Grand Theft Auto V Legacy News

Take-Two boss: "we will not tolerate bad behaviour of any kind"

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has explained that the publisher won't "tolerate harassment or discrimination or bad behaviour of any kind" in response to shareholder questions during the company's first-quarter earnings call. In light of the recent lawsuit against Activision Blizzard, investors raised questions over how Take-Two Interactive deals with issues of diversity and harassment.

"The culture of the company is well known, and well known internally, and reasonably well known externally," Zelnick says. "All that said, we can always do better, and I think we're known to be people who always want to be doing better, and never want to rest on our laurels".

Zelnick goes on to say that he doesn't think fostering an appropriate environment is "a single set of actions or reflects one day in a news cycle". Instead, it's a constant process of introspection and improvement. "There are always ways that we in the industry can do better," he says. "We'll listen to our colleagues, and we'll work on this area over time. But I want to be very specific because you asked the question about what we do around here and what we've always done. The first is, and I'll say it in as black and white a way as I can, we will not tolerate harassment or discrimination or bad behaviour of any kind. We never have."

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GTA Online players are walking in endless circles to earn free stuff

If you've ever played GTA Online, it probably won't surprise you to learn that its most dedicated players will do anything and everything they can to get the newest, shiniest stuff on offer. In last month's Los Santos Tuners update that added new clothes and car paint jobs, players discovered that one of the best ways to get ahead is to simply not play. Or, more specifically, go AFK and make the game think you're still playing...
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What if: games cost twice as much?

What's up, PC gamers! How about Apple's RAM prices though, right? No. Sure. Tough crowd. But I only bring it up as a prime example of a practice called price discrimination.

When a business brings their product to market they don't actually know how much you'd be prepared to pay for it, so they make their best guess. And then they tack on optional extras, which you buy because you were prepared to spend more on the original product than its retail price. Or you don't, and some other schmuck does. The bottom line's the same: people who would have bought the product for a higher RRP still wind up paying more.

Apple's exorbitant RAM prices are price discrimination 101. But, to bring things circuitously back to the headline, this example also neatly describes the games-as-a-service model. For almost a decade now, game publishers wanted you to keep playing and playing their new title, please. For ages. They do so because the longer you keep playing, the greater the probability you'll spend more money on it. You can call it something else, like a 'player-driven ecosystem', dress it up in a limited edition seasonal skin and trot it out onto an E3 stage, but that's really all service games amount to. Spending more money on extra bits of the same game.

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GTA Online's weekly update adds another Los Santos Tuners car

It's Thursday in Los Santos, gang, which means it's time for GTA Online's weekly update. The weekly refresh of content has been a tad up in the air recently as updates become sporadic up until Los Santos Tuners released on a Tuesday. It's okay, though, as we're back to our usual weekly reset day. Rockstar Games typically posts the update notes in full on its blog later in the day, but the update is already here, so people are dipping in to see what's new.

As part of the Los Santos Tuners update, we're getting a slow rollout of new cars. This week, you're getting the Comet S2, which will set you back $1,878,000 - $1,408,500 in fictional GTA Online bucks. This week's GTA prize ride is the Warrener HKR, which you can fetch by winning five Sprint races. If you fancy a wee bit of try before you buy, the test track vehicles this week are the Jester RR, Comet S2, and Dominator ASP.

If you're looking to make some more money and step outside your trusty vehicle, you can get double the usual rewards on the Vespucci Job adversary mode. If you, uh, don't mind a bit more racing for money, you can motor on over to Sprint races.

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