Life Is Strange Dev's Workers Are Going On Strike Over Impending Layoffs
Life Is Strange Dev's Workers Are Going On Strike Over Impending Layoffs
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Life Is Strange Dev's Workers Are Going On Strike Over Impending Layoffs
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Pretty soon going on strike will be a felony
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I dare them. Striking is the peaceful compromise.
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No, he didn’t have the house, and the senate, or promise to be a dictator on day one
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Late-stage capitalism (specifically public companies) are rather incompatible with singleplayer or "one-off" games that don't have a long revenue tail of a live season or multiple DLCs/expansions. That really sucks for the whole games industry, players and developers alike.
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Why? Shouldn't they be working on another game after releasing the first?
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Line must go up next quarter.
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They brought that one upon themselves imo. They were privately owned for 10 years before their IPO in 2018
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How effective is a strike when everyone is getting laid off anyways?
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Don't Nod obviously employs more than the 69 people that are at stake. It would be called a foreclosure instead of a restructuring if it wasn't the case
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Ideally if you fired striking workers the NLRB would get involved. Not so sure anymore.
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Turns out they do actually "nod" (to their corporate overlords)
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Nothing is more capitalistic than laying off your workers to get passable Q4 values. Absolutely disgusting.