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@nanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksM to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish • 10 months 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

@nanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksM to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish • 10 months 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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  • @Heavybell@lemmy.world
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    16•10 months ago

    Shit that’s a weird headline to read…

  • @mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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    7•10 months ago

    Microsoft’s ‘World of Warcraft’ Gaming Staff

    What?

    Oh. Right.

    What?

  • @p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world
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    6•10 months ago

    More need to do this. Laying off the studio that made hi fi rush should have been the first sign it was needed.

  • @magic_smoke@links.hackliberty.org
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    3•10 months ago

    Shit maybe I’ll start up a sub again. Haven’t played since classic launched.

    • Lexi Sneptaur
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      2•10 months ago

      The next expansion seems good. I’ve been playing cata

      • @Nythos@sh.itjust.works
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        2•10 months ago

        Dragonflight has been an amazing breath of fresh air with how it’s been respecting players time compared to SL and BfA.

        • Lexi Sneptaur
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          1•10 months ago

          I didn’t mind BfA too much. Shadowlands felt like a drag the entire time though. Definitely my least favorite expansion.

  • @kugmo@sh.itjust.works
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    3•10 months ago

    Can’t unionize if you’re not an important workforce.

  • @woelkchen@lemmy.world
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    2•10 months ago

    Only a single game’s team and not even all of Blizzard? American unions are weird.

  • @mysticpickle@lemmy.ca
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    -1•10 months ago

    WoW hasn’t been good since vanilla.

    • @Squirrel@thelemmy.club
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      8•10 months ago

      Ah, the rose tinted glasses of nostalgia.

      • Sabata
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        3•10 months ago

        https://www.wowhead.com/item=208546/archivists-rose-tinted-glasses

    • nickwitha_k (he/him)
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      3•10 months ago

      WoW hasn’t been good since vanilla open-beta.

      • @PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee
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        6•10 months ago

        WoW hasn’t been good since vanilla open-beta..

        Blizzard hasn’t made a good game since Warcraft 3 came out in 2002.

        • nickwitha_k (he/him)
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          4•10 months ago

          Agreed. Once they realized how much money they could make by designing MMOs to be addictive, and handed the reins to MBAs, they went down the crapper.

          • @mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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            2•10 months ago

            Here’s a relic for you.

        • @kandoh@reddthat.com
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          3•10 months ago

          God I always think of the RTS games as being 90s things

          • @PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee
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            3•10 months ago

            In truth I don’t think many came after Warcraft 3, but The Frozen Throne expansion would come the following year and WC3 would maintain a pretty impressive player base over the next 10 years.

            Sins of a Solar Empire released in 2008, but by that time the RTS genre had fizzled out and most entries would fit more into 4X or Grand Strategy.

            • @ryathal@sh.itjust.works
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              1•10 months ago

              Starcraft 2 was 2010, with the final expansion in 2015.

              There’s several attempts to have a more traditional RTS coming soon/out. Stormgate and Beyond All Reason are the big two.

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