{"id":87730,"date":"2026-08-18T14:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T18:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87730"},"modified":"2026-08-18T14:37:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T18:37:56","slug":"dont-boycott-gta-6-help-win-justice-instead-fired-devs-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87730","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Boycott GTA 6, Help Win Justice Instead, Fired Devs Say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A group of former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/grand-theft-auto-vi\/\">Grand Theft Auto 6<\/a> developers accusing Rockstar Games of union busting and currently engaged in a legal battle with the studio doesn&#8217;t want players to boycott the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hhIESBAyDK8\">video<\/a> posted by the Independent Workers&#8217; Union of Great Britain, fired members of the union made clear how they would like fans to support them in their ongoing legal dispute with Rockstar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We&#8217;re going to make this easy for you,&#8221; the former devs state. &#8220;Don&#8217;t boycott GTA 6. Win justice for the people who helped make it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hhIESBAyDK8  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the devs go on to explain, they all worked on GTA 6 for years and poured their &#8220;hard work, skill, and creativity&#8221; into making it. Rather than boycotting their work, they want people to experience what they helped build.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;But that doesn&#8217;t mean we want you to let Rockstar off the hook,&#8221; the devs said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead, workers are calling on supporters to help in other ways, like buying a <a href=\"https:\/\/gameworkers.square.site\/s\/order?cs=true&amp;cst=custom&amp;item=66WZHVFB242USGVZPSOPSAAB#MZLD7KNOR6HEOXEDJK3YLOJF\">custom t-shirt<\/a>. The proceeds will go towards supporting fired workers and their legal case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That legal saga began on October 30, 2025, when 31 Rockstar employees at the studio&#8217;s UK office were fired without warning or<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of former Grand Theft Auto 6 developers accusing Rockstar Games of union busting and currently engaged in a legal battle with the studio doesn&#8217;t want players to boycott the game. In a video posted by the Independent Workers&#8217; Union of Great Britain, fired members of the union made clear how they would like&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":87732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87730"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87733,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87730\/revisions\/87733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}