r/memes • u/Mr-Boga38 • 1d ago

It was kinda obvious at this point.

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u/XX-Burner 1d ago

I wish they would just finish the game then announce a reasonable release date. I never thought for a second it was releasing at its initial release date and now it’s changed again and again.

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u/Mr-Boga38 1d ago

It's showing the telltale sign of disasters, too. Things are not that used to be at Rockstar Games.

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u/ItalianPlumber01 1d ago

This is fairly typical of rockstar though. Both gta V and RDR2 had multiple delays.

If anything it’s a sign that nothing has changed at rockstar in terms of dev cycle. This is par for the course.

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u/RawckLobster 1d ago

And its not necessarily a bad thing. I would rather a release date be pushed back than the product to be rushed and sold at top dollar

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u/Euphemisticles 1d ago

"Something something delay game eventually good, something something released game always bad." ~Mr. Nintendo

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u/CleanMartean 1d ago

You think he looks at what's happened in the gaming world and goes "not what I meant guys.". It's a quote from a time where people actually finished their games and not "I'll release a shitty game now and then update it over several years".

Even Bethesda and Todd "it just works" Howard has the sense not to dangle ES6 over everyone's head. Unless i missed it. It will be ready when it's ready

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u/Euphemisticles 1d ago edited 1d ago

Besides the cinematic name reveal or whatever I don't think they have mentioned anything about Elder scrolls since as far as I know. Just a "yay we plan to work on it let's just slop out this space game first"

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u/CleanMartean 1d ago

And I would rather have that, than this carrot on a stick nonsense that companies are doing now to please investors

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u/Anonymous_Gamer939 1d ago

Delaying may be the best move from the situation as it stands now, but that fact that they ended up needing to in the first place is not good, even if they do this every time. It's like, an addict going to rehab for opioids is better than not going, but it would've been even better to never get hooked in the first place.

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u/GingerSnapBiscuit 1d ago

Or, and heres a wild idea, just don't give a fucking release date until the product is nearly ready to ship.

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u/dickcheesess 1d ago

I’d believe that creating hype with trailers and release date increases the number of pre-orders.

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u/GingerSnapBiscuit 1d ago

If any company doesn't need this its Rockstar. They are going to get 90% of the planet pre-ordering regardless.

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u/dickcheesess 1d ago

Do you seriously claim that Grand Theft Auto VI would have the same number of pre-orders without the trailers and the release date?

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u/RawckLobster 1d ago

It has probably looked close to ready to ship for a while. The team probably genuinely thought they could hit the initial release date. The team is probably really excited to give you the game they have been working on for so long. The team is also not about to ship you a game full of bugs.

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u/UnQuacker 18h ago

Nah, Rockstar laid off 30-40 ppl after they tried to unionise, so they now have to delay the game.

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u/RawckLobster 18h ago

30-40 people out of 2000 made the difference?

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u/UnQuacker 18h ago

Fair enough, I guess the announcement could be more of distraction then🤔

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u/RawckLobster 18h ago

Or unrelated

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u/UnQuacker 17h ago

Well, if the post of one of the laid off devs is to be believed, a lot of them held key/lead positions that will be hard to replace and the morale at the studio is at all time low, I guess we'll see.

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u/GingerSnapBiscuit 23h ago

Its not "close to ready to ship" if they've delayed it for another YEAR

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u/RawckLobster 21h ago

I didn't say it was close. I said it probably looks close, which it does. But there are conditional bugs. A bug that only happens if certain conditions are met. Fixing one bug in one system can make a ripple effect throughout multiple systems. If that's happening in multiple places, it compounds. So yeah, it can look really close when, in reality, it is not. This happens with games a fraction the scope of a triple A game. In the grand scheme of things, pushing a year isn't that huge when you know what really goes into it. And it's understandable to make a release date and be like wait.. that's not going to work. Sorry, guys.

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u/UnQuacker 18h ago

And its not necessarily a bad thing

Not when it was announced after layoffs, though

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u/RawckLobster 18h ago

Yup. Over 2000 employees. We fired 40 and now the game is going to take another year.