"People expect games that are ever more ambitious and therefore expensive to develop to cost the same."
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I can’t find the numbers online but they probably could’ve given GTA5 away for free and made a profit.

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They did give it away for free and make a profit

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They did both, and it could find the next 5 GTA games for 500 years and still turn a profit if they never took another cent. Whatever this “journalism” is, delete it, block it, and forget about it. They are the enemy.

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