It's extremely profitable. If you have a problem with that, I'll fucking ruin your life. If you look like you might be able to make ruining your life difficult and it'll cost me a lot to ruin your life, I'll just save myself the trouble and spend it to give you enough to make you forget what you were upset about. I'd rather ruin your life. It's usually very inexpensive and it does a great job of serving as an example of why you fucking ignorant peasants should know your place. You don't want to end up like these upstarts, trying to form a union and resisting! It's a cost benefit analysis, really. My account did the math.
The more people they fire, the more fragile they make themselves. They can replace devs, sure but they are losing tribal knowledge they will never get back. There comes a point where it starts to show in the end product.
With ALT:V sort of, the Steam forums say running the Windows version of Steam under WINE was the only way to get ALT:V to detect GTA 5 was installed, but compatibility wizards may know better ways to deal with prefixes.
Of all segments of the software industry, games seem to be the most exploitative. So sad, for what should be fun. Business execs taking advantage of those who cannot resist working on their passion. Unions need to get in that industry so very badly.
Turnover is so fucking high in that industry, anyone working in there now should have their CVs constantly ready in case they're marked for retrenchment or layoff. Given the suits constant desire for pure profit, anyone wishing to apply for the big leagues should be thinking twice about this.
The same company that declared a war against singleplayer and modding community because they wanted to make more money from online inapp sales? How shocking.
23 Comments
mohab@piefed.social · 91 pts · 286d
Right, and for their next trick they're gonna break the all-time sales record with GTA6 because no one gives a fuck and evil is just OK now.
theparadox@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 286d
It's extremely profitable. If you have a problem with that, I'll fucking ruin your life. If you look like you might be able to make ruining your life difficult and it'll cost me a lot to ruin your life, I'll just save myself the trouble and spend it to give you enough to make you forget what you were upset about. I'd rather ruin your life. It's usually very inexpensive and it does a great job of serving as an example of why you fucking ignorant peasants should know your place. You don't want to end up like these upstarts, trying to form a union and resisting! It's a cost benefit analysis, really. My account did the math.
Yay capitalism!
thermal_shock@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 286d
It's 2025, $ > humanity.
FlyingCircus@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 286d
No war but class war.
theparadox@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 286d
Money, or more importantly the power and privilege that money provides, has always been more important than humanity, if you have enough of it.
UnculturedSwine@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 285d
The more people they fire, the more fragile they make themselves. They can replace devs, sure but they are losing tribal knowledge they will never get back. There comes a point where it starts to show in the end product.
kaiyo@lemmy.world · 74 pts · 287d
Good news prior to holiday sales. Makes it easier to avoid the entire publisher
Shirasho@lemmings.world · 48 pts · 287d
I've been avoiding them for years. They are incredibly hostile to their players.
hash@slrpnk.net · 55 pts · 287d
More reasons I'll be pirating GTA6
kilgore_trout@feddit.it · 22 pts · 286d
The most effective boycott is to not play it and not talk about it.
BurgerBaron@piefed.social · 8 pts · 286d
It's not like the official multiplayer servers are any good anyways.
Joelk111@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 286d
Or functional on Linux... Which makes me wonder... Is there a way to play GTA online on Linux through unofficial means?
BurgerBaron@piefed.social · 2 pts · 286d
With ALT:V sort of, the Steam forums say running the Windows version of Steam under WINE was the only way to get ALT:V to detect GTA 5 was installed, but compatibility wizards may know better ways to deal with prefixes.
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 287d
hell yea !
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 37 pts · 287d
lol, this is exactly what creates unions
julysfire@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 286d
The same notoriously shitty company, Rockstar? Color me surprised. Don't support them with anything.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 286d
Can I still pirate and share all their games?
Arghblarg@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 286d
Of all segments of the software industry, games seem to be the most exploitative. So sad, for what should be fun. Business execs taking advantage of those who cannot resist working on their passion. Unions need to get in that industry so very badly.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 286d
Turnover is so fucking high in that industry, anyone working in there now should have their CVs constantly ready in case they're marked for retrenchment or layoff. Given the suits constant desire for pure profit, anyone wishing to apply for the big leagues should be thinking twice about this.
myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 286d
Right. This isn’t new in that industry.
blomvik@sopuli.xyz · 12 pts · 286d
Never played RDR 2 because of their abuse of workers, and wasn't planning on playing GTA. Please support smaller teams instead.
REDACTED@infosec.pub · 7 pts · 286d
The same company that declared a war against singleplayer and modding community because they wanted to make more money from online inapp sales? How shocking.
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 285d
I could understand if it was the US, but doesn't the UK and/or Canada have anti-union-busting laws?