Nope. But they did delay the game again and they pinky promised they didn’t fire these people to union bust.
I do worry about the longevity of unionization in the gaming industry. There’s a lot of churn and high demand for the positions. There’s remote work now, scabs don’t even need to show up to cross the picket line.
I mean, when they work indie, they don’t need to unionize.
We probably won’t see unions; just a collapse of AAA. The Game Awards this year was a joke with only about 3 big contenders, and most were regarded as “indie”.
There are only two types of games nowadays. Everything that isn’t AAA is labelled “Indie”, even when they’re with major publishers and have three dozen devs and a hundred externals.
Personally I was never interested in GTA 6 to begin with, but this cemented my decision not to buy it under any circumstances.
I kinda was. But now it has been so long and the more that i think about it, the more i realise how much i hate what they did with gta5, or gtao to be specific. I hope to pirate it to fuck around a bit, i do not plan to give them any money
And they don’t need to. Just like we don’t need to give them a reason why we’re not going to buy their shit any more.
Cant imagine its the case that they dont need to, only some shit hole country would not have basic employee rights
You can’t exactly force a company to employ someone. Even in a pro-labor-rights country the employer would be free to terminate. The termination would come with all sorts of employee benefits of course.
Even in a pro-labor-rights country the employer would be free terminate
That’s false and you know it. Or it’s a lie for some reason.
Honestly curious why you believe otherwise. Termination without cause is absolutely allowed, and again, comes with legal provisions for the employee. In Ontario, Canada, for example, this manifests in severance pay.
I’m not super well versed in EU practices so perhaps it’s even more strict but fundamentally if a company cannot afford to retain an employee they must have the ability to let them go.
Forbidden in France and I guess most of Europe.
If a company cannot afford to retain employees, it’s a very long process with lawyers and you dont get to choose who leaves.
This is uninformed bullshit. You are wrong and talking with authority on something you clearly know nothing about, I can only assume you live somewhere without employee protections and rights.
Note to self: don’t buy GTA 6.
I know a place where it will be free
Dont do it, if you play it youll talk about it, interact with things thatll make it popular. Ignore it completely
I made that note when gta 5 killed off the storyline expansions.
I was never interested in world of war craft with cars.
Oh, fucking fuck off with your “deeply concerning”, Starmer. Fucking useless politicians. Actually do something.
This has become standard practice in this industry now. The play is to work for indie companies or bust.
And as a gamer, don’t stand for it. Be more aware and stop paying for bad behavior.
And stop kids that don’t know any better from getting sucked into it, too.
I just buy whatever games come out that strike my fancy. It’s an industry problem that can only be solved by unionization.
I’m not sure even that would fix it. It’s clearly a capitalism-needs-to-learn-what-actually-makes-games-good problem. Unionization might be the real-world fix, but I’m worried that, even with that, getting a company to create unique games that are fun and high value to gamers could be out of purview.
It’s a money-people in charge problem, the same way that money-people are in charge of things like healthcare. I’m really not sure that unionizing a publicly traded company will have more effect than just changing who is being told what medical procedures are authorized, or in gaming’s case: what decisions to implement to make the investors more money.
And now that this structure has been in place long enough and has gotten so ingrained in the surrounding structures, like education and standard business practices and expectations, and also in culture, it’s going to take more than unionization. Maybe if the whole industry suddenly unionized and had a very clear goal of telling the bean counters to collectively fuck off, but good luck with that happening. We’d all like to see that happen.
Because GTAV made over $700 million last year on 12 year old ip. They are in absolutely zero rush to release a sequel that may or may not flop in an era when it’s clear that 90-100% of programming jobs will be eliminated within a decade.
Every programmer they replace with ai now is one less bonus to pay out after release.
I’m guessing you haven’t actually seen the output from AI because you absolutely cannot replace humans with yet
That’s exactly what we keep yelling at the companies that keep trying, but some of them don’t listen, fire their staff for AI, and then regret it a few months later.
Just because it is incredibly awful does not mean stupid fucks in charge of companies won’t do it.
Do you write code?
If so, is it any good?
I imagine if one writes janky spaghetti then it’s easy to think that LLMs will result in redundancy. My experience is that they’re like having an over-enthusiastic junior who doesn’t learn. Useful when one can’t be bothered to write something with very limited scope but is quickly out of their depth on anything involved.
Yeah. AI 100% makes me more productive and by a good bit. I used it to write a section of code today to export all the information my program gathers about a system to a json file. Woulda taken me 20 minutes but chatgpt did it in seconds.
It also, in the same snippet, introduced a breaking change I didn’t ask for in the original code. I only copied the json part; I just happened to notice the change in the code it wrong. It added a fork bomb lol
That’s the thing though - I find that what it saves me in time writing it costs me in reviewing. I hate reviewing.
I’ve cut down on that by only giving it tasks that are reviewed automatically.
“Spit this into a json”
It gives me the code, I continue with my program knowing exactly what is where in the json and if I get a parsing error or something I know exactly where to look. TBH, though, for things like that I must have an error rate lower than 5%
Ask it to configure a reverse proxy for a cors sensitive application, though, and I think I’d rather die
Because they cost money.
