• ieatpwns@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    GTA will proceed to break all media sales records because why do the right thing when you can buy a new shiny toy to spend your hard earned capitalism bucks on

    • killerscene@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      5 months ago

      gta is just a mass appeal game. people who dont care or know how shitty they are, or dont even play video games will pick this up.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      why do the right thing when you can buy a new shiny toy

      It’s not like they’re plastering “We Busted A Union To Get This Game Out Six Months Late” on the packaging. The overwhelming majority of retail customers have no idea how the sausage is made. Those that are curious enough to ask typically aren’t the ones going in on the “Rape And Loot Simulator” franchise to begin with.

      Gotta get off this hobby horse of blaming the anonymous gooner gamer at the bottom of the food chain for decisions made in a smoke-filled board room long beforehand.

      • ieatpwns@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 months ago

        The “anonymous gooner gamers” or uninformed consumers are why the companies get away with shit like this. Because they keep throwing money to buy the next best thing

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          5 months ago

          No they aren’t. Games flop all the time and the companies don’t quit this bullshit. No business executive has ever walked out of a tense call with their investors and re-committed themselves to being nicer to the staff. You’re delusional if you think people not buying a game results in the quality of life of that game’s staff improving.

          What improves the lives of game developers is going indie and doing well. What improves the odds of doing well as an indie developer is producing games that can compete with the GTAs absent the absurd marketing budgets. That requires a symbiosis between indie games media, indie developers, and early adopters. But the gooner gamer is at the end of the line in any event. They don’t even know the game exists until it gets a splash ad on the Steam Store.

          Your retail consumer market is a consequence of industry practices, not a cause.

  • Galactose@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Remember mindseye ?? Yeah I know it bombed, but that company might wanna look for recruits

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    …Isn’t this a bit ironic, considering GTA’s/RDR’s writing of (loosely) “plain folk’s plights?”

    It’d be like CDPR going all in on DRM/corpo surveillance tech. And NO, CDPR Bot, that was not a suggestion!

  • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Tangentially related: who tf gets up in their bed WITH THEIR SHOES ON bruh that’s so freaking disgusting

      • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 months ago

        Exactly, bringing in all the feces and dirt and gravel and everything else from outside in the streets. So nasty. Like okay, if you live your life in your shoes and you take them off only to shower and sleep, even that is… workable, if that suits you. I don’t understand it, but fine. But laying your shoes on your bed? 🤮

  • notgivingmynametoamachine@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I mean I know “Alleged” has to be there for legal purposes, but what are the chances Rockstar ISNT guilty of union busting?

    I’ve watched UNION’s union bust when their staff unionizes, no way a for profit capitalist nightmare like rockstar isn’t busting as hard as they can, especially with the NLRB currently muzzled by a felonious rapist who steals from children with cancer.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      people are actually looking forward to a game

      Hype around a game is directly related to the marketing budget. If people are looking forward to the next edition in a franchise, it is inevitably because they’ve been bombarded with “NEW THING! NEW THING! NEW THING!” radio/TV/streaming ad reels for months prior.

      All that aside, yeah our countries hate unions and hate workers and everyone in power hates you and wants you to die.

      We’re going to replace all the working class schlubs with AI, haven’t you heard?

  • mhague@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I just want to play missions where I drive slowly behind a car. Or missions where I fail for breathing too hard. I’m tired of playing games with open ended objectives. I hate games where I have a bunch of guns, cars, and helicopters and then I’m able to use that stuff in the story.

    Rockstar are the best at making cinematic experiences play out like Dance Dance Revolution. I just want to be told what buttons to push, where to stand, what tools to use, so I can see the funny people do funny things.

    Fuck these delays I need my gigaslop polished and squeezed out now!

  • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I’ll at least hold them accountable, by being that jerk on the internet who reminds people of union busting every time someone mentions Rockstar or one of their games.

    Why yes I am still boycotting Sony over that time they booby trapped their CDs. Businesses might not go under when they do amazingly evil stuff, but they’re dead to me.