I don’t think anyone has ever commented on a post from me. Am I blueskying wrong or is everyone a bot?

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I spent a lot of years helping and saying my piece, but I just realize that the cost of modern game dev is literally impossible. A game could make tens of millions and still be considered a flop. The industry is paralyzed with risk management.

Small dev is the only way forward it seems.

Someone told me they just look at product packaging for things like cleaners, snacks, toys, etc. Can get a lot of good color palettes from those. Helped me out a lot!

And while a lot of people certainly play GTA, not even close to the extent of the games they are trying to emulate for their business model.

It worked for GTA V because it took shape over a long period of time. If they did that again with a better plan to ramp up, that would be more successful imo.

It will no doubt be the biggest game launch in history.

The problem is that they want GTA to be a platform game, which requires numbers. The price tag and mature themes go entirely against that model.

The IP doesn’t fit what they are trying to do. Feels entirely greed driven. Not a good feeling.

Yeah, been playing since the first one. Since GTA 3 it’s been presented as sort of this HBO tv series in game form with a sandbox.

This honestly feels more like GTA 2, which was more sand boxy with a bunch of random missions. They are trying to expand too much and then force a GTA theme on it, imo.

It seems like the production is run by board members saying “how can we extract as much value as possible from this franchise?”

They’ve spent 3 decades building up this IP, and not once has it felt this off.

I hope I’m wrong, but it seems greed has ruined pretty much everything in this industry…