I worked at 2k when they first started making this game back in 2018 - and I worked in VERY close proximity to the studio making this game.

So bullshit. Its taking so long because take two is run by indecisive, cheap, executives who have pretty much taken the studio that was based in Novato, CA - KILLED IT - and moved almost the entirety of production over to Canada because its cheaper.

Its taking a long time because the executives can’t decide what to do with the game and they have already basically killed an entire team in order to reform it in a cheaper country.

Take two also basically gutted the other studio they had in Novato, Hangar 13, which was working on a 3rd person action RPG code named VOLT. The worked on that game for around EIGHT YEARS. Before completely cancelling it. But before they cancelled it they layed off the team that was working on it multiple times in order to move Hangar 13 from its primary location of Novato, CA over to, in large part, the czech republic, and UK. Both places substantially cheaper for making games.

The czech republic is actually the boom town of the game industry right now because its so fucking cheap. So many game studios have been made and reformed over there.

And people wonder why so many US game devs are being laid off. Its all executive greed. All of it.