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[Ben Jacobs @JacobsBen]

🗣️ Declan Rice to TNT on losing the #UCL Final. "It's a lottery. Some of the best teams ever have lost on penalties in finals, and we were on the receiving end.

"We win and lose together, and I am so proud of these boys. What a season! I am gutted, but trying to keep a little perspective of where we started in July and where we are now. We'll be back.

"[On Gabriel and Eze], we love them and we are with them. It happens in football. They won't be the last players to miss penalties in finals, and without those two we wouldn't have won the Premier League.

"Gabriel, I have run out of words for him as a player and with Eze, he's got crucial goals for us this season. It's cruel, but we'll take the positives and keep going."

[Ger @GerdyCrawf]

@SStricklandMMA @Rickkm89

[BBC Sport @BBCSport]

ARSENAL ARE PREMIER LEAGUE CHAMPIONS 🏆

[Ger @GerdyCrawf]

@KylePorterNS @Michael98Morgan

[Ger @GerdyCrawf]

@Rickkm89 @empiremagazine Fantastic news

[Ger @GerdyCrawf]

@ChrisBeattie14 @manfuego007 Glad to see I wasn’t the only one that appreciated it

[Scott Wortley @Scott_Wortley]

Which one is he?

[Ger @GerdyCrawf]

@MicTuathaigh @conal_

[Ger @GerdyCrawf]

@corporatedudes @Michael98Morgan

[Ger @GerdyCrawf]

@justinboldaji @conal_

[Brett @utdBrett]

Aaron Ramsey coup de grâce

[S.🎧 @1ssve]

I fucking DESPISE annual corporate self-review and goal setting. My goal is to get a paycheck every couple weeks

[Penn State Football @PennStateFball]

Sorry guys 😂

[Ger @GerdyCrawf]

@DavidJDPhotos @WeAreSpaceScout @Rickkm89

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

$2.1 billion in salaries since 2019 is the number getting all the attention. The number that actually explains GTA 6's timeline is $710 million.

That's how much the GTA franchise generated last fiscal year. Thirteen years after launch. GTA 5 is still selling 20 million copies a year at full price. GTA Online still has 22 million monthly active players spending real money on virtual cars and apartments. The franchise has cleared over $10 billion lifetime and the annual revenue curve is barely declining.

This is the part every "most expensive game ever" headline misses. Rockstar isn't slow because $3 billion is hard to spend. Rockstar is slow because GTA 5 is still a $700 million per year business and every prior console generation transition has shown significant revenue disruption during the handoff.

When GTA 4 launched, GTA San Andreas revenue collapsed. When GTA 5 launched, GTA 4 went to zero overnight. The installed base resets. The online economy resets. The microtransaction flywheel that took a decade to build resets. Day one of GTA 6 is also the last day of GTA Online's current economy.

If GTA 6 launches and the online mode takes 18 months to reach GTA Online's current engagement levels, that's over a billion dollars in opportunity cost during the transition window. If it takes longer, the number gets worse.

The $3 billion development cost isn't the risk. The risk is killing a $700 million annual revenue stream before its replacement is ready to print at the same rate. Every delay is Rockstar protecting the most profitable entertainment product ever made while making sure its successor can match that run rate on arrival.

The game will ship when the online infrastructure is bulletproof. The single player campaign has probably been done for a while.

[Ger @GerdyCrawf]

@dunearrival @Rickkm89

[clare @youngntragic]

I am so Project Hail Mary pilled I thought this was a tweet about the fucking Petrova line

[Ger @GerdyCrawf]

@LidlGB where’s next weeks brochures on the site and app?!? 😫😫😫😫

[Ger @GerdyCrawf]

@unlimited_ls @Rickkm89