Grand Theft Auto V Legacy News

GTA Online's weekly update adds the Vapid Dominator ASP car

It's Thursday, folks, and that means it's GTA Online reset day. Rockstar Games typically posts the full rundown of new discounts, content, and reward boosts on its newswire, but it all comes to the game before that, so the Los Santos citizens hop in to see what's new.

We're still getting content as part of GTA Online's recent Los Santos Tuners update, and we can add the Vapid Dominator ASP car to our garages if we so fancy. If you have the dosh handy, you can fetch it from Southern San Andreas Super Autos for around $1,775,000 GTA bucks. If you fancy taking it for a spin, it's one of three cars you can try on the test track.

Street Races and Survival matches are paying out double the usual rewards if you're looking to raise some funds. The best bonus, though, can be found in Business Battles this week, as they're paying out triple the usual rewards. If you haven't tried them before, they're a freemode event you can do as part of the After Hours update.

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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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