What happened to them man? They used to be the best

Everyone left or got fired save for Sam Houser, it's literally Rockstar in name only
GTA 6 is gonna be so lame

truth

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unironically this.. having such a low-effort best seller really showed them that their actual audience is 10yo perpetually fascinated that prefer shinny cars and random shit paid with the mommy's wallet to actual content and real games

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>GTA Online makes billions
>incredibly hyped RDR2 Online is abandoned immediately

What happened? Surely it could have been equally as lucrative for at least awhile.

>incredibly hyped RDR2 Online is abandoned immediately
>What happened? Surely it could have been equally as lucrative for at least awhile
The gossip that has made the internet is that no one at Rockstar wanted to do RDO and were already upset at the direction of the company (GTAO).

But even if you don't believe that, nothing about the Old or Dying West lends itself to a CEO power fantasy game or weapon/vehicle collect-a-thons like GTAO does.

I think if they remade the map +10-20 years, they could've had a decent enough sim or detective type game driven by dialogue and reading the environment but that's more of an effort than outsourcing Mission Generators and T-Shirt Skins to India so nothing sizable ever happened.

These companies either die a hero, or live long enough to see themselves become the villain. Blizzard, Bethesda, Rareware, you name it. If there's a lot of money to be made, they either sell out themselves or get bought out by someone who will.

>max payne 3
kino...

>nobody is buying the gold bars
>nobody wants to do the shitty pelting and fishing jobs
>season passes/battle passes in a fucking RDR game
>super slow monotonous game play doesn't translate well to online

Shit was DOA

> They used to be the best..
Used to. Not anymore. Now they're just a bunch of woke losers like the rest.

nothing lasts forever. insane run no matter what. and they still have the minerals to do crazy stuff we'll see it just isn't the same

It was even worse at launch. You couldn't afford anything and there was no way to really earn money. They gifted *some* gold and money 2 months after launch but it was still pennies. Between those two things anyone who had played it previously deleted it and moved on.

They can't do crazy sci-fi shit in RDR's setting.

Happens to every successful studio

>shit out a bunch of games
>grow a fanbase
>one strikes lightning
>company grows
>company gets investors and more managers than the entire starting company combined
>company decides to shit on their fans and appease the masses instead
>company now milks the public masses while giving them shit in return
>hire friends and family to take management position while hiring Indian tech companies and paying them a few dollars to do the dirty work

In the case of GTA Online, they became so fucking successful that they will NEVER EVER go back to their old ways of making a fun experience. If anything GTA6 will be a watered down woke on rails "cinematic" movie game and GTAO2 will double down on micro transactions

Rockstar ded
Blizzard ded
Bioware ded

I think video games make too much money for their own good. why bother creating good single player games when GTA online makes so much more money with way less effort

More like vidya COSTS too much money to make. Rockstar games in particular have been some of the biggest offenders since they moved to their RAGE engine.

GTAOnline is modern and that leads to more variety. RDR2 is slow paced and immersive. The exact opposite of what a zoomer wants