FORBES: After covering the video game industry for several years, your inbox slowly becomes a bustling destination for daily pitches, interview offers, and assets. Beginning as early as 18 months prior to the date of a game’s release, publisher’s PR houses and marketing departments tend to congest the news wires with screenshots and little morsels of information in the hopes that their title has constant visibility.
This process feeds the press, which in turn feeds a gaming audience ever hungrier for as many details as possible. Then, along comes Rockstar Games.
The GTA 5 Agent Trevor DLC episode could have been a real treat for fans on PlayStation and Xbox, before it was scrubbed sometime before 2017.
With the amount of money they generated, I just don’t understand the scrubbing of this. It would’ve been fantastic for fans.
I really want to know who drove the decision to focus on multiplayer was it Rockstar or take two.
Because when online started taking off many of the studio leads began having falling outs and leading including a founder
One of the reason I believe once gta 6 release, most of us thoroughly play it, enjoy the world they crafted then after that no offline support, no dlc at all
Grand Theft Auto V was released on PC on the 14th of April 2015. That means the game will be nine years old in four days, and it’s still among the most-played titles on Steam. With a 24-hour peak of 145K players, it’s as popular as Baldur’s Gate 3, Apex: Legends, and Destiny 2.
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People forget that this is actually how games used to be promoted and reported on. Now however every big games publisher rams press releases and asset drops down both journalist and fans throats, so we have to pay attention to them.
Starving fans is the key to success.
On some level I feel refreshed to not have much info on GTA...I will love it even more when it comes out. I lament the days of my youth when I would go into a gamestore with a sense of wonder not knowing what any game on the shelf has to offer...now I know everything and it kind of takes the magic out of it a little. Oh, to be young again.
Rockstar* is doing "viral marketing' for GTA. Something that only Rockstar* does this gen. And they have the fans right where they want them.
RDR was a masterpiece, but GTA4 was far from it. People should stop being wowwed by the lack of details. GTA4 was the worse of the series, so details of GTA5 is important to my decision. If GTA5 has the same boring repetitive missions it will sadly be overhyped like GTA4 was.
GTA V will smash all the records.