Ok, enough of this crap. All of you saying it was a loan, please give me a link. Everyone always says it was a loan, and that the $50M directly funding the episodes was a rumor. You all have things backwards, because, as I posted in the another thread, the $50M DIRECTLY funded both episodes, and NOWHERE has Rockstar EVER said that it was a loan that they had to pay back.
You all just made that up to make it seem less moneyhattey
Edit: and what's worse, it's being said amongst MANY as if it's true. If you search "$50 million loan GTA 4" in google, it's ALL user comments, when the term "loan" comes up, but NEVER a comment from Take Two, Rockstar, or Microsoft
Edit2: damn, I see the same comments on Joystiq, Kotaku, teamxbox, GameTrailers, etc.....all of which one either says "wasn't that $50M a loan" or a response saying "I've said this so many times: IT WAS A LOAN!" Am I kicking a dead horse? So what? Straight up giving $50M and loaning $50M are two different things, and all the proof points towards the former for Microsoft, meaning, yes, they wasted money if it just ended up on the PS3 anyway. Especially, since they could have published 5 games the caliber of Gears of War with that money
Quote from a Wired interview with Mark Rein: We spent less than $10 million to make Gears of War. Somewhere between nine and ten million dollars.
http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2007/02/interview_epics/#ixzz0e1P5zyBQ
