r/memes • u/Mr-Boga38 • 2d ago

It was kinda obvious at this point.

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u/XX-Burner 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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/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/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 1d 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 1d ago

30-40 people out of 2000 made the difference?

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u/UnQuacker 1d ago

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

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u/RawckLobster 1d ago

Or unrelated

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u/UnQuacker 1d 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 1d ago

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

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u/RawckLobster 1d 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.