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alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.ca · 6 months ago

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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alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.ca · 6 months ago
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Don't Nod workers are due to strike this Friday after the studio announced its redundancy plan last month.
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    Nothing is more capitalistic than laying off your workers to get passable Q4 values. Absolutely disgusting.

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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.

    • ARg94@lemmy.packitsolutions.net
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      Just like in 2017, right?

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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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