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alyaza [they/she] ( alyaza@beehaw.org ) MA to GamingEnglish · 2 years ago

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

www.bloomberg.com

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

www.bloomberg.com

alyaza [they/she] ( alyaza@beehaw.org ) MA to GamingEnglish · 2 years ago
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World of Warcraft workers have voted to unionize the popular video-game franchise, expanding organized labor’s new foothold at Microsoft Corp. by around 500 employees.
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  • coyotino [he/him] ( theangriestbird@beehaw.org ) 
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    Fuck YES! Unions unions unions! Unionize the whole industry, let’s fucking goooooo

  • Scrubbles ( scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ) 
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    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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      It turns out that job security is rather important! Who would have thunk that, Microsoft?

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

  • FIash Mob #5678 ( FlashMobOfOne@beehaw.org ) 
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    TIL World of Warcraft is still a thing.

    And goddamnit, yes, their staff should unionize.

  • abbiistabbii ( abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
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    Of fucking course Bloomberg would describe Blizzard as “Microsoft’s ‘World of Warcraft’ Gaming staff.”

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    • MajorHavoc ( MajorHavoc@programming.dev ) 
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      Let’s see how he union negotiations go.

    • slst ( seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
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      The last expansion was genuinely good and theyre planning a new storyline on a span of 3 extensions!

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

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      Microsoft purchased Blizzard.

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        🤯

        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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          Being under the ActiBlizzard umbrella wasn’t exactly a walk in the park for a lot of employees either.

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            I knew a dude who worked at Activision Blizzard and his description of his workplace sounded horrid. The weird part was his fawning bright eyed love for the office culture. He viewed it as a perfect dream workplace. I don’t even know it there’s a takeaway from all that. It just always struck me as notably odd

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              Sounds like a strange form of Stockholm Syndrome.

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          And they paid $69 billion, which is the dumb joke amount Elon initially said he’d pay for Twitter, but these dorks actually did it

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

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

  • Snot Flickerman ( SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
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    A man chooses.

    A slave obeys.

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    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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