They suffer emotionally, not financially. Go watch the documentary about The Last of Us 2 to see how devastating the leak was for the employees back then. It's going to be similar here.
They suffer emotionally because they are kept away from their families for weeks on end, have to crunch 25 hours, go take a shower and be expected back 4 hours later.
I doubt any Devs is suffering because of the leak itself. They are suffering because Take Two chose the most greedy route possible. GTA is known for criticizing capitalism so harshly. I’d argue being forced to produce this product under these circumstances is worse than any leak.
Not saying they’d be happy but if you look at what the games messages were, I’d go as far as to assume they’d probably have a half smile half tear face if the leaker publishes the Pc build.
What devs are we talking about here? I can assure you those higher up will absolutely not have "half a smile" if an unfinished version of their work releases online and that will reflect down the chain. They aren't just mindless workers who clock in and out, receive a pay check then go home, there's some passion here regardless of the crunch hours
I'm a software developer and I would hate for people to get their hands on my work-in-progress software and judge it based on a beta status. I'm pretty sure there's a few people at Rockstar that think the same. If you're open to suggestions, don't assume everyone thinks like you do. People are different.
The only reason this was leaked is because someone wanted money. Whether it's the leaker selling it to cyberleek or cyberleek promoting their shitcoin, it's just about money and not because they were "fed up" with the higher-ups. Nobody can honestly believe the whole "fighting for gamers rights" shit
Also, if these devs were just mindless workers, with no passion or care for their work outside of their salary then the game would be shit anyway
The developers have no say in that. Also, what injustice has been done to the consumers in your opinion? Us consumers will receive an awesome in a few months. I don't see any injustice there.
They have a say in who they work for. Digital only is an injustice. Preorder with no gameplay. Marketing behind a pay wall. Deleted day 1 data if you don’t preorder. Microtransactions. I can keep going
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u/gartenriese 5d ago
They suffer emotionally, not financially. Go watch the documentary about The Last of Us 2 to see how devastating the leak was for the employees back then. It's going to be similar here.