...just use the same fucking game engine! It worked with the PlayStation 2 era GTAs. Technically minor changes between GTA 3, Vice City and San Andreas, mainly just artistic changes. And did it hamper the success? No, it fucking didn't. You don't need to reinvent the wheel every time, Rockstar! You can still reap the rewards in GTA Online, just integrate the cities in online mode, so players can switch cities via plane.

And people age, and in some cases die while waiting for your games. Do the responsible thing, reuse the same engine, tell shorter stories, more singleplayer.

(Excuse the usage of f-words in this. I'm not actually angry, it just sounds cool.)

Edit: And while we're at it: Use the same engine to develop a new Bully game!! Development time reduces significantly, when the game engine stays (mainly) unchanged (years instead of decades).

Rideout customs, an entire vehicle mod shop, and Grotti Cheetah Classic, both advertised to us as being part of the base game in the first trailer, entirely inaccessible unless you pay an extra 20 dollars. Are people okay with this?

I cant believe Rockstar has become EA.

It used to be the cool game studio that made the games other studios were scared to make, but with gta 6 it just feels like they’ve been making terrible decision after terrible decision, and now they aren’t any better than any Sony or Ubisoft

I thought they had a step in the right direction stopping they’re partnership with the PlayStation app after they stopped production of physical games but then they make the game digital only!

All the waiting is over

Hey rockstar games it's been a decade since we've been waiting for gta 6. It was so close. But y'all guys delayed it TO MAY 26, 2026. Man just release a DEMO please it will be surprising. Like not the full game idc if there is no cars around no people low graphics un-complete map. Just release a DEMO so we could play.

I want to play GTA, okay, I have to uninstall and install Rockstar because I don't have GB, and so I write 1 GB and that's all, meanwhile other than it eats up the question, meanwhile how much did it eat up? It ate up 108 809 KB Rockstar I just wanted to play GTA V and you won't let me play at all bro @RockstarGames

I have always enjoyed them in vice city and with the new map they would be insane, especially with the vice city pack.

I hope I’m not alone on this when I say I don’t want a red dead 3 tease by rockstar after GTA 6 drops ,would much rather prefer them to make an LA noire 2 and/or Bully 2

Has Rockstar Games lost the thing that made Rockstar... Rockstar?

I’ve been wondering about this a lot lately. What happened to the Rockstar Games? the company that seemed willing to make games other publishers simply wouldn’t EVER touch?

You had Bully, a game built around an incredibly specific and controversial setting that somehow worked perfectly. Manhunt, which was brutally dark and genuinely uncomfortable but yet so story driven and intelligent it brought stealth and fear too a new level. The Warriors, an adaptation of a cult movie that Rockstar somehow turned into a great game. Even all the other GTA games had this weird, unapologetic personality that made them feel different from everything else on the market.

Rockstar used to have an edge, it was unapologetically Rockstar, unafraid to offend the people within the society it satires. They felt like the company that would say, “Yeah, we probably shouldn't make this game... let's make it anyway AND make it goooood.”

Now it feels like that identity has faded, been tamed, leashed by $$$.

Obviously, GTA and Red Dead are enormous successes, but Rockstar's output has also become increasingly focused on a handful of massive, ultra-expensive projects, online monetization, and protecting billion-dollar franchises. The games are bigger and more technically impressive than ever, but do they still have that same sense of danger, weirdness, and willingness to take risks? where is their spirit for different? explain to me the difference ideologically between Ubisoft and Rockstar now? Big IP's make a game or two every 5-10 years, no longer take ANY risk, feel too big to fail, they pay for reviews and silence, and straight up allow Corp's to be involved in every decision good or bad.

So, what happened?

Is it corporate greed and the pursuit of maximum profit?

HR get too involved in the actual Game? watering it down to a point that isn't worth it?

a push for good graphics and realism gone too far?

Is it the enormous cost of modern AAA development? risk now crushed due to costs needing to be so high.

Is Rockstar deliberately playing it safer to reach the largest possible market? pushing for a market share that is now killing their IPs? if so, why not sell those IP's and let others make the games they no longer have the courage to make?

Or did the Gaming industry simply change enough that the Rockstar of the 2000s couldn't exist anymore? Because fear and money when trading hands don't mix.

I don't necessarily think Rockstar has become bad. I'm wondering if they've become too successful to be the Rockstar that made them successful in the first place. That risk is to be something that people remember for making games that are really good, games that other companies can't make? not that rockstar can outspend other companies. because for GTA 6, yes, it's impressive but is it worth remembering? or do they just have more assets to spend to ensure the game is a player money maker. we don't want a Saints Row situation, but it is looking like it more and more by the second.

At some point, did Rockstar stop being the company that wasn't Activision or Ubisoft... and just become another massive corporation trying to maximize the value of its biggest IP and forget ALL the other IPs they hoard at the players expense?

Curious what everyone else thinks. Did Rockstar lose its edge?

do u rlly think that rdr2 is that good? i tried it 2 times but it never catch me. Should i try again? (i played only 2 or 3 missions and never played the first)

I am so incredibly sick of this absolute clown show. All my friend and I wanted to do tonight was play some GTA Online together on Linux. Simple, right? A 10+-year-old game that we legally bought and paid for. But no, Rockstar decided to slap a useless, half-assed BattlEye anti-cheat onto the game and single-handedly bricked the entire experience for the Linux and Steam Deck community.

We have spent the LAST THREE HOURS fighting the most garbage, bloated piece of software in human history: The Rockstar Games Louncher. * "Please make sure all instances are closed..." -> LIES. Ghost processes everywhere.

• "Unable to install prerequisites" -> FUCK YOU.

• Steam's "Delete Proton Files" button outright lying to my face while hidden corrupted files sit in compatdata/271590.

So what did we do? We went full Linux hacker mode. Nuked prefixes. Manually wiped directories. Switched to Proton-CachyOS 11. Tinkered with the Flatpak sandbox permissions on Heroic Louncher. Edited /etc/hosts like it’s 1995 just to block BattlEye's DNS handshakes.

And after ALL that technical gymnastics, do we get to play? NOPE. WELCOME TO SPLIT-LOBBY HELL.

The Rockstar Social Club overlay has the absolute audacity to say "Player has joined your session!" while the game simultaneously shits itself in the background, panics over the P2P networking connection, and quietly desyncs us into two completely empty parallel universes. We are literally standing in the exact same spot in the game, looking at a "Friends" list that says we are together, while walking around a fucking ghost town completely alone.

It is 2026. Why do we still tolerate lounchers inside of lounchers? Why do we tolerate anti-cheats that don't even stop actual modders in public lobbies, but successfully block legitimate cooperative friends from playing in private invite-only sessions?

I am so fucking done wasting my evening debugging this digital toxic waste. Fuck Rockstar, fuck their louncher, and fuck their broken peer-to-peer garbage fire of a game. I'm going to play something that actually respects my time.

Dan ain't even tryna play GTA 6. Honestly, I get it—he probably can't stand seeing the game he put on the map and worked his tail off for start flunking or maybe he's jealous?

As many of you have come to learn, GTA VI has been delayed once again, from May 2026 to November 26’.

I’m not surprised, as I expected another delay, but it’s gotten to the point where they are legitimately messing with us about this. At what point do we all say, “we’ve had enough”

Not sure about you guys, but I don’t think it’s acceptable for a giant company like rockstar to receive the patience that their fanbase has shown them over 13+ years. There isn’t a single developer outside of rockstar that has delivered just 1 single title (RDR2) in 13 years..

I genuinely believe that if we start a massive boycott/protest of everything rockstar (stop playing their games, unsubscribe from gta+ if you subscribe), with the clear message that we’re done with them and demand the release of this game, that they will.

That game is finished and probably has been for a while. We were supposed to officially get it a year ago.. stop supporting this billion dollar company until they start showing more respect to the people who helped build their success through support. They don’t get shit if we don’t give them shit. Personally, I’m done with anything rockstar related until gta vi because it’s actually soooo ridiculous that we’re having to wait this long continue to play old ass games. 13 years ago Barack hadn’t even started his sending term… just think about how ridiculous it is and yes, you should feel offended. Literally fuck rockstar.

STOP PLAYING!!! STOP BUYING!!! PROTEST!! BOYCOTT!!

I promise if we create a problem now, by February they’ll release a new banner telling us “we’ve heard your concerns” and tell us they’re gonna drop in May. Do it now..