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    1 month ago

    See guys, it’s a totally different game! Even though it uses the same engine and all of the same assets!

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      Whats your point? GTA Online is a different game than GTA 5. One is an MMO as a live service game, the other is a single player campaign with story. Just because a game uses same engine and shares assets, does not make it being the same game. Lots of games do that, that is totally normal.

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        GTA Online started as the multiplayer component of GTA V, so when it launched in 2013, you had to own GTA V to play it.

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          I know, but its a completely different genre and not really the same game anymore. GTA Online is not just a different game mode, its a different game that runs. It had its own monetization and updates. GTA Online is basically its own game trapped in the main menu of GTA 5, like a launcher that bundles multiple games from the same series into one. That’s why I believe the next iteration will be separated. Rockstar didn’t even mention the online part yet.