you can expect new things to come out in their games or news for new stuff, to try and divert people from it. Mark my words. 
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whats your source on this?
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quick google blizzard employees
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Already a video from the quartering, expect way more in the afternoon.
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Eugh that guy is so grating.
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I care about the news, not the opinion of the person reporting it.
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Jason Schreier, known VG journalist, formerly on Kotaku, now working for Bloomberg, published an article on an anonymous spreadsheet put together by Blizzardās employees. The spreadsheet documented the huge pay gaps between positions, as well as people sharing their experience while being underpaid: skipping meals, using company coffee to sate their anger, choosing not to have kids because of precarity.
All around, a bad look.
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Yeah, thatās why I wish I could watch the news from someone other than The Quartering. Heās veryā¦ opinionated. And it shows. edit: I mean Iām curious so Iām gonna go watch it, I just wish likeā¦ Your Overwatch or someone else had a video up. They scream less.
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Basically Kotick gets too much money such shareholders were already complaining about, and QA staff isnāt paid well which is pretty standard across the industry.
Also dunno why people are pushing for more in an economy where thereās 20% unemployment.
https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1290438607594041346 Would recommend reading this article. Jason has usually pretty neutral stance on what he tackles.
Probably because thereās a big difference between āI have a job flipping burgersā and āIām a skilled laborer that spent a lot of time money and energy to be a coder, you need to pay me a living wage so I can live here and codeā ?
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Oh thank you! Much better =)
Which makes the assumption that equivalent coders from other companies didnāt get layed off due to COVID.
Actually, not that standard, and thatās the issue here: Activision-Blizz are notorious for low pay, given their overall size.
Here we are with another PR nightmare for blizzard (:
Hopefully the workers get what they are owed and they get a union started soon.
Imagination. 
So youāre sayingā¦ People shouldnāt complain about not being able to make ends meet at their coding jobs, because people in other coding jobs may have been laid off due to the pandemic, and they should just be grateful to have any jobs at all?
Just trying to pin down what youāre putting forward here.
edit: I mean if you go read that tweet someone linked, thereās people talking about how they literally are skipping meals and not making rent, like - weāre not talking about some folks who just want āmore moneyā. Weāre talking about a corporation that is paying itās head CEO millions of dollars every year while they force their workers to subsist on wages that could not even support a single household family. Thatās not okay in my book, personally. But if youāre down with that then thatās your opinion to have I guess.
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Jobs usually pay relative to how replaceable you are. And they just got to be a lot more replaceable.
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So youāre saying no one should complain about anything because they are replaceable, yes?
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Itās gonna be like all the past dramas surrounding Blizzard, people will get offended for a few days, Blizzard will issue some soulless apologies/explanations (they might not even do that) and in a few weeks nobody will remember the drama happened in the first place.
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