Rockstar abuses and exploits tax loopholes and pay no taxes! Buncha Goddamn PARASITES!

DUDE DA LIBS LMAO

The UK government is giving out tens of millions for video game developers that are starting up. Its subsidizing the growth of the industry, hopeful to make the money back in cash when these studios get big and successful.
Rockstar is taking most (as in, more than half of the whole UK's subsidies) of this money, and it doesn't need it, AND it doesn't even pay tax in the UK, it operates "at a loss" in the UK and makes its money in the USA.

Basically Rockstar is smuggling tens of millions of pounds per year out of the UK to the USA by exploiting this program meant to help smaller indie studios grow and give jobs in the UK.

The general public don't care.

If you want an obvious sign of this all you have to do is look at the mass outrage of CSGO youtube scammers who were promoting their own businesses to scam children. Nothing happened, their channels are bigger now than before, if anything all the controversy helped them.

Nobody is going to be thinking about buying a rockstar game and decide not to because they don't pay any taxes, nobody cares. The CEO of rockstar could rape and eat children and it wouldn't hurt the company long-term.

If you make good product (or good to your audience) you can do anything, if you make shit products not so much (ie bioware)

>Nothing happened
Valve got sued and changed their trading rules. The EU moved in to change the rules for proto-gambling in video games in general. Everything happened.

>Government intervention has the opposite effect of its intention
Woah where have I heard that from? This is why government shouldn't have the power to subsidy private businesses.

>when a person breaks the law, its the law's fault
How about you accurately aim your disgust at the criminals and not the initiative they are corrupting?

He would really benefit from using one of these pixel avatars most ugly youtube personalities have.

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>console makers outsource to Foxconn in commie territory
>sweatshop workers made a good game
>that's all that matters
KyoAni was just the first in a based round of giving corporate what it needs.
All we need is another sore-ass, Copyright-sucking indie shit whining that corporate stole his precious Interrectual Property rights so we can have blazes starting in all corporate offices, just like Banjo Tarrant wanted.

>its the government's fault that its being robbed by scammers
Partially, but perhaps there's some fault with the scammers too? Maybe? Yeah?

>Write a bad law
>It gets abused
>Not the law's fault
An easily corruptible system is a bad system by definition. Taking away the government's ability to grant subsidies and corporate welfare would go a long way to eliminating lobbying bullshit.

>if god didn't want me to kill you, he would've made you harder to kill

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>He thinks god exists
lmao

Fine, orkboi. Let me rework it to fit your soulless ways.
>if you didn't want me to run over your dog, you wouldn't have allowed it outside the house

So we need EU finding for games like this?

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>if you didn't want me to fart in your mouth, you shouldn't have breathed in my general direction

>Analogy so shitty it proves me right
If you didn't want your dog to get hit by a car you'd keep it on a leash.

>capitalism bad
>chooses to live in capitalist country
every time.

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>its your fault i killed your dog
The absolute state of ork intellectuals.

>that actually need it
Like?

You can't just hope and pray it won't get hit by a car, you have to take precautions so that it won't.

Rockstar lost its touch since they started milking whales in GTA online
Sterling is still a massive douchebag, one thing doesnt exclude the other

Nothing happened in the US, and the UK recently said all this shit ISN'T gambling.

>Their game failed so hard they dropped out of the industry

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>no profits
>no taxes.

The UK recently said this IS gambling, when you can convert the digital currency (knives and skins for CSGO) to real life currency (via these same websites you talked about).
Stop getting juridical advice from Kotaku.

Yeah, their games sell well, review well and inspire a shit ton of game developers because they are all bad. Can we go just one single day without Yea Forums lying to itself?

>they pay no taxes!
Based
Unironically more patriotic and true to the American spirit than the morons who willingly give up property so beaurocrats can buy and blackmail child hookers

Tax resistance is honestly one of the most redpilled things you can do.

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>think of all the games that didn't get made because Rockstar pocketed that money.

How the fuck am I supposed to think of something that doesn't exist?

Reminder that taxes are anti-capitalistic, but so are copyright laws.

Good. Taxation is theft.

The same way you can think of the life an aborted child didn't have. Are you so basic that you can't abstract?

Makes no sense. The government shouldnt be interfering in a private company's business, if the products good then said company can sell it on their own terms without funding from the EU. As for the law it's self it should be abolished laymen who don't know or understand the goings on of simple economics let alone the rules and laws of the videogame industry shouldn't be investing in companys.

This but unironically
Imagine the amount of entrepreneurial opportunities there would be if anybody could create and sell a Mario game

They are a bad influence to other devs. All they want is make blockbusters that sell tons. Look at CDPR, they are going to burn all their goodwill chasing the GTA audience

In comparison to multinational, multiculti businesses that glorify these dull games with nigger protagonists?

Holy fuck this. Intellectual property should be abolished.

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when are they going to address the root of the problem? Never.

he should also remove himself from videos and just switch between several different versions of his cartoon self with different levels of smugness

Oh, ok, I will abstract. Let's see, all the games that didn't get made because Rockstar pocketed that money... meh, wasn't really all that much.

You can't turn football player cards into money. It isn't gambling, because what you get doesn't have inherent value, so you can't "gamble" to get more or less valuable things. According to UK law, all the cards are equally valuable (worthless), so you aren't gambling.
In Counter Strike, you CAN get money for them, and thus they DO HAVE inherent value (their trade value in real money), and thus it is gambling when you open a mystery box that randomly has X or Y, and X is very much more expensive than Y.

Nah, that'd be a mistake. If he was hiding how fat he was, people would never let it go.

What he should do instead is lose weight.

>Whoa there Jimbo, cool it with the antisemitism...
You made this thread just to make that joke.
It was pretty funny.