Microsoft’s ‘World of Warcraft’ Gaming Staff Votes to Unionize

It turns out that job security is rather important! Who would have thunk that, Microsoft?

Don't overestimate what unions do. MS is still perfectly in their right to close down the studio and fire all it's staff, if they had a mind to.

It's just a matter of doing it properly. Severance Pay, Pensions and such. Which I honestly don't think Microsoft cares too much about.

I mean, if they can avoid paying it, they would. But they do actually have a legitimate business side. And severance pay for the entire Blizzard staff would likely still cost them less than what they had to pay Kotick to get rid of him.

It's not incorrect though. It is all Microsofts. The IPs, the staff... everything.

Let's see how he union negotiations go.

The last expansion was genuinely good and theyre planning a new storyline on a span of 3 extensions!

They have plenty of leverage. WoW runs on centralized servers which cannot maintain themselves, and are likely still under constant forms of Cyberattack, waiting for a serious vulnerability.

WoW is still a lot of money iirc, the playerbase is still big