To add on to what's being discussed:
What happened and what I followed, was that before that picture was revealed, there were teasers of a Liberty City expansion made by someone who apparently was/is a conceited "leaker". Everyone believed it because he had leaked stuff from GTA Online before, so on and so on. I think he eventually either shut up about it, or revealed it was a farce.
Fast forward some time, while me and some other people were searching for assets and art in some developers' portfolios just for sheer curiosity, this ended up being found:
GTAForums post |
IGN coverage.
Very shortly after that, the developer's portfolio was basically nuked (like many others are now when people find stuff from even released games now). It also contained beta pictures of GTA V next-gen.
So basically, and realistically, we don't know what that LC expansion is for, whether it's for Online or for Story Mode, and whether it was scrapped or not. Ignoring the "leaker", the only thing legitimately found was that piece of art in the artist's portfolio.
I think the mod is great for people to mess around and make new stuff in the R* Editor, while waiting for the supposed expansion that might or might not happen.
As for the 4chan guy... We'll see, he was indeed right about the Import/Export DLC, but I actually don't recall him talking about LC. Maybe.