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Heaven 17 claims it turned down GTA 6 soundtrack offer over pay offer: ‘Go f*** yourself’ [VGC] (www.videogameschronicle.com)

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

and there’s no way Rockstar is going to be paying $99 million dollars for just songs.

GTA V/Online produced $8.5 billion in revenue.

I mean, I guess you're not wrong, (how else could they be milking it for this much money but being cheap?) but it still makes them fucking cheap bastards.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can't really blame accountants for doing their job.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Actually, yeah I can. Every time a fucking bean-counter makes a living humans life worse at their job to save the company a buck is a great time to blame accountants for doing their fucking jobs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Accountants don't make decisions, they are just paper bitches for real people along with shit like lawyers and marketing. They just present the numbers to business leadership who makes decisions on which expeses to approve.

[+] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

should’ve asked for a sliver of a percentage

I think it's really clear that Rockstar is trying to avoid a repeat of past soundtracks and licensing issues and they want these up-front with no royalty payments to make in the future, so they don't have to keep re-negotiating licensing (and having to remove/replace songs in old games).

I still think this guy was being smart for asking more, even if he asked too much. You're right, he shouldn't have high-balled, but he was smart enough to understand getting a percentage or royalties was probably almost assuredly out of the question.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

I'm glad Rockstar is taking the route of trying to only get songs that they won't have to remove down the line. Should be the move forward for all games. Wish same would happen for racing games too. Would rather have knock off brands over delistings.