Thread 725111491

>R* is slave driving their employees again
Is this a good or bad thing?

>>725111491 (OP)
eternal reminder that there's almost 2k pajeets working on this game

Calling it:
>Rockstar will not release sales for as much time as possible
>When forced to release them, they will push on the hyper success narrative and how "top of the charts" they are
>Will claim the game to be played by billions of players despite being a console exclusive and total sales of consoles worldwide being extremely limited (you don't expect scalpers to buy a copy of the game for each console, do you?)
>They will do everything in their power to hide the real budget of the game, the budget of marketing and the publisher cut
>They will do absolutely everything to avoid publishing the target sales numbers after the Veilguard incident
>They will try to damage control with "heh, we're making money from kids buying shark cards for online mode anyway", which will be raped and shattered by age verification
>Will keep spamming about hyper success of gta6 and deflect any questions about meeting target sales or breaking even

>This is in no way related
So that's what it's to do with then.

>>725111595
And? They did the same with RDR2 and it looks better than most games out today

>>725111643
Rent free

>>725111595
Almost all top trillionaire companies have indian ceos and they are doing as good as they ever could
Fuck off with this bullshit

>>725111746
it's funny because you're pakistani pretend to be indian to make indian look stupid
ugly bastard

>>725111826
Disavow a Hindu god right now, rajeesh.

>>725111721
You stop spamming shill threads I stop shitting on your games

>>725111857
why are you so angry? you're crying for no reasons

>company fires large group of employees before major game release
happens all the time

>>725111921
>large group

>>725111491 (OP)
> This was in no way related to people's right to join a union or engage in union activities

>>725111491 (OP)
It's a very good thing. Unions are socialism and must be crushed, busted, or otherwise suppressed.

>this has nothing to do with our slaves- I mean employees attempting to revolt- I mean unionize
Suuuuure.

>>725111595
I don't understand how having so many thousands of people working on one thing speeds up the process. At some point I have to imagine that the overhead of managing all of these people makes it so that there is no productivity gain, or even a productivity loss, when adding a worker to the team.

>>725112094
more to come

>>725111643
>This game will not sell because realistic depictions of blacks disgust me
Not how things work, sadly...

>>725112325
More indians please.

why do multi billion dollar companies hire the cheapest possible workers?

>>725112454
>nearly 6000 devs
It's going to be buggier than CP2077 isn't it?

>>725112540
that would be fun
rockstar, known for quality, delivering some buggy shit

>>725112623
>rockstar
>known for quality
Am I being punk'd?

>>725112623
They were fine with putting their name on the disastrous remakes. It feels like even the most competent studios are bleeding talent. The old guard are retiring and the volatility of the industry means no new hires hang around long enough to really get good at their jobs.

>>725111491 (OP)
it's a nortubel thing

>>725112454
what does the wojak have to do with anything?

>>725112726
You being a contrarian doesn’t mean R* games are Ubisoft tier shit

>>725112793
India doesn't have people named "Jack." It's called a wojesh.

>>725112726
Yeah, because RDR2 was bugged and broke at launch like 2077 and Starfield right? Kys

>>725112880
>haven't enjoyed a Rockstar game since Bully, or a GTA since Vice City
>Ubisoft released a remaster of BG&E I quite liked last year
Sounds like their recent track record is better.
>>725112945
>it doesn't suck because these suck more
Good to know that Armageddon was a good movie because of Gigli and Batman & Robin.

>>725112945
It actually was on PC but Rockstar has always been terrible at PC ports and now it runs without bugs, unlike CP2077 or Shitfield.

>>725111595
>eternal reminder that there's almost 2k pajeets working on this game
you are welcome

>>725111643
Consolefags in denial will carry them, and they still won't hit their projections.

>>725112886
sharty humor is something else

>>725113008
>this anon prefers Ubisoft games
uhhh

>>725113090
Like I said, recent memory shows one good Ubisoft release, but I have to go back a couple decades to get the last good Rockstar release.

>>725111658
weren't most of the indians on the RDR2 team responsible for the PC port that crashed every 15 minutes on launch?

>>725113090
>>725113175
Oh, wait. Stick of Truth. 2014, but that's still more recent than Bully.

>>725111491 (OP)
I only care about the finished product. How they treat the employees that work for them doesn't matter to me whatsoever.

>>725113014
Even the PC port at release didn't have the issues that 2077 had on PC. Hell, BG3 around launch was morr broken than RDR2 on PC. Especially act 3.

>>725113284
No? What kind of schizophrenia is this. Rockstar India predates RDR2 release and was actually an independent studio called Technicolor India that worked on games like LA Noire, Max Payne 3, and Red Dead 1 before being bought out by R* in 2016 and being renamed

>>725113284
I had garbage 980 build still in December of 2019 and the game ran fine for me.

>>725111643
It won't fail but it will be less successful than GTA V which will be a huge embarrassment for them. Not compared to the industry in general, but compared to their own past successes and the level of expectation.

I don't even care about grand theft auto anymore
you can't release one fucking game every 15 years and expect me to give a shit

>>725113742
For every one person like you who stopped caring, they have probably gathered a dozen new kids in the last decade who picked up GTA for the first time. I don't think they care.

>>725112249
If a pregnant women can make a baby in 9 months imagine how much faster we can make one with 15 women!

>>725111491 (OP)
>work at AAA company
>boss gives you rules
>no leaks no political shit
>immediately go and post leaks and post political shit on public business account
I will never understand why these people cant simply control themselves, imagine being a boss and having to micromanage and tard wrangle these people. It sounds worse then being a fucking guild leader in an MMORPG

>>725111491 (OP)
>fire people who leak confidential company info
>slave driving

>>725112107
that was the accusation they were addressing tard

>>725113967
The people who get fired as a result of their personal fuckups and failings are probably the first to start shouting about "employee rights" and pretend the company should still waste resources on their dumbasses.

>>725114094
I was talking more about the union busting stuff

>>725113728
Yeah, this. It's gonna sell it just won't sell as much as they want.

>>725114198
>unions are universally good and always just without exception
lmao, never have they ever been.

>>725114152
It reminds me of the people who make threads on here "say word money stolen" and post an image of them spamming nigger

>>725111491 (OP)
>Sign a contract where you agree to work and follow company rules
>Have to work and follow said rules
literally hecking fascism

>>725113967
No wonder they want to replace everyone with indians that can just be deported if they try to start shit

>>725114271
I never said that they were

>>725114446
u know what i never looked at it that way now it all makes sense

>>725114446
>>725114545
>let's avoid the potential headache and hire the people who would be glad to work and most likely won't do anything that will take away time and resources with unnecessary distractions
It make sense.

>>725112454
>10 divisions with thousands of employees each
>/v/eddit chuds laser focus on the jeet one
Every time

>>725112454
As video games get more expensive to produce, I expect this to happen more and more often. Much of the work will either start getting outsourced to AI or the third world and video game studios will absolutely gut their staff. This will get worse if mass immigration is ever controlled, slowing wage suppression.

For example, Indians can be paid significantly less, and they don't necessarily need to import anything (it's a digital product). So, once created, Rockstar cant print onto discs from any country or just push directly online. The only thing they need is a few guys in the West with knowledge of Western culture and tastes and that'll be it.

>>725114837
lol wtf is that image
stinky Indian confirmed

>>725114446
The vast majority of Indian developers are farmed out and not actually brought overseas. You only bring people who can't do their job remotely.

>>725114446
its way easier than that
the indians they work with are all located outside of the country
brit based indians demand the same salaries as brits

source: I setup and organize outsourcing teams on the industry for a living

>>725112454
in capitalism the only way to have more than what you have is getting what belongs to somebody else
you only get rich by ripping others off
nobody gets rich signing checks

Nice protest lmao bunch of faggots got fired for good reason. Rockstar is Based I suppose

>>725115116
>brit based indians demand the same salaries as brits
No, they still demand less than educated white Brits. But it's still way too much for big corpo

>>725111595
eternal reminder that the modern industry doesn't function without cheap outsourcers
there is no AAA without chinks and pajeets, costs simply don't allow any other option

>>725114271
Shut up and pay me your dues.

>>725115221
>Islamophobia
These faggots are going to be so fucked so soon

>>725111491 (OP)
>40 people fired
>small number
too many cooks

>>725114915
outsourcing has been a thing for over a decade now nigga. In fact R* has been using outsourced labor since 2010.

>>725111491 (OP)
GTA critiques companies like this

>>725115116
>brit based indians demand the same salaries as brits
Unless it's a minimum wage job, you can always pay immigrants less. In most countries it's illegal if it's obviously a system, but a lot of the immigrants are on shaky residency ground as it is, so they won't put up a fuss.

>>725115249
on this industry they do
there are no uneducated indians on the industry, that's one of the issues, that even with equivalent education they are still shit at their jobs

>>725115221
full picture
>grand theft employment
kek butthurt faggots

>>725115221
>that manlet in the front
Imagine being shorter than a little old lady lmao

>>725115383
my work revolves entirely around hiring, setting up, and firing outsourcing teams
most of them are indians
most of them are locals to the city of the studio I'm hiring them for
occassionally I do this for brit companies

Idk after all I've seen I think Rockstar is super based.

I will but new GTA for me and my gf on release. You won Sam

>>725115539
>game workers beat bosses
So the message is the people at the lower end of the traditional hierarchal structure should have a superseding authority of their higher skilled peers/contemporaries? How does that make sense? For example, in what world should some entry level position have a deciding say on anything that effects the organization as a whole (not to say that they shouldn't have the ability to offer input/pass concerns up the chain)

>>725115990
What makes a CEO more skilled than a worker?

>>725116185
>full time tard
vs
>full time tard wrangler

>>725116185
In theory, the higher up you go, the more each employee knows how to do. The way it SHOULD work is that everyone can do the jobs of everyone below them.
Obviously, that's not reality once you hit upper management.
As >>725116310 said, you have a lot of really stupid moving pieces below you at CEO that you should be able to get to coordinate. Again, that's not how things should be, as hiring fewer people on merit is more likely to get you done within time and budget constraints than 1000 barely trained monkeys banging away at keyboards.
There were good CEOs of old, but that was back when companies were smaller and you could drive to all your employee's houses.

>>725116185
The same reason why the manager of a retail operation gets paid more and is owed more benefits than the turnover who's singular responsibility is to handle the POS correctly.

>>725116725
Look at the giant face on that asian thing.

>>725116725
lmao such a retarded crowd holy shit Rockstar please give us trailer 3 to shut up all the wokie leftists angry about le "worker" rights

>>725113728
Absolute delulu to think this will sell worse than GTA V. Do you know how many more gamers there are compared to 2013? Do you know how much GTA and Rockstar are on a pedestal? This will completely shatter sales records even if it’s a disappointment of a game.

>>725114094
That’s just a cover for the union busting

>>725112454
1600 jeets is about 100 white men at best

>>725116953
>even if it’s a disappointment of a game
Can u stop coping like this? It's going to be the best game of the decade and enough of this baseless assumptions. Every GTA was a masterpiece for its time.

>>725117275
>hasn't been a good one since VC

>>725117275
I would usually believe it but the fact that people like Dan Houser, Leslie Benzies, and Lazlow Jones all left Rockstar makes me worried. I think the core DNA of GTA is going to be sacrificed so that GTA Online can be milked to the nth degree

>>725111491 (OP)
I don't know.
I don't care.
Not my problem.
Still not going to buy or play it anyways.
Why does R* Hire some more of those BLM activists they loved so much.

Fuck this company, and fuck their games.

>>725117275
gta v story and characters were awful, gunplay was also awful despite rockstar creating the best third person shooter gameplay with mp3 at the exact same time, side content was also pretty lacking

>>725117393
kys retard

>>725115116
>source: I setup and organize outsourcing teams on the industry for a living
so you're the modern day jewish slave ship owner ruining my life with browns, thanks faggot

>>725112454
SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARS

>>725117502
>says this and proceeds playing some gachaindieslop
You have no taste, nor culture. Hang yourself contrarianfag

>>725117561
>kiss your sister
Why?

>>725111491 (OP)
>6th game in the series
>completely out of new ideas
>release date being pushed back
>indian outsourcing to save money
There's no way this won't just be the latest big ip to crash and burn

>>725114446
Holy shit you’re right. It’s all beginning to make sense now. To think I had to come to /v/ instead of /pol/ realizing this

>>725112454
Because it takes 20 Indians in Mumbai to make up the loss in value that hiring 1 western woman does.

>>725115539
Giga cringe. Nuke communists from orbit

>>725117553
>Story
Very decent and good hollywood satire
>characters
Trevor is one of the best GTA protags of all time (at least, most fun)
Michael was basically tony soprano tier shit
>gunplay
Gun sounds were awful but ragdolls were pretty fine (not IV tier fine, but still fine)
side content was better than any other GTA game. Online was/is better than any open world online game we have now. The game was amazing by 2013 standards. It looks great even now.

>>725112454
Why should they spend even more?

>>725112454
Too many cucks

>>725117708
>6th game in the series
Jesus nigga are you 14

>>725117708
They'll make money on the name alone for sure. But there won't be a gta 7 after this.

>>725117639
it is fun watching pedo weebs meltdown over a popular western ip though

>>725111491 (OP)
sorry, ill be playing ananta

>>725117873
>But there won't be a gta 7 after this.
See you in 2050 when the first trailer drops.

>>725117852
it's more like the fourth game
first two don't count and neither do all the side theft autos

>>725117708
>6th game in the series
Factually wrong. You never played GTA game
>completely out of new ideas
Bonnie and clyde theme with a female protag for the first time is somehow nothing "new". You never played GTA game
>release date being pushed back
Just like for every prior GTA game ever. You never played GTA game.
>Indian outsourcing to save money
Literally every company does that. They outsource mundane unimportnat shit like props and textures for interiors and shit. You never played GTA game.
>There's no way this won't just be the latest big ip to crash and burn
You're one delusional faggot. GTA 6 will be the biggest thing gaming industry has ever seen.
get fucked now low quality troll.

>>725117918
nihao

>>725111746
>Almost all top trillionaire companies have indian ceos and they are doing as good as they ever could
Good morning sir! I am agreeing with you these companies are greating right now *head bob*

Switch 2 is the fastest selling console of all time and this game will break all records. You are fucking retarded if you think otherwise and need to get out of your 4chin bubble.

>>725115285
Then AAA gaming should die, as should any other industry that focuses on cutting costs by means of shipping overseas. It's a measure that inevitably results in costs reaching equilibrium anyway, and the quality is inevitably worse.

>>725117918
>no proper online mode like GTAO
No one will care

>>725118349
this
gtao2 is all i care about

>>725118034
It is the 6th game. You're thinking of spinoffs like Vice City and San Andreas, and expansion content like Gay Tony, because you're a retard. They already did Bonnie and Clyde shit in 3 and in San Andreas, and multi character shit in 5. No other GTA game has been pushed back. Indians in a India are retard, like you are, and have ruined many a game with their filthy touch.

Cope all you want. I will be proven right with time an you will fucking cry about it.

>>725111491 (OP)
A good thing. Taking 20 years to make software doesn't work.

>>725112376
>realistic depictions of blacks
Hah, remember when GTA was excessive satire?
They have to tone them down now, so as not to upset the danger haired she-twinks.

>>725118523
>spinoffs like Vice City and San Andreas,
I often forget I share a board who think MGS Peace Walker and Resident Evil: Code Veronica are side games.

>>725117824
Nta but the story was pretty meh and the characters were whatever.
I know 0 about tony soprano so idgaf about that.
Trevor was muh wacky crazy dude,but too much for me.
>online
I literally played online once on my ps3 and asked myself why was I playing this trash,but I don't care about muh online anyway.
Gta 5 was very competent. But honestly underwhelming imo, especially since the driving is overall a downgrade.
6 will sell like hotcakes, but I'll be honest, I don't care, I won't buy it. I think it'll be more underwhelming compared to 5, for me at least

>>725117824
Can't wait to see the replies on this one.

>>725118523
Imagine being so retarded that games only matter as long as they have a number attached to them

>>725111643
Honestly, I don’t doubt the game will sell an insane amount of units. The question for me is whether development was so protracted and over budget that even the most profitable media event in modern history will still not be enough to generate an acceptable level of profit

>>725118523
lmao you're such a retard. They didn't do no "bonnie and clyde" shit in 3 and in San andreas, we will have PROTAGS as LOVERS this time, it is completely different thing. ALL gta games have been delayed before numerous times. You are spreading disinformation and coping with baseless theories that the biggest game of all time will somehow "crash and burn", Stick to indieslop faggot and leave the thread

>>725118523
GTAV was originally set for spring 2013 but came out September 2013. Anon how old are you

Why is this schizo defending gta6 so hard holy shit
Get real

>>725119241
Because GTA is my favorite franchise and I hate contrarian faggots who spew baseless bullshit around. Just admit the game is not for you and move on

>>725111491 (OP)
>nooooo my HECKIN labor union
>WHITE COLLAR SOLIDARITY FOREVER!!!!
>I'M JUST LIKE A STEELWORKER OR A WELDER OR A COAL MINER OR ANY OTHER LABORING TRADESMAN THAT RELIES ON UNIONS TO ENSURE JOB-SITE SAFETY AND PREVENT DANGEROUS WORKING CONDITIONS
>SHOUT OUT TO MY BARISTA COMRADES WHO RECENTLY UNIONIZED AT STARBUCKS, SOLIDARITY FOREVER
>AND SHOUT OUT TO VIDEO GAME WRITER UNIONS TOO!
White collar unions are a fucking sham and are nearly all greed-driven. When you bully your employer into raising wages you also turn the entire working arrangement into a hostile quid-pro-quo where *everything* gets bogged down in collective bargaining bureaucracy. White collar unions overwhelmingly protect bad actors and DEI hires who abuse the protected status afforded by the union in order to work as little as possible. Rockstar is based for showing these fucking losers the door. If you broke the demographics down I guarantee it's overwhelmingly troons who took up the charge to try and unionize.

Can't really argue with the results, Rockstar games are instant classics.
/v/ is gonna mald so bad when it sells a billion copies, it will btw.

>>725111826
you have to eat 4 chunks of elephant shit, 2 handfuls of rat shit and drink half a 2 litre of cow piss, in karma atonement

>>725119418
tldr but rockstar did nothing wrong and still remains as one of the basest companies we have rn.

>>725119447
The result in question are games that critique exactly what Rockstar is doing. They've been vocally anti-capitalist since GTA3.

>>725111595
that's every AAA game

>>725119372
The game isn't even out you stupid retard.
I literally played all the gtas and yet I'm not impressed by 6, and I stopped caring after 5.
Imagine seething this hard and sucking's devs' cock so hard when someone doesn't agree with you.
I'm not even saying it won't sell holy shit. It WILL sell. Can I just don't give a shit or do I HAVE to buy it

>>725111595
Every single piece of software that gets developed passes through pajeet hands. From project management to development to documentation, Jira is all jeets, all the way down. Welcome to the modern SDLC.

>>725111491 (OP)
Good, game devs get what they deserve

>>725119695
>Can I just don't give a shit
You sure can. Just close this thread, it's that simple.

>>725119780
No I won't
I'll stay here telling you the game will not be as good as you think so you can keep seething.
Or you actually give a proper reply

>>725119923
Give one argument why the game won't be a masterpiece.
Look at RDR2 retard for reference

>>725111643
There are over 100 million units if you combine both PS5 and Xbox, at the same time in 2013 when GTAV released there were a total of around 170 million units of PS3 and 360 combined. Even with a larger number of people buying the game, I'd honestly be surprised if they have a larger launch than GTAV now, I think it's a bad idea to release first on consoles and then port to PC. Regardless, however, I cannot possibly imagine it is not a major success, even if it falls short of projections.

>>725119923
So you do care.

Here are the confirmed leaks btw. This leaker confirmed his contacts were from Discord
https://www.reddit.com/r/GamingLeaksAndRumours/comments/1l61r22/gameroll_gives_a_ton_of_detail_on_gta_vi/

>>725111643
total delusional take. after covid videogames are 10x bigger than they ever were with the normalfaggot audience and they were already at almost 100% saturation.

>>725120012
There is NO way GTA VI won't break GTA V's record and it's not even close anon...

>>725120043
>— No Disney world parody

Lame. I know R* is avoiding it because they don't need press about BEING ABLE TO MURDER CHILDREN but I'd love to shoot up a bunch of numale disney adults

>>725119970
I only played RDR1 and i think it's kino
I do not care a single about RDR2. I never played it and never will.
Especially since Rockstar never evolved their mission design, if anything,it regressed by being more and more on rails and that's trash game design.
Can't see that changing in 6, since 5 suffered from that too. Also RDR1.
Also, 5's driving sucks, it's quite uninteresting even for Arcade racing style standards.
Muh head writers/directors leaving
But again, it will sell and break records anyway
>>725120040
I mean kinda. It's still the probably biggest release of the world so I mostly want to see how it plays out

>>725111643
The game will never sell as much as GTAV until they pull the same stunt with the shark cards, and even then the console environment has only gotten worse outside of Nintendo, so if they're really sticking to only releasing the game on PS5 and SeX, they will 100% have a PC emergency port at the ready.

>>725120368
That major leaker
>>725120043
Said that driving will be better than ever. It is speculated that it will be somewhere between IV and V, which can be amazing.
I prefer cohesive story with interesting missions even if it's on "rails". If I want freedom I can freeroam and enjoy it sandbox style. Also there's online mode. I want to see how they improve from V's online.

>>725120043
>Gore/dismemberment is being built off of RDR2.
Woaaaah. This is amazing news

>>725111746
Who would have thought so many top CEO's would smell so bad?

>>725120250
I just told you why it will be closer. There are far fewer consoles relative to release in 2013. There are more gamers in general but they're not all on PS5 and Xbox Series S/X, which are the only ones releasing under this game. Unless a vastly larger percentage of people relative to the original buy this game then it won't beat V

>>725118349
>no proper online mode like GTAO
perfect

>>725111491 (OP)
>Is this a good or bad thing?
well, yeah it's bad
but their biggest studio by far is indian
so, maybe?

>>725121313
People buying consoles just for GTA anon...
>Key sales predictions
>$7.6 billion in first 60 days: Konvoy, a gaming-focused venture capital firm, predicts this amount, attributing it to factors like potentially selling 85 million copies in that window and high user-generated content revenue.
>$3 billion+ in the first year: DFC Intelligence, a major market analysis firm, believes GTA 6 will sell tens of millions of copies within its first year, reaching this milestone.
>$2 billion launch-day revenue: This is a component of the $7.6 billion projection, suggesting the game could earn more in its first day than GTA 5 did in its first three days, notes DesignRush.

>>725120663
I honestly do not care about online mode, they could unironically just throw it in the trash, but I understand people like it and it prints money, so that's just me.
The driving being better is good at least, but really the lack of options in missions is trash. I like to experiment during those amd being forced to do what the game wants you to do it's shit. They should really improve on that.
I hope the game turns to be good for you tho
Like stop caring about what other people think, just enjoy your shit

>>725112886
it's a childlike rendition of the name Wojtek, there is no man named Jack involved.

>>725121584
It was a joke. Wojesh is still a shorter way of saying "indian wojak."

It would be funny if gta6 flopped, but we all know it wont.

>>725121547
anon I'll enjoy regardless. These "discussions" help me get through this waiting period. For the past 2 years all I have in mind is new GTA and I can't shake it off. I literally started going to gym and stopped drinking so I can be healthy and alive for release. No one and nothing will ruin the experience as I know that even if it's just "reskinned" RDR2 I'll still be happy.

I just don't like people coming up with lies to taint the game for no reason.

>>725121679
Jack is the british Wojak. He has crooked teeth but he doesn't smile.

>>725121545
>People buying consoles just for GTA anon...
Yes, and they did the same thing when GTAV released in 2013. There were still almost twice as many consoles it was released to at that time. You can link me to however many sales predictions you want from overpaid suits, the math is pretty clear. Unless 80 million people go out and buy a PS5 for this game it's probably going to sell a bit less. Also that first one there Konvoy saying 85 millions copies in the first 2 months is fucking insane. This is utterly unrealistic.

>>725121547
>I honestly do not care about online mode
You're a loud minority

>>725111491 (OP)
Not my problem

>>725121836
>will people buy the only game on their no game machines?
We will have to find out

>>725121727
I get that, but chill or you'll get trolled endlessly.
also play some other games or something during the wait
>>725121978
Yeah I know. I though it was clear enough in my post, but yes, I do understand that I'm like the 1%

>>725112157
Yes yes. only working for our overlords is good thing fellow slaves.

>>725121836
Screencapping this see u next year.
GTA V sold 11.2 copies in the first day.
Granted, 11.21 million copies in 2013 was before digital games and social media became as big compared to today. That said, there are infinite amounts of digital copies to be sold and most people will want to preload the game before release and the only to do that, as far as I’m aware, is from a digital sale. So if I were to guess, probably around 20 million copies in the first day if not more.

>>725120663
people talk shit on death stranding but at least it reinvented the gameplay loop to make actual gameplay instead of the standard point and shoot. Imagine deeprock galatic but every mission is just point and shoot the bugs, that's the gameplay loop of a rockstar game. In rdr2 online they introduced multiple updates that are restructured versions of the previous gameplay loops, for example the naturalist update where you have to specifically not kill animals and collect samples of them for some hippy chick. Did they create a new trapping system or something interesting? Nah, you shoot the animal 10 times with a sedative .22 and then 'revive' it lmao

MASH X TO FIGHT BACK
TAP L and R to walk across the screen

they've totally lost it man, this would all be excusable if the modern game they're going to put out wasn't just a bad, unaware social critique unlike the previous ones that didn't take themselves so seriously and could make jokes that weren't basically 100% approved by the over arching society. Nobody played San Andreas or Vice City because of the gameplay being deep, the story and humor was fun and the open world idea was novel at the time.


Despite saying all this, the game will break all records, sell extremely well and overall be GTAV with a different skin.

>>725122078
I really highly doubt 85% of all consoles sold so far will buy the game, it's really not realistic dude. I can believe like 40 million by EoY, but 85 in the first 2 months is crazy.

>>725114298
>honor +41
always get a chuckle out of me

>>725122482
GTAV was released on digital bro

>>725122663
if less than 13% of all consoles sold (11,7m) buy GTA6 on release day (the % needed to surpass gta5) I’ll eat my dick on a plate.
GTA VI will triple the sales first day, easy.

>>725115221
>>725115539
>britanistani
who the fuck cares at this point

>>725122663
Maybe not that much but you can expect a higher percentage of the console base buying GTA6 compared to GTAV. You can also expect it to beat out GTAV’s sales rate

>>725122873
Oi sir, you've stolen that man's shovel!

>>725111658
SAAAAAAAAAAAAR

>>725117918
pedo

>>725122838
That would be like double what it sold back in 2013 percentage-wise, I think that's pretty unrealistic. But I guess we'll see.

>>725122663
current gen sales are PS5 at 65.6 million+ and Xbox Series X/S at 28.3 million+ atm. Would obviously be higher when GTA VI releases so let's say 1/3 of each buys GTA VI at launch at the current sales.

So at current numbers that's 21.8 million PS5 copies and 9.43 million Xbox copies. So call that 37.73 million copies.

>>725111746
>Indian CEO strat: Lay off crackers, open office in Hyderabad
It's just a variant of the 2000s outsourcing again, but this time with Indian CEOs instead of Jewish CEOs. Those brilliant Indian CEOs can't even come up with something original.

>>725122571
and it will make billions.

>>725122984
>>725122873

>>725111491 (OP)
Neither but maybe slightly more good than bad.
Game companies were better when they were made up of small teams of very driven people who were willing to dedicate to their projects, an environment where crunch time was the norm.

Whatever's happening on various news cycles around this are a symptom but not the cause for the current games industry however. Companies are too bloated and vultures circle to take advantage of that situation while games all enter longer and longer periods of development hell while old games are milked dry for even longer than they would've been before (we're STILL on Skyrim and GTA V).

There's no simple solution other than there needs to be room for small to mid-sized studios because indieslop is also pretty bad with only a handful of gems as exceptions.

Eventually a new form of media will appear to replace gaming like happened with movies and radio and for a time things will be fresh, authentic, and good in that industry until the cycle repeats itself.

Rockstar will inevitably win.

>>725115285
There's no AAA to begin with.
They all died when they started being outsourced.
Now you just get some low budget crap with extra embezzled money on top, just like the record industry in the 90s.

>>725123836
VR is next

>>725113572
>I had garbage [high-end card] build

>>725124002
VR was a thing back in the SNES days, it never sticks. Maybe when there's a more immersive form of it that doesn't require wearing a heavy headset over your eyes.

>>725123836
I was just thinking last night how there is not a single aspect of life or form of entertainment that is better in 2025 than it was in 2010.

>>725124407
The monitors are bigger, that's it. And its not really a good thing because even the best GPUs have to do dumb AI upscaling trickery to be able to handle those resolutions without melting.

Some people can rub one out to a personal AI chatbot now too but I'm not exactly sure that's an improvement in a healthy direction.

>>725123229
1/3 is vastly higher than the number of people that bought GTAV. There were 180 million total, and on release they had 11 million sales in the first day. That's like 6% of all units. So you're saying FIVE TIMES as many people as a proportion are going to buy it day 1? I just don't think that's realistic.

>>725125250
make it even less. Doesn't matter, it will at leas double the sales. GTA VI hype is bigger than anything we've seen before. Just wait till full blown marketing starts. It's a new GTA after 13 fucking years. GTA V released in 5 years since previous GTA. GTA Online made the game waaaaaaaay more popular now. You grossly underestiamte the hype it can generate.

>>725115221
>>725115539
this gave me more hope for Gta 6

>>725111643
Look man, I for one won't buy it because Rockstar is pozzed and woke now, but if you actually think GTA 6 won't break every record, you're mentally retarded. Normie's trust in Rockstar is still at an all time high. This is pretty much the only other game sports-ball gamers and FPSbros are also going to buy.

>>725125493
GTAV was the largest entertainment release in history, I'm not saying it's impossible that VI will generate more sales, but with an adoption rate that would be needed at a way higher rate, and in a period of economic downturn for many consumers, I'm just not sure it will beat its predecessor. I wouldn't be surprised if it beat it, but I wouldn't be surprised if it failed either.

>>725125903
Why u think you're anymore better than fpsbros or sports-ball gamers? or casual gamers? What is it that you "GAME" that makes u superior?

>>725125910
Eh I can't wait to see reaction on /v/ once VI breaks literally every record by a mile.

>>725121547
Agreed, who the fuck cares about ancillary multiplayer garbage? Single player takes precedence always.

>>725111491 (OP)
It's a good thing. Game developers long for crunch.

>>725126272
I like singleplayer for like, 2 weeks maybe.
I can play online and grind with the boys for months. It's just more fun with friends. I get bored in singleplayer and don't even bother to do side-quests and so on (unless the game is RPG styled like Elder Scrolls)

>>725111595
The Indian studio is for fixing map holes, and theyre a nightmare to deal with. But they're not programming.

>>725126239
I wouldn't be happy or sad, it would just be a fact that it did well. But that said I'm looking forward to the threads as well, I can already see them now lol

>picture of Lucia with her ass hanging out
>THIS sold 25 million copies in its first days
>Latinabros...we won

>>725126642
that's a cool kot

>>725126764
It's going to be fun, at least for me.

>>725126782
>>725126782
>>725126782
>>725126782

>>725126916
?? what bro

>>725127180
he's just really excited about that cat

>>725128253
thats cool

>>725125910
>and in a period of economic downturn for many consumers,
I actually think this will work in GTA6 favor. If people are going to invest in one game for the whole year, it will likely be GTA6. It’s going to likely provide the most bang for your buck out any new game that’s going to come out in that period

>>725128654
Fair point, both consoles lack a truly killer app so this might be the one that sets them off.

>>725113284
Nice job being a lying disingenuous faggot, RDR2 on PC is one of the most optimized games in existence.

>>725115221
>>725115539
rockstar trimmed all the DEI faggots
GTA VI will be the game of the century

>>725111491 (OP)
greatness is achieved with sweat and blood... And slavery.

>>725119372
based

>>725111746
explains why the tech industry is a corrupt snoozefest regurgitating the quick same scams over any actual innovation

>>725111643
the only way the game isn't successful is if the game is so broken on launch, that people can barely boot it up
otherwise, it's going to sell like hotcakes, regardless of quality

>>725111643
Anyone who owns a modern console and actually buys games will absolutely crack the wallet for 6, thats basically given at this point. But whether or not these numbers will satisfy R* and justify the spending is whole another question.
Dunno what will happen with PC sales, cause it feels like PC gamers cooled a bit on this whole "paying for AA games" thing, but unless R* fucks up in some absolutely disastrous fashion, there will be quite a number of customers.

>>725115221
>I AM GOING TO LEAVE WORK TO PROTEST AGAINST THE NAZI ISLAMAPHOBIC CHUDS
>HELP HELP WHY DID I LOSE MY JOB??? FUCKING FASCIST CHUDS...
lmao

>>725115539
>those faces
>those signs
They're doing a bad job of making Rockstar look like the bad guys.

>>725132432
Which is good for the industry.

>>725111595
The only thing that matters is the creative director.
I don't care if its a 10 year old chink that molds and polishes my pink latex dildos, after they are up my ass they all taste same

>>725115221
>>725115539
Keep licking that fascist boot, slave piggie. Keep dividing the working class and hating on unions and minority groups.

>>725111895
>for no reasons
>refuses to do it
Yep he's indian alright