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GTA 6 dev Rockstar says recent firings were due to leaks of "confidential information" and were "in no way related to people's right to join a union"
Submitted 3 days ago by Agent_Karyo@piefed.world to games@lemmy.world
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Jumpropegazing@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
this is not very rockstar of them
zecg@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Hadriscus@jlai.lu 11 hours ago
Good goddamn. Let’s run Rockstar into the fucking ground.
Agent_Karyo@piefed.world 2 days ago
You should post this separately!
x00z@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck…
korendian@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Yea, it’s just a coincidence that all the fired workers were involved in union organization. Sure.
rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Hmm, notorious bastard company obviously fires a bunch of employees for wanting to unionise to protect themselves from notorious bastard management, gets backlash, and then says “no, they were actually a bunch of very naughty employees! if you’re not a naughty employee, you’ve got nothing to fear” yeah fuckin right
WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 3 days ago
I wasn’t gonna play it anyway cause I don’t have PlayStation, but now I’m not playing it with bells on.
TheRealKuni@piefed.social 3 days ago
cause I don’t have PlayStation
Isn’t it also releasing on PC and Xbox?
Zer0_F0x@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Xbox yes, pc version comes later to boost console sales.
Lfrith@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Like 2 years later so probably 2030 or later with how GTA 6 keeps getting delayed.
Surp@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’d tell you all to not buy GTA 6 in protest but so may people seem to just not give a fuck even if they say they do. Record sales will probably happen anyways.
D_C@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Ah the old “It’s not what it looks like” with some added “trust me, bro. It’s confidential, I promise” defence. Classic!
theoneandonlyeggboi@lemmings.world 1 day ago
Bullshit.
Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Sure bud, sure
Twongo@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
i would’ve pirated it anyways
MurrayL@lemmy.world 3 days ago
We already know the affected workers were using Discord to organise. My guess is they were discussing work issues there, and Rockstar jumped on that as an excuse to fire them (as it would constitute a breach of NDA).
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That was really clumsy on the side of the workers. Discord is the last App I would use to organize a union. What were they even thinking?
On the other hand that probably means they use discord for literally everything including communication within Rockstar, albeit unofficially. So yeah if their employer had any consistency in firing people over NDAs they would probably have to fire most of the staff.
MurrayL@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Official internal chat will be either Slack or MS Teams. Using any other app to discuss matters relating to the business would be a contract violation.
Realistically, game devs do this all the time in private chats with colleagues that happen outside work, both online and in person. But of course R* either never knows about those or chooses to overlook it.
In this case, I suspect the fact they were unionising was the reason they actually took action on it. It’s not about consistency, it’s about having an excuse to fire these people.
rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
I’ve formed a union within the industry. The trick is a balance between meeting with workers and security for the OC. In my campaign, we used discord as well to be a space to connect with as many people as possible outside of work. We also used signal for the OC to discuss the actual organizing. NDAs are limited only to the direct work. You can legally talk about workplace issues though. IWGB (UK equivalent to CODE-CWA) aren’t amateurs, they very likely trained the OC on all of this.
rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Talking about issues surrounding work outside of the workplace is not an NDA violation.
MurrayL@lemmy.world 3 days ago
In this scenario I’m assuming they were talking about project specifics, which would absolutely be covered.
I’m not sure about other industries, but NDAs and similar restrictive contract clauses in games are extremely strict and often quite broad.
danc4498@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Lesson here is when you’re organizing, you have to be careful as fuck that you are not breaking any rules. They are tracking your every move.
turdcollector69@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It’s more that until you’re ready to strike you have to remain invisible.
It doesn’t matter if you do everything right, they’ll either lie or frame you.
They can’t counter what they don’t know about.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That is exactly what happened. All corporations operate like this. They know what they are doing is illegal, so they just use words to warp reality however they like. It’s the Republican strategy.