Serhiy Grigorovich, founder of the Ukrainian studio GSC Game World, known for the games «Cossacks» and STALKER, gave an interesting interview to the authors of the Youtube channel «Pryama Chervona» Valery Litoninsky and Oleksandr «Fozzie» Sydorenko. We have selected the most striking quotes.
Serhiy Grigorovich, founder of the Ukrainian studio GSC Game World, known for the games «Cossacks» and STALKER, gave an interesting interview to the authors of the Youtube channel «Pryama Chervona» Valery Litoninsky and Oleksandr «Fozzie» Sydorenko. We have selected the most striking quotes.
«Honestly, I knew we would break even in the first day. Those were the expectations. Not only mine, but also those who understand the industry»
«It wouldn’t have been STALKER 2. There wouldn’t have been a rush. It would have been STALKER 1.3, 1.4. It would have been another add-on called „two“, a bit of a hoax. We weren’t pulling out all the stops with our technology then»
«We had information in advance that there would be a war 100% of the time. And they transported the entire company in advance, because there was real information. But I didn’t believe it until the last day»
«I have some minor legal problems there now… They’ve squeezed out [the rights to the brand] a little bit there… Our [citizens of Ukraine]…»
«I myself had the idea to make [a game about] a nuclear war in Moscow… Before they [Ukrainian studio 4A Games] announced that they were developing such a game»
«The whole philosophy of the game is that you don’t play with one of your partners, and someone can buy something, you have to find it yourself, everything has to be fair. And when you play, and the one who has more money… it’s not entirely fair. This feeling ruins the game and the ratings drop»
«We have bought and produced more than 4,000 FPV drones over the entire time. We relied on the cheapest sevens [7-inch drones]. I opened my own school in Lutsk to train drone pilots… We have all categories there, from 11 years old, who solder themselves, fly around on their own…»
«We need to move on to dozens [of 10-inch drones]. We need to stabilize them based on the image. We need to continue attacking when the drone itself is flying and identifies the target. Artificial intelligence. The only thing the Geneva Convention prohibits is when the drone itself identifies the target. But that’s not a problem — you received intelligence data, you know where to fly, you pressed Enter and gave the order.»
«When I made the first „Cossacks“. I hired a German publisher and he organized a press tour for me all over Europe. I flew business class everywhere, I guess that’s how they do it. I never flew business class again in my life after that, although I probably flew another 200 times after that»
«You can make simulators. There’s Liftoff, a drone simulator. There could be a simulator of anything, a tank… I think in 20 years [you can make other games about the Russian-Ukrainian war]. When everything calms down in our hearts»
Last December, Ukrainian businessman Maksym Krippa, who owns the NAVI esports team and the Maincast company, announced that he had become the owner of the GSC Game World studio. According to him, GSC founder Serhiy Grigorovich is no longer a shareholder, but will receive a percentage of STALKER 2 sales.
Previously, the founder of GSC Game World said that he was ready to give his own Rolls-Royce to the one who destroys the Russian frigate Admiral Grigorovich.
