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Fire Shuts GTA 6 Developer Rockstar North, Following Report of Explosion

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Re: Fire Shuts GTA 6 Developer Rockstar North, Following Report of Explosion

#11

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Are you familiar with the concept of a joke ? I can send you some peer reviewed papers to read about humour if you'd like.

Jokes are not permitted on HN, please don't do it again.

Joking about an office building exploding is contextually not a funny joke

Re: Fire Shuts GTA 6 Developer Rockstar North, Following Report of Explosion

#12
post #7

Someone got too tired of the pay to win nonsense and decided to play in real life ? xD

The very first sentence of the article: > Fire services attended the offices of Grand Theft Auto 6 developer Rockstar North this morning and secured "structural damage" following a reported boiler explosion.

Well... then I guess the local boilermakers' union will have to come around with Scabby the Rat inflatables.

Re: Fire Shuts GTA 6 Developer Rockstar North, Following Report of Explosion

#13
Slightly unrelated (maybe?), here is a moderately nuanced summary video of the latest happenings in the ongoing court cases in "Rockstar vs Union": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnuipPQDd_w

TLDR of the case: Rockstar fired some employees for a slew of different reasons (some leaked/confidential messages), (most) fired employees were members of the union and the court case is about if 1) they were fired for the right reasons and 2) they were fired in the correct way and right now 3) should they still get paid while the court case figures out the answers to #1 and #2

I'm saying "maybe?" unrelated as it does sound like something a disgruntled employee might do, but could also be something completely else. I feel like it might be related though, hence the linking.

Re: Fire Shuts GTA 6 Developer Rockstar North, Following Report of Explosion

#15
post #5

A delay would inconvenience the whole games industry, not just Rockstar; every other developer has to time their release and development around GTA 6.

I think most companies at this point learned that no launch date is set in stone. Sure, if you're doing AAA games, you might not want to launch right next to GTA, but for most others? Matters way less than people think.

Re: Fire Shuts GTA 6 Developer Rockstar North, Following Report of Explosion

#16
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The very first sentence of the article: > Fire services attended the offices of Grand Theft Auto 6 developer Rockstar North this morning and secured "structural damage" following a reported boiler explosion.

Are you familiar with the concept of a joke ? I can send you some peer reviewed papers to read about humour if you'd like.

Yes, I am familiar with jokes, but I don't see one here.

Re: Fire Shuts GTA 6 Developer Rockstar North, Following Report of Explosion

#17

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Jokes are not permitted on HN, please don't do it again.

Joking about an office building exploding is contextually not a funny joke

As long as no one died or got seriously injured, I see no problem in cracking jokes.

Re: Fire Shuts GTA 6 Developer Rockstar North, Following Report of Explosion

#18

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Are you familiar with the concept of a joke ? I can send you some peer reviewed papers to read about humour if you'd like.

Jokes are not permitted on HN, please don't do it again.

HN is intented for mildly pleasant experiences only.

Re: Fire Shuts GTA 6 Developer Rockstar North, Following Report of Explosion

#19
post #2

2027 I guess it is then :(

I don't think this is likely to impact development much, they can rent office space elsewhere if needed.

This is the same company that claims the exact hours of crunch is a "company secret" that would expose their development process and features of the game, so I don't think it's far off they'd use something like this to push another delay.

Re: Fire Shuts GTA 6 Developer Rockstar North, Following Report of Explosion

#20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Jokes are not permitted on HN, please don't do it again.

Joking about an office building exploding is contextually not a funny joke

Even worse, they didn't make a joke about the game "being on Steam".
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