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.
Rockstar still hasn't offered a convincing reason for firing over 30 GTA 6 developers
Submitted 1 day ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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Rhoeri@piefed.world 1 day ago
Squizzy@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Cant imagine its the case that they dont need to, only some shit hole country would not have basic employee rights
ieGod@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
You can’t exactly force a company to employ someone. Even in a pro-labor-rights country the employer would be free to terminate. The termination would come with all sorts of employee benefits of course.
DupaCycki@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Personally I was never interested in GTA 6 to begin with, but this cemented my decision not to buy it under any circumstances.
FatVegan@leminal.space 13 hours ago
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
statelesz@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Note to self: don’t buy GTA 6.
raicon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I know a place where it will be free
hancock@retrolemmy.com 17 hours ago
Dont do it, if you play it youll talk about it, interact with things thatll make it popular. Ignore it completely
PoliteDudeInTheMood@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
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
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I made that note when gta 5 killed off the storyline expansions.
I was never interested in world of war craft with cars.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
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.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Don’t worry you won’t be able to it’s never getting released.
ripcord@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Oh, fucking fuck off with your “deeply concerning”, Starmer. Fucking useless politicians. Actually do something.
gravitywell@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
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!
scott_the_sloth@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Cunt company with cunty business practices
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s always the fucking suits.
LostWanderer@fedia.io 1 day ago
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!
BotsRuinedEverything@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Because GTAV made over $700 million last year on 12 year old ip. They are in absolutely zero rush to release a sequel that may or may not flop in an era when it’s clear that 90-100% of programming jobs will be eliminated within a decade.
Every programmer they replace with ai now is one less bonus to pay out after release.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 day ago
I’m guessing you haven’t actually seen the output from AI because you absolutely cannot replace humans with yet
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 day ago
That’s exactly what we keep yelling at the companies that keep trying, but some of them don’t listen, fire their staff for AI, and then regret it a few months later.
BotsRuinedEverything@lemmy.world 1 day ago
So you think that 90-100% of programming jobs WON’T be replaced by AI within a decade? I realize there are limitations but I think exponential growth is difficult to see within the first three years. We are currently in year three.
rmrf@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Do you write code?
Flamekebab@piefed.social 22 hours ago
If so, is it any good?
I imagine if one writes janky spaghetti then it’s easy to think that LLMs will result in redundancy. My experience is that they’re like having an over-enthusiastic junior who doesn’t learn. Useful when one can’t be bothered to write something with very limited scope but is quickly out of their depth on anything involved.
Magnum@infosec.pub 1 day ago
Maybe 0 - 10%
GladiusB@lemmy.world 1 day ago
And they never will
Sneptaur@pawb.social 1 day ago
This has become standard practice in this industry now. The play is to work for indie companies or bust.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
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.
Sneptaur@pawb.social 19 hours ago
I just buy whatever games come out that strike my fancy. It’s an industry problem that can only be solved by unionization.
Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Maybe the reason is theyre terrible shitty people and rockstar doesnt wanna ruin their chances of a new job
/s
e8CArkcAuLE@piefed.social 1 day ago
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 through all that out and start all over.
the unionbusting is just a coverup!
Amoxtli@thelemmy.club 1 day ago
Because they cost money.
newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Nope. But they did delay the game again and they pinky promised they didn’t fire these people to union bust.
rumba@piefed.zip 1 day ago
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.
Katana314@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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”.