Rockstar Vienna closed

[Zacker]

"This morning, as I came into work, I was greeted by security guards. It turned out Take-Two has closed their Rockstar Vienna office, effective immediately, "due to the challenging environment facing the video game business and our Company during this platform transition"."

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_i ... story=9276

[kleinluka]

yeah this happened a few weeks ago.... it sucks

[Bic-B@ll]

what the fuck? they didn't even tell their employees?

[D3ads]

That's pathetic...

[Defrag]

It seems to be a common way to do business (firing people without even telling them first). You know your superiors are shits when you find out that you've been fired... in the car park.. when someone texts you or the security guards won't let you in / the doors are locked. I think I'd flip if that happened to me.

It happened to a few companies in Dundee in the last year, too.

[sensee]

As far as I know Rockstar has to pay those guys the regular salary for some time because labour laws in Austria are very strict and you can't just fire people over night.

They used the security guards for keeping the employees away from their computers so they wouldn't steal any assets. Stupidity :roll:

[Gaz]

My lecturer told me that they will do this, especally to programmers, as they have the ability to completly screw up a project. So thats the only way they can fire them, purely on a "saftey of the project" reason.

[Zacker]

I find it incredible that you still close down studios in that way today...

[Minos]

Yeah it sucks hard time... I wonder what Take2 are going to do with the "alleged" new title rockstar vienna were working on.

[Defrag]

My lecturer told me that they will do this, especally to programmers, as they have the ability to completly screw up a project. So thats the only way they can fire them, purely on a "saftey of the project" reason.

Is it too hard to phone the people instead of just having them turn up for work only to find out they no longer have a job?

[Section_Ei8ht]

Yeah it sucks. Happened to me once. Was supposed to have a meeting with the boss to see where things were gonna go after the project was finished. Fucker never showed. Was sitting in my car in snowy parking lot for about an hour before I left to go to school.

Of course I was an independent contractor, but I still no longer had a job.

[Hourences]

Sucky

Im glad I didnt go there. I was pratically hired there a few years ago but in the end decided not to go for a wide range of reasons.

[Furyo]

There isn't a single reason that legitimates this sort of action, even to "protect your project from former employees". You can do that easily by having a backup server of anything that's being worked on, which is the Ubi way.

And yeah, to the best of my knowledge, Austrian laws (as with most EU countries) require some form of notice before being fired (unless you screwed up real bad).

What's this alleged title being mentioned? I thought they only worked on xbox ports...

[von*ferret]

We all know though that if you did take the job Hourence, they wouldn't have closed their doors

[Pericolos0]

There isn't a single reason that legitimates this sort of action, even to "protect your project from former employees". You can do that easily by having a backup server of anything that's being worked on, which is the Ubi way.

It's just about not taking any chances and risking future costs whatsoever. Programmers have the ability to build backdoors and do unexpected things.

Closing it this way is very assholish, but i understand why it is done. Just makes you realise its all about money and not compassion