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”
Microsoft’s ‘World of Warcraft’ Gaming Staff Votes to Unionize
Submitted 4 months ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to gaming@beehaw.org
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scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 months ago
overload@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
It turns out that job security is rather important! Who would have thunk that, Microsoft?
Faydaikin@beehaw.org 4 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.
FlashMobOfOne@beehaw.org 4 months ago
TIL World of Warcraft is still a thing.
And goddamnit, yes, their staff should unionize.
saigot@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
That’s the second Microsoft Game studio to unionize isn’t it. How excellent!
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Of fucking course Bloomberg would describe Blizzard as “Microsoft’s ‘World of Warcraft’” Gaming staff.
Faydaikin@beehaw.org 4 months ago
It’s not incorrect though. It is all Microsofts. The IPs, the staff… everything.
Beaver@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Maybe now would be a good time to get back into way
MajorHavoc@programming.dev 4 months ago
Let’s see how he union negotiations go.
seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
The last expansion was genuinely good and theyre planning a new storyline on a span of 3 extensions!
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Wait, I’m missing something. What does World of Warcraft have in common with Microsoft?
pepsison52895@lemmy.one 4 months ago
Microsoft purchased Blizzard.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 4 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.
shasta@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Do they have any leverage? How much money is wow still making off new content at this point?
MajorHavoc@programming.dev 4 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.
seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
WoW is still a lot of money iirc, the playerbase is still big
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
A man chooses.
A slave obeys.
mjhelto@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Anyone wanna start a sysadmin union? Anyone? Please? My neck is starting to hurt from all the hats they make me wear!
theangriestbird@beehaw.org 4 months ago
Fuck YES! Unions unions unions! Unionize the whole industry, let’s fucking goooooo