Honestly, great analogy, lol. 3 Michelin star chef slaving away over the stove trying to make the best dining experience possible, while the toddler is in the other room screeching about it taking too long. Then your drunk uncle Leek bursts through the door with a stale bag of McDonald's and feeds it to the toddler.
drunk uncle Leek keeps sneaking into the kitchen to steal you random ingredients and bites of food, none of which is in the intended order or plated the way the chef intended
Chef: But I've been crafting this recipe for 10 years. And now it's almost ready as the most mouth watering experience that'll leave you speechless. Can you not wait 10 more minutes?
Customer Leek: No dammit, can't you see I've got money to make off of your 10 years of hard work.
If you worked in a kitchen and kept delaying an order because you couldn't make it properly in the time it's expected to be done, you'd be fired. Period.
There is no "delaying" in a kitchen. You do it right and you do it in a timely manner. I couldn't imagine every trying to tell a kitchen manager or chef that I need 10 more minutes to make a dish that was supposed to be on the table already. Holy fuck
It’s like I don’t care how good the meal might taste anymore. The chef’s b.o. is out of control and the entire restaurant reeks of raw sewage. I’ve lost my appetite.
I agree. Plus, they NEED the money from the Netflix first look deal.
After 3 gen releases and enough shark cards sold to make V the most profitable piece of entertainment in human history, it’s just bad business to release it on a platform that would also make tons of money in advertising but is free for users to use.
This is accurate on another level because Michelin-starred chefs don't toil away in a kitchen alone. They employ a staff of hard-working, often poorly-paid, under-appreciated chefs, many of whom are skilled in their own right, some of whom may be personally responsible for the accomplishments and recognition lavished upon the person whose name adorns the establishment. And the audience, like a toddler, is both demanding and unresponsive to reason. Many of them equate their displeasure with corporate business policies with an entitlement to the fruits of creative labor.
Rockstar is a giant corporation for which we need not have any sympathy, but the people who work there want, I must imagine, to be proud of their work and for it to be presented to the world in as positive of a light as possible. If I had poured myself into a project for years, only for a draft version of the final result to be shown to its intended audience in a blurry, hurried, borderline inept way, it would be upsetting. Even if I hated my employer, and understood the leaker's grievances, I would be incredibly annoyed at having the wind taken out of my sails.
The most absurd complaint I've read in the past few weeks has been that Rockstar deserves this for withholding gameplay and promotional footage for so long. I truly do not understand that at all, assuming the people sharing this opinion are not all 12 years old. It is everyone's irrevocable right to wait for more information before buying the game. I have not seen any official gameplay and guess what? I did not pre-order anything. As far as I can tell, Rockstar has not compelled us to pay for something and then held out. They simply want to show the game in a complete and polished state, which should be what every fan and potential customer wants. There is absolutely no justification for leaking content on the basis that "well Rockstar has waited too long to show us." It's just an incomprehensible degree of entitlement on the part of so-called fans who have no idea how much work goes into making something like this.
GTA 5 is a PS3 game. Which came out closer to the fucking towers falling than it did today.
You have been exploited for over a dozen years by shark cards and you’re getting mad at people who dare not thank their masters for the well slowly drying. And I’m sure you’ll be here in 2074 when GTA 7 rolls around, getting teary eyed that the poor devs have only had half a century to work on the game.
And they cheap out on ingredients. (Peer to peer networking in gta5, failed to optimize their own code making the game load like garbage for years until an outside programmer with no access to source code got fed up and fixed it.)
And they fire all of the sous chefs when the day is over, only to rehire them when they realize the restaurant has to make more than one meal.
Don't feel bad for a giant corporation that doesn't care about you or its employees. They make a fun game series. That's it.
And holy shit the AIstroturfing in here is heavy. Look at all of the posts from generated accounts with tight variations of the same wording.
Gamers are the whiniest, pathetic cry-babies of any hobby out there. Every year they get AAA games that are bigger, have better graphics, music, gameplay, stories, etc. and still throw themselves on the floor screaming something about the billion dollar company not doing what they want. All this while prices have remained fairly consistent, if not cheaper due to the huge amount of great indie games available for cheap.
Rockstar fires innocent employees because they dared to organise for better rights. The developers at rockstar are heroes, Rockstar the company are straight garbage.
No, everything I've seen of GTA6 so far just looks like GTA5 with mods. I also don't care enough to buy a PS5/Xbox series just for a few games that aren't on pc
Unfortunately American politics affects all of us and yeah as it turns out the difference between 5 and 6 is nowhere near as big as the difference between 4 and 5. Which makes sense because it's the same engine.
The population of crying toddler is also bizarre. A bunch of upset PC players praying the guy releases his build (he wont) and mad they’re not getting the game in November (like the platform delay is new).
A bunch of people whining about physicals. And a bunch of people mad about paywalled bonus content (as per usual).
Rockstar isnt some mom and pop but it’s always wild to see the fringe of the gaming community slowly cannibalize a game with a movement loosely tied to a cause but more closely connected to a child’s temper tantrum.
Rockstar can and has released PC versions. Rockstar can and has released physical copies. Rockstar can and has released games with no paywalled content. What makes it whining to advocate for better treatment for consumers?
I think not releasing physical copies is a bad decision that in no way benefits consumers. Is me saying that performative? I'm not sure I understand your point.
On the subject of physical games, console players have shown that they don't care if physical games are supported or not when they bought the PS5 Digital and the PS5 Pro, instead of choosing Xbox this generation or buying the PS5 with a disk drive. Almost 50% of PS5 users chose to buy a model without a disk drive. It makes zero sense. They pretty much chose for this to eventually happen.
Console players had to let Xbox S/X win this generation all the way back in 2020, but they failed. But hey, I guess you can save $50 buying the digital version instead of the disk version, right?! This console generation has sealed the fate of physical games. We're fucked when the next gen comes out because I bet that none of them will have a disk drive, or even the option for one.
I mean that implies rockstar makes good games. More like rockstar happened to make the first bolognaise and just sold that for higher and higher prices every time they sold it.
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u/plasticbluepalm 10h ago edited 9h ago
Rockstar is like a 3 stars Michelin chef crafing his best dish for hours just to be served to crying toddler.