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More Activision Blizzard QA staff are walking out in second day of protestIn protest of redundancies
In protest of redundancies
Yesterday, more than 60 employees of Raven Software helda walkout in protest of parent company Activisionlaying off around a third of the company’s quality assurance team. Today, that walkout has entered its second day, and spread to the QA departments of other Activision studios including Blizzard.
Blizzard senior test analyst Jessica Gonzalezconfirmed Blizzard QA’s participation, tweeting that, “We are walking out because our jobs are invaluable and it’s unacceptable for a multi million dollar company to toy with workers livelihoods to get better numbers in Q4.”
Raven Software are primarily responsible for Call Of Duty: Warzone. Warzone is due to receive a huge update tomorrow, with a new Pacific map to follow from the recent launch of Call Of Duty: Vanguard. Activision, and many large publishers, have a habit of making QA staff redundant just as new games launch.
In their statement yesterday, ABetterABK noted that many of the employees fired had relocated to Wisconsin for the roles “without ABK assistance, placing them in financial and housing crisis in an area with limited options in this industry.”
