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I have a friend who works at Rockstar. I have forwarded the blog post to him.
by josalhor 6y ago
I have a friend who works at Rockstar. I have forwarded the blog post to him.
- marshmallow_12 6y agoask him from me what on earth is wrong with R*
- xdrosenheim 6y agoShort answer: it doesn't make enough money, it doesn't matter.
- GhostVII 6y agoGTA V has made 6 billion in revenue, it's probably the most profitable video game in history by a large margin.
- jojobas 6y agoGTA V is profitable, fixing bugs is not.
- lhl 6y agoYou could easily model how increased retention/engagement rates would translate to increased microtransaction revenue from drastically decreased load times. You could even bucket test it if you wanted to directly quantify the results, but I'm sure that the cost payback would be a matter of days.
- marshmallow_12 6y agobut why bother when you got so much money anyway? It's shockingly lazy, but are you as productive as you can be? They're no different.
- josalhor 6y agoFixing bugs that reduce engagement is profitable. I am pretty confident this kind of bug has easily costed Rockstar in the order of 10-100 million dollars _per year_.
- imtringued 6y agoManagement decided it doesn't make enough money.
- computronus 6y agoI don't play GTA Online, but I'll just say thanks for forwarding, since it's a concrete step towards possibly fixing the bugs.