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Diablo Devs Unionize Following Layoffs And Dissatisfaction With AI, Pay
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I mean, for years and years, even after the dotcom bubble, developers have been able to get crazy high salaries, job security, and tons of other perks. Now that that's gone, at least they're doing something. So many other professions just rolled over and let the businesses fuck them (looking at you, every industry from Virginia down, especially mining)
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Everyone always makes it sound like everyone else was already in a union and tech workers were snearing at them, but tbh I'm not sure I know a single person that is part of a union in any field. They just aren't that common in recent history outside of a few specific areas, and everyone is finally seeing the need together. (I would have thought the insane crunch and week long mandatory on call a lot of people deal with in tech would have been enough but apparently it takes the threat of layoffs to get people serious)
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I mean, for years and years, even after the dotcom bubble, developers have been able to get crazy high salaries, job security, and tons of other perks. Now that that's gone, at least they're doing something. So many other professions just rolled over and let the businesses fuck them (looking at you, every industry from Virginia down, especially mining)
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I mean, for years and years, even after the dotcom bubble, developers have been able to get crazy high salaries, job security, and tons of other perks. Now that that's gone, at least they're doing something. So many other professions just rolled over and let the businesses fuck them (looking at you, every industry from Virginia down, especially mining)The majority of the field didn't get crazy high salaries though (though they mostly did get to actually keep up with the cost of living while others didn't). Since this is about game devs especially, the benefit they mostly got was getting to do the thing they were passionate about. I don't remember a time when game developers didn't have it shitty other than that.
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I mean, for years and years, even after the dotcom bubble, developers have been able to get crazy high salaries, job security, and tons of other perks. Now that that's gone, at least they're doing something. So many other professions just rolled over and let the businesses fuck them (looking at you, every industry from Virginia down, especially mining)
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I dropped out of college to do carpentry when I learned how little game devs make. I don’t really know what you’re talking about.
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Archive: https://archive.ph/2025.08.28-161012/https://aftermath.site/diablo-union-activision-blizzard-microsoft-cwa-layoffs
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That just reveals that those workers are selfish, pretentious assholes who are all about getting theirs. Even your response shows that with the backhanded commentI've got nothing against miners (other than standard environmental concerns), but when they keep voting for the people that strip away every small gain their ancestors literally fought and died for, I stop having sympathy. Also, what on earth are primarily West Coast based tech workers gonna do about miners in the Virginias? There's an entire continent between them.
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I dropped out of college to do carpentry when I learned how little game devs make. I don’t really know what you’re talking about.I know tons of network engineers and sysadmins making bank mostly from home. If you got in when it was good you were set.
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The majority of the field didn't get crazy high salaries though (though they mostly did get to actually keep up with the cost of living while others didn't). Since this is about game devs especially, the benefit they mostly got was getting to do the thing they were passionate about. I don't remember a time when game developers didn't have it shitty other than that.
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Well, outside of game dev, tech workers were making shit loads of money. Game devs been fucked up for years now, but the original comment just said "tech workers"
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Well, outside of game dev, tech workers were making shit loads of money. Game devs been fucked up for years now, but the original comment just said "tech workers"
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Everyone always makes it sound like everyone else was already in a union and tech workers were snearing at them, but tbh I'm not sure I know a single person that is part of a union in any field. They just aren't that common in recent history outside of a few specific areas, and everyone is finally seeing the need together. (I would have thought the insane crunch and week long mandatory on call a lot of people deal with in tech would have been enough but apparently it takes the threat of layoffs to get people serious)They kind of screwed people out of unionizing by making everyone a contractor.
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I’ve known plenty of tech workers who were all about the perceived hierarchy they felt they had by working in tech. I guess the experience is subjective thoughYes, they are called assholes.
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They kind of screwed people out of unionizing by making everyone a contractor.
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They kind of screwed people out of unionizing by making everyone a contractor.
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Archive: https://archive.ph/2025.08.28-161012/https://aftermath.site/diablo-union-activision-blizzard-microsoft-cwa-layoffsThis actually makes me more likely to buy more Diablos.
