In the end, no matter how bad it was, it was still an experience.
The original team learned a great deal from it. Some never imagined that people could be so greedy, pitiful, careless, ungrateful, or irresponsible. It’s also difficult to believe that such corruption could exist within a large corporation. A single corrupt manager can create an extremely toxic work environment for an entire team while simultaneously manipulating his own superiors.
It was pretty obvious from the beginning that this deal wouldn’t go well, but the original team hoped for the best – you should trust your intuition more!
Everyone we spoke to would like to explicitly say that they have no hard feelings against R*, and still consider themselves fans. They speak positively about R*, and don’t consider FiveM or the “Creator Platform” to be anything at all like it.
It’s important to distinguish that FiveM is NOT Rockstar! FiveM is owned by R*, and FiveM takes orders from R*, but they have much less Dev power than even Grove St. Games, and a lot of that comes from the GitHub community.
Even if FiveM was considered a part of Rockstar, it would be less than 1%, a very very small department and Ethan is the one supposed to be managing things.
Rockstar has thousands of employees. Don’t extrapolate the actions of FiveM to R* or Take2! Rockstar employees don’t get away with embezzling money, bullying their boss, or doing nothing for years.
Rockstar has actual world-class developers.
GTA6 is going to be good, go buy it when it comes out!