‘Grand Theft Auto’ Maker Rockstar Games Asks Workers to Return to Office Five Days a Week::Rockstar Games, a division of Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., will ask employees to return to the office five days a week beginning in April as the video-game maker enters the final stages of development on its next game, the hotly anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI.

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      Rockstar Games, a division of Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., will ask employees to return to the office five days a week beginning in April as the video-game maker enters the final stages of development on its next game, the hotly anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI.

      In an email to staff on Wednesday reviewed by Bloomberg, Rockstar Head of Publishing Jenn Kolbe said the decision was made for productivity and security reasons. The company has faced several security breaches including a massive dump of early footage from the new Grand Theft Auto and an early trailer that leaked in December.

      Kolbe wrote that the company also found “tangible benefits” from in-person work. “Making these changes now puts us in the best position to deliver the next Grand Theft Auto at the level of quality and polish we know it requires, along with a publishing roadmap that matches the scale and ambition of the game,” she wrote.

      Return-to-office mandates have been a hot topic across various industries since the pandemic forced myriad employees to work from home. More recently, many employers have asked staff to return to the office for two or three days a week. A study last month found that remote work did not have an impact on productivity.

      The issue has been particularly controversial among video-game workers thanks to the volatility of the industry and its lack of a centralized workforce. Many of 2023’s biggest video-game hits, such as Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 from Insomniac Games, were developed remotely.

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        This security they mention is ridiculous. They have billions they can use to secure workstations and increase security for their systems. Many large companies managed to do this already… even without near limitless cash. So to me this smells like BS.

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    How to lose top talent in one easy step. I’m hoping smaller startups are taking notes and hiring these guys for remote work.

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            lol what. The storytelling was amazing. If anything, yeah there are some problems with the mission mechanics, but the character story of Arthur and his overcoming his near-lifelong grooming to be a killer when he’s actually a good man, his struggle between his loyalty to helping others while being a contradiction of a man as he robs and kills, his past chasing him down no matter how far he runs a metaphor for he, himself, running from who he is—whether that is a good man or a bad man—and having his transgression ultimately kill him while he sacrifices himself for a brother and his chosen family, even though it’s all in vain and ultimately not enough because he was dying as is, the weight of his sins dragging him to an early death?

            Not to mention the overarching theme of statism, anarchism, freedom. The Pinkertons an excellent chosen villain, the arm of the wealthy while these outlaws try to make a free life for themselves, so-called civilization killing the world around them while they are the ones treated as if they’re crazy? Dutch revealing himself over time to not be a freedom fighter but another greedy piece of shit who used the people around him as cannon fodder for his own ends? Trying to string the gang along as long as possible? His actions speaking louder than his words but he had somehow gotten them all to ignore his actions—and their own—in favor of the lies coming out of his mouth? Or were they lies at all? Were they his true beliefs and he was just led astray as he got older and let the power go to his head? Power corrupting.

            The missions are too rigid, the motivation for the each being a little repetitive, but you really can’t knock the storytelling.

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              I’m glad you enjoyed it so much. I thought it was boring, rigid, repetitive and unengaging.

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                Did you beat the game?

                I agree with this guy that it may be the best Western ever written.

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                  Lol yeah I beat it. I also unlocked the G-man suit in the game before it. I played a shit ton of RDO too, although it was sorely lacking.

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    “please come to the office so you can experience the time crunch without the comfort of your own home”

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    So Rockstar workers are being asked to take a major pay cut, significant decrease in quality of life, massively increased chance of death (driving is the most dangerous thing we do by far), and a huge chunk of free time removed from every work day from commuting that could be time spent with family or loved ones….

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      People with families cost more, they always want time off to do ‘stuff’. Truly dedicated employees forgo families, time off for ‘stuff’. The best employees will spend a good portion of their money just to come back to the office, just because it’s demanded.

      Signed, Management