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We are currently experiencing high traffic on the Epic Games Store. As is usually the case with such limited edition promotional schemes, you can’t play the game after May 21, even if you’ve installed it on your PC. The Epic Games Store appears to be back online now, which means, you’re basically free to claim your free copy of GTA V on it through May 21. Note that Epic Games did not actually announce that it’s making GTA V free to play, so chances are many gamers reaching out to its website, were doing it basis of word of mouth, which in itself goes on to show how popular the game - which was originally released in 2013 (in 2015 for PC) - is, even after all this time. The Epic Games Store witnessed a near eight-hour-long outage last night, because well, gamers had been lining up to download GTA V. And it’s safe to say that gamers around the world have been going crazy about it - for obvious reasons. You can do that now, all the way through May 21.
Yes, you heard that right! While murmurs about GTA V, Rockstar’s smashing thriller of a game, going free for PC on the Epic Games Store have been going around for some time now, you can’t actually believe these things unless you can, well, experience these things for real. Nevertheless, the fifth game in the series looks like it's going to build on its impressive run as the best selling entertainment property of all time when it makes its PS5 debut later this year.Grand Theft Auto V is completely free to play on the Epic Games Store starting today.
It's not clear what exactly this new edition will bring just yet, but our curiosity has certainly been piqued.Īlthough many of us might had been hoping for a Grand Theft Auto VI reveal during the PS5 event, it looks as if the game is still far from being announced. There will also be GTA Online content released in the future that will be exclusive to the new consoles and PC.Īpparently, there is even going to be a standalone version of GTA Online eyeing a 2021 release that will remain exclusive to those on PS5 for 3 months. When the game does launch on the PS5, it promises to bring a handful of technical improvements and visual upgrades, likely making it the best version of the game to ever be on a console.
If you have played it, you'll likely be able to transfer your GTA Online progress to the next-gen console, similar to how you were able to do so from the Xbox 360 and PS3 to the Xbox One and PS4 all those years ago. If you somehow haven't played Grand Theft Auto V yet, the game will be free-to-play on the PS5 at launch. To further put this into perspective, you would need to spend about $80 in the real world to add $5 million to you GTA account. Even $1 million can take hours and hours of grinding, and many of the game's best vehicles and properties come with a pretty steep price tag. RELATED: GTA Online: 10 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do In The GameĬonsidering how long it can take to make money in GTA Online, a free $5 million is nothing to scoff at.