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Rockstar Games fires over 30 employees, all were part of pro-union Discord group, "one of the most blatant and ruthless acts of union busting in the history of the games industry"
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Yeah. Aren't they in Scotland?
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And Zoomers will continue to use discord after they specifically sold the unionists out.
Zamn.> discord after they specifically sold the unionists out. Source, please? Nobody claimed that except you -
> discord after they specifically sold the unionists out. Source, please? Nobody claimed that except youread the title again…
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They were in a discord group. That's a far cry from 'discord selling them out'
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I pretty much only buy indie games at this point. Any game made by a company that benefits a stock ticker? You best believe I'm... (*checks what comm I'm in*) ..Acquiring it. Lol Funnily enough the one exception to this rule that I probably would have made was BF6 but they forced me to sit this one out by barring Linux users
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They were in a discord group. That's a far cry from 'discord selling them out'Now get your critical thinking skills cap on: How did Rockstar games identify each member of the discord group?
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Now get your critical thinking skills cap on: How did Rockstar games identify each member of the discord group?Screenshots of employee devices, having a mole in the group, etc etc? We all know there's a million ways to gain information about people online, there's literally a dozen comms on lemmy about privacy and protecting your info. Your critical thinking cap is more like a conspiracy theory cap. It's not impossible discord collaborated with rockstar, but it's fucking unlikely. What would discord even have to gain from it that's worth the risk?
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"The Grand Theft Auto maker terminated between 30 and 40 staffers across multiple offices in the UK and Canada"lol, this is what I deserve for not reading the damn article
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GTA6 will still sell millions of copies, many to people in threads just like this one that are appalled at RS's action.
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Screenshots of employee devices, having a mole in the group, etc etc? We all know there's a million ways to gain information about people online, there's literally a dozen comms on lemmy about privacy and protecting your info. Your critical thinking cap is more like a conspiracy theory cap. It's not impossible discord collaborated with rockstar, but it's fucking unlikely. What would discord even have to gain from it that's worth the risk?So you're implying to me, a mole managed acquire what Discord has in it's database, and managed to 1:1 identify employees and rat them out, instead of just bribing Discord to give them GEOlocation and MAC address information… >What would discord even have to gain from it that’s worth the risk? Money. [GTA is one of the most famous genre people make groups for](https://disboard.org/search?keyword=gta). Why would you turn down a whale rancher's bribe to identify employees willing to negotiate for better conditions when your [rancher is a billionaire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take-Two_Interactive) that can buy you?
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> Funnily enough the one exception to this rule that I probably would have made was BF6 but they forced me to sit this one out by barring Linux users
️ So I'm playing Outer Worlds 2 instead rn.
For some good battlefield alternatives that run great on Linux check out ->
**Easy Red 2**
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1324780/Easy_Red_2/
**Operation Harsh Doorstop**
https://store.steampowered.com/app/736590/Operation_Harsh_Doorstop/
and **Angels Fall First**
https://store.steampowered.com/app/367270/Angels_Fall_First/Thanks for the recommendations! Especially Easy Red 2
I am a big fan of the Red Orchestra/Rising Storm series and there is a mod coming out soon for Rising Storm 2 called Black Orchestra that I'm planning to fill the Battlefield shaped hole in my heart with. It's in beta right now, but you best believe I'll be letting *everyone* know about it when it hits steam.
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I made [essentially the same comment](https://sh.itjust.works/comment/21901991) on another thread yesterday, but I think it might have gone over most people's heads. That or they didn't want to admit it.
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This is a good question to ask. This person is not very critical of what they've said and is clearly satisfied with liberal explanations for people's behaviour. Their point is that people are just fundamentally bad and that is why these companies make profit despite an apparently universal condemnation of their actions. It's shallow, inaccurate, and is only useful to feel morally superior to some imagined decadent group that is the source of this problem.
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It's difficult to read this and not feel less empathetic toward you. Such desperation to feel superior without any clear indication that you are invested in actually embodying a set of morals yourself. If you care, you should take the time to explore inconvenient explanations for why this happens and refuse satisfaction with actionless answers.