FrothySolutions
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New GTA in Development, Rockstar Reportedly Making Changes to Fix Crunch Culture - IGN
A new GTA game is in development, but it will likely be quite a while before it is released.
www.ign.com
GTA 5 was a big damn shiny game. Won lots of awards. Problem is, we're learning just how badly you need to exploit game dev crews to make a game as big and shiny as GTA V. There's been a lot of controversy about "crunch." Lotta backlash. So much backlash that Rockstar is working on changes. Instead of making one huge game all at once, with maybe some DLC here and there, they're going to focus on moderately sized games that are reasonable for game dev crews to make by a certain deadline. And then add the rest via DLC.
I know what you're thinking, that's specifically the main critique of DLC. Why people hate it so much. It's used to sell people partial games that you have to buy DLC to get the full experience for. But this crunch controversy is so big, and between games like Mortal Kombat and Smash Bros. making big events of DLC releases, maybe people soften to DLC if it means being nicer to game developers?
Whatever sells more games, I'm sure that's what they'll go with.