https://www.tweaktown.com/news/112343/gta-6-is-a-singleplayer-experience-gta-online-may-be-sold-separately/index.html

GTA 6 is a ‘singleplayer experience,’ GTA Online may be sold separately

Rockstar Games and Sony seem to confirm GTA 6 will be a singleplayer game, possibly indicating that the next version of GTA Online could be standalone.

… (bunch of examples of Rockstar repeatedly describing GTA 6 as ‘a single player experience’ consistently across all of its marketing material, everywhere) …

This gave Rockstar lots of flexibility in how gamers interact with the game itself–which has splintered into two very distinct offerings–and many analysts believed and took for granted that Rockstar would simply ship GTA Online as a free component within GTA 6’s base game.

If I had to guess, I would say that Rockstar is currently preparing to essentially translate the existing version of GTA Online, which takes place in Los Santos, to the other side of the country in Vice City’s crime-ridden streets.

It’s possible we could see the current iteration of GTA Online go into retirement as Rockstar moves into the next version, however, all of this takes time and a lot of manpower and money, so it’s possible that the new version of GTA Online simply isn’t ready yet.

GTA+ would probably be involved in this process in some way, potentially offering access to GTA Online by default while also adding in extras and bonuses like vehicles and weapons.

So yeah my guess would be that they do a two pronged approach of either:

You buy GTA Online 2 as a standalone game

or

You have a GTA + monthly subscription, which gives you both access to GTA Online 2, and also basically a ‘battlepass’ or w/e, monthly perks.

But with the latter, stop the subscription? Well there goes your GTA Online 2 access.

You can do both too, of course.

They already figured out that you could split RDR2 and GTA5 into ‘singleplayer + multiplayer’ and ‘just multiplayer’.

Why not just also have ‘just single player’?

I mean… all of these should be elitist if not understanding an in-joke or reference to them arouses mockery and scorn from the fandom.

Nearly totally unrelated but:

So I’m on Bazzite, on a Deck, make the mistake of running a system update, with Steam open, on the day Steam massively updates itself alongside the SteamOS update.

I futz around with Steam settings because I didn’t even realize anything had changed.

Long story short, this somehow resulted in my internet adpater drivers… halfway unconfiguring themselves.

Fortunately I was able to use a shitass tether to my shitass phone, roll back to a previous Bazzite version, which unfucked my network adapter / device, then re roll forward to stable, all back to normal, no data or apps lost or anything…

But I had to actually pop into a shell session on boot, because the borked net drivers meant Steam couldn’t log in, thus no UI option to go to desktop mode… had to actually use nano and edit a conf file to boot straight into desktop mode.

So that was fun.

Just so people understand this story properly:

Kotaku, a ‘game journalism’ website… is writing an Op-Ed, based on the actual original reporting of a Youtuber.

Gaming Journalism, everyone!

Why the fuck isn’t Kotaku maybe the ones doing actual investigative journalism?

Because they’re all fucking hacks!

They are a fucking tabloid and undisclosed advertisment machine.

God fucking damnit.

We are so far beyond ‘the people who did this have names and addresses’.

The people who fucking did this are the most famous people on the planet, at this point.

Stop being afraid.

Stop acting like anything they can bring on you is legitimate or justified.

Like Howard Beale, I want you to get mad.

Stop complaining on the internet, and start protesting loudly at every single physical place these people ever are.

You’ll get arrested. You might end up put away for weeks or months… but those penalties will only get worse, the more power they accumulate, while we all just sit back and bitch about, uselessly.

They are the system.

There is no ‘safe’ way, according to the system, to meaningfully challenge it.

Actually become ungovernable, instead of just being fucking catty on Twitter!

You don’t have to be a bad person.

… you can wait untill it comes to PC, we’ll get it cracked eventually, at least single player.

Those old GTA 6 alpha leaks are still out there.

I actually had a copy at one point… I’m sure someone still does, and I’m sure examining it can be useful.

But uh yeah, fire a whole bunch of devs right before release?

That’s AAA industry standard, been that way for like 15 years now, they basically all do that.

$100 if you want:

The entire map / all interactive world locations.

The entire story.

Ability to customize vehicles.

All of the game’s vehicles.

All of personal cosmetic customization options, such as clothes, tattoos, makeup, etc.

All of the weapon customization options.

So really, the actual game is $100 dollars, that does not include Online, but there’s a slimmed down poor person edition available for $80 bucks.

GTA Online 2 or w/e looks like its gonna be a monthly subscription to even access it.

Oh also there are no physical editions.

None.

All digital, the ‘physical’ is just a code in a box.

Now, the actual ‘extra’ content in the Ultimate Edition is an 80s/Vice City/Miami Vice cosmetic pack.

But the reality is that the broke ass bitch version is a stripped down version of the actual game, which is the Ultimate Edition.

While I would say that’s a pretty good and decent amount of computer for $1000, I would say that doesn’t really qualify as ‘SFF’.

But, that is a bit of a nebulous and inexact term, potato potato.

… still a decently powered potato for a grand tho, lol.

I can give you an internet hug or internet head pats if you would agree to such.

Hope today is less bad.

Huh, you’re right, I didn’t know that.

But yeah, looks like the jailbreak process only works up to firmware v6-ish… which means you’d have to have a PS5 that was mfg’d before, and hasn’t been connected to the internet since basically December 2022.

And, apparently, because this doesn’t actually overwrite the PS5’s OS, you have to do some fuckery to boot into SteamOS every time?

https://technave.com/gadget/Developers-have-found-a-way-to-turn-your-Sony-PS5-into-a-Steam-Machine-46446.html

Got nothing to add other than you know this shit better than I do, appreciate the specificity!

EDIT:

I apparently do have something to add:

https://technave.com/gadget/Developers-have-found-a-way-to-turn-your-Sony-PS5-into-a-Steam-Machine-46446.html

https://github.com/ps5-linux/ps5-linux-loader

Ok then, fine.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/BcXPJw

There, that’s the closest I can get to GN’s part list.

Can’t find any 7400F’s, so 7500F instead.

Can’t find any SFX PSU around ~$35, so… ATX MSI MAG A550BN?

Rosewill has a 550W PSU that’s $7 cheaper, but isn’t even Bronze rated.

Also, couldn’t find the A-Tech RAM, went with Crucial.

But I did get the price pretty close to GN, $982, pre-tax. I would need to double/triple check all power draw tolerances… and whether or not all this shit can actually physically fit in the case, as an ATX PSU is chonky compared to an SFX PSU, and its possible the giant CPU cooler might not reasonably fit.

EDIT:

Ah, the Case apparently does not actually come with the two front 120mm fans in the pictures, so basically add ~$15 to ~$25 onto the price for those.

Yes but… they have varying degrees of nonstandard busses and timings and weird, proprietary, basicslly custom hardware, as well as often having weird, propietary implementations of that hardware, that often only work with a bunch of other weird custom drivers on other components…

This is why emulation is hard, you habe to reverse engineer all that shit and then basically virtualize it and then try to map it to actually standard hardware.

Making a linux distro runs into many of thr same things, just, without (as much of) the virtualization parts.

Its because they basically use a fork of Godot as a mod tool / map editor suite for BF… 6?

Are we on six now?.. I literally don’t even remember.

So they’re probably just essentially paying for a bit of extra help with custom tooling.

Hopefully they’re at least paying for a bit more than the actual services they’re getting, but idfk.

I mean honestly, pretty neat!

Had I any other machine than a Steam Deck right now, I’d give it a whirl… unfortunately, that thing is all I got right now, really don’t want to chance losing all my shit, as I don’t have a sufficient backup external drive either.

Well actually no, because consoles tend to have very divergent, oddball architecture, compared to normal PC x86_64, where it tends to be fairly to extremely difficult to basically reverse engineer the drivers… because the normal drivers there are propietary, Sony keeps em secret.

Instead, they seem to have been collaborating with AMD and basically some open source hackers to get FSR4 working on RDNA 3 GPUs… 7000 series AMD GPUs, the Steam Machine, etc.

Genuienly, I’d love to see your build, your parts and prices.

I can’t figure out how to do it, out of stuff you can actually buy retail.

If you can figure out an SFF build for under $1150, that can run RDR2 at 75 fps on high/ultra, at 1440p, without using any upscaling, let me know.

… generally good for both in an athletic context.

Maybe have both boob’d men and women do the same ‘strip routine’ at the protest, both arriving in the sports bras.

pokes your shoulder

Hey, I like you!

How’s today going?

Here’s my approach to this, as a dude:

I mean, really I don’t have a broad preference for or against bush at all…

… but, if you want me to smooch things down there, please tidy up a bit.

I just don’t like having a mouth full of hair.

Don’t worry, I will tidy up too, for the reverse scenario, if partner also dislikes mouthful of hair, and! … this also applies to my facial hair… I’m not that attached to it, and it will grow back, if you want to smooch my face but don’t like the beard/stache.

Maybe I am lucky in that I at least I think I look decent both with or without a beard/stache.

This is to me completely fair and reciprocal, and … really is not that conplicated.