I love this game, but even I get a whiff of F2P in the economy. You can make money without grinding, I mean, I got my 200K+ apartment and 6 or 7 nice cars through playing all sorts of different modes, but that takes time some people can't dedicate to it. In that way, it's cool that players can purchase money if they feel the need.
On the other hand, I can honestly say that I've never played an online game that actively takes every opportunity to part a player and their money without offering any kind of reward or compensation as GTA Online does; nor one that has aggressively and quickly closed even the most basic functions (mission replays, rooftops in survival) if they are perceived by the developer as a quick money making scheme.
Now, Rockstar were never this on the ball with patching even the most basic problems for GTA IV, RDR or MP3. Something has changed. Look at Undead Horde, RDR's survival mode, as an example; it allowed players to camp on rooftops for as long as they liked(forgetting
that patch that was recinded a few months after). Other game modes in RDR allowed you to replay missions as many times as you liked, even the co-op ones. Now, I might be drawing a false correlation here, but GTA$ seem to be the culprit.
Like I say, I love the game and Rockstar are easily my developer of the generation, but if this is a sign of things to come I'll be a very sad gamer.
dude, this line - "Either way, even if one were to acquire 2 million from the glitch, that's a person that doesn't have to grind like the rest of us. Hell, maybe I'll grind out a few mil myself? Why not? R* tries to take away every means we have of making good ground and for what it seems, to just push us to buy cash cards. "
...sounds super paranoid. R* are stopping glitchers in order to push us to buy cash cards?
They 'took away' mission replays because they're incompetent, they'll fix it soon enough. They've even said that players grinding the same missions over and over isn't cheating, and that if players want to do that then they can (when it's fixed...). No idea why they changed survivor, that is dumb I agree. Although, once the community as a whole found out about the roofs I can guarantee that in a week's time, every player would always be up there and it takes away the challenge of the very high paying mode. We can still grind survivor, but now there's a bit more challenge/teamwork involved.
Firstly, I wouldn't say it was paranoid. They need to make money to keep GTA:Online evolving as per their vision. Is paid DLC alone going to do that? I'm not sure it would. It would also be counter intuitive to allow glitchers to make quick cash when Rockstar have that very same thing for sale. That's just good business sense, surely? It isn't about pushing players to buy them, but stopping them being entirely uneccessary.
Secondly, the rooftop thing was not a guaranteed way to survive Survival, not by any stretch. Why they got rid of it is beyond me.
