Fuck YES! Unions unions unions! Unionize the whole industry, let’s fucking goooooo
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”
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.
That’s the second Microsoft Game studio to unionize isn’t it. How excellent!
TIL World of Warcraft is still a thing.
And goddamnit, yes, their staff should unionize.
Of fucking course Bloomberg would describe Blizzard as “Microsoft’s ‘World of Warcraft’ Gaming staff.”
