It did well commercially looking just at steam stats, not to mention the other platforms.
It seems like alot of that was used to turn it around to save their reputation to keep going not only with one game, but to make sure the next isn't "stay away" labeled even it is "wait and see" for many.
“That kind of poor customer service just won't fly in the US.”
First time hearing someone claim consumer protections are better in the US and the EU. People lose whole decades of data from top world top 10 largest US companies and those have no service and no consumer protection in the US nor court justice ad those where waived in their ToS.
If you didn't get the product you purchased and are in the EU you can take it to your ombudsman
Aren't most opinions locked behind an account, usually with a pay wall in front?
I don't mean new tech, speaking of traditional ones.
Politicians or whomever, interview with a journalist locked behind a cable subscription or a newspaper or magasine? Someone sharing their thoughts in their latest book bought at one of 3 places with one of the 2 available transactions companies that link you to the final "content".
Are all of China's problems caused by the US then?
Or contrary to your beliefs, does people have their own home grown problems and should seek to solve them instead of looking at the other nearby tribe to blame.
So fun seeing Americans blame Russia for their issues with racism and China for their issues of bad infrastructure. As if both didn't predate the founding of those countries.
I get what you are saying, I however just don't agree.
GTA has it roots in a story about the criminal world in a version of a US city with a clash of many subcultures within it.
I don't see at what time they tried to cater to teens, outside the parodying themes of that generation which they fit perfectly. I saw that every installment representative of a criminal from one of these cultures to top of the criminal food chain.
Be it the Scar Face parody of Vice City, Gang culture of San Andreas, the Immegrant story of the 4th or the trio they went for with the 5 with the LA story melting pot.
As a none-american it perfectly represented the characters and views of over the top depictions of the movie version of these places.
> Be it the Scar Face parody of Vice City, Gang culture of San Andreas, the Immegrant story of the 4th or the trio they went for with the 5 with the LA story melting pot.
I think this is the crux of my point actually – these are all stories that were more relevant at the times they were released. GTAV seems to be more down to earth, and modernised the stereotypes that it's poking fun at.
Gangsters don't resonate right now (in my opinion), immigration is viewed very differently, wealth inequality is viewed differently.
> As a non-american it perfectly represented the characters and views of over the top depictions of the movie version of these places.
Maybe we disagree a little here – also not American, but where I feel that GTAV was more of that over the top depiction of the movie version, I'm getting a different vibe from GTAVI, something a little closer to the real America we see today.
> I'm getting a different vibe from GTAVI, something a little closer to the real America we see today.
It seems like they are adding a lot of references to viral videos and news clips into the game. I’m an American, and while these things happened, they are all exceptional events, that’s why they made the news and went viral. Day-to-day, these over the top things aren’t things most people see all the time. The game seems like it’s going to take the “Florida Man” stereotype and turn it up to 11… as a general vibe. I don’t know that we saw enough to get a good read on the main characters, at least I haven’t.
I think it’s easy to get a skewed perspective of what real America is like from the news or bodycam footage… but it is entertaining, which will hopefully make for a good game.
Almost every reply to your comment points out your example "being smart" with a tired one of family vs work.
What people in many other comments here point out that for many familie is just one of many areas in life and can have nothing to do with smarts or happiness.
Is the man abandoning his wife and child to find a better life happier for it, he can be. Has nothing to do with if he used his smarts to arrive at that solution to his unhappiness or resolution.
How many people choose their family based on some calculation where there is a right or wrong answer?
Like an comic said, most people choose their life partner while drunk in a bar (obv local example) but no way you would ever choose which toaster to buy while drunk! The toast have to be just right, doesn't it?
In the capitalist Utopia that would be true, but that is not the case in any country on this planet.
The war being waged is not based on customer choice, its based on backroom dealing, who you know and invester interrests.
The products used by many are the products their investors have an interest boosting. One example look at what SaaS startups seeded on this site use, other SaaS from same network and investors.
Nothing about it based on war of pricing, quality or experience.
I’ve been investing in the VC space since about 2019. I can assure you that you are just wrong. Venture capital is alive and well well in America and it represents large swaths of products. These startups take on giants everyday and win.
Abit glib to call it hyped when the US has started multiple wars to protect the petrodollar.
Trying to do business any other way puts targets on whole countries, much less the speaker and their family. Many attempts were made in the middle east and Africa to make that change, and those people and governments were wiped out.
While the argument can be made for it's economic effect and power today vs 20 years ago, I don't think it was overhyped then.
I'm a Brit and we've done business other ways for centuries without issues. At least not issues due to using pounds rather than dollars. Who got wiped out?
The point was that the US, under its theocratic rulers, is not a peace-loving nation that keeps to itself. That is the case regardless of whether Iran's rulers choose Mahatma Gandhi or Genghis Khan to be their great satan.
Americans worry about theocracy when the right wing SCOTUS bans abortion. Iran hangs people for apostasy *
Different strokes for different folks, but to me, drawing an equivalence of the US, even with its current deplorable (I could search for other adjectives, but why reinvent the wheel) government, and the Islamic Republic of Iran is "pass the bong" territory.
Grammatically, "under its theocratic rulers" is parenthetical to "is not a peace-loving nation that keeps to itself" in these sentences. Arguments about degrees of theocracy aside, the US engages in constant outward violence without peace-loving motive, including sometimes extrajudicially and against civilians.
The comment to which I replied appears to draw an equivalence of the US and the IR, both in terms of theocracy and pugnacity.
The former charge (ie: that the US and the IR are similarly theocratic) was the more satisfying to rebut, since it's so straightforward.
The latter charge (ie: that the US and the IR are similarly warlike) is less wrong. In a HN comment thread on the internet, my chances are slim of convincing someone who believes it to be spot-on that it isn't.
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