What the holy fuck are you talking about?

You don’t have a problem with increased representation you just have a problem with people asking for increased representation.

Coming from this not as a gay person but as someone who never intends to have kids, that’s... not offensive, but at least annoying and exclusionary. It’s bad enough when I have relatives telling me “You’ll change your mind and grow out of it,” it’s bad enough when it’s peers telling me the same. I don’t need video…

They assumed nothing. Before Odyssey came out, Ubisoft told consumers that they would have complete freedom to choose their relationships before the game was released. That was a big part of the game’s marketing pitch, which you obviously didn’t pay attention to. Perhaps you were too busy whining about something else…

No, it’s not proof of that.

That’s fine, but in this particular case Ubisoft earlier was making fuzz about how inclusive the game is.

You’d have a point.....except for the fact that the feature the DLC directly impacted was a feature directed at the LGBQ community in its marketing.

Just because *you* don’t see it, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. That’s what privilege is. We’ve all got our blindspots. I take things like this as an opportunity to learn, not an opportunity to get offended at others being offended about something I don’t yet fully understand.

Seriously. If they had just laid off the folks working on Destiny - that would make sense. The game isn’t being made by the studio anymore. Totally reasonable to lay off that team.

Not just for game developers, but software devs in general. And the people that design, build and support the infrastructure that all this software runs on.

Thanks to Kotaku for hosting this piece. I was laid off by EA two years ago and am still dealing with the issues it caused as the game industry in my location has declined and makes seeking work especially hard (and no, moving elsewhere is not an easily managed option currently).

Ha, that is a laugh. I’m in CA right now and next week I’m being forced to attend a union busting meeting from corporate.

As an AFL-CIO member (AFCSME) - thank you for turning the main organization’s eye towards the game industry, even if only a little.

I have never before seen the ze/zir/zirs pronoun and I gotta say, I love it. It has a nice retro-future vibe to it, like it was something out of a 60's era sci-fi book.

Oh dear god please unionize. All Tech Jobs should.

This is literally what Game Workers Unite exists to help do.

Could we please stop with the devil’s advocating? It isn’t helpful or constructive.

No one is claiming unionizing is going to magically fix all the issues inherent with this industry overnight, but in an industry where the higher-ups have a disproportionate amount of power and whose jobs are seemingly safe no matter…

This is great Liz. I work for a major game company and we get it. We’ve been through hell enough times that we know unionization is important. The desire and hunger to organize is here.

But do you know what we don’t have? Organizers.

We don’t have union activists or social workers working to make unionization a reality.…

I hope people read this and take action in their industry. It’s meaningful. There is so much reason why everything has gone to such shit with employment and benefits since Reagan came in and targeted the unions, public education and health care among other things.

In fairness, they’re not paying $0.