| Azzanation said: 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. |
Human sacrifice is absolutely necessary to make better products. Heck, labour is necessary to be productive. I can't fathom why you can't understand this when you yourself have job ...
The contract is not between Rockstar and their employees. It's a contract between Rockstar's employees and their customers because ultimately it's not Rockstar who compensates their employees, it's the consumers and Rockstar is just a middleman figure who represents their employees and if they don't like the working conditions offered then they can leave for better working conditions ...
Don't blame the studio since it's just another faceless company that isn't alive. Games are becoming lower in value inherently which means that being a game developer isn't all that special anymore so the only way to hold consumers accountable is by demanding more value out of them for your work like how big pharma does when they charge high prices for their blockbuster specialty drugs which usually have a smaller pool of customers ... (I don't see consumers here praising big pharma one bit for their amazing working conditions and instead of drug research scientists being hailed as the heroes their reviled as a bunch of villains while the invaluable game developers are given more pity here)
High prices mean that customers care more about your work and low prices mean that customers care less about your work so that's the way how it'll work in real life ... 
