Rockstar Adds New Features to Social Club

Rockstar Adds New Features to Social Club

Just in time for Max Payne 3

Written by N0T PENNYS B0AT on 07 May 12 at 22:27

With just about a week to go until Rockstar's next crime epic hits stores, it was about time they took to updating their Social Club with a slew of new features. If you've never used the Social Club, it's best described as Rockstar's version of a stat-tracking community hub similar to Halo's Waypoint or Battlefield's Battlelog. Previously, you could log on and track a lot of your in-game stats and link your gamercards from your consoles. Today, they've expanded on their offerings and call me crazy, but it sounds a bit familiar.

The new features include status updates, person to person "walls" to discuss whatever you'd like and hang out with those on your friends list, achievement progress that updates as you play, linking to Facebook and Twitter, and a new ability to create multiplayer gaming sessions with other gamers on the site.

Hey... wait a minute, that sounds a lot like this site!

You may recall Rockstar recently introduced the new Crews feature for their multiplayer games, starting with Max Payne 3 and continuing into the upcoming GTA V. You can begin registering for a Crew this Wednesday. Look for Max Payne 3 in stores next week, and look for more GTA V news, presumably, at E3 next month.
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The world would be a better place if more sites were like TA. xD
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Looking forward to GTA V news, but that should have been updated a long time ago. How convenient that they're doing it before big releases
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Interesting to see what Rockstar takes to E3 next month
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Yup noticed awesome and loving it , so ready for the game =)
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Sounds cool i like how it is for RDR cant wait to start playing this
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Does anyone ever actually use the Social Club? Just wondered.
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NawtyCawty said:Does anyone ever actually use the Social Club? Just wondered.My guess is, like many things, it's used a lot, but people in the achievement community don't so they think it's something noone wants (like Assassin's Creed multiplayer, Kinect games, etc.)
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NawtyCawty said:Does anyone ever actually use the Social Club? Just wondered.I found it very handy for RDR, could find all the locations I had visited by using it, plus what I missed for 100%. It isn't a site I have since gone on but if Max Payne follows a similar suit, I'm sure I will use it.
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i signed up for this a long time ago, and I never really checked it out.
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more sites like this can never hurt
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E5SX B01 said:NawtyCawty said:Does anyone ever actually use the Social Club? Just wondered.I found it very handy for RDR, could find all the locations I had visited by using it, plus what I missed for 100%. It isn't a site I have since gone on but if Max Payne follows a similar suit, I'm sure I will use it.I used for LA Noire too, keeping a track of progress was a lot easier that way.
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KitsuneChaos said:The world would be a better place if more sites were like TA. xDSo true.
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NawtyCawty said:Does anyone ever actually use the Social Club? Just wondered.Yes. I found it very helpful for RDR and LA Noire (car achievement). I suspect it will be useful for GTA V and probably Max Payne 3 when I get around to buying the inevitable complete edition.
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Been using the Rockstar social club for a while now for RDR stats used it for LA Noire (Great game) and will use it for this for sure thanks Rockstar and TA.
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I think at first rockstar wanted to make the social club passive and second nature. Making the game their full focus, from gta dlc where the social club was somewhat dormant but yet present to red dead where the socializing and game progress tracker became more fluent. rockstar has been building it, seeing how we play with each other and against each other. this was a inevitable next step. let's hope true achievements can lend their support. end of the day rockstar know about gamers via feedback. I say good luck to them and bring on max payne 3
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Add me on Social Club for the Crews thingy-majig they are doing soon for Max Payne 3 and GTA V! :) You get more XP if you play with your Crews in multiplayer apparently.
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