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Has Grand Theft Auto V been cancelled for the PC? We don't know for sure but rumours are suggesting that it has and clearly, 4Chan wants to force a response from Rockstar as Marketing firm, Rantic, has had its website hacked by users of the forum. There are also rumours suggesting that GTA V may be delayed indefinitely for the Xbox One and PS4.
What connection does Rantic have to Rockstar and how is it involved in all of this? Well the firm's founder is supposedly a Rockstar North employee, who we currently only know as Brad.
Apparently, Brad shared his concerns over the current state of the PC port on the Rantic website, the firm's chairman, John Hoffberger, then mirrored those same concerns in an interview. According to Hoffberger, Rockstar never wanted to release GTA V on the PC to begin with and only announced it due to high consumer demand.
4Chan hackers left the following image on the Rantic website:
Previous rumours have suggested that GTA V would not be ready in time for its announced fall release date and would be pushed back until 2015. The game also didn't appear at this month's Gamescom event, despite being a huge part of Sony's E3 press conference.
It's possible that GTA V hasn't been cancelled on the PC at all and that 4Chan overreacted. However, this could still force an announcement out of Rockstar, either confirming the current rumours or giving us a solid release date.
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KitGuru Says: Has Grand Theft Auto V been cancelled for the PC? Only time will tell but hopefully it hasn't, these are all still rumours at the end of the day. I imagine many PC gamers would go on to boycott Rockstar entirely if it did drop the PC port. Either way, the developer needs to respond soon.
If they cancel GTA V on PC, I suspect that will be the last straw for me with regards to R*. I’ve followed them for years, and love the GTA franchise, loved RDR (and still awaiting the PC port), and stuck up for them after LA Noire, loved Max Payne, etc. But I’ve given them so many free passes for totally unacceptable behaviour (as have many others), and it’s reached a point of no return. Not releasing GTA V on PC will lose them a considerable amount of present and future business, including my own (for what little difference that’ll make).
to be fair, 4chan overreact to everything.
I’ll believe it when I see it. If we’ve learned anything over the past years it’s that random mod replies from devs on forums don’t mean squat.
to be fair, waiting months if not years with no info nor replies to constant inquiries; crapping on your customers with ridiculous DRM, over pricing products that are usually broken upon release and having to wait on patch after patch, requiring paying for DLC’s that used to just be part of the game, nickel-and-diming your customers to death, I think some sort of reaction (even sometimes overreaction) is to be expected (Looking at you EA and Ubisoft)
I don’t plan on buying it now even if it isn’t cancelled, they waited too long, I might pick it up in some sale in a years time at like £5 but other than that I have no interest in the game any more. Bigger and better things have come along in the time they spent not giving a crap about PC gamers.
i had endure with other games including eve online and i can tell that the Soon™ or coming this fall is something that don’t give no one high hopes.
They misplaced the comma. Fail.
so if it was or going to be cancelled why is steam selling it http://store.steampowered.com/app/271590/
True enough; I suspect they will find that the majority of people wait for the sale. If they’d released it on release day for PC then it would be a different story. The consequent low revenue will no doubt be used as an excuse for not releasing the next on PC. : (
this is the status of halfchan in 2015 hahaha my poor sides!