Rockstar Games fires over 30 employees, all were part of pro-union Discord group, "one of the most blatant and ruthless acts of union busting in the history of the games industry"

https://archive.ph/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-31/-grand-theft-auto-studio-accused-of-union-busting-after-firings

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MourningDove@lemmy.zip · 40 pts · 302d
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OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 302d

So be it. I need to save more money anyway.

Yo ho, union busters!

miguel@fedia.io · 17 pts · 302d
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fibojoly@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 302d (1 reply)

Oww, betrayed by one of their own?

explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 301d

I wouldn't trust Discord with my privacy for a second. They're almost certainly selling that information.

Tiger666@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 302d

Well, I know what I'm not buying anymore.

explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 301d

I was absolutely 100% going to buy GTA6 on launch day before hearing this.

darkdemize@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 302d (17 replies)

But we're still gonna buy GTA VI right?

DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 23 pts · 302d (2 replies)

I didn't buy 5, unlike you class traitors

Or 4

Or San Andreas

(I got bored by Vice City it's just not interesting)

Sleeping Dogs was better, fight me GTA simps, you can't, my crime guy knows kung fu.

justlemmyin@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 302d

+1 to Sleeping Dogs being way better than GTA!

RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 302d

I had fun with vice city. Liked sleeping dogs alot. Gotta replay that when I get my oled monitor.

BootLoop@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 302d (5 replies)

No, because I'm not paying $100 CAD for one game. That is insane.

FinalRemix@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 302d (4 replies)

The series peaked with IV anyway.

And none of them are ever gonna be better than Saints Row 2.

SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 302d (1 reply)

Series peaked with GTA2, great game

Frozengyro@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 302d

They really hit their stride with the alpha version of the original GTA, after that everything went downhill.

technomad@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 301d (1 reply)

San Andreas was peak. IV was great, but it wasn't better than S.A.

FinalRemix@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 300d

4 had the non-lobotomized Euphoria engine for maximum shenanigans.

heckypecky@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 15 pts · 302d

Yo ho ho.

No.

MourningDove@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 302d
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SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 13 pts · 302d (2 replies)

Well, I'm gonna steal it so...

Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip · 4 pts · 302d (1 reply)

Why waste your time?

FinalRemix@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 302d

Maybe he hates himself.

recklessengagement@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 302d

Not if it's got kernel-level anticheat.

OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 302d

Sure we will.....

RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 302d

Nah I'll just wait for epic to give it away. Didn't pay for 5 either