Employee Exodus at Rockstar Games?

hammersuit writes "GameDaily Biz is reporting on recent troubles at Rockstar Games. 'A difficult console transition, FTC investigation, re-rating of GTA: San Andreas and more have put Rockstar and Take-Two in an unenviable position. We've received word that in addition to people who left because of studio closures, even more either fled or quit. Are Rockstar employees jumping ship or is this just a result of cost-cutting at Take-Two?'"

Comments

Over GTA? No way

[Rachel Lucid]

Come on, after releasing a game like TABLE TENNIS, if employees there are leaving because of anything, it's because they got bored silly programming pong all over again.

Yes, I know the came's supposed to be incredibly good and realistic, but it's a drastic turn from what they'd been doing no matter how you see it.

Re:Over GTA? No way

[heson]

Ah you mean GTA:Silicon Valley?

You code your way from moms basement to IPO. Minigames include /. where on the lower levels you just post but on the higher levels you race to beef up your webserver cluster to handle an upcomming slashdotting. The table tennis physics engine will be used in the basement minigame pocket ping-pong (the hot coffee of the game), and in the higher levels you must play squash & tennis with business partners and almost win to close business deals.

Obviously...

[Quaoar]

...Rockstar's HQ is next to a killing spree spawn point.

They fled?

[LKM]

I bet the remaining Rockstar employees hunted them down, drove over them, beat them up with baseball bats and stole their money.

Re:Wait a second...

[nacturation]

Not to be an English nazi, but since when has there been a discrepancy between quitting and fleeing from a job?

Like you, the Nazis probably weren't very good at English either.