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‘Grand Theft Auto’ Maker Rockstar Games Asks Workers to Return to Office Five Days a Week::Rockstar Games, a division of Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., will ask employees to return to the office five days a week beginning in April as the video-game maker enters the final stages of development on its next game, the hotly anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI.

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[–] [email protected] 219 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Stealth layoffs strike again.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does anyone keep a list of words/phrases used in the world and what they actually mean?

[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yup it’s called the dictionary

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 191 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"please come to the office so you can experience the time crunch without the comfort of your own home"

[–] [email protected] 161 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Please quit so we don’t get into the news for firing a lot of you.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Dead Sea Effect

[–] digredior 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 121 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So Rockstar workers are being asked to take a major pay cut, significant decrease in quality of life, massively increased chance of death (driving is the most dangerous thing we do by far), and a huge chunk of free time removed from every work day from commuting that could be time spent with family or loved ones….

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago

People with families cost more, they always want time off to do 'stuff'. Truly dedicated employees forgo families, time off for 'stuff'. The best employees will spend a good portion of their money just to come back to the office, just because it's demanded.

Signed, Management

[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Fuck you rockstar and fuck you too take two

Edit:I'd encourage you to not buy GTAVI if you feel as strongly as I do

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Being set in modern Florida cesspool is probably enough to keep me away. Extremely doubtful Rockstar will deliver anything like RDR2 again (lengthy SP narrative). Take Two already treats GTA like an online subscription and cash cow, I can't imagine their monetization plans for the next one.

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope this really motivates workers at Rockstar to organize.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago (7 children)

The whole tech industry especially games has needed to unionize for ages now

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
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[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago

They still get 2 days of home office then! /s

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Rockstar Games announces more delays to launch of GTA6"

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I am one of those oddities that prefers working in the office. I would much rather be at home, of course, but I have the right combination of adhd and fatigue that means I can’t be productive at home.

Plus I am fortunate to live a 5-minute drive away from my office.

But shit, even I don’t want to be expected to be in the office every single day! And that’s working for a reasonable company and not some crunch mode dev house.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe shut up for the greater good? They'll never stop you from coming in if you want to, but now is the time to solidify the right for people who don't want to go in.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don’t want me to share my thoughts on the subject with you guys? The whole point is that I fully support remote and flexible work even though I know from experience that it is not for me. I don’t WANT it to be that way, but I have to work with the brain I’m given.

I’m sure as hell not telling my management what I am telling Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey Zink, it’s your boss. Can you stop in at HR on Monday to discuss?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I also have ADHD and those little 5 minute pop-ins that happen at the office are productivity killers. It usually takes me 15 min to get back on task and in the zone so 3 of those an hour and the hour is shot. I can get more done in one day at home than 3 in the office.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I still think there shouldn't be a crunch in the first place. People can wait. You can just not post a release date. Just make it easier on yourself and take the time to make a better game before all the libretube headlines are "GTA RUINED?"

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same as you, but I only like being in when it's quiet lol, so now that mandatory 3 day RTO is a thing for my company am in the office less than before :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I think there is a benefit to coming in, but when I do get called into the office the 1st 2 hours is like a social gathering. I don't even work in the building my team is assigned to. I just try to hide from everyone to find a quiet place to work. I'll come in, say hi to people, and fuck right off. We don't have assigned desks n we have an area people usually sit at, but I don't want my boss looking over my shoulder, and I don't want to chit chat so I just bounce to a quiet place and then ask myself why I'm even in office.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anyone have a non-paywalled link?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Rockstar Games, a division of Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., will ask employees to return to the office five days a week beginning in April as the video-game maker enters the final stages of development on its next game, the hotly anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI.

In an email to staff on Wednesday reviewed by Bloomberg, Rockstar Head of Publishing Jenn Kolbe said the decision was made for productivity and security reasons. The company has faced several security breaches including a massive dump of early footage from the new Grand Theft Auto and an early trailer that leaked in December.

Kolbe wrote that the company also found “tangible benefits” from in-person work. “Making these changes now puts us in the best position to deliver the next Grand Theft Auto at the level of quality and polish we know it requires, along with a publishing roadmap that matches the scale and ambition of the game,” she wrote.

Return-to-office mandates have been a hot topic across various industries since the pandemic forced myriad employees to work from home. More recently, many employers have asked staff to return to the office for two or three days a week. A study last month found that remote work did not have an impact on productivity.

The issue has been particularly controversial among video-game workers thanks to the volatility of the industry and its lack of a centralized workforce. Many of 2023’s biggest video-game hits, such as Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 from Insomniac Games, were developed remotely.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This security they mention is ridiculous. They have billions they can use to secure workstations and increase security for their systems. Many large companies managed to do this already.. even without near limitless cash. So to me this smells like BS.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah but it cost money to do so. And that would benefit mostly the employees, you can't have that in today's cutthroat capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The company has faced several security breaches including a massive dump of early footage from the new Grand Theft Auto and an early trailer that leaked in December.

As if this hasn't happened before lmao what a joke they are actually clowns.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

"Oh no! Someone is generating interest in our game!"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

5 days in the office 2 days working from home

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

This means the layoff notices are due in ~2 months

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
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