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Blizzard Albany QA Testers Declare Intent to Unionize, Activision Blizzard Will Respond to the NLRB
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Blizzard Albany QA Testers Declare Intent to Unionize, Activision Blizzard Will Respond to the NLRB | MMORPG.com
QA testers at Blizzard Albany, which was known as Vicarious Visions until recently, have announced their intent to unionize, forming Game Workers Alliance Albany.
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Not sure, but are increasingly becoming unnecessary or obsolete with the push towards automated testing these days.
The development group I'm in got rid of the QA position about 5 years ago, most everyone these days are called developers who have to meet monthly code check in metrics.
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I've noticed a trend in the decade and a half that I've worked in the business, with testers: they tend to get caught up in the fantasy that they are somehow part of the game dev team, when really they are viewed as more akin to cleaning or kitchen staff. You need kitchen and cleaning staff, absolutely, but it's a very, very replaceable position.
Kitchen and cleaning staff likely make more money.
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Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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And BTW, welcome to having to negotiate with the outsource contractors lol.
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It's function is far too subjective. And players aren't a good substitute, either. They sure will tell you when they're not having fun, but they're usually fairly tunnel-visioned and rarely do a good job of providing the details devs need to properly QA test a product imo.
Sounds like where you work is just as shitty as Blizzard. In other software industries testers are an important part of the staff and reporting and finding defects and bugs; though the gaming industry is shitty as a whole.