I know, I've helped successfully form a large union within the video games industry. NDAs can only cover the work itself.

allowed:

• "I was moved off a high profile project because my manager hates me"
• "The company is illegally withholding wages"
• "I was put on a PIP for barely missing my metrics"
• "The CEO said in a meeting that they want to use AI to replace QA"

not allowed:

• "Wanna hear about this cool bug I found today?"
• "Project XYZ launches on the 30th"
• "Let's talk about the financials from that all hands meeting before the quarterly report"

If you are organizing a union NEVER EVER use company controlled channels to communicate about it. This is organizing 101.

At the same time, make sure that whatever you do use is private and secure. Union reps will warn you about how companies spy, and it is not paranoia.

Yeah. I've never worked anywhere that the staff didn't have side channels for socializing out of work that inevitably ended up getting kinda borderline with some discussions. It's against company policy and it is a problem but it is mostly ignored because good employees know where to draw the line and the orgs that own those third party chats tend to not be competitors.

And it leaves people open to stuff like this. "Well, you probably talked about your work schedule or compensation which we consider Office Use Only so you violated corporate policy and are eligible to be fired"

As for "Well, they should have used matrix or signal!": Maybe. But if you've ever tried to convince a friend group to install another client then you know that is a much bigger struggle than convincing people to engage in collective bargaining.

But also? While it is possible rockstar/take2 just guessed, the more likely outcome is that someone narced. At which point it doesn't actually matter if everyone was on Discord or Matrix or Signal or whatever.

You're allowed to use independent channels to organize unions, etc, BUT MAKE SURE THEY'RE SECURE

What does OC mean in this context?

Rockstar PC ports are always dogshit for the first 5 years of their existence.

I'll just wait for it to be $5 on sale when it's finally stable.

Those bastards. Union busting and PC racism?

Xbox is failing at this point. I suspect Rockstar might have to bump the timeline of the PC version.

But I'll still do what I did with GTA V and wait for it to hit bargain bins.