The Overwatch 2 team at Blizzard has formed a union of nearly 200 developers, featuring every ground-level artist, engineer, and designer who works on the game. The Overwatch Gamemakers Guild joined the ranks of the Communications Workers of America with the goal of giving Overwatch 2's developers more protection against sudden layoffs, unfair wages, and other issues that have rocked the industry as of late.
Unions are groups of affiliated workers who band together to fight for better wages, treatment, and rights against employers. Though they have a storied history across the globe, they have only started forming in the video game industry in the last few years, with the United Videogame Workers announced at the GDC as one of the more recent and significant examples.
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Now, another massive union has formed in a particularly prolific game studio. As reported by Kotaku, the developers at Team 4, the group responsible for Blizzard’s Overwatch 2, have joined the CWA. Dubbed the Overwatch Gamemakers Guild, this wall-to-wall union includes nearly 200 artists, designers, engineers, and any other non-executive developer at...
