I think there were rumours years ago that they'd be bought.  Must have been because take two were short on cash at the time.  I thought it was because they were independent but I was mistaken. 

I don't understand why you are so willing to throw money away at stuff that is free? If you want, feel free to send me your money. Hell, I'll even send you a placebo that will make you think the servers are working better because that's the same thing they would do with it, just without the pill. 

Goodness people. Be stingier. Pay for console, pay for game, pay for online, pay for DLC, pay for updates? What's next? Pay for the ability to look at the consoles and games at the store? Pay for the thought of thinking about consoles and games? 

It's over a year late at this point. They should actually be paying me to play.

I have played a few heists, and I gotta say they shouldn't have charged for them. Personally, I liked them, but you can't suddenly put a price on something fans have been expecting for nearly 2 years. That's not a smart thing to do. Rockstar's reputation would be permanently tarnished for making us all wait for a DLC they have said repeatedly it was free, and then charge it out of the blue.

Heist were promised free before this game was even out. So no. And I am sure the money they get from the microtransactions they have in gta online off set us paying for anything going forward (outside the single player DLC).

So they should announced it as paid in the first place and charged a very small fee for the sole reason that the servers don't melt in the ensuing cluster fuck. 

no thanks! I dont want to pay for what should have been in the game!

no they didn't. the game didn't even have online at launch. should we be paying for that too?

Yes it did.  The amount of hours the single player gave was easily enough. The online came soon after.