If we had some sort of restriction where when the clock strikes 40 hours the servers shut down and you can’t work anymore, that would frustrate people to no end.

Look, you might be just fine licking boots in your industry, and more power to you. The rest of us understand that “everyone does it this way” is not an excuse for anyone doing it this way. “It’s bad everywhere, so we should just give up trying to make it better anywhere,” is a cowardly, lazy outlook.

The whole purpose of spoilers is so people can make informed decisions about the way they spend their money. I'm happier not dropping $25 on a game that will absolutely make me feel gross

I hope everyone with any intention to buy the game reads the spoilers so they know what they’re getting into

The same discourse has not repeated itself, despite a complete lack of content warnings.

This review is proof that spoilers are actually good.

Nothing about his appearance has anything to do with being a pedo.

but keep in mind, for a union to work they need political backing so they can tell execs to fuck off. MAGA hats fetishize the 1950s as a time in which “America was great;” they forget that a big reason why it was that way—for at least some of the population—was due to the insanely strong power Unions could wield at…

This is what happens when we continually attack Unions and strip the workforce of its protections that had been so prevalent decades ago. Without collective bargaining a company is going to exploit the worker as much as they can and let you burn out.

50k isn’t what the ActiBlizz folks are making. That’s the national average. From the numbers in the article, they’re making at most around 35k/yr... and they’re probably working/living in the most expensive cities where that 35k won’t cover rent.

Well cool, thanks for squashing the image Kinja.

The only real way to prevent this level of toxicity in game environments is to fight against it from the start. Once a culture becomes toxic... it’s really, really hard to pull it back.

I wouldn’t say this actually looks any better except for the resolution. Whatever graphical changes they’re doing is inconsistent with the style of the game materials and assets and it does not look better to me.

Another tech demo without art direction.

In some places yes, in most of America no. Thank successive governments for weakening employee protections. Thank “At-will employment” states for deciding to fuck over every person who works in their states.

Yeah, I like that Amazon tried to make it like unions would only take their money and not provide results. Bruh, if unions didn’t do anything, you wouldn’t be going so hard with the anti-union rhetoric and threats.

At this point, I guess I gotta tap out from Blizz’s games. It’s really unfortunate, because I love their stuff. I shrugged off the Hong Kong protest response with “No ethical consumption etc.” and “I’m just one person, so I guess whatever.” But at this point, it’s just like. What are you doing?

Sucks, because after a…

Corporations are Anti-Human. We need to be able to break up these corporations that abuse human rights and destroy the lives of their employees. We need to end legal bribery where corporations can give large payoffs to politicians. Fuck corporate America. Unionize. 

Guys...I don’t want to cause a panic here, but I’m *starting* to think gaming has a male toxicity problem...

“It is this type of irresponsible behavior from unaccountable State bureaucrats that are driving many of the State’s best businesses out of California”