Here in Sweden we don’t really have company/location specific unions, ours are sector based with national reach.
It has always confused me to hear about small unions like this.
That’s because other countries are doing it wrong. Small unions will not hold any power, they’re completely pointless.
The idea is you get small unions joining. Randomly starting a big one is difficult
This.
For example, it’s much easier to get 20 game studios’ employees to form individual unions, slowly building up more and more support within their tight-knit communities, than it is to have employees from all 20 game studios simultaneously come together, agree they want to start a union, and draw way more attention and hostility otherwise.
Obviously this isn’t a hard and fast rule 100% of the time, but the alternative is just it being too hard to coordinate across every game studio at once.
And of course, later on, they can always just merge together or form partnerships/agreements as needed. It’s getting started that’s the hard part, and it’s even more difficult when you try to start at a massive scale.
Yeah, that is my feeling as well.
GTA 6 was something I was already planning to avoid. I’m sure it will be a technological achievement, but the fact that this game took close to a decade and a half to come out, I moved on from the idea of a new GTA game long ago.
Rockstar was happy to milk GTA 5 for that whole time rather than making new games the fans wanted. Sure RDR2 was released, but were fans really only wanting one game in a decade plus? Of course not. Why make a new game when you can make money from micro transactions in your current one. Basically acting like GTA landlords and expecting continued money while offering no real value to an old game. They even put a casino in GTA online, in case you needed a clearer idea of what their priorities are now.
GTA 6 will probably have a great story mode, but the GTA online garbage is coming too, guaranteed. It would not surprise me if the online components even find a way into the single player story. Not to mention the size this game will be on your system. I bet 200 gb - 300 gb and the probably higher price tag.
Now Rockstar is union busting. This is on top of all the toxic work environment flak they got for over working their employees in the RDR2 development.
Fuck you Rockstar, I don’t need a new game from you.
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Oh no bad PR! Time to release a new GTA 6 trailer to make everyone forget about this!
They could record their own farts and Gamers will gladly eat it up. GTA 6 is too big to fail.
Like Borderlands 4 was too big to fail, only to become laughing stock that only sold…
Hold on, how the fuck did Borderlands 4 sell more than 2.5 million copies?! OK, I take your point.
IIRC borderlands 3 was kind of a flop, and i didn’t even know borderlands 4 was a thing till like, a week before release date
Borderlands 3: The initial sales of the game were the highest of the Borderlands series: more than five million copies were sold in five days, and to date more than 22 million copies sold
Hardly a flop, numbers wise, and bl4 isnt trailing so far behind that
Gamers don’t care, and I hate it
It just so happened that every member of the unionization chat (across multiple locations?) was engaged in gross misconduct.
Won’t be playing GTA6 until I can get it for free.
How the mighty have fallen…
