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GTA 6's 2025 release is still on the cards, and while user content won't be the dominant force, its publisher is already 'excited' about modding

Take-Two Interactive's CEO believes that while user-generated content is exciting and can enhance games, he doesn't think the industry will be dominated by it. GTA 6 remains on track for a fall 2025 release.

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Take-Two's CEO has said that he doesn't think the "industry will turn into a user-generated content-driven industry," and that GTA 6 remains on track to launch in fall 2025.

Take-Two head Strauss Zelnick was asked during an earnings call about the publisher's attitude towards modding and user-generated content. "We've been very open-minded, and we certainly are very excited about many things that our users are delivering in their engagement with our titles and other people's titles," Zelnick said (as reported by PC Games Insider).

"Obviously, we're excited about what we see in the modding for the community, for GTA, and we think that that's pretty exciting. At the end of the day, entertainment companies need to bring great entertainment to consumers. That is the starting point," Zelnick added. 

However, the Take-Two CEO doesn't believe that user-generated content is going to dominate the games industry. "I'm not a believer that the industry will turn into a UGC-driven industry. However, for certain titles, for example, Roblox, they are really more platforms than they are in digital entertainment titles.

"And I think this company, we pride ourselves on making the best entertainment of any sort on earth. And if consumers want to add to that and enhance that for their own use, generally speaking, we would like to enable that behaviour, generally speaking, protective of our intellectual property," Zelnick concluded.

Elsewhere in the earnings call, Zelnick confirmed that GTA 6 is still on track to release in 2025, seemingly dispelling a recent report earlier this year that development was "falling behind." Zelnick was also asked as to the stage of development that GTA 6 is currently in, but straight up refused to answer the question. 

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