The Rockstar Workers Fired Before They Could Finish GTA 6
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We traveled to Edinburgh to meet the 31 employees fired from Rockstar Games ahead of the release of Grand Theft Auto 6. Rockstar claims these firings were du...
    • t3rmit3@beehaw.org
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      2 days ago

      Any work that satirizes wealth or corporate greed, made by a public company, is almost definitionally hypocritical.

      Outer Worlds has this same issue.

        • t3rmit3@beehaw.org
          6·
          2 days ago

          To be fair, the original Deus Ex is more anti-authoritarianism than it is anti-capitalist in the motivations of the villains. Grey Death wasn’t done for economic purposes, it was literally a means to kick off a worldwide eugenics experiment. They used the Ambrosia vaccine to select who lives, not really to make money.

          • real_squids@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            3·
            2 days ago

            In the end the company that made it got bought by a massive public company using Saudi money. Double whammy