Over 200 employees from Rockstar North have signed a letter to management, in which they have condemned the firing of fellow staff members.
  • gustofwind@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I feel like the only person in the world who’s never cared for GTA

    We are also talking about gamers here. How many would give up gta6 just to take a stand? Most will probably say stuff like “no ethical consumption under capitalism” or “it’s not like it’ll make a difference”

    Gamers gonna game

    • Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      12 hours ago

      We are also talking about gamers here. How many would give up gta6 just to take a stand?

      My eyes were opened to gamers with Elite Dangerous. During the early access, FD told us a single player off line was coming. Then about week before the full release, they said “nah, cant make it work. No refunds!”. This was blatant false advertising. Worse, they then said that you didnt pay for the game, you paid for early access. The game was just a gift…

      Offline single players werent happy, as you can imagine. And took to the forums… and thats when the real shit started. Nothing but abuse from happy to be always online people. Mods started deleting threads talking about the refunds. It ended up that they couldnt deny it anymore, so shoved it into one single thread. Which maxed out and had to be closed and another started, then another. All the while gamers were abusing the fuck out of people who wanted refunds, and the mods would perma ban any refunder who said something back.

      The fucking hero of this story? The credit card companies. All the refunders eventually contacted their CC companies as well as companies like Paypal. They all took one look at what was going on, and mass refunded everyone who asked for it without dragging it out. That when I knew what gamers really were. They were a community of people who enjoyed a hobby, they were factions who would abuse the ever living fuck out of another for millionaires and private companies. Its one thing to say “I dont care about being always online” but to, in some cases, brutally attack people who were conned into paying for an offline mode that was never coming was bullshit. I now severely judge anyone who plays that game. If I met someone in real life who played that game, I might punch fuck out of them. Thats how strongly I feel about the abuse I saw happening. And it was like a fucking decade ago.

      Gamers are the most short sighted fucking morons on the planet. They complain endlessly, yet praise absolute dogshit when they dont care. Never once thinking “Maybe if we werent all constantly at each others throats, we wouldnt be getting abused by companies like EA, UBI, Sony and whoever else.”. I mean, they need us! Why the fuck are we all putting up with their shit???

    • Prunebutt@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Not gonna solve the union busting. Individual boycotts (without a campaign behind them) don’t work.

        • Feydaikin@beehaw.orgEnglish
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          2 days ago

          And Prunebutt shouldn’t be discouraging it. Voting with your wallet is the way to go and it’s the only thing any of us can do.

            • Feydaikin@beehaw.orgEnglish
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              2 days ago

              Doesn’t matter.

              At the end of the day, people actually making a concious decision to not support a company by simply not buying its product is the best you can hope for.

              You can’t expect some random kid in another country to start looking into American Unions in fields that won’t ever apply to them.

              • Prunebutt@slrpnk.netEnglish
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                2 days ago

                I didn’t say “join a gameworker’s union”. Joining a union is a good idea, no matter where you are and what you work as.

                Not consuming a product is simply that: inaction. And the publisher won’t even notice it, if it’s not connected to a publicity campaign (like e.g. BDS)

                • Feydaikin@beehaw.orgEnglish
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                  2 days ago

                  Well, isn’t that what we’re doing here? The entire point is to communicate you stance to others. And there’s quite a few AAA titles that have suffered simply because the customer base actually can communicate.

  • Obinice@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Strange that as this is a UK news story which is particularly big for also being linked to the most gigantic game franchise in the world, I’ve not seen it mentioned in the news here at all.

    I’ve only seen it pop up a few times here and there online, even.

    Is it just that nobody cares, or is Rockstar buying off all the news/media companies? O.o