Well if they keep going with the GTA5/RDR2 framework, it would be Shark Cards/Gold, and a two tier in game currency system.

Give them real money, you get in game currency 1 or 2, some in game items cost currency 1, some cost ingame currency 2.

They set the ‘exchange rates’, as well as prices of special items, and they set the increment amounts you can buy ingame crncy 1 and 2 for, such that for ingame purchase combos they know are likely, well you have to spend a little bit more real world money and have some leftover ingame currency.

They basically wrote the book on using psychologically manipulative dark patterns in system structuring and UI design for this sort of stuff.

GTA Online is a ludicrous money printer in the way Steam is a money printer for Valve.

… But with Steam you’re getting, you know, new games. With Rockstar, you’re getting bling and overpowered vehicles snd weapons to troll people with.

Now… I don’t think they’d extend the ingame currency to be something you could purchase for single player GTA6. That seems like it just be waay too much, even for them, it would make single player into as much of a pay 2 win joke as GTA5 Online is.

But I guess its not impossible?

It’s even worse than them just firing them. They fired them for being union members and trying to organize a larger Union in their workforce. This was union busting. And they did it by claiming these people leaked confidential information. Which is blacklisting.

Fuck that company.

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.

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’?