GTA 5 DLC Was Supposedly Canceled As a result of GTA On-line Made So A lot Cash

GTA On-line is reportedly the explanation Grand Theft Auto 5’s DLCs – together with “Agent Trevor” – did not work out.

Grand Theft Auto 5 had quite a lot of DLC content material it supposed so as to add after its preliminary launch, and whereas this content material largely by no means got here to be, followers of the franchise received a little bit of an perception into what the content material would have included when the outcomes of datamining revealed the DLCs, one in all which was titled “Agent Trevor.” This specific content material would have featured Trevor in a James Bond-esque state of affairs by which he goes undercover, as was beforehand revealed by Steven Ogg. 

Sadly, its existence and the few particulars Grand Theft Auto followers have been made aware about within the months for the reason that leak, although fortunately a brand new interview with one of many builders from Grand Theft Auto 5 has revealed a bit extra – particularly some perception into why the DLCs had been cancelled within the first place. Talking with SanInPlay on YouTube, senior digicam artist and digital cinematographer Joseph Rubino reveals he was engaged on the DLC till it was cancelled:

“That was sort of my factor. I used to be one of many essential editors, digicam artist and doing a whole lot of the second unit on-stage stuff,” Rubino says within the video. “[Then] we break up our groups into two, so I stayed on GTA On-line after which this DLC, which Steven Ogg was a vital a part of, after which among the workforce overlapped and went to Purple Useless Redemption 2 early on.”

Rubino goes on to say that the DLC content material for Agent Trevor was in the end not launched as a DLC because of the success of GTA On-line – particularly, it is financial worth to the event studio. “What occurred was when GTA On-line got here out, it was a lot of a money cow and folks had been loving it a lot that it was onerous to make an argument {that a} standalone DLC would out-compete that,” he states. “I feel wanting again now I’d say that you may most likely do each, however that was a enterprise resolution that they made.”

Rubino additionally states that the Agent Trevor DLC was round half full on the time of cancellation, although he does reiterate a incontrovertible fact that we already knew because of the earlier leaks – a whole lot of this specific DLC did make it into GTA On-line: “Lots of that stuff did find yourself making it, I consider, into later iterations of GTA On-line, I feel, so it isn’t like they wasted it.”