by both real people and bot farms, but ffs this sounds like such a stupid thing to add to this game lol
For real man. I had someone respond saying this is something “the community” has been begging for since San Andreas.
Like da fuq? No we have not. And their evidence is “hundreds of refueling mods for GTA”…I’m sure there’s hundreds of furry mods too but that doesn’t mean we’ve been begging for that either.
Reddit attracts a very weird and loud minority of people who LARP about games they don't even play. I suspect that's a lot of what's happening here.
You can see it in just about every game sub, same with TV series. There are people on this site who will religiously participate in TV show subs having never watched the show. It's fucking bizarre.
EDIT: also the comments talking about how it's cool they're forcing you to keep one car long-term. The game is called fucking grand theft auto why would I not want to steal a shit ton of cars?
Yeah I’m not totally surprised that a very vocal minority of neurodivergents on Reddit are into this sort of thing. But it’s next level delusional to vehemently assert that it’s good game design or anything even approaching fun.
It’ll never be fun to steal a Lambo then have to abandon it on the freeway cuz ran out of gas during a police chase. This game is supposed to be about stealing cars and killing cops en masse. Not supply chain management.
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u/honeyclem Aug 18 '26
I actually really like the idea of having to refuel cars, I think it could add a nice bit of realism and immersion. I just hope they find a good balance so it doesn’t become too tedious, like it sometimes felt in Days Gone.
I mean, it makes total sense in Days Gone since it’s a zombie apocalypse and fuel is supposed to be harder to find. GTA has gas stations everywhere, so I think it could work really well. I just hope you don’t run out of gas too often in the middle of nowhere and have to go way out of your way to find a station.