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Take-Two: MMOs don't work in the US

Strauss Zelnick says MMOs are generally unprofitable in US; "A couple of our competitors have found out that through very, very expensive lessons."

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Sandmano4407d ago

I believe MMOS work everywhere if done right.

GameCents4407d ago

You think MMO's would work everywhere if done right?

Tell me more about your extensive research and experience in the field.

Sandmano4406d ago (Edited 4406d ago )

P.M your email ill send you my study on this subject.

vishmarx4406d ago

wrong...every region has its tastes...the kinda stuff that works in japan for instance is prettyy....ummm..(to me,)quirky and awkward
like those karaoke diva games...or those games like fate/staynight..which lierally all text or date sims ...w/e

im not saying theyre bad but i doubt most of uus understand them or are willing to accept it anytime soon

Sandmano4405d ago

its an Mmo not a style of game its a whole genre there must be a audience for Mmos in NA

DeadlyFire4404d ago (Edited 4404d ago )

A MMO can work in any region with any genre.

Two things are essential.
-Price Point
-Replay Value

Many MMOs lack both of those with little replay value, bad economies, and terribly high subscription rates for anyone to take interest in it.

One big note about Asia its well over a billion people there. It will be successful there no matter what, and it gives alot of room for changes to increase popularity to consumers. So its more like the Beta test of any MMO games before they could be implemented anywhere else they can perfect them in the Asian market. Tweaks from MMOs of series that are in Asia have migrated to titles in the US/EU regions in many occasions.

Donnieboi4407d ago (Edited 4407d ago )

Oh no, not Take Two (publishers of Rockstars GTA games). Damnit...well there goes my dream of ever playing a GTA mmo Spin-off series :(

Unlimax4406d ago (Edited 4406d ago )

This might shock you guys .. Just take a look :D

http://massively.joystiq.co...

Laughable .. isn't it :P

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Response to Recent Community Concerns About Take-Two’s Terms of Service

Take-Two: "We know there have been some concerns from Borderlands fans about Take-Two’s Terms of Service. Maintaining transparency and confidence with the community here is always our goal, and we wanted to address some of these concerns."

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anast12d ago

If you are real fan, you will give them what they want.

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Take-Two Boss Doesn’t Think AI Can Create GTA Competitor; Believes in "Human Genius" to Create Hits

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick AI can help mundane tasks in creating games but human creativity will always be needed.

1Victor82d ago

Well there’s a saying about 100 monkeys with typewriters in a room, give it a few years and you’ll see the miracles that can be done with 100 Ai in a server 🤣

Cacabunga82d ago

Great interview from a humbly powerful man! I’m sad he didn’t speak about RDR at anytime, it’s like it’s not big enough for them

ZycoFox82d ago (Edited 82d ago )

Bit of a stretch to say "human creativity" will always be needed, key word being always. Sure it makes a big difference right now, if you just let it do whatever with little/no effort you end up with lazily put together slop..

It's still early days, but tools to help develop games quicker is obviously a good thing.

anast82d ago

Give it some time and the same copy will be selling their latest AI game.

CrimsonWing6982d ago

I get the feeling he doesn’t think a lot.

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Rockstar Buys GTA: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition Developer, Renames It Rockstar Australia

Rockstar has acquired Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition developer Video Games Deluxe and renamed it Rockstar Australia.

italiangamer111d ago

Didn't even know Brendan McNamara was still in the business.

DaReapa111d ago

Seeing that he's reassociated himself with R*, it would be nice to see a follow-up to L.A. Noire.

chicken_in_the_corn111d ago

I doubt it will happen. Rockstar Australia will probably be developing Rockstar's next game, with the rest of Rockstar's studios.

Dirty_Lemons110d ago (Edited 110d ago )

Hey Alan Wake II showed it might be many years but sequels are always possible! NY Noire? 🤔

Profchaos111d ago (Edited 111d ago )

He really shouldn't be guy is scum I wonder if he still runs it like a boys club if your not from the UK your on the outside and disposable meanwhile bashing Aussies and breaking our labour laws what he did during the development of LA noire is extremely illegal here and he got lucky he was able to intimidate his staff into not reporting it

goken111d ago (Edited 111d ago )

Sounds bad
I am not familiar with the incident, so i honestly do not know.
But… if whatever he did was not reported, then where did this information come from?

Profchaos111d ago

@goken
This is a great video that explains everything that went wrong with la noire Rockstar and team Bondi during la noires development

https://youtu.be/DN-Hv3pnVz...

isarai111d ago

Probably the most baffling acquisition ive ever seen, they absolutely screwed up something that should've been so simple, and then took so long to fix it that R* themselves fixed it for them and took their studio name off the splash screen......and so they acquired them?

Christopher111d ago

Keep the talent that is familiar with your engine(s), get rid of the bad management.

red2tango111d ago

It's literally in the article:

"It’s not to be confused with Grove Street Games, which came under fire for the poor quality of the original Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition in 2021"

isarai111d ago (Edited 111d ago )

Dayum im dumb, i skimmed the article qnd didn't see that 😅

Koneesha111d ago

Yeah, these are the people that Rockstar brought into to fix the trilogy not Grove Street Games who originally made it and messed it up!

-Foxtrot111d ago

I don’t get it

I’d rather they forget this game happened and tried again a few years later when next gen rolls around with some proper remasters

Maybe actually spend some money to renew the music licenses for the songs they removed

Profchaos111d ago

This isn't Grove St games it's the team that fixed Grove St games mess in the recent Netflix Android and iOS versions and ported the improvements to the console recently.

Game is significantly overhauled today as a result.

-Foxtrot111d ago

It’s an improvement but I still don’t think it’s the best it could have been.

Profchaos111d ago

True it's an improvement but they did have to work with what they had and that was a ultra janky port of a mobile game thrown together by like 4 people per game.

Seriously in the old version after completing vice city I saw Grove St employees were listed and there was only 4 people in it there's bigger teams out there working on homebrew games.

KwietStorm_BLM111d ago

And still has Grove Street Games scrubbed from the credits.

DafunkyRebel111d ago (Edited 111d ago )

Rockstar saw the absolute botch of the Definitive Edition of their most beloved games as a personal insult and decided to destroy the studio responsible and renamed it entirely. Probably fired a bunch of people too. Its Rockstar's legacy they tarnished so I would be absolutely furious if I was an executive over there

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