GTA 6 Speculation & Discussion [Part 7] - The one with the announcement

[YNNEL]

Lbh if there not going acknowledge the anniversary of their beloved child GTAO they certainly aren’t going to give much of a toss about a game that was released 20 years ago lol

[Need For Madness Auto]

Just now, YNNEL said:

Lbh if there not going acknowledge the anniversary of their beloved child GTAO they certainly aren’t going to give much of a toss about a game that was released 20 years ago lol

 

Yeah that's a good point

[PolandMountain]

If they don't knowledge VC anniversary than we shouldn't be sad, we should get that hopium up and hope it means silence before storm

 

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But reality is that they probably are not working on Saturdays

 

[Sword_of_Dusk]

4 minutes ago, Spider-Vice said:

Yeah as I mentioned earlier I think people expect R* PR and community management to be working on Saturday just because it's GTA VC's anniversary but that's not necessarily how it works. They could (not saying they will) very well address it on Monday and refer it was in the weekend.

 

But you can't reason with everyone. A lot of people think game devs should work 24/7/365 just for them.

Quoting this because it's so true. It's unfair to expect people to do any work on an off day unless something dire is going on.

[safde]

Vice City Stories' anniversary is on October 31st (Monday). They might acknowledge the anniversary both Vice City and VCS on that day, if they truely don't work on Saturday.

[PolandMountain]

2 minutes ago, YNNEL said:

Lbh if there not going acknowledge the anniversary of their beloved child GTAO they certainly aren’t going to give much of a toss about a game that was released 20 years ago lol

There's difference between anniversary of 8 years old game mode for a game and 20th anniversary of game that's important for studios history.

[Sword_of_Dusk]

2 minutes ago, safde said:

Vice City Stories' anniversary is on October 31st (Monday). They might acknowledge the anniversary both Vice City and VCS on that day, if they truely don't work on Saturday.

Wasn't aware VCS came out on Halloween, as I didn't play it until the PS2 port. Makes me wonder if R* will try for an October release of VI to match up with VC and VCS since they all take place in Vice City.

[lngtrw]

3 minutes ago, Sword_of_Dusk said:

Quoting this because it's so true. It's unfair to expect people to do any work on an off day unless something dire is going on.

It's just posting something on social media, which doesn't take more than 2 minutes 

 

[PolandMountain]

btw. Imagine that. Rockstar will probably acknowledge 10th anniversary of GTA V without next installment being released. (Unless GTA VI releases in 2023 lmao)

[Spider-Vice]

3 minutes ago, lngtrw said:

It's just posting something on social media, which doesn't take more than 2 minutes 

 

That's how it looks to us but there's actually a lot more processes behind posting a tweet on behalf of a company. Especially if you're PR or community management - tweets have to be approved by managers, have to go through Legal, sentiment reports and stats reports after the fact have to be made, so on so forth. A lot of things in game development, or in some cases, companies in general, really aren't as straight forward as most people think...

 

Literally, for any bigger game dev, every single communication has to be approved and go past legal layers so they can see if the text is fine, isn't referencing some other company that might get angry with a joke etc etc.

[PolandMountain]

1 minute ago, Spider-Vice said:

That's how it looks to us but there's actually a lot more processes behind posting a tweet on behalf of a company. Especially if you're PR or community management - tweets have to be approved by managers, have to go through Legal, sentiment reports and stats reports after the fact have to be made, so on so forth. A lot of things in game development, or in some cases, companies in general, really aren't as straight forward as most people think...

I know it's not how it works but in theory they could do all that stuff yesterday (friday) and just send it today.

[RockstarPlayer94]

3 minutes ago, Spider-Vice said:

That's how it looks to us but there's actually a lot more processes behind posting a tweet on behalf of a company. Especially if you're PR or community management - tweets have to be approved by managers, have to go through Legal, sentiment reports and stats reports after the fact have to be made, so on so forth. A lot of things in game development, or in some cases, companies in general, really aren't as straight forward as most people think...

Then how was it with the rdr2 tease on Sunday.

 

And im sure they posted on the weekends in the past

Edited October 29, 2022 by RockstarPlayer94

[Retro_Causality]

15 minutes ago, Spider-Vice said:

Yeah as I mentioned earlier I think people expect R* PR and community management to be working on Saturday just because it's GTA VC's anniversary but that's not necessarily how it works. They could (not saying they will) very well address it on Monday and refer it was in the weekend.

 

But you can't reason with everyone. A lot of people think game devs should work 24/7/365 just for them.

So some hope tomorrow and Monday still :)

[Spider-Vice]

3 minutes ago, RockstarPlayer94 said:

Then how was it with the rdr2 tease on Sunday.

 

And im sure they posted on the weekends in the past

How was it? It was the only time they've done that on a weekend, RDR2's entire development period was criticised due to crunch, and it wasn't before 2013 or so they had a proper community management/social media management structure. That tweet was likely prepared ages in advance because it was a large game announcement, I'm talking about the GTA VC anniversary specifically. I'm sorry but personally I think they likely won't deem it THAT important that people need to be working over weekends for it.

 

6 minutes ago, PolandMountain said:

I know it's not how it works but in theory they could do all that stuff yesterday (friday) and just send it today.

That's fair, but maybe it wasn't finished in time, or maybe they really don't plan on acknowledging it, or it's just not very high priority. We'll have to see. It'll be odd if they don't acknowledge it at all, I recognise that, but they also missed anniversaries like IV's 10th before so, and I'm personally not quite sure why some people are taking the lack of an anniversary acknowledgement so personally as if it, in the end, actually affects anything. Odd, sure, but relatively inconsequential.

[bwatinc]

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2 minutes ago, SGbgn44 said:

Who is this?

 

2 minutes ago, PolandMountain said:

Who TF is that guy, please introduce my ignorant brain.

 

3 minutes ago, YangSing1 said:

 

 

 

[Spider-Vice]

I'm leaving the above post so people see it's just another clout chaser. Stahp giving them attention, I guarantee you Youtubers won't know about announcements.

[RockstarPlayer94]

2 minutes ago, Spider-Vice said:

How was it? It was the only time they've done that on a weekend, RDR2's entire development period was criticised due to crunch, and it wasn't before 2013 or so they had a proper community management/social media management structure. That tweet was likely prepared ages in advance because it was a large game announcement, I'm talking about the GTA VC anniversary specifically. I'm sorry but personally I think they likely won't deem it THAT important that people need to be working over weekends for it.

Yeah thats true. It would only make sense if they wanted to announce gta VI today. No need to work on a Saturday to post happy bday Vice City

[Eternal Moonshine]

16 minutes ago, Sword_of_Dusk said:

Quoting this because it's so true. It's unfair to expect people to do any work on an off day unless something dire is going on.

Because scheduling a tweet or a newswire post is impossible in 2022. I'm sure we have the technology to do that lol 

[PolandMountain]

1 minute ago, Spider-Vice said:

I'm leaving the above post so people see it's just another clout chaser. Stahp giving them attention, I guarantee you Youtubers won't know about announcements.

Unless they are Tom Henderson (by definition he is a YouTuber.)

[Mkr]

Not a serious person 

[lngtrw]

this just popped up in my recommended, it cannot be more true

[Spider-Vice]

4 minutes ago, PolandMountain said:

Unless they are Tom Henderson (by definition he is a YouTuber.)

Tom Henderson plays games of Telephone from supposed industry sources, he isn't told things by actual Rockstar.

 

4 minutes ago, RockstarPlayer94 said:

Yeah thats true. It would only make sense if they wanted to announce gta VI today. No need to work on a Saturday to post happy bday Vice City

Mhm, if they meant to announce GTA VI today for whatever reason then I'm sure a lot of work would have been put into it in advance to post it today, and some people would probably have to work today anyway, but for something that's not that major... probably not really worth it.

[PolandMountain]

Just now, Eternal Moonshine said:

Because scheduling a tweet or a newswire post is impossible in 2022. I'm sure we have the technology to do that lol 

What if they are are scheduled and made by bot?

All the time perfectly uploaded at 3:00 PM

[Retro_Causality]

I’m sick of these trolls 

[PolandMountain]

Weren't they hiring digital marketers recently? Sure thing is that they are preparing something. But how long can making trailer take?

[safde]

17 minutes ago, Retro_Causality said:

So some hope tomorrow and Monday still

Monday is also the anniversary of VCS. Acknowledge both of the games on monday...?

[PolandMountain]

8 minutes ago, Retro_Causality said:

I’m sick of these trolls 

Just become one of them, go play some game with text chat (preferably mmo) go to some major player HUB and everyday at 3 PM British time say that GTA VI got announced.

[_SHAPES_]

they're gonna show a trailer on november 8 just to piss off stock holders

[44Orca]

4 minutes ago, PolandMountain said:

Weren't they hiring digital marketers recently? Sure thing is that they are preparing something. But how long can making trailer take?

Depends if it is with the rockstar editor (or whatever they have now) or they animate it. Usually within a week or two it can be ready. They aren't that difficult from what I know. I don't think one person only creates it either. Look how fast they make the gta online trailers, example is the one with the weevil car.

Edited October 29, 2022 by 44Orca

[lngtrw]

 

Let's just chill out and appreciate greatness.