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GTA 6 Developers Announce Rockstar Games Union

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨simple@piefed.social⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

https://rockstarintel.com/gta-6-developers-announce-rockstar-games-union/

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  • atro_city@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Rockstar ain't gonna be very pleased to hear that

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    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      GTA 6 release canceled in 3 …

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      • Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        one could only hope for that outcome honestly… I’d love to see rockstar hurt themselves stupidly bad because union…

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      • nicpicname@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        GTA 6 CaNcElLeD bEfOrE GTA 6 !!!1111???

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Shouldn’t the first step be to rehire under union protection, all 33 fired employees?

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  • West_of_West@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Nothing motivates unionization more than arbitrary firing.

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  • Thorry@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Oops somehow Rockstar went bankrupt even though they GTA5 printed money for them. But luckily there’s this new investor, which totally isn’t the old owner wearing a fake mustache, who is willing to take a risk and take over the project and SOME of its personnel.

    Tax the fucking rich!

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    • halcyoncmdr@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      GTA Online has made more than $5 Billion from shark cards alone. Printing money for them is a massive understatement.

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  • Airfried@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Huh. They unionized before GTA 6 came out. Hope this can extend to the people that got fired over this.

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    • remotedev@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      We got Rockstar Dev Unions before we got GTA6

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  • DupaCycki@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I unironically hope the game never launches. I don’t think it’s gonna be an interesting game. Absolutely not worth all the trouble it’ll put on other studios. Also, fuck Rockstar and fuck Take-Two.

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  • favoredponcho@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    What’s the play here? Were the developers expecting to mostly be cut after the game launched?

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    • Denalduh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That’s how 95% of the video game industry works. It’s all contract based.

      • If you complete the project and the game has terrible sales, your contract runs out and you need to find another studio to work for.

      • If you complete the project and the game becomes a record breaking smash hit success, your contract runs out and you need to find another studio to work for.

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    • kilgore_trout@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Most likely yes.

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  • Lojcs@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Tomorrow: gta 6 cancelled

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    • ColdWater@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Good

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  • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m still really mad about the firings, but way more likely to buy the game if a higher portion of the surplus is going to its creators.

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  • MITM0@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    At this point I hope this company perishes. GTA games aren’t what they used to be anyways. I wonder if there’s an opensource GTA-ish game ?

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    • Baggie@lemmy.zip ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Can’t be that hard to make something close honestly. It’d be work, but with the right open source methodology and a little bit of love, you could get a lot of people involved really quickly I imagine.

      Actually that does still sound hard but fuck it.

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    • WildPalmTree@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I want a mix of games. Farming Simulator, Flight Simulator, Burnout, Door Kickers. If you want to play one style, you do. But you get the ambient real time events of all the people playing the other games. Take my money and my idea.

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      • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I miss couch coop racing games. I gave up on racers when burnout paradise was single player. Loved blur and split second. There was never a good follow up to either.

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  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m still a little concerned that one of the main characters is a woman so I might have to skip out on this GTA.

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    • LePoisson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Lol I wonder what you wrote that garnered those initial reactions. Something whining about the game being too woke or what?

      Well, nonetheless, I unironically am looking forward to a woman being the main character. It’ll be a nice change of pace - I wonder if they’re going to keep the multi character stuff from GTA V or switch back to a solo protagonist.

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      • purplerabbit@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Unironically want that as well. People complaining about “wokeness” around here… God this place is going to shit.

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    • Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Bro try harder. You’re not even remotely funny.

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      • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        There’s nothing wrong with female main characters it just ruins the escapism for me.

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    • KC_Royalz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      STFU

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    • Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I wish she was less pretty as Nico Bellic or the other characters weren’t.

      Why can’t she just be a normal looking lady, not ugly, but normal.

      I don’t want to be attracted to her…

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      • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah but than the typical gamer crowd would get mad, because they can’t goon

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