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Microsoft’s ‘World of Warcraft’ Gaming Staff Votes to Unionize(www.bloomberg.com)

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Ænima@lemm.ee
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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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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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Feydaikin@beehaw.org
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It’s not incorrect though. It is all Microsofts. The IPs, the staff… everything.

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

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pepsison52895@lemmy.one
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Microsoft purchased Blizzard.

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dubyakay@lemmy.ca
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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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t3rmit3@beehaw.org
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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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DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca
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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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FIash Mob #5678@beehaw.org
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TIL World of Warcraft is still a thing.

And goddamnit, yes, their staff should unionize.

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shastaxc@lemm.ee
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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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セリャスト@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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WoW is still a lot of money iirc, the playerbase is still big

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MajorHavoc@programming.dev
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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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