In an interview with the SanInPlay YouTube channel, Joe Robino, former senior camera artist and virtual cinematographer at Rockstar, confirmed that a GTA V story DLC was in the works. It would feature Trevor Philips in a central role. But the project was cancelled due to the popularity and money-making factor of GTA Online. Some of the DLC's elements even ended up in GTA Online, Robino says.

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Below are some excerpts from the interview:

A lot of the team went to do Red Dead Redemption 2 right away and I took on this other project that was a standalone DLC for GTA that never came out and it was kick ass. That was my thing. I was one of the main editors, camera artists, and on-stage stuff. 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, and then we just kind of did this [flipped motion], because when that game got shelved, we spent so much money… 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 you could probably do both. But that was a business decision 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, WTF guys? This s**t’s awesome. Let’s keep going. Let’s finish this s**t.

This report corroborates with what Steven Ogg, the actor who played Trevor Philips, said in an interview. “Trevor was going to be undercover, he was working with the feds,” Ogg said. “We did shoot some of that stuff with ‘James Bond Trevor’, where he’s still kind of a f**k-up, but he’s doing his best. Then it just disappeared and they never did it, they never followed up on it.”

While we likely won't see the release of the DLC, would you have liked to see a story expansion for GTA V?

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[Ryab]

If true, that just makes me hate the publisher(s) involved even more.

One of the fans who got to visit a few times is working on a video now that his NDA has expired. But he did drop some huge bits of info already. But definitely seeming like DeepSilver/EmbracerGroup fucked them over.

 

[HUNTERFOX]

Nooooooooooooooooo
Jk yea it sucks tho

 

[HyperFoxStudios64]

No wonder video games 7th Gen & below are beating out modern gaming.

 

[Dax_Fame]

Glad we already have 40 years worth of old singleplayer game library that we can play anytime we want that can last us a lifetime.

so even if gaming go completely to s*** (all of them turn to always online, f2p, gacha, lootbox, battlepass) I’ll always have old games to play

Amen. I've been playing mostly "retro" games for years.