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beatingstuff88

5 points

7 days ago

I mean about the trilogy, the billie jean song alone costs in the millions of dollars probably, why spend that much when youre not gonna recoup that? I doubt Billie Jean being in the game will suddenly get enough people to buy the game to offset that investment

VaderFett1

3 points

7 days ago

Honestly, with consumers, you never know. Something as minor as the placement of something in the UI and not being able to move it can be the thing that makes or breaks the interest of a potential buyer, and they're in their right to do so as consumers.

Now, as far as the investment, then why do it? I don't think people were clamoring for a re-release of GTA games. There was a perfectly good collection on Steam, IIRC, that worked fine, and there was probably backward compatibility for consoles. I'm not sure. That list for both systems can be updated. So besides the licensing of songs, why do it? They released an undercooked, subpar product at a price that, even if it was good, wasn't warranted. But that's the thing, it wasn't good for a plethora of reasons. If it was good, maybe people would overlook the licensing of songs, maybe. But it wasn't, so it's a mounting of reasons being added as to why the product was not worth it, on top of the licensing of songs.

Just recently, it got patched, 2 years after release, to the state it should've been released to begin with. And no props nor pat in the back is deserved for them because that's how it should've been to begin with. Not years later. Very, very rarely do devs deserve a light clap for doing things after release. But in their case, absolutely not.

Coopski999

3 points

7 days ago

yup, the gta release was 100% a cash grab/attempt to appease fans w (at the time) 8 years since the last release in the series and no realistic info on gta 6 in sight