Or better yet: form the union out of spite. All of them.
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
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Sounds like you need a Tricorn hat, matey, and to sail the seven seas.
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Ah, voyager sucks at profile viewing, unfortunately. I probably should find a different client.
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I gave up gta6 when gta 5 turned out to be essentially a cellpool of online only garbage. nothing fun about that shallow meaningless game
I have a nostalgic bone for GTA. But i don’t care anymore. GTAO was supposed to be the be all end all of games. A fun sandbox to play with friends. But it turns out, it’s just really boring. The missions are boring, the grind is boring and you have to deal with people who like GTA. They introduced the oppressor at some point because the grind was so boring and then, what a shocker, the Oppressor became the grief machine. So now everyone needs a flying bike that probably a lot pay as much real life money as the game itself. It’s just a shit company that makes nice looking games that don’t even play well.
Maybe. I thought it was really cool in 2D. But tried the hype one when it became 3D. Was confused with the distinct lack of car focus. Got very bored, very quickly. Quite a meh game.
Well, just a game I’m not gonna buy then. Simple.
Not gonna solve the union busting. Individual boycotts (without a campaign behind them) don’t work.
Not much else I can do.
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.
It’s also ineffective as fuck…
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.
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)
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.
what is your plan to fix the issue? please be detailed.
- Support the Rockstar workers fighting the unfair dismissals.
- Join a union yourself.
- Help ending capitalism by starting to organize in your neighborhood/social circle.
oh awesome thanks. I can give you my name and address if you want to go ahead and donate in my name. also I am broke as fuck so you can do that for me too.
and let me know when you want me to start organizing stuff in my neighborhood with the time i don’t have. you’ll have to come and take over my responsibilities too.
thanks this is super rewarding!
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I’m right behind you.
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No one can do anything about anything ever, sorry
I’m not in the UK either though.
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Oh well then do nothing then I guess
Which was what you were planning on doing anyway, isn’t it?
Umm, yeah?
So what
Well, good for you. But don’t act as if you helped.
thank goodness you were here to salvage the situation. you really are falling on your sword out here to help those affected by this, eh?
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Happy to help.
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Alrighty then.
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
Traditional media see video games usually still as some waste of time for kids and have a strong pro-employer bias.
The BBC wrote an article about it but never showed it to anyone. I had to search for it and even then it was a pain to find.
has anyone seen proof from the discord server in question that the 200 or so people who were fired, out of the 500+ members of the discord server were specifically talking about forming a union, or did they just fire a bunch of people incidentally?
I think Rockstar is just too big to fail, at this point. Not saying they aren’t capable of anything shady or unjust, but where’s the proof of anything, and how many people are really going to boycott a game that will likely break records in the gaming industry save for some catastrophic world event, like another pandemic or world war?
