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Rockstar successfully built off this approach with Grand Theft Auto V. By weaving the stories of three playable protagonists together, the game still benefitted from seeing the world from multiple perspectives. But why did Rockstar choose to forgo narrative expansions for Los Santos, which is easily the most fully realized open world it's ever created? Was it always its plan to move away from story expansions and instead focus on GTA Online? That's the question we posed Rockstar director of design Imran Sarwar.
"No, it was not really a conscious decision, its just what happened," Sarwar says. "With GTA V, the single-player game was absolutely massive and very, very complete. It was three games in one. The next-gen versions took a year of everyones time to get right, then the online component had a lot of potential but to come close to realizing that potential, also sucked up a lot of resources. And then there are other games in particular Red Dead Redemption II. The combination of these three factors means for this game, we did not feel single-player expansions were either possible or necessary."
The good news for story fans? Rockstar not having the bandwidth for an expanded story campaign in GTA V doesn't mean no Rockstar games will have them going forward. "We would love to do more single-player add-ons for games in the future," Sarwar says. "As a company, we love single-player more than anything, and believe in it absolutely for storytelling and a sense of immersion in a world, multiplayer games dont rival single-player games."
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I'm not buying it though. Sure it takes time to make that next gen version of V and GTA Online takes a bit of time too for the updates now and then and yep, RDR2 naturally. My problem with his I guess excuse is that they pretty much promised it. While GTAO was steadily going on they said on their Newswire and I think a interview as well that new stories/experiences for the three characters would be coming. There were even leaked audio files and even Franklin's voice actor teased story stuff.
They really should have never mentioned bringing SP content in the first place. Also three games in one? Yeah, nah. It was just one game where you could switch between the protagonists and it's length was about the same as RDR or slightly longer. Then saying just because SP content didn't happen for V doesn't mean RDR2 won't have it is probably because there is no guarantee yet that they can live off of RDR Online.