Grand Theft Auto IV developer Rockstar North may be one of the most successful high tech firms in Scotland, but company president Leslie Benzies laments a perceived lack of respect by government officials.

As reported by the Times:

Rockstar North is to video games what JK Rowling is to literature but few, particularly in government, are prepared to acknowledge that. It seems odd that politicians committed to “a smart, successful Scotland” haven’t come knocking at Benzies’s door.

Of the obvious official shunning, Benzies says:

We’d

love to help whether we have duration. But there are a number of agencies which actively seem to cut us out. There is that weird thing where folks think Scotland is so innovative, but whether you do anything truly innovative, you get beaten down… that is our home. I love Scotland. I like the people…

We’ve had such a beating by the past three years - by the American government, the British government, the Daily Mail…

Via: CVG

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