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Fire Shuts GTA 6 Developer Rockstar North, Following Report of Explosion
- pogue 9mo ago2027 I guess it is then :(
- NohatCoder 9mo agoI don't think this is likely to impact development much, they can rent office space elsewhere if needed.
- embedding-shape 9mo agoThis is the same company that claims the exact hours of crunch is a "company secret" that would expose their development process and features of the game, so I don't think it's far off they'd use something like this to push another delay.
- keyle 9mo agoThis is not going to help the memes... Glad no one was injured!
- giancarlostoro 9mo agoDid the game become real life? Wild.
- Stevvo 9mo agoA delay would inconvenience the whole games industry, not just Rockstar; every other developer has to time their release and development around GTA 6.
- embedding-shape 9mo agoI think most companies at this point learned that no launch date is set in stone. Sure, if you're doing AAA games, you might not want to launch right next to GTA, but for most others? Matters way less than people think.
- fooqux 9mo agoTell that to the indie developers that launched games alongside the surprise release of Silksong.
- embedding-shape 9mo ago> Tell that to the indie developers that launched games alongside the surprise release of Silksong. Huh? Is your argument that it would be bad for Silksong to surprise release next to GTA? Or that indie developers should have planned around the surprise release of Silksong? I really don't understand what argument you're trying to make here.
- xmodem 9mo agoThe point is that no indie dev was able to plan around the surprise release of Silksong, precisely because it was a surprise.
- embedding-shape 9mo agoAh, so then just an agreement with "Matters way less than people think" in the end?
- xmodem 9mo agoNo. A lot of devs delayed their launches: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/silksong-release-date-has-already-prompted-two-game-delays/1100-6534203/ https://www.gamespot.com/articles/silksong-release-date-has-... Those that didn't or couldn't think it hurt them pretty badly: https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/hell-is-us-boss-slams-silksong-as-launch-callous-after-releasing-on-same-day-3251825/ https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/hell-is-us-boss-slams-silkson... In general I think you are probably right. But there are definitely exceptions and this is one of them.
- cdirkx 9mo agoThe argument is that Silksong will completely absorb any potential market for you new indie game had during that period. People will be too busy playing another game, leading to poor numbers during launch. It's hard to recover from that.
- 4gotunameagain 9mo agoSomeone got too tired of the pay to win nonsense and decided to play in real life ? xD
- nkrisc 9mo agoThe very first sentence of the article: > Fire services attended the offices of Grand Theft Auto 6 developer Rockstar North this morning and secured "structural damage" following a reported boiler explosion.
- 4gotunameagain 9mo agoAre you familiar with the concept of a joke ? I can send you some peer reviewed papers to read about humour if you'd like.
- Novosell 9mo agoJokes are not permitted on HN, please don't do it again.
- testfrequency 9mo agoJoking about an office building exploding is contextually not a funny joke
- mschuster91 9mo agoAs long as no one died or got seriously injured, I see no problem in cracking jokes.
- pfdietz 9mo agoEven worse, they didn't make a joke about the game "being on Steam".
- lanfeust6 9mo agoIt didn't land, but bad jokes aren't a crime
- embedding-shape 9mo agoSlightly unrelated (maybe?), here is a moderately nuanced summary video of the latest happenings in the ongoing court cases in "Rockstar vs Union": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnuipPQDd_w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnuipPQDd_w TLDR of the case: Rockstar fired some employees for a slew of different reasons (some leaked/confidential messages), (most) fired employees were members of the union and the court case is about if 1) they were fired for the right reasons and 2) they were fired in the correct way and right now 3) should they still get paid while the court case figures out the answers to #1 and #2 I'm saying "maybe?" unrelated as it does sound like something a disgruntled employee might do, but could also be something completely else. I feel like it might be related though, hence the linking.
- oniony 9mo agoCould be a disgruntled employee; it could be Rockstar destroying their own records; it could be a leaky gas pipe.
- baalimago 9mo agoAh, the good old "explode the boiler to lower delivery expectations" trick. Befitting the studio of GTA!
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- esskay 9mo agoWhat a ridiculously sensationalistic headline. It was a minor issue that occurred out of hours and was resolved less than 30 minutes into the working day. Nobody was in any way injured or affected, and it was business as usual.
- snowram 9mo agoGTA6 is most likely the most anticipated cultural product of all times. Unfortunately, sensationalization makes perfect sense from news websites perspective.