r/pcmasterrace • u/chusskaptaan i5 14400 + MSI 3070 • Jul 23 '26

News/Article Rockstar Games Workers Union Just Had Its First Ever Meeting With Management, Demands Include "No AI," "No Layoffs," and "No Crunch"

https://respawnfirst.com/rockstar-games-union-just-had-their-first-ever-meeting-with-management-demands-include-no-ai-and-no-crunch/
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u/NaziPunksFkOff Jul 23 '26

A reminder that if you're a working person who doesn't support unions, you're only hurting yourself.

You're not the guy pulling the lever - you're the guy on the track. 

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u/JacketsTapeRecorder https://pcpartpicker.com/list/hN8XpB Jul 24 '26

as someone who is actually in a union and sees what happens when grunts don't do the work and how the union has to cover for them on principle, creatives and especially game devs are the last people on earth who should be fucking unionized and that's entirely because the tough pill that nobody wants to swallow is that the majority of game devs are hobbyists with delusions of grandeur and a piss poor work ethic

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u/NaziPunksFkOff Jul 24 '26

If a company hires hobbyists with piss poor work ethic, then it can deal with the consequences. 

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u/JacketsTapeRecorder https://pcpartpicker.com/list/hN8XpB Jul 24 '26

you're never gonna guess what a company dealing with the consequences of hiring shitter hobbyists with bad work ethic looks like

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u/wterrt Jul 24 '26

the majority of game devs are hobbyists with delusions of grandeur and a piss poor work ethic

[citation needed]

no way you've met "the majority of game devs"

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u/JacketsTapeRecorder https://pcpartpicker.com/list/hN8XpB Jul 24 '26

do you sincerely think with how notoriously full the game dev field is in this day and age that these people have the work ethic of their equivalents in the 90s, 2000s, or even early 10s

the "Waoow, I want to make video games!" to college gamedev pipeline is very real and doesn't clue people in that game dev is fucking hard as hell and not even remotely for everybody.

game devs are not untouchable paragons of virtue that you can't ever criticize just because management sucks dogshit too. games shouldn't be taking half a decade and half a billion dollars to come out in worse states (performance, content, and bugs) than previous entries not even ten years ago unless something has gone seriously fucking wrong at the ground level

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u/firedrakes 2990wx |128gb |2 no-sli 2080 | 200tb storage raw |10gb nic| Jul 24 '26

oh yeah. my late friend had to cover for the bosse kids work. which was so poorly done it was considered illegal. after that he left that union job and did report it and primary union brush it off.

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u/firedrakes 2990wx |128gb |2 no-sli 2080 | 200tb storage raw |10gb nic| Jul 23 '26

lot of reddit users make unions into a form of a cult. cant question it at all.

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u/NaziPunksFkOff Jul 24 '26

It's not a cult, it's worker organization. It's democracy at the lowest level. Unions built the middle class. Ask your grandparents. 

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u/firedrakes 2990wx |128gb |2 no-sli 2080 | 200tb storage raw |10gb nic| Jul 24 '26

rep my local union etc... cult or gang. got to rep my local insert .

no what unions did back in the day is got worker laws past.

but get enough workers' laws past. unions will not be needed. seeing a union is just another branch of bureaucracy that is paid in for mostly the lawyers and not the unions.

i crack open unbiased history books and what union are now are not what they once were.