"This is a blatant, unapologetic act of vicious union busting" - Hundreds of Rockstar employees sign letter to management, demanding fired colleagues get reinstated
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How does that signal reach Take2? How will Take2 know that these sales that will not have happened were due to their union busting?
When will those people “cave in” and simply buy the game whenit’s been released for 4 years on discount? These things don’t work without a PR campaign. I don’t make the rules. I’m sim’ly the messengere
you seem to be a messenger for your own opinions and nothing else.
and your methods don’t make you righteous or just. all it shows is that you’re a very loud soapboxer with an idealist take on the situation.
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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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You should review profiles of folks in the threadiverse more often. You’d be surprise what hobby I do every Friday for readers internationally.
It’s just I am more anarchist than your average monopoly money debtor that I needed to collaborate with Prunebutt 🧵 to get real praxis started.
Ah, voyager sucks at profile viewing, unfortunately. I probably should find a different client.
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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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you seem to be a messenger for your own opinions and nothing else.
and your methods don’t make you righteous or just. all it shows is that you’re a very loud soapboxer with an idealist take on the situation.
Your dismissal is duly noted. As well as the fact that you didn’t address my objections and we’re having different interpretations of what “idealist” means.
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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
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.
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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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You can volunteer to their cause if you so gladly actually want to contribute.
We are only asking everyone that wanted to see actual solidarity to actually get involved in intersecting.
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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
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.
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Then what are you trying to achieve, exactly?
That’s all your war.
I doubt it, but ok.
No.
How about you tell us what YOU are trying to accomplish with your argument.
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No.
How about you tell us what YOU are trying to accomplish with your argument.
Ok, now that’s just rude.
I’d like to inform people that they have a belief that’s morally pleasing, but ineffective in helping anyone.
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Ok, now that’s just rude.
I’d like to inform people that they have a belief that’s morally pleasing, but ineffective in helping anyone.
“Ineffective in helping anyone”
So basically exactly what you are also doing.
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“Ineffective in helping anyone”
So basically exactly what you are also doing.
I admitted several times that we don’t really have the possibility to change anything here, so I don’t get how this is supposed to be a gotcha.
I’m simply not a fan of people lying to themselves.
edit: wait a second… who the fuck asked you? O.o
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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
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
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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
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???
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I admitted several times that we don’t really have the possibility to change anything here, so I don’t get how this is supposed to be a gotcha.
I’m simply not a fan of people lying to themselves.
edit: wait a second… who the fuck asked you? O.o
You asked when you posed on a public forum dipshit.
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You asked when you posed on a public forum dipshit.
You replied to a direct quesion that I asked someone else, so… Who the fuck asked you?
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You replied to a direct quesion that I asked someone else, so… Who the fuck asked you?
Public fuckin forum lmao.
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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???
Good write up. Gamers have always been idiots. The moment that opened my eyes was when I witnessed the Modern Warfare 2 “boycott” play out:
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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
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.
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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?
