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Commercial pressure and creative ambition point in the same direction, because the way to make an expensive game's money back is to make something great.

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  1. Dan Houser

    Co-founder of Rockstar Games

    So you have to be, in your mind, you’re spending large amounts of someone else’s money. You have to try and make it back for them. But at the same time, my argument with myself was, well, if we… The way to make it back is try and make something great. So both pressures are pointing in the same direction.

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    ↗Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #484youtube.com

    video · 2h 45m · spoken · official transcript

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