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Will the cross-platform bans also affect your Office 365 subscription, Azure services and LinkedIn profile?
Great question. "If you get banned in the Metaverse, you get fired in real life."
Will the cross-platform bans also affect your Office 365 subscription, Azure services and LinkedIn profile?
Will the cross-platform bans also affect your Office 365 subscription, Azure services and LinkedIn profile?
Great question. "If you get banned in the Metaverse, you get fired in real life."
The only winners with this deal are the shareholders, many of whom are glad to walk away from the bad press and public outrage with a multi-million-dollar pay day.
Do you have any idea what it’s like to have an artist hand you eight disks’ worth of animation data and your boss tells you that you have to pack it down to one? Well, that's what happened to me. Brian (Fargo) also informed me that I would have to put my program and 200k of digitized sound on the same disk. Needless to say, I knew there were going to be hard times ahead for all of us working on Battle Chess.Wait... Battle Chess was Interplay? Dang. I never realised. I just played the game.In before Microsoft purchases Interplay solely for the Battle Chess IP.
The best-selling game ever developed or published by Interplay.
New Star Control?Toys for Bob
Blizz launcher is better than the garbage Windows store which doesn't even let you change the fucking language of applications, and guess how the language is selected automatically? By your system display language? No, by your "Region" setting. The one that controls date and time format, among other things. They even used to have a setting that specifically said "Language for Windows Store apps" and it was removed. Probably because it didn't do anything.It will be interesting to see if this will lead to actiblizz dropping their atrocious launcher.consolidate moar to reduce number of game launchers
But yeah, I'd be worried if I was Sony. Nintendo will probably be fine because they're basically their own silo isolated from gaming in general, but the amount of big name windows/xbox exclusives MS has now is going to be pretty crazy.
Hopefully Ms will buy Sony and force them to release bloodborne on pc.
New Star Control?Toys for Bob
Well, considering that MS now owns the company (although it seems Reiche et al. left TfB two years ago), maybe they can buy the name and the other missing IPs as well. Although no one probably remembers Star Control, so the chances of that are close to nilisn't the license still with Stardock (they release Star Control: Origins not too long ago)? Though from what I remember, Stardock just has the name and none of the actual content like the species, which seems to belong to the original creators.
And I though the original creators were already working on a sequel (Ghost of the Precursors or something like that).
new mangement looks surely promising
nah
This was pointed out elsewhere, but note that the men all have jobs that have directly to do with making the games work and selling them, while the women all are tangentially related to the games.new mangement looks surely promising
nah
Call of Duty: Warzone studio Raven Software unionizes
By Otto Kratky January 21, 2022 9:01AM
Weeks into a walkout, workers at Activision’s Raven Software are reportedly forming the first-ever AAA North American game workers union.
Raven Software workers, mostly QA testers, walked off of the job in early December following a mass layoff of other QA testers at the studio. While it has carried on since, the walkout has had no effect, with none of the previously fired QA testers, who had been contractors, being rehired.
Seemingly in response, a 34-person group of workers, also QA Testers, at Raven Software is forming a union. Called the Game Workers Alliance, the group has already taken to Twitter to explain its principles. Through the union, workers at Raven Software, the primary developer behind the massively popular battle royale title Call of Duty: Warzone, are seeking to reduce crunch, create transparency between leadership and workers, and ensure that Quality Assurance testers receive “respect, appropriate compensation, and career development opportunities.”
Before the newly formed union can accomplish any of its goals, it has to be recognized by Activision. In the same thread on Twitter, the union asks that “Raven Software and Activision leadership voluntarily recognize our union and respect our right to organize without retaliation or interference.”
Coming on the heels of Activision Blizzard’s acquisition by Microsoft, it’s not clear what the response to the Game Worker’s Alliance will be. In the terms of the acquisition, both Activision Blizzard and Microsoft confirmed that neither is engaged with unions and refused to acknowledge any ongoing strike or walkouts, including at Raven Software.
It’s worth noting that none of Microsoft’s employees are unionized, and that leadership at the company, including the CEO of Microsoft Gaming, Phil Spencer, doesn’t have much experience with them. In an interview with the The Washington Post, Spencer admitted to as much, saying, “I’m going to be honest, I don’t have a lot of personal experience with unions. I’ve been at Microsoft for 33 years. So I’m not going to try to come across as an expert on this, but I’ll say we’ll be having conversations about what empowers them to do their best work, which as you can imagine in a creative industry, is the most important thing for us.”
A union forming despite the acquisition is unsurprising, at least to those advocating for workers’ rights within Activision Blizzard. In an interview with Digital Trends, Jessica Gonzalez, founder and community organizer of the ABetterABK workers’ alliance, said “the news doesn’t change unionizing efforts. We are still pushing forward.”
Activision Blizzard has reached out to Bloomberg regarding the union’s formation, emphasizing its relatively small size within the company. According to Bloomberg, the publisher is “carefully reviewing the request for voluntary recognition from the GWA, which seeks to organize around three dozen of the company’s nearly 10,000 employees.”
Boby Kotic didn't kill himself. hehjust a loose end for microsoft.
The title is very misleading.Raven Software workers, mostly QA testers, walked off of the job
new mangement looks surely promising
nah