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Bethesda Game Studios has unionized! (x.com)
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no official CWA press release yet, but here's the union's:

Workers at Bethesda Game Studios have joined the Communication Workers of America, forming the first wall-to-wall union at a Microsoft video game studio. The workers, consisting of 241 developers including artists, engineers, programmers and designers have either signed a union authorization card or indicated that they wanted union representation via an online portal. Microsoft has recognized the union.

and here's their Twitter account

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[-] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 27 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I wonder if this will translate to higher quality games now that the people that actually make them have more control over their product?

[-] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 17 points 4 months ago

Unionizing wouldn't normally really give workers more control over the product, it's about worker benefits, and management levels who direct product are usually excluded from participating in a union.

[-] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 4 months ago

Happier coders probably write better code, though.

(Not that writing better code will help if ES6 is still running on Morrowind's relabeled gamebryo engine like everything they've released since Morrowind, of course, but one can hope...)

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Crunch is a common practice, even though data shows it to lower total productivity. (See, for example: https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs181/projects/crunchmode/econ-crunch-mode.html )

So, it might lead to a rise in productivity, at least.

[-] pcouy@lemmy.pierre-couy.fr 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The closing parenthesis got caught into the link (at least with my client), turning it into a 404. You should add a space

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

Ah, thanks, I missed that.

[-] azerial@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 months ago

For that, you actually will need realistic goals and more competent managers. Lol

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