It seems as of late publishers have too much power, it makes sense for workers to band together https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/30/grand-theft-auto-workers-seek-union-recognition-rockstar-games
>>538095008No. Unions will only drive up the price of gaming.
>>538095008Did they expect to keep working on the game forever? Of course they were going to get laid off once development was finished
>>538095008Unions will not turn shit into a diamond.I actually understand their purpose, as I was laid off, but unions will not save your job or your carrier.
>>538095008for every job openning there are 1000 people that can fill it. Unionizing is impossible, they could fire everyone as many times as they want and people will still line up
most R* employees are indians.I pirated every game they released since IV. They killed fan recompilation projects so they can sell you their jeet coded Disabled Edition of their classics.Rockstar is dead.
>>538095008unions destroy everything in the modern world.They were fucking awesome in the early 1900s when they were needed
>>538095008The industry is only fucked in the west because of talent dilution and the expansion of middle management. Unions will only make it worse.Gamedev isn't a welfare program. These people and their projects need to fail, and smaller companies with a higher concentration of genuine talent need to replace them.
>>538095008Unions are only for shitty people that lose their job frequently because they are pieces of shit.
>>538095584>Did they expect to keep working on the game forever? Of course they were going to get laid off once development was finishedIf they were hired as hourly or salary employees the expectation isn't necessarily that they'll be laid off as soon as a project is finished. At least that's how it is in fields that aren't trash. Not sure if gaming so so shitty that it's just expected that the devs just get tossed out as soon as a game is done.
>>538096839No it wouldnt. Unions have the habit of pushing wages up which conflicts with the corporate demand for cheap foreign labor. If you make an indian as expensive as a local they no longer have an incentive to fetch them (assuming outsourcing is properly controlled by legislation).
>>538095388>Paying for gamesWhy man, you can find Fitgirl repacks of every major game title and play them for free.
>>538096945this happens in every industry. It's otherwise known as "structural re-organising" where finance directors cut costs to make line go up
>>538096488>Unions will not turn shit into a diamondThey do the opposite nearly every single time.
I'm a PC gamer so will play it when it's pirated.
>>538095008If they unionize, they just won't deal deal with the union because their priority is to cut costs to zero by outsourcing to India. Their goal is to kill you & replace you. They will intentionally hire foreigners who have no union affiliation. Unionizing only works if the company is forced to hire locals.
>>538095008Do you want longer gaps between games?
>>538095008The solution is to keep game studios as private companies, not public ones. Letting yourself get gobbled up by a big publisher is a deal that hundreds of studios have taken and almost none of them have survived. You make some money in the short term, and then they smash you to death with hammers because they can make meal from your bones.
please tell me they fired the 1400 yeetslet be real I hope they fired everyone regardlessi want gta6 to kill off this gay faggot gaming industrysomething needs built with love and dedication turned into some fucking market extraction operation
>>538095008Video game developers already get paid too much. Shit like fucking gears of war is taking 6 years and 400 million to make a game. Unless these unions are going to lobby for smaller team sizes, less development time, and less pay. No, unions won't change anything.
>>538095008The homo feminist indian workers?
>>538095008why would there need to be mass firings on a game development team before it's released?
>>538095008Fucking clowns.As if they can create conditions where "oh tee heee you cannot fire us".
>>538096651Correct. Unions worked for shit like factories and mines because you needed locals to work for you. Tech jobs can all be entirely outsourced to 3rd countries. Pay good money for departament leads aand the hire random jeets and koreans to do the nitty gritty.
>>538097541True, that is the classic all power corrupts, but their intended purpose was to protect the employees, as you have 0 negotiation power as an individual when it comes to corporations and multinationals.
>>538095008Are they joining the Auto Worker's Union?
>>538095008No. Commie retards sunk the industry and unions will just kill the studios faster.
>>538099478because they don't need 5000 "developers" to place a model of a bench on a game level map in unity anymore.
