Remember when Rockstar said that the GTA 5 Heist DLC was coming soon? Remember when it didn’t, and then they said it would come sometime after that…eventually?
It never did, and I doubt I’m the only one disappointed by all that teasing and no pay off. A Rockstar official told Gamesreactor Germany that the fabled Heist DLC we’ve all been dreaming of will be coming “shortly after the launch of the game.”
You caught me, that’s still not a very official release date but allow me to present three reasons to be excited and patient for this long-awaited content to hit the online world of San Andreas:
- Rockstar pulls of intricate details and immersive worlds in their games, arguably better than anyone, and they have my patience for as long as they need, to make it as polished as possible. Nobody wants patch after patch to fix a broken experience–we want to play completed, finely tuned experiences at their peak performance. This takes time and Rockstar has had a track record for inciting far more awe than disappointment.
- We all knew, deep down, that the more time that passed with no real word on Heist DLC that it would be timed with this PS4 and Xbox One release anyway. Promising such exciting content like that for so long was not good press; with the extra time between their previous expected release dates up until it’s inevitable release, you can be sure there will be a ton of content in there. It makes sense for this to tie-in with the next-gen release, let it happen.
- The next-gen release of GTA 5 is a hurricane of new content, a completely reworked engine and new feature sets that took immense time and resources to do well, such as the freshly announced first person mode. This is closer to a new game than most rehashed and aesthetically enhanced re-releases even aim for, and it’s the right time and place for content with such a vast scope as tackling cooperative online heists with your friends, that can match the finesse of those in the single player game.
GTAV is out on PS4 and Xbox One November 18th, with a bevy of goodies for those that upgrade from their last gen copies and as pre-order bonuses, and will make it’s way onto PC on January 27th of next year.
