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The wives of game developers who worked on Rockstar San Diego sent a letter of protest open. They complain about working conditions of husbands who like forced labor.

That said, some people at management level in that game developers do pressure forcing employees to work 12 hours per day. Holiday between Christmas and New Year, which should exist, even eliminated.

Worse, the management of Rockstar San Diego to break her promise there will be compensation for long working hours. Health and overtime pay money even mentioned missing.

The letter stated as an effort to encourage the improvement of working conditions at Rockstar San Diego. In addition, the sender threatened legal action will be taken if the company where the husband worked was no improvement in the weeks ahead.

The action of the wife is apparently not the first place in the gaming industry. In 2004, the wife of game developers at Electronic Arts to do a similar step.

EA also eventually have to deal with Class Action lawsuits from their employees. This entailed the obligation to pay overtime to their workers EA with a total value to $ 14.9 million (approximately Rp 136 billion).

Rockstar San Diego is part of the game developer Rockstar Games, known as Grand Theft Auto series. While the game was born Rockstar San Diego is a series Midnight Club, Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis and Dead Red.