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Employees at Bethesda Game Studios Unionize

by ajford on 7/19/24, 11:14 PM with 11 comments

• by swaginator on 7/20/24, 12:27 AM

  I imagine that the closing of Arkane studios Austin was a big motivator for worker's to unionize. They created successful games and Microsoft shut them down for pretty much no reason. I am kinda on the periphery of the gaming scene in Austin and that was a huge deal when it happened.

• by mikhael28 on 7/20/24, 7:00 AM

  If video game devs were paid as much, and worked as much, as regular software engineers, the whole industry would implode.

  That being said, I think unionization would be the best thing that’s ever happened to this industry. Video game development sounds like hell.