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This is another of the benefits of patient gaming, avoiding the delays caused by the double-dip fishing Rockstar does with their games. For me, the last three years' release schedules have been so stacked that they don't leave much room for temptation or frustration with delays. I've always got something to play.
I understand the frustration for the diehard GTA fans, but I would have figured those people moved to console if they weren't already.
I find it extremely hard to empathize with PC players from the mountains of PC only games that have never come to consoles.
GTAVI will not be just a console exclusive, probably it will become an Epic Store exclusive on PC. There could be tons of useless discussion about what companies shoud or should not do; but in the end, companies exist only to the extend of their customer's money. T2 strategy paid off, becouse their customer bougt GTAV repetedtly when came on PS3 generation, then PS4, then PS4Pro, then Epic Store and etc. etc.They sold one single AAA multiple time with relatively low effort (definetly not the cost of this many AAA games): their growth was done on their customer's stupidity, so they now employ the same exact stratgy that works on stupid people... and make money.
Let's not ignore the quality of the game itself. CDPR talked big but the best they could muster was gtaIII levels of world dynamics and crowd behaviour. T2 gets away with it because like it or not, gtaV is one of the best games ever made, period!
Otoh, Straus Zelnick deserves to be the middle guy in a human centipede with Kotic at the ass tho.
Based on the ports I've played, no. But it heavily depends on how much effort is put into the port. The low effort ports are never worth getting. Basically barely get the game running on PC and calling it a day. Awkward controls and they don't even bother to change the tutorial to tell you which key on your keyboard to press. Press "Start" to open the menu.
If they at least try to actually adapt it to PC users then maybe. Depends how how much effort was out into making it run well.
So yea, not a lot of developers put in the actual effort to make a port worth playing. GTA 5 was horribly unoptimized, wasn't it? Maybe they learned, but I wouldn't bet on it.