Fired Rockstar QA worker Jack Hoxby tells the BBC he probably won't buy GTA 6

Jack Hoxby, a former Rockstar Games QA worker, told BBC News that he did not think he would buy GTA 6, GamesRadar+ reported on June 28, 2026.

Hoxby was one of around 30 developers in the UK and Canada whom Rockstar fired in 2025. According to GamesRadar+, all of them were union members or involved in organising, and the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain (IWGB) accused Rockstar of illegal union busting. Rockstar said the firings were over leaks of "confidential information". GamesRadar+ noted that the company had not said publicly what that information was, and that the firings led to protests outside Rockstar's offices and were raised in the UK Parliament.

In the BBC interview, as quoted by GamesRadar+, Hoxby said he "really" did not know whether he would play the game he had spent years working on. "I definitely don't think I will buy it," he said, adding that he did not think he could bring himself to. He expected many of his friends to be given copies by the company. He might play it at some point, he said, but it was hard to say: "It'll probably just bring back too much." He added that he had thought about it a lot.

GamesRadar+ also noted that an employment tribunal had turned down Rockstar's request to remove claims of blacklisting from the case, and that the trial was set to begin in the months before GTA 6's November release on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. The report did not give trial dates.

The dispute was still going through the legal process, and nothing in the report settled who was right. Hoxby's comments were his own feelings about the game, not a finding about the firings. GamesRadar+ did not carry a response from Rockstar to the interview.

Since then, Rockstar's UK staff have been given a union recognition vote running from November 12 to 26, across GTA 6's launch week.