Microsoft’s ‘World of Warcraft’ Gaming Staff Votes to Unionize

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• theangriestbird@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fuck YES! Unions unions unions! Unionize the whole industry, let’s fucking goooooo

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• scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  who would have guessed that laying off an entire studio overnight would have repercussions, ey Microsoft?

  Immediately went from papa microsoft who believes in the studio to “Make money or GTFO”

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  • overload@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It turns out that job security is rather important! Who would have thunk that, Microsoft?

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  • Faydaikin@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t overestimate what unions do. MS is still perfectly in their right to close down the studio and fire all it’s staff, if they had a mind to.

    It’s just a matter of doing it properly. Severance Pay, Pensions and such. Which I honestly don’t think Microsoft cares too much about.

    I mean, if they can avoid paying it, they would. But they do actually have a legitimate business side. And severance pay for the entire Blizzard staff would likely still cost them less than what they had to pay Kotick to get rid of him.

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• FlashMobOfOne@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  TIL World of Warcraft is still a thing.

  And goddamnit, yes, their staff should unionize.

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• saigot@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s the second Microsoft Game studio to unionize isn’t it. How excellent!

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• abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Of fucking course Bloomberg would describe Blizzard as “Microsoft’s ‘World of Warcraft’” Gaming staff.

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  • Faydaikin@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s not incorrect though. It is all Microsofts. The IPs, the staff… everything.

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• Beaver@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Maybe now would be a good time to get back into way

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  • MajorHavoc@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Let’s see how he union negotiations go.

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  • seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The last expansion was genuinely good and theyre planning a new storyline on a span of 3 extensions!

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• dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wait, I’m missing something. What does World of Warcraft have in common with Microsoft?

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  • pepsison52895@lemmy.one ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Microsoft purchased Blizzard.

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    • dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      🤯

      I must have been under a rock.

      No wonder they were able to unionize so quickly. And I bet they had to, knowing Microsoft’s track record.

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• shasta@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Do they have any leverage? How much money is wow still making off new content at this point?

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  • MajorHavoc@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They have plenty of leverage. WoW runs on centralized servers which cannot maintain themselves, and are likely still under constant forms of Cyberattack, waiting for a serious vulnerability.

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  • seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    WoW is still a lot of money iirc, the playerbase is still big

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• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A man chooses.

  A slave obeys.

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• mjhelto@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Anyone wanna start a sysadmin union? Anyone? Please? My neck is starting to hurt from all the hats they make me wear!

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