I'm not sure I'd point to Rockstar as an example of a games developer pushing the medium, in any sense other than scale. Although I will give them credit for putting more effort into the story etc. than many of the big developers and publishers who basically just put out the same crap on an...
I suspect it won't be notably better or more fun for all the extra money poured into it and work spent on it. :lolol:
Anyway, there's no getting around that Rockstar will make an absolute f***ing fortune out of this and could easily afford to pay more money to the various creatives who...
Taking the £8.6bn gross for GTAV in his tweet at face value, if they paid $7500 to 3 song writers for 400 songs, that works out to $9milion, or just over 0.1% of the money they make from the game.
Presumably they intend to blow the other 99.9% on hookers and cocaine and incredibly detailed car...
I just listened to the first 30 seconds of a couple of songs and, while I liked it, it's one of the most comically "of its time" things I've ever heard. :lolol: