Over 450 Diablo developers at Blizzard have unionized

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• buddascrayon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s about god damned time.

  Unionize the gaming industry across the board. Fuck the corpos!

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  • roynotsopro@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How is this going to benefit the gaming industry?

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    • AliasAKA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They’ll be required to pay their employees appropriately and provide benefits.

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    • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Good developers can work there?

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• LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  There’s 450 Diablo developers?

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  • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    According to the Diablo IV credits, over 9,500 people worked on that title in some capacity:

    www.mobygames.com/game/204085/…/windows/

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    • DupaCycki@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’ve worked in the video game industry for a couple years and have been credited in several games. This number may actually be higher.

      It may sound crazy, but there’s a lot of people working on AAA games, usually most of them completely unrelated to game dev. Marketing, public relations, translators, 3D graphics artists, sound designers, orchestra performers, motion capture stuntmen, voice actors. Probably a few dozen managers, who have never even seen the game. Hell, some companies even credit IT staff in the game’s credits.

      That’s already a whole bunch of teams. It’s also important to mention that many third-party contractors will often be skipped from the credits. QA is very commonly outsourced (to poorer countries like Romania or Serbia) and rarely gets into the credits. You may only see 5-10 names, while in reality it was at least 100. This is true for several other fields, though mostly non-game-related, e.g., localization, promotial material, merchandise.

      I won’t disclose in what capacity, but in the past I have worked on several of Blizzard’s titles for a few months and I’m not credited anywhere. Just like at least a couple hundred other people. Not necessarily saying I should be - it was never mentioned or promised. Just highlighting that the real number of staff that worked on the game (or adjacent to the game) may be above 10k.

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    • overload@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Crazy that AAA games take that many developers

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    • Frozengyro@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yea there’s still ongoing seasons for Diablo 3, Diablo immortal, Diablo 4 (seasons and another expansion), Diablo 2 resurrection. Probably other stuff I’m not aware of.

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  • dinckelman@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I genuinely don’t understand what all those people are doing there. Not just in Blizzard, but any other corporate studio

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    • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Microsoft is notoriously bureaucratic - there’s probably a lot of PR, middle managers, support staff and bean counters at each studio.

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    • tal@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well, someone in this thread linked to the Diabolic 4 credits, and those list what they do.

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  • saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think you just discovered why they’re unionising so hard.

    Microsoft: Don’t worry, Blizzard. We can quash a union attempt. There’s only like 100 of them, tops…

    Blizzard: There’s 650.

    Microsoft: _spits drink _. For this shit!?

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  • Strobelt@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I bet 449 are just for the auction house

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    • eve@evenyc.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      unpopular opinion. i liked the ah in D3. was able to make my money back. should be in all games to make your money back when they churn out shitty games. at least u can make a profit from a bad game

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    • kurushimi@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m giddy that we’ll never let them live down D3 Original

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• nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  when are they going to make Diablo 2 again

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  • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No. Must, not, install, D2 again!

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• FenrirIII@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How long until the studio closes and gets folded into a non-union org?

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• slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Good.

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