I've said it before. People say shyt like, "GTA needs competition!!!" And then they never even play the games that come out in the genre, regardless if they are 6 to a 9 out of 10. Watch Dogs, Saints, Mafia 3, Sleeping Dogs, etc all come out and either no one plays them, talks about them, rates them highly or they're not quite right. They all just kind of fall through the cracks eventually and then someone like the above has nothing positive to say about the genre as a whole. One big cycle that's been going for 15 YEARS!
1. Game X comes out
2. "This is a GTA Clone!!1!11!!!"
3. Game X does poorly
4. "Why can't we get more sandbox shooters?!?!"
5. Go back to 1.