Many (most?) employees get a salary and are done. Only shareholders benefit from the long term health of the company. Most of the shareholders don't put any meaningful work into producing value.
This is one of the core injustices of capitalism. People who don't work profit.
If piracy was the actual reason for not releasing on PC, then Rock-star/2K are downright idiotic considering most current consoles GTA 6 will be releasing on have exploits/jailbreaks that also allow for piracy/dumping.
Might as well just not release the game at all, that way nobody can pirate it... which seems to be the current strategy anyways
This is the real reason - same thing happened with GTA5 and RDR2. They crunched hard to hit the target platform consoles and then had to crunch again to get it working well across the various GPUs, aspect ratios, and resolutions on PC.
They always release to consoles first, but I don't mind. Let the console players beta test all the imbalanced multi-player shit and then we'll get the patched version with all of the jank fixed in the PC release down the line. A better experience for more patient gamers.
16 Comments
Elting@piefed.social · 129 pts · 55d
Someone told me it would be stealing from the employees to pirate this game. The same employees that get fired for trying to start a union.
jtrek@startrek.website · 52 pts · 54d
Many (most?) employees get a salary and are done. Only shareholders benefit from the long term health of the company. Most of the shareholders don't put any meaningful work into producing value.
This is one of the core injustices of capitalism. People who don't work profit.
Th4tGuyII@fedia.io · 39 pts · 55d
Yeah. Stealing from the employees they say, while pushing said employees out of the window
Midnight1938@reddthat.com · 16 pts · 55d
You don’t understand, they had to push them out the window! They were stolen from!
Dagnet@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 54d
Game sells poorly: fire half of the team
Game reaches record profit: fire half of the team, maybe the other half too
Th4tGuyII@fedia.io · 60 pts · 55d
If piracy was the actual reason for not releasing on PC, then Rock-star/2K are downright idiotic considering most current consoles GTA 6 will be releasing on have exploits/jailbreaks that also allow for piracy/dumping.
Might as well just not release the game at all, that way nobody can pirate it... which seems to be the current strategy anyways
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 54d
To be fair, that strategy has worked nearly flawlessly for over 13 years.
GTA 5 came out in 2013.
Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk · 36 pts · 54d
Realising that PC gamers will be a lot more discerning about graphics quality and will expect 60fps+ framerates. And they just can't do it
fartsparkles@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 54d
This is the real reason - same thing happened with GTA5 and RDR2. They crunched hard to hit the target platform consoles and then had to crunch again to get it working well across the various GPUs, aspect ratios, and resolutions on PC.
lonesomeCat@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 54d
GTA 4 performance on PC still lags on modern hardware
PriorityMotif@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 55d
PS5 (no disc drive) $600
PS5 (w/ disc drive) $650
PS5 Pro (no disc drive) $900 + $80 for disc drive add on
Xbox series S (no disc drive) $500 (512GB) - $600 (1 TB)
Xbox series x $750 (no disc drive) / $800 (w/disc drive)
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 54d
Definitely no point in buying a PS5 with a disc drive now.
Furbag@pawb.social · 8 pts · 54d
They always release to consoles first, but I don't mind. Let the console players beta test all the imbalanced multi-player shit and then we'll get the patched version with all of the jank fixed in the PC release down the line. A better experience for more patient gamers.
lemonbun@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 54d
oh shit I thought I was playing day 1, guess not. can't wait for this shit storm, didn't think anything could be worse than cyberpunk but here we are
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 54d
Rockstar got toxic long before GTA 5, so it's been a while since I've played any Rockstar game.
pHr34kY@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 54d
30fps?
You should try GTA1. On modern hardware it runs at about 15.