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Heaven 17 composer calls out Rockstar over alleged lowball GTA 6 music offer (www.rockpapershotgun.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by ZippyBot@lemmy.zip to c/gaming@lemmy.zip

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[–] BumpingFuglies@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh, did GTA IV have multiplayer? That's the one I'm least familiar with. Must not have been nearly as robust as GTA V's.

GTA V made online the core component of it's game. So much so, that they innitially considered GTA Online to be a seperate game included with GTA V.

You contradicted yourself there. GTA Online can't be both a core component of GTA V and a standalone game.

So Rockstar, who already had the most financially successful game of all time in GTA V from game sales alone, put its resources into the online component in order to fund the development of its sequel. It's not like they needed to attract new players to the single player game, being, again, that it was the most successful game of all time. Technically it was the most successful media venture of all time (it made more money than any movie, music, or game ever).

If they hadn't done that, GTA VI and RDR 2 would've had smaller budgets and likely wouldn't have been as good.

I see nothing wrong with this.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I didn't contridict myself. I said they CONSIDERED making it a standalone game. They wanted to pour enough effort into the online, and no more effort into the single player, that they figured they could just make it it's own game, until that news leaked, and people reacted FIERCELY.

At one time Sony CONSIDERED making the PS4 digital only, with used games not being an option. Doesn't mean that ever actually came to pass, but it WAS considered at one point. It shows what their intentions were. That's the difference, and the point of that statement.