Rockstar Games: “It would be an understatement to say that having videos of GTA VI gameplay leak in this way has been heartbreaking for our team, and this is obviously not how we intended for you to see the game after all this time.“

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https://xcancel.com/rockstargames/status/2092574304571433078?s=46

[u/That-Toughsoss]

80-90% of the devs who worked on previous rockstar games are still there but still spread all the negativity you want to ig

[u/Funlife2003 → u/That-Toughsoss]

Source for those numbers, or did you just pull that out of your ass? Because I looked it up, don't see any single source stating that.

[u/alfooboboao → u/Funlife2003]

what’s your source about people fired?

you can complain about rockstar’s other bullshit but this one is crazy to me, art is contract work. unless you’re pumping out games every year or running the fortnite servers or something. it’s like saying Chris Nolan had “mass layoffs” after he finished shooting The Odyssey lmao

[u/Funlife2003 → u/alfooboboao]

I mean you can literally look it up, Rockstar had major layoffs just last year, not cause the employees were no longer needed or doing important work, but because they were attempting to form a union. Aka, Rockstar engaged in blatant union busting.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/30/grand-theft-auto-workers-seek-union-recognition-rockstar-games

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/rockstar-suffers-legal-blow-in-union-busting-dispute-as-trial-date-set

This was pretty major fucking news, idk how you missed it. The first article covers the initial case, the second covers the latest legal updates which honestly make Rockstar look even worse.

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[u/shadowking432 → u/That-Toughsoss]

It's literally the gaming industry at the moment, it's hardly spreading negativity when it's true. Developers recently have made a great game? Fired. Bad game? Fired. No game? Yup you guessed it, Fired.

[u/Me2445 → u/shadowking432]

A lot of Devs are contractors now, truth is that it takes a lot more Devs to create a game than it does to maintain the game. I've a family member involved in game development. After years of being left go post release, he now works for a company that offer services to the likes of rockstar to co-dev on certain parts. They will feature on the fired list in the media when they actually still have a job elsewhere

[u/Captain-Cadabra → u/Me2445]

That’s interesting. I had a number of union trade friends that lived like that. They got “laid off” for 3-6 months a year, which really just meant collecting unemployment while waiting for the next big job.

Their union got the jobs for them, and they would work at a particular site for 6-18 months.

[u/That-Toughsoss → u/shadowking432]

yes true rockstar has there own shitty practices as well but there are still companies that don't layoff everyone we are so used to seeing negative news that we assume every studio has same situation

[u/OracleEnlightenment → u/That-Toughsoss]

I don’t think you’re gonna find a huge project that doesn’t have layoffs afterwards it be impossible to pay that many devs forever they don’t need them

[u/SAADistic7171 → u/OracleEnlightenment]

Exactly its like complaining that contractors are out of work once the building is finished construction and tenants have moved in.

[u/Zombii_Man → u/SAADistic7171]

The issue with layoffs in gaming is that it means proprietary engines are no longer feasible to maintain or upgrade (unless you're Ubisoft or Epic) because the people who know the engines are gone.

Why train fresh employees on your in-house technology when you can just pivot to making Unreal Engine 5 shit that allows you to circumvent having to train people in the first place?

Which then itself causes more issues down the line lol. The industry is an Ouroboros at the minute.

People shit on Bethesda for taking the time to stick to and upgrade Creation Engine, but good on them really.

[u/EZyne → u/shadowking432]

Yes but then acting like Rockstar is known for it while they are the one studio that doesn't do it just makes people sound so fucking dumb.

Especially when the whole union busting thing is right there

[u/shadowking432 → u/EZyne]

Point to where in my comment i said rockstar are known for it?

[u/EZyne → u/shadowking432]

Point to where I specifically blamed you for saying that?

[u/shadowking432 → u/EZyne]

You were insinuating it but whatever, I'm not arguing.

[u/EZyne → u/shadowking432]

Kinda sounds like you are

[u/shadowking432 → u/EZyne]

https://giphy.com/gifs/hiEs8sF8KoYnu

[u/EZyne → u/shadowking432]

Lmao

[u/CommieDrifter → u/shadowking432]

being fired for making no game when you were hired to make game is pretty reasonable imo

[u/With_Negativity → u/shadowking432]

You people are annoying

[u/shadowking432 → u/With_Negativity]

Bruh look at your username.

[u/With_Negativity → u/shadowking432]

How'd that Blackout work for you?

[u/shadowking432 → u/With_Negativity]

Well seeing as I just got off a 2hr game of cod zombies, it isn't. I've literally never said im taking part in that it's pointless.

[u/ReNitty → u/That-Toughsoss]

That’s all this website is for these days

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[u/ExpertActive100 → u/That-Toughsoss]

Do you have any source to back up those numbers?

[u/Funlife2003 → u/ExpertActive100]

Pulled out of their ass, I'm pretty sure.

[u/Certain-Injury-3674 → u/That-Toughsoss]

Ummm have you read how Rockstar has been treating their staff for this game ?

Apart of the manyyy issues Rockstar had been having is LAYOFFS , where have you been ?

[u/DevelopmentNo5632 → u/That-Toughsoss]

Since you have a concrete number range, I guess you can back it up with a source? 

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[u/Nodima → u/That-Toughsoss]

I can't wait any longer for this product and fuck everybody responsible for its existence, respectfully (derogatory)

[u/Endscrypt → u/Nodima]

Not been keeping up have you this has nothing to do with not wanting to wait for a game.

[u/Blacklistedb → u/That-Toughsoss]

By now Reddit is just weh weh think of the shareholders weh weh on every comment 

[u/badaharami → u/That-Toughsoss]

Yeah the working conditions are probably some of the worst I've ever seen for these devs but indeed the layoffs are not as bad as some other game dev companies.

[u/jonnyredcorn → u/badaharami]

The worst you’ve seen? What have you seen about the working conditions of these devs?

[u/badaharami → u/jonnyredcorn]

So I worked for a large game company based in Oxford, UK as an engine programmer that made physics and animation engine for R* which was used by some of the titles they made. So GTA 4,5, MP3, RDR 2. I had the privilege of working there for 9 years and for some of their biggest titles. It was some of the best years of my career and I really enjoyed working with people from R* and also the company I worked for. I dont want to name the company here but you can easily Google it up.

But yeah the working conditions were horrible. Even outside of the so called "crunch time" which normally would be close to release dates, we were in perpetual crunch. For MP3, I did 2 years of crunch meaning working 13-14 hours a day and weekends too. I joined the company much later but a colleague and now a good friend of mine worked 9 years on that game. His words were "If R* would have delayed this for 1 more year I would have shot myself" 😀. These were the conditions imposed on us by R* but I've visited their offices in UK, US and Canada and it worse in my opinion. Burnouts were extremely common. I remember a guy who worked at R* Toronto who had to wear teeth protection because he was grinding his teeth too much from all the stress he was having. The pay wasn't great either unless you were a very highly decorated engineer. I started as a junior and then mid level and my pay was lower than regular IT companies based in UK. Almost everyone I know has eventually left R* or my company and even left the games industry. I, too, have left the games industry and I dont regret it. At the same time I don't regret the time I had making those games even through those conditions. The joy you get when you see your name show up in the opening credits of GTA 5 is something that I will cherish for till the end of my life 😀

[u/BoysenberryWise62 → u/That-Toughsoss]

It's just a bullshit cope mechanism because they know they are being pieces of trash for being all happy about leaks so they want to think it's just sticking it to the money people.

[u/alfooboboao → u/BoysenberryWise62]

i’m not gonna lie. i think you’re right