Grand Theft Auto VI Developer Rockstar Asks Devs to Return to the Office Full-Time - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 March 2024 / 3,753 Views
Rockstar Games has asked its employees to return to the office full-time in the beginning of April, according to report from Bloomberg's Jason Schreier.
The report states Rockstar head of publishing Jenn Kolbe told employees the company plans to end hybrid working for productivity and security reasons, and believes there are "tangible benefits" for working in the office.
"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," said Kolbe in an email sent to employees.
Rockstar Games is focused on developing Grand Theft Auto VI, which will launch for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S in 2025. The first trailer for GTAVI quickly became the number one trending video on YouTube and topped 100 million views in about a day and a half. The trailer as of the time of writing has 178 million views.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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I support this 100%. Just so long as they don't expect any of their employees to work when they're outside of the office, and employees are allowed to leave the office at a reasonable time.
Security reasons I understand, but productivity reasons? Aka: we're about to crunch the hell out of you
Moving data when working on Max Payne 3 a lot of it was done on SD cards because of indept leadership. Tho one funny one is when Nintendo was touring the office for Chinatown on DS he pulled an all nighter fell asleep at his desk and woke up the sound of a angry Miyamoto thinking he was lazy. Iwata was there and nice. Dan Houser is a man child. He left R* around 2012 to work on an indie game Treachery in Beatdown city then worked at MLB Games for a few years until last year. Did the RBI series. He wasn't a fan of the RBI games but did what he was told when the manager was hired but nepotism and insisted they use Alienware PCs for game development. So those pieces of shit broke a lot. Until like many last year was laid off and he was laid off while on his honeymoon. He sent me back in 2011 a signed poster of OKamiden from the producer and I have pics of him at E3 with Suda when he was working on Treachery for Vita/PS Mobile (later moved to Switch/Xbox/PC) ..I think that was E3 2014.
Um security can be done remotly. And some jobs can be done full time remotly.
I think it should be a hybrid work model.
That's a shame. Hybrid working has so many benefits.
Yeah, like multiple leaks.
Well with working from home. More people will stay with company with this model more people will leave and thus GTA 7 might not be so good.
They paying big bucks and need to monitor everyone making progress,
Sounds allright to me
As long as it is not full time cruch culture.
they have that right!
