“Grand Theft Auto VI (Grand Theft Auto 6)” is getting closer and closer to its release. In addition to being concerned about the scale of the game, players are also curious whether Rockstar will leave a lot of undisclosed content or delete the story like in the past. However, former Rockstar producer Obbe Vermeij, who worked on “Grand Theft Auto V”, recently said that “GTA 6” will probably not have too much deleted content, because Rockstar’s current development methods are completely different from those in the past.
It is now very difficult to secretly insert content
Vermeij recalled that during the development of “Grand Theft Auto IV”, Rockstar secretly added some tasks and content into the game that even team members did not necessarily know about, and they were not discovered until around the time of release. At that time, the development environment was relatively free, and many ideas could be directly put into the game later. But things are completely different now. The scale of “GTA 6” is far greater than that of previous works, involving thousands of developers and a huge testing process. Any new content needs to go through layers of review and verification, so it is almost impossible to temporarily add large tasks or hidden gameplay as before.
It’s not that I don’t want to do more, it’s that I don’t dare to take risks!
Vermeij believes that the development cost of modern AAA games has become so high that as long as there is a problem with one function, it may affect the progress of the entire project. Therefore, Rockstar now prefers to determine the direction of content early on, rather than deciding what to keep and what to cut at the end. In other words, the situations that players are familiar with, such as “data mining revealed a large amount of deleted content” and “it turned out that half of the game was cut off,” may not necessarily appear in “GTA 6”. Not because Rockstar suddenly changed its mind, but because the game is so big that no one dares to mess around with it.
Instead, players began to worry about another thing
After this statement was exposed, many players were a little disappointed. After all, many of Rockstar’s legendary urban legends in the past came from players digging for censored content, hidden tasks, and unfinished mechanics. From GTA: San Andreas to GTA 5, there are always new secrets discovered every few years. Now, if “GTA 6” really plans all the content to be watertight, it may mean that the quality of the game is more stable, but it may also lack the mystery of Rockstar’s past “open the file and find that half the world is still hidden”.