Rockstar parent Take-Two Interactive says all the employees in question were fired for "gross misconduct."
Rockstar has launched an official marketplace for "every server and every player" to buy mods: Cfx Marketplace.
I wonder how much of this isn't just taken work of others who have modded for free.
Edit: Also, great way for R* to take popular ideas and build them into GTAVI based on demand.
What I see happening here is, R* is going to ban mods in GTA6 UNLESS you buy them from the marketplace and R* then gets a cut of that sale.
Ah, perfect timing with them taking down the Bully online fan mod. Greedy a$$ company.
Yep, right there with you. I'll happily donate to a mod creator if it looks really cool, or if I enjoy it. But expecting payment up front? Nope, not touching it.
I'm not entirely sure how to read this, as it doesn't seem exactly like an exact parallel to Bethesda's paid mods shenanigans.
Rather than single player stuff, this appears to be aimed solely on Cfx Servers. From what I've gleaned, apparently Rockstar bought the Cfx mod team several years ago, coming a few years after weird contentions led them to ban a few of their members. Ultimately, the question is if they plan to keep this contained to only online/servers.
I have to guess to a degree yes. It'd be pretty hard to "force" paid mods for single player when modding files locally on your own machine, but much easier for servers they'll control. So perhaps this is their soft launch ahead of GTA6 online and they'll clamp down more tightly on non-official servers going forward? Ever since they've become a 1 or 2 property studio, I haven't really cared much for Rockstar stuff, so I'm not entirely up on everything surrounding this. Sounds like it has the potential to be problematic further down the line, but right now fairly easy to ignore...I think lol.
Former CEO describes lawsuit filed by Swedish pension fund as a "collateral attack" on Activision Blizzard.
Kotick Made $155 million from MS in the buyout, the little b*tch needs to stop whining. Thanks to this Microslop deal and massive industry consolidation thousands upon thousands of devs and other workers lost their livelihoods. This greedy piggie pervert needs shut up and f-off.
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Well in the uk they may be able to do that. But with the advent of AI coming into its own. Unions might be the only way for people to keep their jobs.
I read the article and of course Rockstar won’t admit that they fired them for attempting a union. These corps are all the same. The only reason MS agreed to anything was because they were trying to buy Activision Blizzard so they had to play nice.
lol
just how many can u fire people for the same reason.
come on
I never supported Rockstar or those shit
bags Take Two, I actually never bought
anything from them, but I torrented a whole lot. I will never support them, or EA, Blizzard or MS. The list of companies grows but I will take what I can from them because companies like this do not deserve your money. It will only get worse as time goes on so I'm not supporting companies like them.
Truth is we need to find a way to evolve as we always have. Socialism isn’t the answer because it creates 2 classes, the rich and the poor. And while we are headed this way anyway, at least there’s the change to adapt, the chance for new jobs to be created.
Problem is that AI isn’t like the Industrial Revolution or the advent of the internet. It does everything better than everything else. So it’s going to be tough.
We will want human interaction for sure, but for those who think we will demand items made by humans, they will become the luxury of the rich.
The only possibility is if AI gets so efficient that it’s able to provide ppl with most their wants for free, then all we have to strive for is purpose.