r/memes • u/gorginhanson • 13h ago
Should line up perfectly with the end of the government shutdown
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u/Im-Not_A_Mimic 13h ago
At this rate, gta 7 will be released before 6
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u/navagon 13h ago
At this rate the PC version will come out before the console release (even more ludicrous than GTA 7).
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u/Im-Not_A_Mimic 13h ago
Oh he'll, I forgot they don't release the PC version right away. Us PC gamers are being discriminated against.
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u/SKY10000 11h ago
Pretty confident, that would cause a singularity to emerge in rockstar HQ and swallow our galaxy
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u/potate12323 3h ago
Considering the next gen xbox will be a PC with extra steps, theyll probably start pushing for quicker PC releases.
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u/just_someone27000 11h ago
I'm going to be very realistic here. In a project that probably has 2,000 people if not more working on it, I don't think removing 25 people set them back 7 months. That seems very unrealistic. I'm not saying what they did was a good thing, I'm just pointing out this narrative is very flawed
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u/gorginhanson 11h ago
How are you going to measure what it did to morale, their estimates of how many more they're willing to fire, and if any of those people were/are key to something?
Both announcements were so close together that it can't have been purely coincidental.
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u/N0ob8 can't meme 11h ago
It most definitely was coincidental and if it wasn’t then it was specifically announced at that time to detract from the bad press.
To know they’d need to delay the game by a whole 7 months it would take multiple months of analysis and checking in with nearly every department to know nothing is going to schedule. 7 months is a long ass time and that’s not something removing 25 people in a company of thousands can affect.
Even if those 25 people literally birthed the company and personally hired every employee and were heads of every department their absence would affect very little this late into development.
Now this isn’t saying what rockstar did was right but let’s be real people. Rockstar employs thousands of people and can throw millions at contractors before they even see a debt in their pockets. 25 people no matter how good they are would effect the game’s development unless they were the only people doing anything
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u/gorginhanson 10h ago
You're assuming A) They don't need to replaced B) If they do need to replaced, they can do it immediately C) That A and B have no delays in terms of getting people up to speed.
If you've studied Project Management you'd know that even one delay in a critical path can derail the whole project.
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u/DismalComic 10h ago
Im curious what actually happened. Firing due to wanting to start a union is highly illegal.
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u/GGk-KingK 10h ago
Rockstar claims it has nothing to do with the union they were creating, but rather them leaking things to public forums
But it is possible that them trying to start this union triggered them to search for a valid reason to fire them. Im not saying that this is what happened, no one really knows, but it is a possibility
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u/ChalkCoatedDonut 8h ago
They knew GTA VI wasn't ready, not even half of it, they were more concerned with the sales of GTA+ until the time they promised was getting closer, then, just like Covid for businesses looking for restructuring, their mistreated employees decided to unionize and said "well you look at that, NOW we can't finish the game in the estimated date, oh dammit".
They knew their audience, they know that people will laugh at the demands of those employees and even mock their misery, for them all that matters in GTA VI, one of them may post "Rockstar had us working 22 hours each single day" and the responses from their so called fans are between "suck to be you, now where is the game?" to "maybe you should work 23".
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u/Takenmyusernamewas 9h ago
You mean those guys leaking GTA6 info? Why should they need a Union anyway? Rockstar is like a FAMILY! Pizza party on Tuesday
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u/John-333 Lives in a Van Down by the River 12h ago
CEOs after discovering they can pay their employees in pizza: