Detozi t1_ixye3q8 wrote on November 27, 2022 at 10:02 AM

I don’t know why anyone feels the need to pick the defence of corporations as the hill to die on. They are both after your money and both do not give a shit about you as a person

NoSkillzDad t1_ixyf9oo wrote on November 27, 2022 at 10:19 AM

You're totally right. I do have to say that right now I prefer to give it (mah money) to Xbox than Sony though, (that might change tomorrow, but today...) Besides that, (and this is just a"baseless hope"), I hope that if the Microsoft-Activision deal goes through then some things might change around in Activision leading to better working conditions for their workers (people like us, no corpo anymore). And maybe, just maybe, bobby kotick gtfo.

That's just me.

gothpunkboy89 t1_ixylai1 wrote on November 27, 2022 at 11:45 AM

> I hope that if the Microsoft-Activision deal goes through then some things might change around in Activision leading to better working conditions for their workers (people like us, no corpo anymore).

Wasn't there big issues with 343 Studios with over work and heavy reliance on temp workers who would take have their time to learn the game engine and then be let go so they didn't have to hire them full time?

Because they launch state of Infinite and how slow they were/are at adding some pretty basic things to the game reeks of some really fucked up working conditions in the studio.

NoSkillzDad t1_ixynov7 wrote on November 27, 2022 at 12:17 PM

>Wasn't there big issues with 343 Studios with over work and heavy reliance on temp workers who would take have their time to learn the game engine and then be let go so they didn't have to hire them full time?

Still different from sexual harassment, gender discrimination, ...

gothpunkboy89 t1_ixyny43 wrote on November 27, 2022 at 12:20 PM

>Still different from sexual harassment, gender discrimination, ...

But your argument is that they would address the problems. Seems like Microsoft was pretty happy to sit back and let 343's cluster fuck go on for years as 4 and 5 also had issues with launch and missing some basic features.

NoSkillzDad t1_ixz3vru wrote on November 27, 2022 at 2:57 PM

My argument is that I hope they address that. There's a bigger chance of addressing sexual harassment than crunch.

I mean, sexual harassment brings lawsuits and crunch brings mainly bad pr. So there is a bigger chance that one is dealt with with higher priority that the other one.

Again, all this is hope... Said that clearly from my first comment. In the end they do wtf they want.