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GTA Online Casino Opens Its Doors Next Week - MMORPG.com
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GTA Online Casino Opens Its Doors Next Week - MMORPG.com
In a press release, Rockstar confirmed the Diamond Casino & Resort will open its doors in Grand Theft Auto Online? next week on July 23.
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This is not simply an update,this is a new angle at getting more money,so they should not be praised as the good guy delivering content,their agenda is money and only money.
How much effort does it take to make a gambling casino like building in a game...well 3-5 people about 2-3 months,so not an overly ambitious effort.
1-2 Very skilled people could pull it off in 2 months,but i assume some and the only effort was spent on working how the money will work,how much ideas will cost,like that Penthouse.So they likely spent a bit of time monitoring how much money people have saved up and went from there.
How much is content like this worth if i judge it based on my years of knowledge and if i assumed it was done AAA>>>$5.Well many devs now a days won't even sell you a cash shop pet for $5,they know how easy a target gamer's are so the prices have gone up.Easier to implement gambling ideas that need ongoing money,never mind a $5 sale when you might be able to grind 50...100 maybe 200+ dollars from some gamer's.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
This is no different from those iPhone/Android Casino apps. Idiots.
/facepalm
What will be interesting is to see how private servers will be able to implement THEIR mechanics and spin on it.
Game devs rely heavily on them.
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Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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They'll just move on to another scheme, there is no end to the ingenuity of game devs when it comes to seperating fool...er, customers from their money.
TGIF
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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/Cheers,
Lahnmir
Kyleran on yours sincerely
'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer
On the realz though, the gambling is meh. The update is meh. It is a nice addition but I really wish they would have made it so you could gamble with your friends more than against the house. Really thought it would be a blast to sit around with your friends and play poker with all the money we have made over the years. Kind of disappointing to me. The S8ORR car is pretty awesome and it's cool they added a random car per week that you can win off the daily wheel spin. The missions are also just kind of meh. It acts like it's a heist but without the heist rewards. All in all the update is so so to me. Nothing super amazing and definitely not addictive. I have already been playing other games more often so it is what it is. For real though in a game about killing people and selling drugs but you're worried about gambling addiction; you should really rethink what you're priorities are. GTA has never been about morals but if you want to complain about that, I feel like gambling should be one of the last in line from what the game has to offer. Go ahead and shoot me down some more. That's all I expect from this tryhard keyboard warrior site anyway. That's why I barely come here anymore.
Cheers,
Ith.
Government should get right on that, after they ban alcohol because some people are alcoholics, and smoking due to the addictive properties of nicotine.
Oh, yes, they need to ban social interaction as well due to some having social anxiety.
Funny thing though, the government, at least in Canada, runs their own gambling operations, in the form of casinos, various lotteries, and scratch tickets. They also earn a great deal of revenue from additional taxes on alcohol and cigarettes.
I wager if they find a way to apply additional taxes to loot boxes they won't be so horrible as was originally thought (as soon as they became a hot button political issue.)
In other words, governments have traditionally been more inclined to profit from addiction rather than protect addicts. I expect they will largely continue to follow suit when they feel the political benefits of the well they are currently drinking from runs dry.
Lets not forget that governments don’t have any money, they only have our money.
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Brenics ~ Just to point out I do believe Chris Roberts is going down as the man who cheated backers and took down crowdfunding for gaming.
They have sex ed too. The hookers in the game can give you herpes.
Make games you want to play.
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