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nanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksM to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 1 年前

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

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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 · 1 年前
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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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    Shit that’s a weird headline to read…

  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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    Microsoft’s ‘World of Warcraft’ Gaming Staff

    What?

    Oh. Right.

    What?

  • p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world
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    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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    Shit maybe I’ll start up a sub again. Haven’t played since classic launched.

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

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

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

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

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

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    WoW hasn’t been good since vanilla.

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      Ah, the rose tinted glasses of nostalgia.

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

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

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

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

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          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.

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            Here’s a relic for you.

        • Guy Ingonito@reddthat.com
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          God I always think of the RTS games as being 90s things

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            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.

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              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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