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The Rockstar firings have been making headlines for weeks, but the latest development may be the most controversial yet. People Make Games has published a report that includes screenshots of Discord messages believed to be the direct cause of the firing of 34 employees from the company.
Last October, reports surfaced of Rockstar employees claiming they were fired to prevent the formation of a labor union. Rockstar responded that the firings were due to leaking information, especially with GTA 6 on the production line.
Since then, there have been protests from former employees and lawsuits against the company, while the real reason for the firings remained in dispute until a new report revealed what happened inside the employees’ Discord server.
According to People Make Games, the source who obtained the messages is not one of the dismissed and does not belong to the union but has had access to the server since 2022 and confirms that he did not share any confidential details about the games on the server, the report clarifies that Rockstar may have accessed the union’s Discord server or obtained the messages indirectly through someone who reported to management.
In early October 2025, Rockstar sent a mail informing employees to remove a number of Slack channels that were deemed a distraction and bad behavior, a move that many within the company did not like and discussions began within the Discord server about the impact of the decision on team morale.
From the messages conveyed:
I’d really like to see the evidence that it was impacting productivity. I can’t imagine the moral damage wouldn’t be much worse.
Employees also shared Slack messages after hours because the rule at Rockstar forbids reading mail outside of work.
According to the report, one of the server members contacted management to inform them of the conversations and this led to an internal investigation into the Discord server. Rockstar then obtained the messages and shortly after, it was announced that 34 employees were fired for violating policies, sharing unauthorized information, and leaking content (although the report confirms that there were no leaks).
The message shown in the report, which was cited as one of the reasons for the firing, did not contain any confidential content related to games, but rather a discussion about work policies, an exchange of official letters, and an expression of employee dissatisfaction, which leads many to believe that the real goal may have been to prevent the formation of a union or silence internal discussions.
