“No AI” is not going to happen in 2026 (I don’t know how they actually phrased the demand and it depends on how you interpret “No AI” but 🤷. “No Layoffs” may be more possible. It’d require rockstar to shift the positions that are more elastic to contractors. Fair and hopefully workable in the bargaining agreement.
“No Crunch” is interesting. I am not inside the game industry. But I have heard that Crunch is endemic in some companies cultures and pretty widespread across the industry. Curious how that one shakes our.It’s a defence mechanism. You can still do your job without ai. Fully embracing without any boundaries is gonna end up execs just cutting jobs thinking ai can do it anyway.
If there’s a friction of use of ai, when it becomes a must thing to use while working, that rule is going to help to introduce ai in a reasonable manner to people’s work life.
I am absolutely sure they know it’s a useful tool. unions are about to keep people their jobs, rather than helping corporations short term profits (which is current ai hype where even drinking water is sold with an ai label for some reason)
“No AI” is not going to happen in 2026
Apparently someone doesn’t understand how unions work and who has the actual power
The problem is, it’s not gonna’ happen. Rockstar print money so they will be able to pay their way around these demands. Enough people will buy GTA6 that the union demands will be ignored.
Thats not how this works. Union contracts are legally binding, violating one means not only usually a fine but rectifying whatever they did that broke the contract in the first place. And if the contract is broken and the union feels like they haven’t sufficiently remedied the situation then they will call for a more direct action like a strike. Unions offer legal protection, but also a fast and efficient way to organize more serious interventions from the workforce. The whole point of unions is to control the impulses of the hyper rich, so if being rich was enough unions wouldn’t exost at all.
Yeah, I’m sure Rockstar will play ball.
Oh holy shit, nobody in the history of unions has ever thought of just ignoring the union’s demands! Brilliant! Their one weakness!
I want you to be wrong. I wish there was a way to make you be wrong.
😔 I hope I can be wrong too, but I doubt it.
Hell yes unions for all!
Are they willing / able to hold GTA6 hostage over this? Because if they aren’t, the corp’s just gonna lay them off anyway and bring in a skeleton crew to make Content™ for the inevitable forever GAAS they’ll be stapling to the game.
They’re in the UK. UK has actual laws about union busting. They’re already on a trial for union busting they did before to this actual union.
It’s amazing that a company that takes over a decade to make a game would even need a time crunch
Incompetent managers constantly changing requirements make that very possible
They’re owned by shareholders. If they’re not at least seen to be mistreating staff and ripping off customers, then the CEO isn’t doing their job right.
They’re also on the S&P 500 so if they’re not doing it, they’re fucking us all (or our retirements) over. Though personally I moved all of my retirement monies outside of American funds (which I can do because I’m not American), a lot of funds worldwide still invest in the big American market ETFs.
That’s not true, because they don’t need to fuck over the employees to make profits. You could treat them well and still make plenty of money for everyone. Don’t let them lie to you
GTA V will be 14 years old at the time of release of VI. They have zero excuses in my book. They should’ve had everything but the technical details of VI mapped out and ready for development 12 years ago.
I hope this is the sentiment when elder scrolls 6 comes around too. Bethesda needs to crash and burn.
I wonder if we can thank all the degenerates buying Shark cards for killing off GTA and Red Dead Redemption DLCs, and the long long gap between the GTA sequel due to pivoting to live service revenue.
I partially agree. The other issue was how time consuming they made accruing wealth. I did races to build up the funds to do heist. Then i had some jackass tell me they wont do the missions until everyone gets an equal share. I had to tell them i get a bigger cut because i fronted the money.
… zero excuses for crunch you mean? For developing, they can take as much time as they want (as long as the money doesn’t run out).
Thats just how managers do their job
What I don’t understand is what even is the point in crunch time for Rockstar? The game is already being delayed by over a year so it’s not like they have some target release date they need to stick to. If it needs another 6 months it needs another 6 months, I’m beyond caring at this point.
GTA6 announcement: it will be delayed until 2030.
I said i am going to release my game before gta6, so this would be amazing for me
Works for me. It will also likely be a better product instead of being filled with bugs caused by sleep deprived workers nearing mental collapse during crunch time.
Honestly they’ll probably be more productive with better working conditions, they might just get it done faster.
I might actually buy it if that were the case. Lol
Good, there’s no damn reason any of those things should exist at Rockstar. Go union!
Doesn’t fucking matter with Playstation announcement of ending disc games I won’t be buying a PS6 nor playing this game.
Just wait for the PC release, I suppose? 🤷🏻♂️
The repack 😁
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Yeah I’m waiting for the PC release this time as well.
Really not liking Sony’s greedy behavior and I will not be buying a PS6 either. Been there since PS1 and its like getting a divorce or something but I just think its time to move on now.
Same bought my first PS1 in 1997. So almost 30 years and will not ever buy a new one again. Right now on the hunt for cheap PS2. Fucking shame because Code Veronica was coming soon. But no physical disc then not spending a dime toward it. Unless comes to Steam one day. Or the open sea.
Sirico you slaaaag
Kinda feels like one of those things where they’ll be forced to choose 2 of 3
they’re gonna get offered something more like a (one) pizza party (pizza not included), an extra pee break on the first tuesday following the second blue moon of a calendar year, and a 20 percent discount on the game they work on.
And if they don’t like it, rockstar will hire the pinkertons to kill their children
If they’re a union shop they’re on my buy list …
They still need to make something decent…
Eh, they’re trying their hardest not to be. They fired ~30 union members 8 months ago for what is pretty obviously union busting purposes, but it seems that backfired as it drew a lot of attention to the union. People Make Games has been making documentaries on YouTube following the events so far, they just released another today.
The last two new games they made, GTA5 and RDR2, are both excellent single player games. But they’re not everyone’s cup of tea.
I’ve heard good things about both … may give them a try… I’m a much more avid single player guy anyway…other players ruin a good game IMHO.
GTA V was released back in the PS3 era. They’ve changed a lot since then as a company.
What’s a crunch?
They’re really opposed to ab workouts?
Hella mandatory overtime.
Isn’t overtime always optional?
In the same way keeping your job is optional, yes
Although in the case of the gaming industry: damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Don’t do crunch OT? Fired. Do crunch and ship the game? Also fired.
Game immediately sees profitability selling several thousands more units than was expected in a much shorter time frame than expected?
Believe it or not, also fired.
This is what unions are for, making overtime actually optional.
But fucking late since there won’t be anymore GTA games after this. Im sure they’ll make other games but I can 6 being the final GTA game.
That’ll only happen if people don’t buy shark cards and the multiplayer flops.
It for sure will be now.
“What we can’t treat these people like slaves anymore and bleed every ounce of work out of them in every way we can? Fuck them then we won’t make another one”
That, or they will make it AI slop shit and have Claude and Devin produce it.
IIRC, they said 5 was going to be.
You think that’s bad, the “Final” Fantasy is at, what, eighteen now?
Unclear if youre joking or not.
The series Final Fantasy got its name because Square was about to shut their doors for good. They believed it was the Final project they were going to work on. It was obviously a huge success and launch Square (Square Enix now) and the franchise to what we know today
They could have just started counting backwards. Penultimate Fantasy, Third-to-last fantasy …
GTA SA was released in 2004, GTA 4 in 2008 and GTA 5 in 2013. Now it’s 2026 and I doubt it we’re getting GTA 6 this year.
Unless you consider waiting another 20 years for GTA 7 fair game, I say they prophecy has been fulfilled.
Fuck Rockstar and fuck GTA Online. I hope GTA 6’s launch will be a tragedy like Cyberpunk’s.
cap’n rolling in his grave
