Både Grand Theft Auto IV och Red Dead Redemption fick helt makalösa expansioner som på flera sätt innehöll högre produktionsvärden och mer speltid än många fullpristitlar. Men till Grand Theft Auto V har allt sådant lyst med sin frånvaro, trots att de lovade "substantial additions" till spelets story efter lanseringen. Nu förklarar Rockstar äntligen varför det aldrig kom, och gör även klart att det heller inte är något vi ska hoppas på.
Det är till Game Informer som Rockstar nu säger::
"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.
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!"
Rockstar har helt enkel inte hunnit med både det och GTA Online. Dessutom kände de att spelet var färdigt som det redan var. Lyckligtvis finns inget i detta som motsäger expansioner till Red Dead Redemption 2 - så vi håller tummar och tår.
Hade du velat ha mer Grand Theft Auto V, eller är det ett mästerverk som inte behöver något extra?
