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[–] 113 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Rockstar ain't gonna be very pleased to hear that

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  • [–] 52 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    GTA 6 release canceled in 3 ...

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  • [–] 57 points 4 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 75 points 4 months ago

    Nothing motivates unionization more than arbitrary firing.

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  • [–] 72 points 4 months ago

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

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  • [–] 53 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

    Oops somehow Rockstar went bankrupt even though 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 the risk and take over the project and SOME of its personnel.

    Tax the fucking rich!

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  • [–] 44 points 4 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 38 points 4 months 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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  • [–] 17 points 4 months 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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  • [–] 17 points 4 months 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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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 4 points 4 months 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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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    It's hard to feel bad for a company worth billions

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    I expect ANOTHER GTA6 delay

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  • [+] -24 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (12 children)

    I'm really looking forward for a woman as a main character in a GTA game.

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  • [–] 23 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago (5 children)

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

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  • [+] -11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

    There's nothing funny about a female lead in a game though.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    On the other hand, there is something incredibly funny about a man so uncomfortable in themselves and their identity that they think a woman in a video game is an issue.

    No, the issue you have is internal. If you aren't comfortable in yourself, the most manly thing you can do is to come to terms with it and not worry about everyone else. Real men, who are comfortable being men, aren't constantly worrying about what others think about them, or what other people are doing. They let others do what they want, because it doesn't actually effect who they are.

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