Wow, that's fascinating! It looks like the gaming industry is trying to make some changes. Let's see how it goes

Yeah not going to happen anytime soon. Right now this is wishful thinking.

Some would be concerned that unionization would balloon the cost of game development, but I'd gladly pay an extra 15 or 20 bucks to know that some soulless executives didn't get to exploit the devs as much. Plus any unionized environment is going to be a more comfortable place to work, and that makes a real difference in the quality of the final release.

It's all fun and games until an executive receives a ticking letter. Which often happens when you refuse to negotiate in good faith.

> I'd gladly pay an extra 15 or 20 bucks to know that some soulless executives didn't get to exploit the devs as much.

You would but not me or others. I highly doubt 80-90 bucks for a game are going to be popular.

bethesda qa finally got tired of taking the blame

I bet unionization will have a massive positive impact on game quality!

If videogames weren't somehow immune to inflation, they would already cost 80 or 90 bucks.

And? You can pay them all you want but i sure as hell won’t spend 80-90 bucks because some dude want to help the devs from some executives.

Adjusted for inflation that is still less than SNES carts…

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I honestly believe that unionized game developers would release a better product. A lot of games that are released in garbage states is because of the will of management driven to make a profit that overrules the development team’s desire to make a quality game. A more powerful development team could lead to better development processes and outcomes. No more unrealistic timelines, less hype by tyrannical leads with no plan to deliver, and a more transparent process would keep things in check and not get gamers hope’s up with false statements.

Classic gamer brain, “I won’t support better standards for the people that actually produce my favorite hobby and the thing I spend most of my free time on..........oooooooo Rick and morty skins, must cop”

Video games will cost that much in the future whether you like it or not. We’ve already broken the $70 price point.

If any megacorporation can willingly cooperate with the unionization of their employees, I fully believe it's going to be Microsoft.

Nice sarcasm. More expensive and slower to develop hurts consumers.

That wasn't sarcasm. Development isn't just about the hours worked - creative freedom and the state of the developer make a HUGE difference in code quality.

A unionized game dev workforce could bring the devs closer to the design and marketing process and help to allow game companies to utilize the reasons these devs went into game development in the first place. It could also give them the tools to push back against monetization models that make the game unfun.

Or more likely reward the lazy ones and get the harder working ones fired because they make the union thugs look bad.

... Where do you get your information about how unions work?

To be fair police unions work this way. The good hardworking cops are fired and harassed because they don’t participate in the corruption. But for a game studio the argument is irrelevant.

Yes police unions can work like that... But I feel like the police union works that way because most police are that way. The union doesn't just get that way, the way the union is needs to be supported by its members. Most game studio developers are not gonna be happy with a system that works that way.

It also has the disadvantage of being the only union that all police are part of.

I would rather point to the USPS union for an example of a union with massive problems, and given how often I read "Grieve it" on that subreddit, I'd say the union has a very different set of issues.