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Nope. But they did delay the game again and they pinky promised they didn't fire these people to union bust.
I do worry about the longevity of unionization in the gaming industry. There's a lot of churn and high demand for the positions. There's remote work now, scabs don't even need to show up to cross the picket line.
I mean, when they work indie, they don't need to unionize.
We probably won't see unions; just a collapse of AAA. The Game Awards this year was a joke with only about 3 big contenders, and most were regarded as "indie".
There are only two types of games nowadays. Everything that isn't AAA is labelled "Indie", even when they're with major publishers and have three dozen devs and a hundred externals.
Right, but if you try to follow a more strict definition that mostly follows 2D games developed by a single person, even their publishing framework ends up encompassing dozens if not hundreds of people. It’s become hard to make that definition strict. At the very least, very few notable games are made by the really big labels: Ubisoft, 2K, EA, etc.
What about the biggest game publisher, tencent
And they don’t need to. Just like we don’t need to give them a reason why we’re not going to buy their shit any more.
Cant imagine its the case that they dont need to, only some shit hole country would not have basic employee rights
Personally I was never interested in GTA 6 to begin with, but this cemented my decision not to buy it under any circumstances.
I kinda was. But now it has been so long and the more that i think about it, the more i realise how much i hate what they did with gta5, or gtao to be specific. I hope to pirate it to fuck around a bit, i do not plan to give them any money
Note to self: don't buy GTA 6.
I know a place where it will be free
But we still have to wait for a year after the console release. So they can make money off everyone who won't get it for free
Dont do it, if you play it youll talk about it, interact with things thatll make it popular. Ignore it completely
I made that note when gta 5 killed off the storyline expansions.
I was never interested in world of war craft with cars.
It would have been good if not for horrible load times, hostile balancing, and a live service slow grind model built to sell in game currency. The soullessness of it is why it was bad.
Don't worry you won't be able to it's never getting released.
Oh, fucking fuck off with your "deeply concerning", Starmer. Fucking useless politicians. Actually do something.
I know why, its this one really cool trick for increasing shareholder value. Give it another quarter and that line will be going up up up!
Cunt company with cunty business practices
It's always the fucking suits.
And they never will
They never will give us a convincing reason for those firings; which is why we shouldn't buy Rockstar Games and support the devs if they set up Go Fund Mes!
This has become standard practice in this industry now. The play is to work for indie companies or bust.
And as a gamer, don't stand for it. Be more aware and stop paying for bad behavior.
And stop kids that don't know any better from getting sucked into it, too.
I just buy whatever games come out that strike my fancy. It's an industry problem that can only be solved by unionization.
I'm not sure even that would fix it. It's clearly a capitalism-needs-to-learn-what-actually-makes-games-good problem. Unionization might be the real-world fix, but I'm worried that, even with that, getting a company to create unique games that are fun and high value to gamers could be out of purview.
It's a money-people in charge problem, the same way that money-people are in charge of things like healthcare. I'm really not sure that unionizing a publicly traded company will have more effect than just changing who is being told what medical procedures are authorized, or in gaming's case: what decisions to implement to make the investors more money.
And now that this structure has been in place long enough and has gotten so ingrained in the surrounding structures, like education and standard business practices and expectations, and also in culture, it's going to take more than unionization. Maybe if the whole industry suddenly unionized and had a very clear goal of telling the bean counters to collectively fuck off, but good luck with that happening. We'd all like to see that happen.
Maybe the reason is theyre terrible shitty people and rockstar doesnt wanna ruin their chances of a new job
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maybe they had mapped out and developed this storyline about a weirdly orange-coloured real-estate tycoon that lives in a Mediterranean style villa called “Lago-a-mar” but somehow they had to throw all that out and start all over.
the unionbusting is just a coverup!
Because they cost money.