I think Hearthstone is better than ever, Team 5 is doing a great job, and I don't typically think about Blizzard, let alone complain about them. However, I think news like this is important, and has broader implications for the video game industry and society.
I've worked for large institutions and small non-profits, and I've witnessed unfair wage discrepancies at both. Each time I've been the one earning more, and I volunteered my salary and benefits info with other co-workers who went on to advocate for the pay they deserved (without outing me). It's a good thing to get in the habit of doing. You might found out you should be making more, or you might help someone else. I've never been part of a company-wide revolt, but I've got another 28 years to accomplish that before social security kicks in.
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I think Hearthstone is better than ever, Team 5 is doing a great job, and I don't typically think about Blizzard, let alone complain about them. However, I think news like this is important, and has broader implications for the video game industry and society.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-03/blizzard-workers-share-salaries-in-revolt-over-wage-disparities
I've worked for large institutions and small non-profits, and I've witnessed unfair wage discrepancies at both. Each time I've been the one earning more, and I volunteered my salary and benefits info with other co-workers who went on to advocate for the pay they deserved (without outing me). It's a good thing to get in the habit of doing. You might found out you should be making more, or you might help someone else. I've never been part of a company-wide revolt, but I've got another 28 years to accomplish that before social security kicks in.
Thanks for sharing this. Wholly agree with you that the Hearthstone team is doing great work, and they - including all other employees within the gaming industry, from developers, to customer service rep's, to play-testers - deserve recognition, a fair wage, and a good standard of living (like any person, really).
It is nuts that there can be such a disparity between CEO packages ($40 million!) and employees scraping by on minimum wage. I'm no businessman, nor an economist, nor an accountant or a labour unionist: I just play video games, and I really want the money I spend to be reinvested into the people that helped create them.