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Fable Director Reveals That The Game Was Ready For An October Launch, But He Delayed It To February 2027 Entirely To Avoid GTA 6
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sanitation lemmy.today sanitation@lemmy.today
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Soulphite reddthat.com Soulphite@reddthat.com
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The second game studio set to release a game in Q3-4 that's postponing due to GTA6. Pretty lame considering a whole audience is waiting on these games, so what if GTA takes the thunder right away? Oh, right... money. Not about passion anymore.

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tyranny crazypeople.online tyranny@crazypeople.online
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cowardly and putrid. if you want your games played, release them. if not, don't.

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rollerbang lemmy.world rollerbang@lemmy.world
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The second game studio set to release a game in Q3-4 that's postponing due to GTA6. Pretty lame considering a whole audience is waiting on these games, so what if GTA takes the thunder right away? Oh, right... money. Not about passion anymore.

I mean... Yes, but you can't feed family with passion.

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Soulphite reddthat.com Soulphite@reddthat.com
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#5 · Quote Reply

I mean... Yes, but you can't feed family with passion.

It's not like they won't make enough to make that happen. They just want to make maximum as fast as possible.

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twinnie feddit.uk twinnie@feddit.uk
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It's not like they won't make enough to make that happen. They just want to make maximum as fast as possible.

Of course they do, half the time these studios have their entire future riding on their latest release.

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apfelwoiSchoppen lemmy.world apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
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The amount of shifting that has had to be done for GTA6 just makes me weep, especially with Rock Star shifting the GTA6 date back a few times. I understand those devs that make the decision, it just sucks for everyone not Rock Star.

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wangaBanga feddit.online wangaBanga@feddit.online
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Wow, in 2026 I don't give a fuck about either game. Ten years ago I would have been salivating. All this corpo-hype shit sucks the joy out of the room.

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NOT_RICK lemmy.world NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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Looking forward to this game, it looks like a nice return to form for the series from all the preview content I have seen. It’ll be interesting to see how playground does with a non-racing game.

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Ludicrous0251 piefed.zip Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip
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The amount of shifting that has had to be done for GTA6 just makes me weep, especially with Rock Star shifting the GTA6 date back a few times. I understand those devs that make the decision, it just sucks for everyone not Rock Star.

it just sucks for everyone not Rock Star

Those Fable devs got a 4 month stay of execution from MicroSlop™ layoffs. This is great for them. Maybe bad for an executive's Christmas bonus, but let's be real, they're still getting one anyways.

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🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 pawb.social Kolanaki@pawb.social
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I mean... Yes, but you can't feed family with passion.

I can feed them with passion fruit. 😌

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Kowowow lemmy.ca Kowowow@lemmy.ca
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Is there really that much of an overlap audience wise for this to make sense, I thought gta6 was supposed to flop anyways

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_haha_oh_wow_ sh.itjust.works _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works
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Funny, I'll be skipping GTA6 until it's the GOTY edition on sale for $10.

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Tekdeb lemmy.zip tekdeb@lemmy.zip
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cowardly and putrid. if you want your games played, release them. if not, don't.

It's a very common publishing strategy. Publishers often try to avoid other launches they expect will negatively impact their sales. GTA 6 will be quite expensive and probably very popular, so trying to avoid that makes a lot of sense.

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content_educator_94 thelemmy.club content_educator_94@thelemmy.club
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I'm more excited to see how Fable turns out than the new Grand Theft Auto

Fable is sick

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apfelwoiSchoppen lemmy.world apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
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it just sucks for everyone not Rock Star Those Fable devs got a 4 month stay of execution from MicroSlop™ layoffs. This is great for them. Maybe bad for an executive's Christmas bonus, but let's be real, they're still getting one anyways.

Grind until your game comes out to then lay you off doesn't sound great either.

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Albbi piefed.ca albbi@piefed.ca
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#17 · Quote Reply

Oh lookit that. Hades 3 coming out in February. (I would love it if that were true)

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Hal-5700X sh.itjust.works hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works
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#18 · Quote Reply

Fable: The Lost Chapters is the best game in the series.

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