Ups and Downs – Episode 395

In this episode, I talked about Proletariat withdrawing their union petition, and a New York Times article about unions and video games. I read to you a thread regarding GDC and COVID safety. I also talked about a Bloomberg article that feels sketchy to me. The person mentioned in the Bloomberg article tweeted what really happened.

Blizzard released patch notes and/or PTRs for Starcraft II, Diablo II: Resurrected, and Diablo III.

Things mentioned in this episode:

Polygon posted an article titled: "Workers at World of Warcraft studio Proletariat withdraw union petition"

The New York Times posted an article titled: "Unions and Video Games"

@drjclau tweeted a thread criticizing the COVID Requirements at GDC (Game Developers Conference)

GDC posted its Health & Safety rules

Bloomberg posted an article titled: "Blizzard Manager Departs In Protest of Employee Ranking System

@BrianBirming posted a thread explaining what happened - and noting that Bloomberg never reached out to him or spoke to him

@valentine_irl posted a short thread regarding Blizzard's culture

@AggrendWoW posted a short thread in which he critiques the "journalist" from Bloomberg

Wowhead posted an article titled "Classic WoW Tech Lead Brian Birmingham Departs Blizzard Under Protest"

Starcraft II got 5.0.11 Patch Notes

Diablo II: Resurrected PTR 2.6 is live!

Maxroll posted an update to their Amazon Leveling Guide

Diablo III PTR 2.7.5 will go live on January 31st!

PezRadar (Blizzard Community Lead) posted "Looking at 2023: Diablo Immortal"

Polygon posted an article titled: "Diablo Immortal's 'misleading' Blessing of the Worthy gem under legal scrutiny"

@RodFergusson (SVP, GM of all things Diablo) tweeted that Diablo IV won an Inven Award

The Diablo development team posted a YouTube video titled: "Diablo IV | Official Release Date Trailer Breakdown"

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