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In light of the recent criticism that Rockstar Games has been facing for its firing of over 30 employees, one employee from the studio has taken to the GTA Forums to talk about the company’s actions. Under request of anonymity, and having been verified as a real Rockstar Games employee by an admin, the person – using the name Organize – has further criticised the Grand Theft Auto developers, calling the company out for union busting.

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[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Part of me thinks that this game will always sell gangbusters no matter what.

Part of me thinks that this is going to be the one where no one fucking gives a shit because of all the BS that R* have been doing since GTA5, and the oversaturation of open world games, and the stagnation of the series is going to make it sell WAY less than expected and fuck them over significantly.

I barely gave a fuck about 5. I'm 100% not going to buy this one.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I work at a computer parts store at we already have people coming in asking for "GTA 6 ready PCs" so its at least going to have a huge launch just from hype alone.

It really depends how Rockstar gauges success, whether its copies sold or total profit from transactions. Those goals lead to different games, although to be fair they did make two different versions of GTA 5 and just packaged them together, the single player game and GTA Online, so they might be able to achieve both goals this time too.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

I mean, based on their previous most recent titles, and what the ad budget is going to be, they are going to expect at least a billion dollars in profit

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