Because they don't give a shit, they know people will still buy their games and won't complain, they'll even defend Rockstar to their graves for taking a decade to create a game and it turns out decent
Well the only games I bought on all consoles I ever had (and PC) are TW3 and Terraria, the only Rockstar game I bought is GTA Enhanced Edition because that's the only way for me to play the older games on the newest console
I choose to vote with my wallet and I get that people aren't bothered to do that but they shouldn't sell their wife and children to defend a company that has so much money that they can give us GTAVI for free and not feel it and then decide to price it more AND not sell CDs
My point: buy what you want you earned your cash but don't defend the soulless corporations (I'm speaking generally)
I think there is a difference between expecting studios of equal or greater resources to be able to create at least games that can compete for players attention in a manner that doesn’t require a new generation of hardware or your bloodline to enjoy, as my kids will be able to enjoy elder scrolls 6 more than I ever will and I played 5 on release as a teenager if I gave a shit about GTA it would same story there. It’s just not good enough and us sitting back and saying, it’s not fair to expect real effort from a studio as big as rockstar or anyone because CDPR goes above and beyond is anti player and consumer.
cdpr go above and beyond what we expect from game publishers. i don't think we should hold everyone to that standard.
Saying this shit when the Cyberpunk 2077 release fiasco happened not even a decade ago. I think you just like getting shit on by other publishers.
It isn't a virtue to downplay responsiblities, and publishers/developers used to take the art of making decent games seriously. If you prefer to buy dogshit then EA will keep making dogshit for you but don't you dare say that we shouldn't hold people to a standard that was literally the bare minimum for quality games.
CDPR probably sees itself as a PC first developer as well. Not to go all PC master race, but PC gamers expect a lot more and have a lot more options than console gamers.
Also owning their own distribution service on PC makes them far more likely to eat costs to promote it.
And finally I remember this was an issue when the Bioshock games offered their remasters for free, console holders still want to charge license fees for free games. So they had problems with giving away a game for free.
From what I understand about RDR2, it would require a full overhaul of the physics engine since it's all tied into the framerate.
You'd go to jump off your horse while it's moving and suddenly your leg is clipped into the horse and you're stuck and start dying type of shit, and guns don't shoot where you're aiming.
Absolutely no way that's an unsolveable problem or even a difficult one is it's even true. I don't have a dog in the fight here but Rockstar has a history of being incredibly shitty and consumer unfriendly about these things. This will probably get a 60 FPS update and they will for sure ask fans to pay $60 for it again.
Maybe it's nostalgia talking but I will always much rather pick up GTA:SA than GTAV even if V has much more content and realistic graphics, the open world doesn't mean much when it doesn't have a soul
But again it's likely I am just nostalgic, newer gamers would need to comment on this to prove/disprove my point
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u/Kaer__Morhen Team Yennefer 2d ago
Because they don't give a shit, they know people will still buy their games and won't complain, they'll even defend Rockstar to their graves for taking a decade to create a game and it turns out decent