GTA 6's PC release may come sooner than you think, says former Rockstar North technical director Obbe Vermeij, because Take-Two will be worried about AI ports.
This game has been in active development for a minimum of six years by a team of professional game developers. If Rockstar is genuinely concerned that a two-month slop bootleg project will pull sales away from their game, in numbers great enough that they’re moving their timeline up to attempt to avoid it, this greatly harms my confidence in their product. They have no faith in their own game, and basically just told everyone that slop-copies might end up being a viable alternative to buying GTA.
Someone with a project this big who has faith in their project would not be worried about this problem. If you’re a single indie dev, sure, it’s a concern. A lot of indie games are much smaller in scope and much easier to rip off. But we’re talking about one of the biggest game studios in the world making one of the biggest games of all time. Being worried about slop kiddies hitting the market first with a clone of their game should be one of their absolute lowest priorities. If that’s possible then it just means this game is a failure.
This game has been in active development for a minimum of six years by a team of professional game developers. If Rockstar is genuinely concerned that a two-month slop bootleg project will pull sales away from their game, in numbers great enough that they’re moving their timeline up to attempt to avoid it, this greatly harms my confidence in their product. They have no faith in their own game, and basically just told everyone that slop-copies might end up being a viable alternative to buying GTA.
Someone with a project this big who has faith in their project would not be worried about this problem. If you’re a single indie dev, sure, it’s a concern. A lot of indie games are much smaller in scope and much easier to rip off. But we’re talking about one of the biggest game studios in the world making one of the biggest games of all time. Being worried about slop kiddies hitting the market first with a clone of their game should be one of their absolute lowest priorities. If that’s possible then it just means this game is a failure.