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• I don’t disagree…

  on Rockstar had a mole in the union worker Discord server "for over two and a half years", GTA 6 company reveals during legal battle in c/games@lemmy.world · 1d ago

• Given that the power to support the game is literally the only power we have, there is no moral issue - I agree. I don’t, however, understand what’s wrong with wishing for a system that gives consumers and workers more options.

  on Rockstar had a mole in the union worker Discord server "for over two and a half years", GTA 6 company reveals during legal battle in c/games@lemmy.world · 1d ago

• will be rewarded by being laid off. Not buying it only punishes the shithead management

  While I agree with the sentiment, that’s a gross oversimplification.

  • While I’m sure the studio will likely downsize and lay off staff, many will stay on.
  • Passion and care inevitably went into the game, to some degree. I would be surprised if devs and artists were indifferent to its success, whether they kept their jobs or not.
  • It’s hugely different to be laid off after a hit game vs a failure of a game, when it comes to finding new work.
  • The art itself, if it was of any quality, is wasted.

  Again, I’m not advocating people buy it. I just wish we had the power to fight some other way. I won’t be buying it, but I wouldn’t have bought it anyway. It will also very likely sell like hotcakes, regardless of our posturing.

  on Rockstar had a mole in the union worker Discord server "for over two and a half years", GTA 6 company reveals during legal battle in c/games@lemmy.world · 1d ago

• Not that I personally give a fuck about GTA generally, but it does make me upset that one of the few methods we have to “police” these companies as consumers is to not buy the game. To take a massive project that consumed however many years of work by however many developers and artists just and make it a commercial failure just to… stick it to their bosses? It’s like refusing to buy a musician’s CD because you don’t like the record company they made a deal with. Nobody gets to enjoy the music and the musician makes less money. This system sucks.

  on Rockstar had a mole in the union worker Discord server "for over two and a half years", GTA 6 company reveals during legal battle in c/games@lemmy.world · 2d ago

• I’m in the closed beta. Its great! I pay extra for the premium tier - I only have to subject myself to free use by any random shareholder visiting my town on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The base-tier peasants have to give up their whole weekends to shareholders like fuckin losers lol.

  on Amid RAM price hikes, Microsoft reportedly raises Windows license cost, forcing OEMs to hike prices even further on hardware in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026

• Queue the new subscription cloud version of Windows that force-feeds you whatever the fuck Microslop has a hard on for this week. Advertisements in your start menu, open video stream everything you are doing, slop token credits if you answers surveys about what you are doing so CoPilot can train off of your screen recordings, un-uninstallable CoPilot/OneDrive of course, free license for Microslop to use anything OneDrive ingests (everything it manages to discover) without limitation…

  on Amid RAM price hikes, Microsoft reportedly raises Windows license cost, forcing OEMs to hike prices even further on hardware in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Aug 2026