Warzone\u2019s quality testers ignored after 17 days of striking ActivisionJust before Call of Duty: Warzone\u2019s Pacific map launched, there was news of a strike among the developers\u2019 quality assurance team. Now, 17 days later, their demands are apparently still being ignored despite the game\u2019s quality issues. It\u2019s no secret that Warzone has a lot of bugs and glitches. In just the past week alone, Buy Stations have caused game crashes and console players have mulled retirement. While people on social media are quick to flame the devs at Raven Software for these issues, those devs don\u2019t seem very happy either. A few days before Pacific launched, it was revealed that a number of QA testers were laid off, despite earlier promises of better pay. Then, in solidarity, \u201caround 40 QA testers\u201d decided to walk out in protest of those layoffs on December 6. Now, 17 days later, the devs explained that they are still on strike as their demands have not been met, let alone responded to. Warzone quality testers still on strike We have been striking for close to 17 days now with no response to our demand: those laid off from Raven QA must be reinstated. Soon we will be starting our paid holiday vacation (which was fought for by workers organizing). \u2014 ABetterABK \ud83d\udc99 ABK Workers Alliance (@ABetterABK) December 22, 2021 As tweeted by the Activision Blizzard King Workers Alliance, \u201cWe have been striking for close to 17 days now with no response to our demand.\u201d And the demand in question here is for the QA testers who were laid off to be \u201creinstated.\u201d Without any reply from Activision, it seems that workers will head into their holiday vacation while still on strike. It\u2019s unclear what that means for the game and its current testing team, but there have been numerous patches since the walkout so not all activity has been compromised. These people were asked to relocate to Madison, WI to work here. Now they are out of a job on January 28th. Our QA team does incredible work but this will not only increase their workload but crush morale. If any industry friends have open positions, please share them. \u2014 Austin O’Brien \u2013 Woodmancy (@eyyohbee) December 3, 2021 The original alleged motivation for the strike was that QA testers were asked to move to Madison, Wisconsin, under promises of full-time employment following their contract work \u2013 which ultimately did not prove true for a number of employees. Read more: Best Warzone players of 2021: Top 5 ranked – While Warzone is still patching issues and making adjustments, fans have been vocal about wanting more fixes (especially on console). At the moment, it remains unclear if the QA team will be able to help with those fixes until after the holiday break. And, even past then, one has to wonder how long this strike can last without Activision responding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Warzone\u2019s quality testers ignored after 17 days of striking ActivisionJust before Call of Duty: Warzone\u2019s Pacific map launched, there was news of a strike among the developers\u2019 quality assurance team. Now, 17 days later, their demands are apparently still being ignored despite the game\u2019s quality issues. It\u2019s no secret that Warzone has a lot of […]<\/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-34659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34659","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=34659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}