Talk:Rockstar North

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Can someone add this excerpt to this article? I can’t enter due to failure to publish the changes.100000tro (talk) 03:07, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

References

 Done. – Rhain ☔ 03:31, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

Employee count + company name

According to the last financial statements via U.K Company House the company employs 1,320 people as of 2021 + apparently the company is now called Rockstar Games UK Limited instead of Rockstar North.(as of December 2021) Can someone change this?

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03312220/filing-history (April 11 2022 file, Page 3) Timur9008 (talk) 09:26, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

Are we sure that the company was not converted into a holding for all UK Rockstar studios, wherefore the employee count would encompass all of them? I would be surprised if the studio doubled in headcount in just two years. IceWelder [✉] 10:23, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

Factually Incorrect Nationality of Rockstar North.

It appears that the current nationality of Rockstar North is factually inaccurate, and no official references regarding the company being British have been provided.

Navigating to the official company website at a glance provides company nationality https://www.rockstarnorth.com/ that being a Scotland flag (not British) located on the home page. Something else to consider is the headquarter location which is labelled Edinburgh, Scotland. Also contained within the main homepage.

Could someone please provide official references for Rockstar North being a British company? As official references for a Scottish company can be viewed by directly accessing the official company website domain. Please visit the screenshot below as reference: https://imgur.com/a/OBI4t9C 2A00:23C7:51B7:201:2D61:1E99:9824:F9ED (talk) 17:54, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

Rockstar North's website indeed says "Scotland" and features the Scottish flag because the studio is in Scotland. Scotland, as you may know, is in the United Kingdom. Rockstar North is incorporated at the Companies House of the UK, follows UK company law, uses UK tax relief schemes, and so on. As already noted several times now (in edit summaries, previous dicussions, and the FAQ above), Wikipedia refers to companies by the demonym of their state. They have no "nationality" per se, and companies do not subscribe to WP:UKNATIONALS. As such, companies in Texas are American, not Texan; companies in Bavaria are German, not Bavarian; companies in Wales are British, not Welsh; and so on. IceWelder [✉] 18:26, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

Hi, I'd just like to point out just because a company is incorporated at the Companies House doesn't make that specific company British. If that were the case every musical band would be tied to being British due to merchandise sold under the band name and label. On top of ALL of the founders of Rockstar North and their titles Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption etc being Scottish the company was itself founded and created in Scotland. Multiple direct references to the studio being Scottish can be observed on the company website. It is important to note that a British flag is not identified on the website. If you could please provide valid references to the company explicitly stating British that would be appreciated, otherwise the company is Scottish. 31.205.93.181 (talk) 12:00, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

I'm not sure if you just skipped over my above response, but we do not identfiy sub-national demonyms for companies in general. The place of incorporation is a factor for this practice, but far from the only one. For example, in the United States, companies are always incorporated at a state level (instead of a federal level), yet we call them "American", not "Delawarian", "Californian", and so on. Rockstar North is indeed Scottish, even Edinburghian, but per the reasons already outlined, we call it "British", which it is a well, just like all other UK-based companies. The flag shown on the company website has little to no relevance here; it could be the flag of Geneseo, Kansas, and still have no effect.

Sources calling Rockstar North (and its primary output, Grand Theft Auto) British are plenty: The series and studio passed the British cultural test to apply for tax relief, and the series was nominated as a British culture icon in the Great British Design Quest and was cited as "a prime example of British creative culture". The studio is additionally directly referred to as British in generalist sources like [1], [2], [3], and others; even in tabloids. Change to the established practice has been rejected in previous discussions and would not consensus to be amended. A wider consensus would need to be established at a centralized location for all UK companies, not the talk page of one. IceWelder [✉] 12:55, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

LAME entry

This article was recently added to Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars [4], for anyone interested.  Spy-cicle💥  ^Talk? 21:28, 4 March 2023 (UTC)