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GTA San Andreas veteran says Rockstar employees were pretty chill about its launch 20 years ago: "Most devs had taken a holiday'' | Developers didn't need to work on a day one patch back in the day.
Developers didn't need to work on a day one patch back in the day
Rockstar Games' former tech lead Obbe Vermeij, who worked on multiple Grand Theft Autos before leaving to make the polar opposite, took to social media to reminisce on the good old days of game launches and how most developers were surprisingly chill about the huge event. Since the developers didn't need to work on a day one patch leading up to launch, because such a thing was unheard of, Vermeij says that "most devs had taken a holiday and we were already thinking about our next project." Vermeij says that he showed up to San Andreas' rainy midnight launch at the biggest store near Rockstar North's office - "which was a HMV on Princess Street, Edinburgh" - only to find the customer line stretched "all through the store and spilled out onto the street...
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