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Re:Activision Blizzard Hires Notorious Union-Busting Firm Wi... by ashtonkem on Thursday July 29, 2021 @01:42PM (#27999166)
I’m actually seeing a lot of rage directed at them from the gaming forums I interact on, including a lot of people claiming that they’ve canceled. Completely anecdotal, I know, but it was not what I expected at all. I think this one is going to hurt more than usual.
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Re:Activision Blizzard Hires Notorious Union-Busting Firm Wi... by noptd on Thursday July 29, 2021 @01:53PM (#27999317)
There's a decently sized cohort that hasn't forgiven ActiBlizzard for what they did to Warcraft III as well. Nothing like ruining a 20 year old game by forceably replacing it with a broken, partial reimplementation.
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Re:Activision Blizzard Hires Notorious Union-Busting Firm Wi... by krastanov on Thursday July 29, 2021 @02:00PM (#27999438)
I am out of the loop, could you elaborate?
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Re:Activision Blizzard Hires Notorious Union-Busting Firm Wi... by totony on Thursday July 29, 2021 @02:06PM (#27999510)
Blizzard has been under a lot of bad press because they have screwed game releases lately (mostly because of shitty management?). They've also had bad press on political issues like the hong kong esports things and others iirc.

for warcraft3: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/blizzard-botched-warcraft-iii-re...

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Re:Activision Blizzard Hires Notorious Union-Busting Firm Wi... by phlpsrmn on Thursday July 29, 2021 @05:02PM (#28001473)
This article has quite conveniently _lost_ some important words:

>Blizzard also faced widespread criticism and calls for a boycott after banning a player who .

>In lieu of official support, a group of fans began writing their own patches for the game, building a service called that aims to add back missing features.

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Re:Activision Blizzard Hires Notorious Union-Busting Firm Wi... by totony on Thursday July 29, 2021 @09:50PM (#28003593)
I think the service they're referring to is https://www.w3champions.com/
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Re:Activision Blizzard Hires Notorious Union-Busting Firm Wi... by dylan604 on Thursday July 29, 2021 @04:21PM (#28000990)
Don't let this be a confirmation bias type of situation though. The number of people that are vocal in forums rarely outnumbers the silent majority that just aren't bothered.
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Re:Activision Blizzard Hires Notorious Union-Busting Firm Wi... by minikites on Thursday July 29, 2021 @01:46PM (#27999218)
>I think this one is going to hurt more than usual.

I hope that's true. I hope COVID has woken up labor to the power it has if it organizes (see also the restaurant industry).

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