Warzone devs stage walkout 2 days before new Pacific map launches Activision \/ PexelsCall of Duty: Warzone\u2019s new Pacific, Caldera map launches on December 8. And on December 6, the majority of Quality Assurance testers are walking out in protest after a set of QA layoffs began at Raven Software. The Friday before Pacific\u2019s release, it was reported that a number of QA testers had been suddenly fired \u2014 after months of promised raises. These layoffs happened at Raven Software, the principal studio tasked with Warzone, and were exposed by a community manager working with the developers. Now, after a weekend examining the situation, it appears that the rest of the QA team will collectively protest the layoffs. According to Bloomberg\u2019s Jason Schreier, the majority of Raven\u2019s 40 QA testers \u201care walking off the job\u201d until their peers are re-hired. This news arose on December 6, a particularly turbulent time to lose quality testers given Pacific\u2019s launch on December 8. Warzone devs walk out ahead of Pacific launch Filed to Bloomberg Terminal: Most of a team of around 40 QA testers at Raven Software, which works on Call of Duty Warzone, are walking off the job to protest a sudden layoff that began on Friday. They say they\u2019ll be walking out until the layoff is reversed. Story shortly \u2014 Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier) December 6, 2021 As tweeted by Schreier, the walkout is expected to take place on Monday, December 6 and remain in effect until the fired QA testers are given their jobs back. In the original discussion of the layoffs, the community manager revealed that the fired testers had been asked to relocate to Madison, Wisconsin and had been promised, for months, that they were in line for a \u201cpay restructure to increase their wages.\u201d While many are concerned that this walkout may impact the (now potentially un-assured) quality of Warzone Pacific, Activision have responded by explaining the extent of the layoffs. Activision respond to Warzone devs\u2019 protest Activision Statement on Raven walkout: We are converting approximately 500 temporary workers to full-time employees in the coming months. Unfortunately, as part of this change, we also have notified 20 temporary workers across studios that their contracts would not be extended. \u2014 CharlieIntel (@charlieINTEL) December 6, 2021 An Activision spokesperson, in response to the situation, explained that the company \u201cis growing its overall investment in its development and operations resources.\u201d As such, they have opted to \u2018convert approximately 500 temporary workers to full-time employees in the coming months.\u2019 As part of that restructure, \u201820 temporary workers across studios\u2019 are not having their contracts renewed. It\u2019s unclear how many of these temps are being laid off from Warzone\u2019s principal studio in particular, but Raven Software\u2019s employees have been the most vocal in response. With the majority of QA testers protesting right before Pacific\u2019s pivotal launch, Activision have yet to confirm or deny if they will meet the re-hiring demands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Warzone devs stage walkout 2 days before new Pacific map launches Activision \/ PexelsCall of Duty: Warzone\u2019s new Pacific, Caldera map launches on December 8. And on December 6, the majority of Quality Assurance testers are walking out in protest after a set of QA layoffs began at Raven Software. The Friday before Pacific\u2019s release, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}