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Rockstar employee shares account of the company's union-busting efforts

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Re: Rockstar employee shares account of the company's union-busting efforts

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Post by throwuxiytayq »

kwanbix wrote: post #249
throwuxiytayq wrote: post #212

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It clearly isn’t easy, given that nobody else is doing it their way. Maintaining the company culture might be the toughest challenge of them all. The other game storefronts simply can’t resist muddying the water for the consumer, making the shopping experience hostile for some stupid ass monetization reasons. Shopping on Steam is a breeze, and it always feels like the store is on your side trying to help, instead of…

I shop on Epic Store and GOG and it is a breeze also. I never had issues with GOG or Epic (where I buy less to be honest), but that might be me. But Steam has the network effect. They launched first. Of were the first that successfully did it.

I’m going to assume that while shopping on Epic you alt-tab to Steam to read reviews and to find out what the game is actually like.

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Post by dmitrygr »

ElevenLathe wrote: post #250
annexrichmond wrote: post #238

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Are you aware of any resources for how to combat colleagues aiming to start a union? I am personally opposed to being part of a union.

Just don't join. Closed shops are already illegal in the US so nobody can make you.

> Closed shops are already illegal in the US

I do wonder what country American Airlines operates in then…

https://viewfromthewing.com/american-airlines-fired-two-flig...

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Post by sugarpimpdorsey »

KittenInABox wrote: post #224
sugarpimpdorsey wrote: post #169

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They're a game company. They're not feeding the poor. Your employment is "at will". You are not entitled to any item in your list of demands. You are, however, free to leave at any time for something more suited to your tastes.

I think employees are actually entitled to some of those things, like not being made uncomfortable purely because they are a minority or a female. I would find the opposite position to be an exceptionally strange take: that it is entitled to not want to work at a place that puts you in uncomfortable positions for your sex or your race. I don't have an opinion on Valve or allegations Valve is doing that. I just find i…

Being uncomfortable has no equivalence to racism, which you are trying to assert.

Assume a white guy voluntarily takes a job working in a wig shop that only sells black women's hair care products. He's going to be uncomfortable at some point. Does he have a right to not be uncomfortable? Should the company culture change, should they stop selling wigs and ditch their customers until he becomes comfortable?

No. The easiest solution is he should work elsewhere. He took the job knowing exactly what was involved. So no, you are not entitled to not be culturally uncomfortable.

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Post by vlovich123 »

jjulius wrote: post #203
vlovich123 wrote: post #59

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Doing my own research, ChatGPT summarizes the state as generally unions improve wages and working conditions for employees much more than they pay in premiums. This has gone down since the 1970s but is still a noticeable effect. Indeed the 40 hour work week comes from unions. There is a negative effect on profitability, but that’s subject to interpretation: > The negative effect on profitability from unionization may…

>Doing my own research, ChatGPT summarizes... One of these things is not like the other.

No but one step further than OP went making unsubstantiated claims that actually contradicts the actual research that paints a much more complicated picture.

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Post by Whoppertime »

mathgeek wrote: post #168
Whoppertime wrote: post #101

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The only reason EpicGameStore was able to rise as a competitor to Steam was because of the Billions Fortnite was earning.

Pretty much. If it weren’t for free games and exclusives there would be no Epic Store to speak of.

It's like being a first party for a Video Game Console. Gabe Newell having a billion in Yachts, Bill Gates might have a billion dollars tied up in Real Estate. It has less to say about the personal greed of Gabe Newell and more to say about the relative size of the market.

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Post by 8note »

liquid_thyme wrote: post #86
lazzlazzlazz wrote: post #48

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A rational person would agree that unions, like anything else, have pros and cons. They can do good, but also can do harm. It's the commenters here seem to fly off on emotional rants that derail the conversations. The thinking is capital takes less risk than labor; and that model of thinking makes it easy to ascribe faults to capital, but not to labor. You can't argue your way out of that. When you have to manage a b…

I'll believe you that capital is the bigger risk taker when limited liability is revoked.

or if we change bankruptcy such that labour is paid out rather than creditors.

laws are setup to reduce and limit the risk for capital, and capital can hedge its risks where labour cannot. Generally nobody is able to work to full time jobs

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Post by whamlastxmas »

exabrial wrote: post #99

Every union I've been a part of has been more of a pain than its worth, or has tried to keep individuals from become any more successful that others. I don't understand the obsession with them on HN.

If I was trying to astroturf anti union sentiments this is the sort of stuff I'd post

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Post by manjalyc »

jsheard wrote: post #41
elephanlemon wrote: post #8

As a kid I always lamented that every studio seemed to sell out as soon as they had the chance. Valve is basically the only one that didn’t… clearly it’s paid off very well for Gabe and the employees. Wish more people would resist the payday and keep what’s theirs.

> Valve is basically the only one that didn’t They kind of did, with their sudden pivot from primarily making singleplayer games to almost exclusively making F2P GaaS titles the instant they got a taste of lootbox money. Half-Life 3 and Portal 3 will never happen because Valve makes 100x as much money with 1/100th of the effort by peddling Counter Strike skins.

What does the G in GaaS mean?

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Post by jsheard »

manjalyc wrote: post #268
jsheard wrote: post #41

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> Valve is basically the only one that didn’t They kind of did, with their sudden pivot from primarily making singleplayer games to almost exclusively making F2P GaaS titles the instant they got a taste of lootbox money. Half-Life 3 and Portal 3 will never happen because Valve makes 100x as much money with 1/100th of the effort by peddling Counter Strike skins.

What does the G in GaaS mean?

Games (as a Service)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_service_game

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physarum_salad wrote: post #109

I love GTA/Red Dead but Rockstar really is just another monopoly (in terms of creativity) at this stage. More mid sized studios, like Rockstar when it started/midway, would be better. Also the narrative and dialogue is ever so slightly overated in Rockstar games because the competition is quite nerdy/square in that department as are most of the audience. The ending of Red Dead II was actually quite trite, especially…

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