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'I think we're in the fight of our lives': Fired Rockstar employees and IWGB are confident the GTA 6 developer will be held accountable for its alleged union busting
Submitted 1 day ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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ICCrawler@lemmy.world 1 day ago
massive_bereavement@fedia.io 23 hours ago
A bit off topic but, ew they are wearing shoes in bed.
viral.vegabond@piefed.social 19 hours ago
Want me to make it worse?
spoiler
He’s not even wearing socks
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
It’s a good way to show us that they’re hardened criminals.
SolarPunker@slrpnk.net 6 hours ago
You don’t wear socks with sandals or moccasins, right? Right?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 23 hours ago
i mean there has been alot of shagging going on, your bound to pick an std sooner or later.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Im sure the legal system will show them justice. Until someone pays off Trump and the lawsuit disappears.
goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 6 hours ago
Isn’t it in the UK?
dil@piefed.zip 1 day ago
Gamdevs should get roylties based off contribution like a number so small for indie games its meaningless unless it does well, but for bringingg us longlasting moneymaking games like gta they should be making way more
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Absolutely; but you just know that Publishers will just push to outsource development to 3rd party “contractors” so that they won’t be eligible, or some other such bullshit.
mushroomman_toad@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 hours ago
That is already very very common
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I mean they can do that and quality assurance will struggle even more, making indie games look even better in comparison. Let publishers keep shooting themselves in the foot in their endless greed. It will only speed up the destructive cycle.
BilSabab@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
the problem is that companies will find a way to screw devs with that too. Imagine figuring out a solution to track every single bit of contribution to keep royalties as low as possible based on STATS BYATCH. it will literally turn into “your grass texture will bring you 0.00000000000000000000000001 cent off each sale” kind of fuck around.
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Unfortunately for larger games individual devs don’t have that much control nor can have a mensurable impact. For example, I wrote a few lines of code for a large game, those lines will be executed every single time the game runs, but if they weren’t there no user would notice. I was told to write those lines, and it’s not something I personally wanted to add to the game, there was an issue, I was sent to fix it, I did. This is true for the vast majority of the game code, most devs are pointed to issues to fix or features to implement, they have some wiggle room in the how to do stuff, but the what to do has been approved by the boss of the manager of your manager’s manager, and unless there’s a good reason it won’t change.
Think about it this way, have you ever watched the credits from a AAA game? The vast majority (as in there are likely only a couple of persons who didn’t) of the people in that list contributed something to the game, either directly or indirectly, it’s hard to measure how much each contributed, a small but critical fix might be more important than a large but unused feature, how do you measure between the two?. Not to mention past employees who did stuff for a previous game that got re-used.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s a nice idea, one that I would personally benefit from, but I think it’s just not feasible for large games. In short it’s impossible to be fair doing that, and people would get hurt because John from accounting got the same share that he did. And if you do it in any other way that’s not everyone gets the same share, you’re essentially playing favorites with the people whose job is to do the stuff you’ve ranked higher, even though the other person’s job is just as important.
BilSabab@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
exactly - it is borderline impossible to manage on large scale projects with any semblance of coherence.
ms_lane@lemmy.world 1 day ago
But then how will they be able to afford the cut for Voice Actors!
other_cat@piefed.zip 8 hours ago
Related news article: Union files legal claims against Rockstar Games following alleged union busting
ameancow@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
The biggest crime here is that people are actually looking forward to a game that will INEVITABLY be the same GTA slop we’ve been playing since the turn of the goddamn millenium.
Graphics are no longer a selling point, we can make anything look like anything now. Unique gameplay and immersive narratives and interactive mechanics are now the way games stand out. Look how popular far simpler social games are like Repo and the like. look how well a goddamn knockoff of S.T.A.L.K.E.R did (Misery) and it was the most basic survival mechanics and it was made by one person and it looks like it crawled out of a Playstation 2… but it was engaging and addicting because it was trying new ways to do old things.
All that aside, yeah our country hates unions and hates workers and hates you and wants you to die.
vateso5074@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Just to address the potential for US defaultism, “our country” in this case should be read as the United Kingdom, where Rockstar is headquartered and the union busting in this instance took place.
ameancow@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Gotcha, fixed.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
people are actually looking forward to a game
Hype around a game is directly related to the marketing budget. If people are looking forward to the next edition in a franchise, it is inevitably because they’ve been bombarded with “NEW THING! NEW THING! NEW THING!” radio/TV/streaming ad reels for months prior.
All that aside, yeah our countries hate unions and hate workers and everyone in power hates you and wants you to die.
We’re going to replace all the working class schlubs with AI, haven’t you heard?
ieatpwns@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
GTA will proceed to break all media sales records because why do the right thing when you can buy a new shiny toy to spend your hard earned capitalism bucks on
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
why do the right thing when you can buy a new shiny toy
It’s not like they’re plastering “We Busted A Union To Get This Game Out Six Months Late” on the packaging. The overwhelming majority of retail customers have no idea how the sausage is made. Those that are curious enough to ask typically aren’t the ones going in on the “Rape And Loot Simulator” franchise to begin with.
Gotta get off this hobby horse of blaming the anonymous gooner gamer at the bottom of the food chain for decisions made in a smoke-filled board room long beforehand.
ieatpwns@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
The “anonymous gooner gamers” or uninformed consumers are why the companies get away with shit like this. Because they keep throwing money to buy the next best thing
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Oh right so the delay was caused by them firing devs for wanting a pay rise. “Quality” fuck off
notgivingmynametoamachine@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I mean I know “Alleged” has to be there for legal purposes, but what are the chances Rockstar ISNT guilty of union busting?
victorz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Tangentially related: who tf gets up in their bed WITH THEIR SHOES ON bruh that’s so freaking disgusting
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Who walks around the house with their shoes on?
victorz@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Exactly, bringing in all the feces and dirt and gravel and everything else from outside in the streets. So nasty. Like okay, if you live your life in your shoes and you take them off only to shower and sleep, even that is… workable, if that suits you. I don’t understand it, but fine. But laying your shoes on your bed? 🤮
mhague@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I just want to play missions where I drive slowly behind a car. Or missions where I fail for breathing too hard. I’m tired of playing games with open ended objectives. I hate games where I have a bunch of guns, cars, and helicopters and then I’m able to use that stuff in the story.
Rockstar are the best at making cinematic experiences play out like Dance Dance Revolution. I just want to be told what buttons to push, where to stand, what tools to use, so I can see the funny people do funny things.
Fuck these delays I need my gigaslop polished and squeezed out now!
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Delaying the game another six months cost the company a full 3% on their market cap and god knows how much in long term costs.
Employers seem ready to slit their wrists if it’ll get blood on a union organizer.
DamienGramatacus@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Well I for one am looking forward to both not buying and not playing GTA6.
biotin7@sopuli.xyz 15 hours ago
Remember mindseye ?? Yeah I know it bombed, but that company might wanna look for recruits
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 16 hours ago
No, they won’t.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
…Isn’t this a bit ironic, considering GTA’s writing of (loosely) “urban folk’s plight?”
It’d be like CDPR going all in on corpo surveillance tech.
fancy-straw-simple@piefed.ca 14 hours ago
Stop using discord for fucks sake.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
I’ll at least hold them accountable, by being that jerk on the internet who reminds people of union busting every time someone mentions Rockstar or one of their games.
Why yes I am still boycotting Sony over that time they booby trapped their CDs. Businesses might not go under when they do amazingly evil stuff, but they’re dead to me.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Likewise. I also passed around the message between my union guys; “don’t you dare buy GTA 6”.