• SuperDuper
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    619 months ago

    Oh no! Pretty soon the union will be demanding all kinds of crazy things like “stop stealing breast milk from the female employees” and “don’t drive employees to suicide.” When will it end?!

    • @[email protected]
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      269 months ago

      Hey listen, those employees signed an agreement when they came onboard that anything produced while in the employment of Blizzard was automatically Blizzard‘s property.

      So when Mike Ybarra gets thirsty? That shit is his.

  • @[email protected]
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    459 months ago

    Holy shit. Never thought I’d see the day. When I was working QA they would lay us off after the end of every project. It sucked. We’d be off work for months at a time. No benefits, no healthcare, no OT pay, long hours, bullshit 1099 contracts. And if you were on a shit title, sorry homie. Enjoy Barbie’s Island adventure.

    • @[email protected]
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      49 months ago

      QA could use some unionizing across the software/game industry imo.

      It’s amazing how buggy websites of billion dollar companies are. They either don’t have a QA team or don’t prioritize any of the bugs they file. If I were still in that field I’d probably team up with some litigious ADA lawyers.

  • @[email protected]
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    359 months ago

    Companies should not see this as a negative. They should think about this as a “radical invitation of social corporate interaction in the gaming industry to maximize long term engagement of the developers.”

  • @[email protected]
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    9 months ago

    This is great news. This is probably one of the companies that most desperately needed a union. Sure, I was laid off due to (bragged about) nepotism at my last dev job, and maybe a union would have helped, but according to my lawyer they didn’t break any laws laying me off. I’m just glad I was able to bounce back and land on my feet in a higher paying job.

    Even considering all of that, I find it hard to think of a company more desperately needing of a union than Activision/Blizzard.

    • @[email protected]
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      59 months ago

      EA alread uses paying customers as testers.

      Now they’ll just make that their official position.

    • @[email protected]
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      49 months ago

      Next week’s news, Activision/Blizzard moves it’s QA divisions to Poland. (Or implements “A.I.”)

  • Bobby Turkalino
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    -109 months ago

    This is hilarious because the latest Cod update prevents some Xbox players from booting into the game if they have a headset plugged in

    Just another group of people that are gonna give unions a bad rep, I’m afraid

    • @[email protected]
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      59 months ago

      Alternatively, maybe a better work culture that could be advocated for by the union would result in better working conditions, more realistic deadlines, happier developers, and by virtue of these things a reduction in the kind of error you are referencing.

      But also people make mistakes sometimes. Unions don’t cause that, and I’m skeptical of claims that they seriously aid or promote mistakes either.

  • @[email protected]
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    -149 months ago

    Does that mean they get more privileges to make crappy predatory games with loot boxes?

        • @[email protected]
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          119 months ago

          Maybe you should read how software is developed, what roles there are, how business functions in general, and so on - all that before blaming anyone for anything on the internet.

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            9 months ago

            I make crappy corporate software. I know how this garbage is made and it has no quality. It’s all release after release and hope the bugs get fixed after a while by the team.

        • @[email protected]
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          39 months ago

          Just because they failed QA doesn’t mean they failed marketing or won’t be released anyways. That’s the big wigs forcing shit through.