GTA 6 Developers Unionize

Don’t expect any sympathy from the general public or your customers when the 1 year late game devs are complaining about crunch, ultimately they’re gonna get dragged for this and the gaming community will cheer if they manage to remove the union individuals.

That’s the industry you’re in unfortunately.

Can anyone comment on why "big video game" dev pay has lagged "big tech" pay so badly? Ostensibly they are doing remarkably similar engineering problem solving, so why is there such a disparity?

Who would have thought we'll get programmer unions before GTA 6!

This is great news, unions not only improve working conditions, but also improve the final product by not having underpaid stressed staff with high turn-over. It's a good sign for the future product quality of any company to see workers unionise.

Solidarity forever! Game devs eat a a lot of crap, so I'm glad they are banding together to bargain collectively.

At this point, we get everything before GTA6. Unions, AGI, Life on Mars.

Isnt management at Rockstar the same poeple who:

A) Allowed a bug in the code make all GTA5 Load times on every single copy on every platform take exponential times longer to load, for YEARS, unchecked or investigated, until some random kid FIXED IT by reverse engineering compiled code?

B) The bug was a simple and unneeded look up for SHOP items

C) The never rewarded the kid, with say a job or something worthwhile for him like 100k ( when they earn billions ). I mean even this decision ALONE is such terrible optics clearly mgmt were AFK.

D) They then came onto HN to argue with me in the comments about how " its not nice to say mgmt responsible should have been fired over this"

I mean Ive had my share of almost blinding incompetence, but the one that really bothers my crumpet, is when they come on here and start denying things.

Im for the union, Rockstar North made one of the greatest games of all time. It will probably result in an inferior product but crunch is unethical and always due to poor management. Ironically it was probably mgmts' own incompetent hiring policies that resulted in a union being formed.

PS - I got a bit heated and have edited this comment so its readable apologies.

PS - All of this can be verified in previous posts on HN regarding both the bug and replies

PS - And to whoever is downvoting me, feel free to reply and tell me what I am wrong about