Former Rockstar dev says GTA 5 story DLC was scrapped after GTA Online became “cash cow”

Whether we might have had new Grand Theft Auto V achievements if its standalone DLC arrived is a question we won’t ever know the answer to, since according to a former Rockstar dev, GTA 5’s story DLC was scrapped after GTA Online became a “cash cow.”GTA 5 standalone DLC was “really, really good”This comes from Joe Rubino, who was a senior camera artist and virtual cinematographer for Rockstar between 2010 and 2016, and during that time worked on Red Dead Redemption 2, GTA 5, GTA Online, and Max Payne 3. In a SanInPlay interview, Rubino discusses a standalone GTA 5 DLC which never came out.”A lot of the team went to do Red Dead Redemption 2 right away and I kind of took on this other project that was a standalone DLC for GTA that never came out and it was kick ass… I was one of the main editors, camera artists, and doing a lot of the… on-stage stuff,” Rubino says. “We split our teams into two. I stayed on GTA Online and then this DLC, which Steven Ogg was a very important part of. And then some of the team overlapped and went to RDR2 early on.Rubino later adds, “A lot of that stuff though did end up making it, I believe, into later iterations of GTA Online, I think. So it’s not like they wasted it. It was really, really good… But when GTA Online came out it was so much of a cash cow and people were loving it so much that it was hard to make an argument that a standalone DLC would outcompete that. I think looking back now, I would say that you could probably do both. But that was a business decision that they made. I was a little upset about that. That actually was a lot of the reason for me being a little sour at that time. Because I was like yo, what the f*** guys, this s**t’s awesome. Let’s keep going. Let’s finish this s**t.”Rubino adds that the team hadn’t finished the DLC. “We went about halfway through it and then I think we put a pause on it, because GTA Online was just so… people were going crazy,” he says, explaining that he was also working on GTA Online and RDR2 around the same time.Now, of course, Rockstar is looking ahead to GTA 6, which has a 2025 Xbox Series X|S release window, although we know the devs are striving for “perfection” before releasing it.



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