Games can definitely be fixed post launch. Fallout New Vegas was a broken mess, but now it’s the most beloved 3D Fallout game and people don’t even bring it up in this conversation. With enough ambition, quality, and room to improve underneath the technical issues, games can and have been brought back from from being beta releases.
On the other hand, Rockstar’s schemes aren’t guaranteed to pay off. RDR2 had a well received single player, but the online mode was an absolute failure compared to GTA Online. Given how people have less disposable income and advanced gaming hardware, GTA 6 might be too much too late. I doubt it’ll be a flop, but I also doubt it’ll have the success of GTA 5.
I also don’t see it having the same relevance in a post culture war era. Even if it plays things relatively safe, it will still be seen as too woke by the right, and too capitalist coded by the left. The liberal center isn’t an all encompassing hegemon like it once was, and that’s really who the game is made for.
Games can definitely be fixed post launch. Fallout New Vegas was a broken mess, but now it’s the most beloved 3D Fallout game and people don’t even bring it up in this conversation. With enough ambition, quality, and room to improve underneath the technical issues, games can and have been brought back from from being beta releases.
On the other hand, Rockstar’s schemes aren’t guaranteed to pay off. RDR2 had a well received single player, but the online mode was an absolute failure compared to GTA Online. Given how people have less disposable income and advanced gaming hardware, GTA 6 might be too much too late. I doubt it’ll be a flop, but I also doubt it’ll have the success of GTA 5.
I also don’t see it having the same relevance in a post culture war era. Even if it plays things relatively safe, it will still be seen as too woke by the right, and too capitalist coded by the left. The liberal center isn’t an all encompassing hegemon like it once was, and that’s really who the game is made for.