Im bout to crash out this is absolutely the most stupidest idea ever. Anyone should be able to play this game regardless of age.
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The same parents that allow their children to play these games now will allow them to play then.
This will just make me not want to play these games.
What about disabling the shitty anti-cheat or even just enabling it on Linux so I, as a 27yo, can play the damn game?
I wouldn’t mind not having to play with children. But it’s a privacy issue
I hope they don’t block VPN access.
They absolutely will
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Phew, ok good. A few months ago, when this first leaked, it made it seem like this was going to be used for every country and for the entire game. I have never played GTA online and never will.
The internet is continuing to get worse and worse… also, those comments on the actual article were strangely to pro.
Can you even call it GTA online if there aren’t a dozen 12 year olds running around screaming, “N***** and F*****”.
Can you call it that when chat is disabled anyway ; D
Moms are still getting plenty of action though, right? Wont someone think of the moms!!!
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Phew. I dont know what she’d do, with out all the xbox bros fucking her 12 times a night…
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Good stuff. Cos lets be honest, those 80 year old hip bones aint gonna pop themselves in and out of place…
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So, I loose no functionality when I pirate it?
Wrong. You “lose” the age verification feature.
You might not be able to connect to FiveM servers, which IMO is a major loss. FiveM is the real GTA V.
If they roll this out to my country, I’m just not buying any of their games. My privacy is worth a lot more than that.
I might still play them, I just won’t buy them, because I’m not doing age verification.
Maybe I’m dating myself but this is the same company that released state of emergency for the PS2? That game you could literally mow down people in a mall with a mini gun?
They were worried about “the children?” News to me.
I mean the whole “ban gta” movement was started by rockstar themselves. They riled up the masses about how dangerous gta is, and it worked. The moms hopped onto the train and the whole movement gained momentum and the made billions.
I remember when me neighbour got Bully, another Rockstar game
My mum enjoyed the bonus level in the mall where you could just kill like 100 people as fast as you could.
Her favourite weapon is the flamethrower.
Her first reaction to the game was “that’s disgusting”, but I let her have a go and suddenly she was toasting a whole crowd and loving every minute of it.
That’s disgusting!
Where can I find more!
They have way more investors to jerk off and please now
Isn’t GTAV an 18 rated game? So children shouldn’t be able to buy it in the first place.
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It’s not really relevant as the UK rating system doesn’t have M or AO clarifications. The game is rated 18 so it’s for adults only.
The point is to make children used to checks.
It’s a didactic law.
IRL usually children grow up feeling they are free (except for their parents) to an extent.
This is intended so that identifying yourself in the Internet were normal by the time you grow up for it to matter.
But, of course, there might be some good considerations, if you’re into playing devil’s advocate. People might remember which stupid shit they were posting when they were younger, and want for future generations to be always conscious of the difference between pseudonymity and anonymity, and superficial anonymity vs real. People might want to make it so that nobody had a false sense of security, leading to really bad mistakes. People might want this to be the step preceding some way to fight bots.
And they might even not have good considerations, but eventually realize that the oppressive system they are building is best rebuilt for something better and used differently. Wouldn’t be the first time in history.
It’s just that laying down your arms in hopes for that is unwise.
This falls on the parents instead because of dumb laws every one has to deal with this, I just hope that not all countries are this insane:
users in the UK have had to take photos of themselves and upload it to a service that uses AI to guess their age. Or, send in photos of ID such as passports or driving licenses.
The problem needs to be addressed at the root, make making children illegal !
Year 2025 - politicians are held under control by evidence of them having raped children
Year 2035 - politicians are held under control by evidence of them having made children outside of the state incubator
GTA online is the worst thing to happen to the series, since it killed off story DLCs. Which were a fantastic way to get new story based content for their games between the years long wait between sequels. Damn those gamers and their obsession with buying microtransactions.
Then they double killed it when they started introducing nonsense like flying cars with rocket launchers.
Don’t forget when they triple killed it by not enabling Proton support.
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Unfortunately, the online component easily becomes a profitable sideline. Sarcastically, it’s what keeps some game corporation CEOs afford their lifestyles.
I fucking hate how there is starvation and homelessness in the world, at the same time as there is morons blasting cash away into imaginary online points.
I don’t understand why people needed to give them constant money. For real, I played for a minute but never spent a dime. Why buy things when you can achieve them?
Because number go up. lol
Also everything is insanely expensive in online.
To be honest I regret spending so much time earning money and buying so many cars. It would have been more fun riding around in a stolen piece of trash robbing liquor stores with a friend than grinding the bank heist over and over.
Because it’s extremely annoying to earn enough money. Payouts are pathetic and things are extremely expensive to push you towards buying money. I didn’t spend any money on it thankfully, that’s just my reasoning behind it.
It was great the first couple years when people were just throwing piles of in game money around so everyone could play with all the flashy things. After they cinched up every money glitch and started pushing shark cards…online instantly lost any appeal. As you said, grinding for things in game is purposefully tedious and geared to make you spend more money.
People are really weird. Stuff like that makes me not play, but for most it makes them spend. I find those consumers bizarre as hell, but they are the mainstream consumer so we are the weird ones.
This is definitely the way I feel. Even if I really want to do something, if I find out they’re doing this to squeeze me or they’re putting some wild shit in the privacy policy, I just don’t engage with their shit. Fuck those companies. I’m more angry with capitalism than I am susceptible to the desire they try to garner
On the flip side, it’s given it insane longevity and made it feel more modern. Playing singleplayer feels so annoying at times because of their arbitrary rules (which are still in online, but toned down a little) and gameplay/mission design.
At least GTAO showed everyone rockstar’s true nature, and you couldn’t turn away or say that it’s a small alternative game mode.
So shoutout to online and 5 as a whole for showing me enough to avoid all future rockstar titles lolGTA5 was released in 2013. GTA6 is being released 13 years later. If there had been no GTAO, we would have had at least one or two more “modern” GTA releases in that window.
I would think so.
Considering for how detailed the world is, I can see them working for a long time on it (maybe not 13 years but longer than between 4 and 5).I wouldn’t be so sure. Modern AAA games are insanely big and resource-intensive. Just look at rdr2
They want money though, they would be selling content instead of shark passes or whatever.
We would have had story DLC like Ballad of Gay Tony and the Lost and the Damned GTA IV got as well as Undead Nightmare for Red Dead Redemption.
We still wouldn’t have several full games is my point
And nothing of worth was lost
I’m already boycotting rockstar, just make offline games and stop with the invasive bs
Now my money is going to indie developers
(almost) every game is an offline game if you pirate it ;)
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