Even though GTA 5 Online is popular among fans, support will eventually be discontinued.
At a conference, Take-Two’s CEO “Strauss Zelnick” commented on the future of GTA 5 Online, stating that the game was never intended to be a “permanent game.” Although it is currently one of Rockstar Games’ main sources of income (It is said to have generated over $500,000,000 in revenue from microtransactions), it will not be supported by Rockstar forever.
The GTA 5 franchise is expected to take a break at some point
Strauss Zelnick also stated that the player numbers and statistics of the game are likely to moderate soon, as GTA 5 Online will have been out for 3 years in October. “Our goal was never to make GTA 5 permanent. It is particularly important that the game is not permanent. At some point, the franchise should take a break.”
But before the game takes a break, one of the largest updates GTA 5 Online has ever received is on the way. Thousands of fans are already looking forward to this expansion for the online mode. The big update is scheduled to hit the servers of GTA 5 Online on 7.06.2016.
Unlike the NBA and WWE titles from Take-Two, franchises should be allowed to take a break to fully realize the potential of a game. To prevent games from becoming boring or monotonous, they do not want to release them annually.
“When asked why we do not release our non-sport titles annually, we say that these titles need to rest on one hand, and on the other hand, we always want to deliver the highest quality. Quality takes time – It can’t be done annually,” says Zelnick.
