If you think for a second that they are thinking on players, you have another thing coming.This is bad for customers.
Good for them, but its kinda sad this is a big celebration in 2024, THIS SHOULD BE THE NORM!
If you thought the WoW team was incompetent and ineffectual before, just wait.
Great news.Generally speaking better work conditions and work/life balance also leads to better quality work.Win for them, potentially win for the gamers too.
Hell yeah! One step closer to generative AI.
Looks like a shield for the people that fumbled that bag with SoD. Hopefully the game gets fixed. Hard to fire the people doing horrible work now.
ACTUALLY HUGE LET'S EFFIN GO! Nice work there blizz employees. I'm legitimately happy fo ya'll and impressed you pulled it off. GG WP
&*!@ yeah! Congrats
Good!
Quality assurance teams should be fired on the spot with recent oversights.
I don't know enough about Unions to give a personal evaluation on this. From what I hear, it's normally a good thing, but very demonized and propagandized against. If it leads to better circumstances, and thus better talent retention, it could be good.Honestly what I do know is that, before the Microsoft take-over at least, you had people like Bobby Kothick at the top making billions, So if this could pull some fat back from the top to the lower levels actually doing the game creating, I'd be all for that. Those at the top shouldn't be making a hundred times more for the same amount of work. And given the mess it was at Blizzard in the past, a bigger voice from below to those at the top, doesn't exactly sound unwise either, scandal-preventing-wise.
CONGRATULATIONS TO BLIZZ DEVS! We hope, along with Sega of America getting unionized, this continues to go forward and game devs can reclaim the places they grew to love once upon a time--as well as have a safe workplace. This is a good move for them, the individual, the company, and even us.
Yet another incentive for Blizz to pull the plug on this dying trash heap of a game ;-D
Honestly until the CBA becomes public it's all speculation what this may mean to the game, employees, and companies involved. Unions are usually good for the people but bad for businesses. I've seen some unions be great for their members, and I've seen unions that don't give two #$%^s about their people as long as they're collecting their dues. Honestly, with all the crap that's happened at Blizzard lately, and its headquarters being in California (which is not a right-to-work state) I'm not shocked at all that the employees formed a union.
I mean good for them but it is funny they're announcing this during one of the heaviest bugged patches they've had in a while. The timing, man. The timing.