Take-Two has confirmed in its newest earnings name that the extremely anticipated GTA 6 is on monitor to fulfill its November 19 launch date, however CEO Strauss Zelnick additionally took a second to handle a far older Rockstar title–Grand Theft Auto Online. Zelnick has reconfirmed his perception that Rockstar will proceed supporting the favored multiplayer recreation, so long as folks proceed to play it.
The primary particulars a few potential GTA 6 on-line multiplayer mode have been not too long ago leaked as a part of the Rockstar v. union courtroom battle within the UK, revealing that Rockstar is testing 32-player periods just like the multiplayer periods in GTA Online. Nonetheless GTA 6 having an analogous on-line mode does not essentially imply that 2013’s GTA Online will probably be sundown, at the least in response to Strauss Zelnick.
“Rockstar Video games is the locus of details about, you recognize, the place the titles go content material and advertising and marketing, and customarily we now have a reasonably mild contact after we speak concerning the label’s inventive actions,” Zelnick stated, as reported by Kotaku. “On the identical time, I’ve each purpose to imagine we’ll proceed to assist GTA Online. There’s a terrific group that loves it, that stays engaged. And once more on this quarter, Rockstar has proven that while you ship nice further content material, regardless of how lengthy [GTA Online] has been at market, folks present up.”
GTA Online has actually had a terrific quarter, driving a 27% enhance in spending throughout the franchise with the discharge of the Safehouse within the Hills replace, which allowed gamers to buy an ultra-flashy, ultra-expensive mansion as a part of their property portfolios.
GTA Online has acquired common updates over time, permitting gamers to amass large collections of autos, weapons, properties, companies, and more–some of them bought with actual money. The multiplayer recreation makes Rockstar loads of cash regardless of its age, and the studio will little doubt assist it for so long as it continues to take action.