Fans verden rundt elskede de store singleplayer-udvidelser der udkom til både Grand Theft Auto IV og Red Dead Redemption, så Rockstar får naturligvis fortsat tonsvis af spørgsmål om hvor de lovede udvidelser til Grand Theft Auto V bliver af. Faktisk lovede de "substantielle" udvidelser af spillets historie bare få måneder efter udgivelsen, og siden da har der været meget, meget stille, og i stedet har studiet fokuseret på at opdatere Grand Theft Auto Online. Nu har studiet endelig knust det sidste håb om at disse udvidelser kommer på et tidspunkt.
Game Informer har lavet en eksklusiv Q&A med Rockstar Games, og her fortæller studiet mere om hvorfor de aldrig lavede singleplayer-udvidelserne.
"No, it was not really a conscious decision, it's just what happened. We would love to do more single-player add-ons for games in the future. As a company we love single-player more than anything, and believe in it absolutely - for storytelling and a sense of immersion in a world, multiplayer games don't rival single-player games. With GTA V, the single-player game was absolutely massive and very, very complete. It was three games in one."
Det lyder ganske fair, men forklaringen stopper ikke her:
"The next-gen versions took a year of everyone's time to get right, then the online component had a lot of potential, but to come close to realising that potential also sucked up a lot of resources. And then there are other games - in particular Red Dead Redemption 2. The combination of these three factors means for this game, we did not feel single-player expansions were either possible or necessary, but we may well do them for future projects. At Rockstar, we will always have bandwidth issues because we are perfectionists and to make huge complex games takes a lot of time and resources. Not everything is always possible, but we still love single-player open-world games more than anything. I don't think you could make a game like GTA V if you did not like single-player games and trying to expand their possibilities!"
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