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"

I pretty much only buy indie games at this point. Any game made by a company that benefits a stock ticker? You best believe I'm... (checks what comm I'm in) ..Acquiring it. Lol

Funnily enough the one exception to this rule that I probably would have made was BF6 but they forced me to sit this one out by barring Linux users 🤷‍♂️ So I'm playing Outer Worlds 2 instead rn.

I think this comment will age like milk once GTA6 has been out on PC for a decade

I know you're being sarcastic, but if does point out the fact that capitalism is only held in check by government. RockStar obviously waited until they knew they could get away with it given the current attitudes in all branches of the US government.

I made essentially the same comment on another thread yesterday, but I think it might have gone over most people's heads. That or they didn't want to admit it.

It's important to make a distinction between liberals who strive for moral purity through performativity, and people who value human life by recognizing the inequalities in labour and material security under capitalism. Narratives that reproduce the idea that people are just fundamentally impure and can't stick to their values only strengthens liberalism's claim to morality.

Most people buying it will not know about this

Many would not care

A lot think that it is not their job punishing companies over how they treat their employees

I think it is the government’s job to make laws that empower people taking jobs over people giving jobs, but as well, in my opinion, each and everyone has the responsibility to watch over government that they do the job right

Your point?

E: just want to make clear, the attribution of apathy or nihilism to the general pubic isn't genuine or useful.

My best bet is the Discord server had internal Rockstar files, and their angle is these files should have never been put on external servers, and that other Discord members should have reported it

Rockstar have been pieces of shit for decades. Didn't change anything then, and unfortunately, it probably won't now.

light my beard on fire?

Like y’all don’t know what to do with GTA VI.

Wait 2 goddamn extra years or however long until they release it for PC.

The good news is by then I can easily justify upgrading my PC too. Right now it's hard to justify upgrading from my RTX 3060 Ti, but by 2027 or 2028 when the PC version comes out, I'm sure that there's something enticing available from all 3 GPU manufacturers (yay, we almost have competition now) and I can get the hell off Nvidia again finally.

Don’t play it?

Roll it up with gunpowder, stick it in my ears, and light it on fire?

Pirate it? Yeah, I'll probably do that.

wrong country 😅

I can vouch for Motortown, even if it’s not a ton like GTA. There’s a surprising amount of gameplay detail considering the assets look low-detail. Great roleplay experience.

If you like the old-school top-down GTA feel, American Fugitive is super cheap now and is a good-ish game. Same dev has The Precinct, which is top-down GTA but you're playing a cop.

The story is not a strong point with either, but if you need that, go to a different genre.

And there is also Rustler, which is ridiculously fun.

I also loved Simpsons Hit and Run, but that's a bit old and IDK how indie was it.

Contractville is janky as hell and not anywhere near the scale of GTA. But it is damn fun.

If it's good enough to overthrow a government, you'd think it's good enough for a union

developers usually know what's up. assassin's creed 4, a pirate game that mimicked the assassin's creed series that ended with ac3, made the templar's modern day front, abstergo, into a ubisoft parody. in that game abstergo literally makes assassin's creed games with ulterior motives. it was almost like the devs were going "man, fuck this dumbass company" and did that as a middle finger to their bosses.

At a certain point the blame lies with the worker, I am pro union but jesus have some self respect and look for better.

Schreier couldn't be bothered to list what the employees positions were. Gonna take a wild guess they weren't devs. Even better, the union Discord clearly has a leak. Now that's how you protect workers, amiright, unless these employees were dumb enough to spread the word at work

I know Discord has it's flaws, but why would that discredit them from organising a union? Would you referred if they had used Teams or an email chain?

discord after they specifically sold the unionists out.

Source, please? Nobody claimed that except you