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Activision Blizzard Hires Notorious Union-Busting Firm WilmerHale

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Post by sidlls »

LegitShady wrote: post #169
pteraspidomorph wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So is Funcom, Riot, Epic, Miniclip... They're harder to avoid than Nestle...

No they’re very easy to avoid. Just don’t play games by ten cent owned companies. There are a lot of companies out there and a lot of games - more than you or I could conceivably have time to play.

And almost none of them is any good. I like story heavy games and can tolerate some pretty bad art and graphics for a good story. Unfortunately most games these days seem to be terrible on both counts.

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Post by 1f60c »

kelnos wrote: post #164
1f60c wrote: post #144

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Additionally, the site wouldn't load for me. Turns out NextDNS blocked it because it's less than 30 days old, and indeed, it is[0]: Dates 30 days old Created on 2021-06-29 Expires on 2022-06-29 Updated on 2021-07-04 [0]: https://whois.domaintools.com/promethean.news

NextDNS blocks sites because the domain registration hasn't existed for long enough? That sounds... useless.

I think I t's meant as a first line of defense in (spear-)phishing attacks. It's also off by default.

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Post by Panoramix »

cletus wrote: post #148

The Steve Jobs quote on why Xerox failed [1] strikes again. The finance people have taken over Acti-Blizzard and they've been coasting for 10+ years on their original franchises. All we have is annual CoD releases and Blizzrad coasting on their old properties where Blizzrd hasn't had a significant original release in 10+ years. This effort seems like it's part of the ruthless approach to controlling costs that slowly…

Damn, I'm not an Apple fanboy but that soundclip by Jobs makes so much sense; I've seen that play out like a hundred times. Here's a related one by a former IBM CEO:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cHVgA2tgWI

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Post by Manuel_D »

screye wrote: post #53

I am usually against unions in tech because the free market tends to allow a proper balance of supply and demand. However, gaming might just be the perfect sub-domain of tech to benefit from unionization. The supply is massively saturated, with dreamy eyed programmers ready to give their lives to work in gaming. On the other hand, a very small group actually gets to make any of the creative decisions that every gamer…

The supply being massively saturated is also what makes a union impossible to form. The over-saturation of supply means there's plenty of people willing to work a non-union game dev job because the alternative is no job.

Also the EA-Blizzard-Activision-Ubisoft studios do consistently deliver quality games: COD, Battlefield, Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, etc. Formulaic, perhaps, but it's tough to claim that these aren't quality and popular games. Valve, on the other hand, have only produced Half Life: Alyx in the last decade (you could include Artifact, but it flopped).

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Post by podric »

scrollaway wrote: post #162
aeoleonn wrote: post #50

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Check out Path of Exile 2 -- it's the spiritual successor to Diablo 2. And it's freemium

Hades is a better Diablo than any of the Diablo games imo. I feel like it's the perfection of the mechanics that diablo's dungeon runs were supposed to be.

Hades definitely has more interesting game mechanics, but it's more of a Roguelike ARPG than a classic ARPG.

I also find its enemy design and atmosphere lacking in consistency and quality. It just doesn't have the dark, dangerous, and foreboding feel that Diablo 1 and 2 have mastered.

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Post by acituan »

ctrl-j wrote: post #175
dnzkw wrote: post #168

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It's called virtue signalling. See how virtuous this guy is, giving up the precious entertainment he already paid for a decade ago for no reason other than internet points - it's not like these girls are going to be ungroped by this guy's actions, if the allegations are to be believed.

Is your comment just anti-virtue signaling then? Sometimes people just want to share their opinions, and they actually feel those feelings. Sometimes those feelings are about ethical issues.

Feelings alone do not make a rational standpoint. This ex-pressing (pressing outwards) of our feelings was the problem of romanticism, and it has to be balanced with what the reality tells back at us.

In other words, people don't seem to be saying they shouldn't have shared their feelings, but when they did they should have been ready to receive the criticism especially on logical results of their reasoning.

Not using products you've already purchased and enjoyed is most likely not an act of virtue, it probably changes nothing materially in the world to make it a better place. However, it is a display of purity in protest, which might inspire others to take action to the extent they are impressed by it, but it mostly feels egosyntonic for the person who does this demonstration.

Hence the criticism of virtue signaling; it is not the virtue bit, it is the signaling bit, divorced from the essence of being virtuous.

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Post by megablast »

brainfish wrote: post #26

I cut my teeth on Diablo, and played Diablo II for probably fifteen years after its release off and on as a way to stay connected with a friend who loved it similarly. More recently, I have consistently played Starcraft II since its release and enjoy a sense of mastery over that game unparalleled by my experience in any other. I haven't purchased new Blizzard products since the Hong Kong censorship debacle[1] and qui…

Wow. What a stance you’ve taken. You will no longer play some old games. Not every hero wears a cape.

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Post by hemloc_io »

jdmoreira wrote: post #97

What world is this where companies hire union-busting mercenaries? Is this the Pinkertons in 2021? What kind of lawless place is the US where you can hire services to stop unionisation?

Ha! The Pinkertons are still around in 2021, and working quite hard.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dp3yn/amazon-leaked-reports...

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Post by [deleted] »

kelnos wrote: post #142
brainfish wrote: post #26

I cut my teeth on Diablo, and played Diablo II for probably fifteen years after its release off and on as a way to stay connected with a friend who loved it similarly. More recently, I have consistently played Starcraft II since its release and enjoy a sense of mastery over that game unparalleled by my experience in any other. I haven't purchased new Blizzard products since the Hong Kong censorship debacle[1] and qui…

I don't really understand this attitude, or line of reasoning, or whatever you want to call it. Sure, if a company does something that you find reprehensible, not giving them further money (or attention) is certainly a reasonable -- and honorable! -- thing to do. But if you've already purchased a standalone[0], non-subscription product from that company, and that company doesn't gain any benefit from your further use…

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