{"id":88897,"date":"2026-09-04T07:38:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T11:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88897"},"modified":"2026-09-04T08:42:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T12:42:32","slug":"gta-6-online-could-struggle-to-pull-players-away-from-gta-online-says-valve-veteran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88897","title":{"rendered":"GTA 6 Online Could Struggle To Pull Players Away From GTA Online, Says Valve Veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What’s the biggest question about Grand Theft Auto 6<\/a>? Easily Rockstar’s plans for GTA Online, and how it’ll factor into the post-launch plans of GTA 6. Considering just how consistently popular GTA Online has been for the developer, it is strange that Rockstar has yet to publicly comment on the anticipated multiplayer mode, as it has so far only focused on talking about the “single-player experience” of GTA 6. And that could be a major problem for the franchise.<\/p>\n

As Valve veteran Chet Faliszek pointed out, Rockstar might be caught between a rock and a hard place. GTA Online continues to be a big money-maker for Rockstar and its parent group, Take-Two Interactive,\u00a0but moving people to a GTA 6 online mode\u00a0is a challenging prospect. As Faliszek explained, a lot of GTA Online players are heavily invested in the game, and thanks to GTA 5 regularly going on sale–or being given away for free through various programs–access to it has been cheap and easy.<\/p>\n

“What are they going to do? That’s a mess. We can all look through recent history–without pointing fingers–and see some people who did it by total replacement. We can see people who tried to win people over,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What’s the biggest question about Grand Theft Auto 6? Easily Rockstar’s plans for GTA Online, and how it’ll factor into the post-launch plans of GTA 6. Considering just how consistently popular GTA Online has been for the developer, it is strange that Rockstar has yet to publicly comment on the anticipated multiplayer mode, as it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":88899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88900,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88897\/revisions\/88900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}