https://www.ign.com/articles/take-two-ceo-says-publisher-is-in-growth-mode-in-wake-of-gta-6-announcement
After wave after wave of mass layoffs impacted almost every major games company in the last several months, the CEO of Take-Two Interactive feels confident that the publisher is on the other side of what's been a highly fraught year for the industry.
I hear it. GTAO could still be the most played game on steamcharts if they hadn't tried to wring the players for every cent.
But man, that driving engine, and that flying engine.
I just hope they updated the gunplay.
Fucking flaming gasoline trails, vehicles actually running out of gas after having their tanks punctured, it seems like the ejection was really toned down in GTAO but you could really get out of the windshield in single player.
I did get ejected through an incoming car in cyberpunk recently and was like "wow been a while."
I haven't played in a couple years. Are you still bombarded with texts and phone calls as soon as you load into the game? And is theininap barely visible because of all the mission/activity markers?
Because that's how it was last time I got on there. And that was right after they added the demolition derby stuff.
I've never experienced being bombarded with texts and calls in GTAO on Xbox...
Those fucking flying motorcycle things and flying Deloreans are annoying as hell though.
No, they've done a couple of really nice qol updates lately that got rid of most of those, or at least reduced the calls to texts. I mean there's still some annoyances, but it is better than it was. At least, last time I was there. Only join in maybe once a month or so now.
Growth mode only to go into shrink mode some years from now at employee (and likely consumer) expense.... Why can't companies just go for stable mode?
Any chance of this being a flop? Years ago, we would have said no way, but we’ve seen some high-profile screwups before. It’s certainly at the time period where Rockstar might have brain drain on its better developers.
Zero chance at all in my opinion.
They could shit the bed completely on it and still sell millions of copies.
I've been a fan since the original late 90s top down version and there's no way I'd miss it.
They won't shit the bed though. It's going to be fucking amazing.
I agree with you and coming from a different perspective. I've tried the games and they just don't do it for me for whatever reason. I don't see this flopping at all. I also think recent launches will make sure they have things ready to go. It will sell like crazy and the fans that love the games will love it I'm sure.
Right on.
I can appreciate that perspective.
There's just no way on earth I could imagine it flopping at this point even if I personally didn't think I'd like it so it makes sense to me.