“Don’t boycott GTA 6. Win justice for the people who helped make it. We spent years pouring our hard work, skill, and creativity into making GTA, and we want people to experience the universe that we helped build,” former developers said. “That doesn’t mean we want to let Rockstar off the hook.”

This guy does not understand how capitalism works.

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    1&3 seem plausible. 2) Not so much, since everyone of these unionists are merchandising their portfolios. If it’s about the art, they can redo mockups of the work they want others to see in the game that hasn’t been completed. For all we know, R⁎ will cut their works out.

    1. Is iffy for two reason: plenty of non gamedev jobs out there that don’t do history checks, esp. on a work visa. They did make themselves public though.

    2. feels like the closest reason, as they have already declared themselves disassociates from the leaker. Maybe they want the court to see they were wrongfully terminated, and “should be compensated.”

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      For point 2 the art is the entire game, not a single model or whatever.

      Most people also don’t want to change industries just because of a firing and they’re going to be pretty well known in the industry due to the lawsuit, in a way an employee may not necessarily want to be. Also, not all were on work visas, there were locals too. They now need to find new jobs and probably want to do it in the same industry, in the same city where they live.

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        Yeah, but R⁎ can remove the entire parts they worked on the game entirely, making exposure a gamble.
        Fair point about transitioning, not one I sympathize. (changed industries 15 times already )