It wasn’t the “teams” it was the Senior Writers, just to clarify. About 4 people I think.

It wasn’t the “teams” it was the Senior Writers, just to clarify. About 4 people I think.

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It wasn’t the “teams” it was the Senior Writers, just to clarify. About 4 people I think.

I’ve no idea how big Rockstar is, where they’re based, how the teams are laid out or what the management structure is.

Honestly though, I’d expect those involved in creating the main story that the entire game hangs on to work more hours than someone on the team who designs the barrels.

Who died then?

Burt Reynolds.

Michael Jackson.

Who died then?

Why because he says “[bad working practices] isn’t just a Rockstar issue; it’s not just a game industry issue; it’s believed most US employees [are subjected similar working pressures]?” Let’s be fair, if we’re being honest we wouldn’t buy most products if we knew what happens behind the curtains. And a ome of them we are all too readily aware and close our eyes to them. We buy inter alia clothes, mobile phones and food products from companies that exploit their workers. We use service industries that exploit their staff and subject them to low wages. Every day we buy something that is probably hurting someone else without questioning it.

And I’ll probably just buy it, rave about it and not think twice about the poor sods making those 3D barrels. I’m just not sure there’s an answer here.

I doubt I'll buy the game, tbh. Not particularly excited about it, can't really afford it and this just makes me feel uneasy about it anyway.

It's pretty much a universal, though.

You'll have to sign a waiver to worktime rules in order to even get to the interview.

Should games get lower review scores for poor labour practices?

Simply: Yes.

Yes, stuff has to change. Start with the testers, devs are treated like gods compared to them. The way to do that isn't by giving something a bad review score - that's likely to lose people their jobs.

Also: does he think the Macbook he wrote that article on was put together by who skipped to work?

How does he plan marking down the score? “This game is a 10/10 but I heard a rumour in the internet that one person was sexually harassed at work so 2/10”

So sexual harassment isn’t as bad as working overtime then? Jesus Christ.

I will wait and see what BEEXers think of it.

I dunno, The Guardian's review basically says straight out it's 60% horse riding and it'd get boring if it weren't all so pretty. (Before giving it 5 stars, natch.)

Reading through the other reviews I'm minded to think I'd have the same basic issues with this game as I did its predecessor.

I will wait and see what BEEXers think of it.

Tbf you played it almost ten years after the rest of us did. It was incredible at the time.

I dunno, The Guardian's review basically says straight out it's 60% horse riding and it'd get boring if it weren't all so pretty.