• northendtrooper@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I’m not a CIG white knight by any means. Infact I’m very open on the piss poor upper management and very shady marketing practices. But with that said a lot of people just don’t realize that CIG is building 4 games, 3 single player (sq42) and one multiplayer. All under a billion and creating new technologies and art assets along the way. Compare to the rumor of GTA VI being over double in cost.

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      1 year ago

      I think it’s important to remember that this was pitched as a single game originally. It was announced the year Mass Effect 3 came out. Comparing it to anything else is honestly pointless. Rockstar is building a game off its success and profits of GTA V. This is a ten year saga of broken promises and scope creep so astounding that people are saying they’re building four games when they’ve yet to prove they could deliver one. That’s just wild.

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        1 year ago

        It’s also important to mention that the community was polled before the pivot to multiple games and increasing scope creep. The backer community itself said to keep adding features.

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          1 year ago

          The backer community itself said to keep adding features.

          A prime example of FOMO and sunk cost fallacy at work.

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            1 year ago

            That poll was very early on. Like 2014 or so.

            It’s not like this was hundreds of millions of dollars later. The community just wants it to be the best game it can be.