Isn’t that every day in America?

Pretty sure it’s FPS/iron-sight related. Some people just don’t care for that style.

Rube Goldberg Mario.

In pure legal sense, correct. But this is an ongoing battle in the US court system, and it’s far from settled on EULA and ToS enforcement. Companies have gone too far in some cases, and it’s also been ruled against violators in others.

That I gathered.

Yeah, if they’re boosting XP somehow, that’s probably a no-no (as well as trying to make any sort of money via their own modding efforts). That wouldn’t be in the spirit of modding imo.

They’re better off setting up a MMO type experience under a more WoW-like subscription with much cheaper sub rates (price-warring) while permanently upping the payouts to levels that make sense for all the hazard the player’s character goes through.

I don’t think it’s all comments in defense or support of R* and/or against modders being console users. Some people here seem to believe that R* should be able to control their IP on as tight a leash (read: regardless of fairness) as it desires. Those types are more likely to trumpet that “business can really do no…

Well they already lost my positive opinion when they double-dipped the consumers on buying into the current gen at the same price. So yeah, R*’s definitely doing it wrong on many fronts.

I think you identified the grand reaction to this news about FiveM in your second paragraph ...

They’re terrified of the very thing they seek to stamp out ... control over their IP.

The single-player experience is great, but I found the plot to be insta-quit for me about a third to halfway in.

I think that virtual Bonnie & Clyde story could work out for the game if it was available. How many 16-year olds with their sweet sweet dating freshness wouldn’t want to consummate that relationship virtually?

The shirts and other options are desirable by players, so yeah, they’re gonna charge a ton of in-game dollars.

Sure, I’ll give that some detail for you ...

Why work with people when you can treat them like plebs? That seems to be the current line of thought among the elite.

They should have de-coupled GTAO from the single player game and spent the last year and change testing and revising the online version.

It’s pretty much already a situation where R* has double-dipped its consumers on this game already ... those that bought the last-gen versions didn’t get a hefty discount or anything other than another major price-tag for the current-gen, as well as a gift of being able to migrate your GTAO last-gen character.

I think we could have guessed that this would be R*’s reaction in general, if only because they probably never released Red Dead Redemption on PC for obvious fears of not knowing how they could control the online part of the game.

In the grand scheme of things, nobody buys entertainment to have to read a tome of lawyer-drawn terms and conditions. Time is short, and the tomes of EULA & ToS are long.