The human cost of Red Dead Redemption 2 (Eurogamer)

[Kerotan]

Azzanation said:

fatslob-:O said: 

For the most part they hardly do and who cares if Rockstar's former lead director left them ? When in game development it's not about the superstar, it's about the team and a visionary is nothing without a good team when we take Itagaki as an example for pushing out trash like Devil's Third while his former studio returned to greatness by releasing Nioh. Why change the system when it worked in providing good value for the money ? 

Human sacrifice is necessary and money is the contract between the producer and the consumer. Is producing sub-par products and not getting punished for it but instead is rewarded for it supposed to make the customers happy ? What happened to developers being only as good as their last game ? 

The idea of pro-consumerism is not compatible with employee welfare since the former is about getting most value out of the latter rather than vice versa and this is something every social democrat needs to ponder about instead of showing duplicity about it ...

Late reply, iv been flat out working. Better late than never.

@Bald - Human Sacrifice is not necessary to create great products. Rockstar isn't exactly poor and there games don't exactly undersell. These issues are easily solved with Rockstar hiring more employee's to take the load off the current employees, except instead of them spending money for peoples health, they force them to work or leave. That is not the right mindset a business should have on anyone. 

No one in here hating on the quality of there products, but they can achieve the same level of quality if greed wasn't there main factor point in this.

Kerotan said:

I've been in the military so I've done a hell of a lot harder for a hell of a lot less money. Should we boycott countries because their armies overwork and underpay? 

Let me give you a couple examples here. If the shoes you were wearing made by unpaid slave labour somewhere in the middle east, and the quality is good, you wouldn't care because the shoes are great?

Another example would be if your kids, wife or family were working for a high end brand, and that brand tortured them during busy periods not allowing them the right to there life would you still not care? 

That's what I gathered reading your posts and that's how you sound to me.

Glad you are supporting RDR2, but lets not give credit to acts like this. As I mentioned above, Rockstar can achieve the same heights by simply spending more on there staff rather than just threating them.

That's not what I'm talking about but you know what in reality myself and most don't care. I do zero research into the origins of my clothes and shoes before buying. If i cared I'd do research. And BTW most consumers just buy without looking it up so I'm far from alone.