In 2021, a grand total of 90 QA workers went on strike at Activision Blizzard for 6 weeks. There are 1100 people in QA across the company. Over 400 QA testers worked on Warzone at the time. During the strike, several major issues that normally would never make it to live, went live. We’re talking placeholder art, broken optics, invisible operators, and many more severe issues. The numbers might seem insignificant, but it never is.
In 2021, a grand total of 90 QA workers went on strike at Activision Blizzard for 6 weeks. There are 1100 people in QA across the company. Over 400 QA testers worked on Warzone at the time. During the strike, several major issues that normally would never make it to live, went live. We’re talking placeholder art, broken optics, invisible operators, and many more severe issues. The numbers might seem insignificant, but it never is.
Funny how businesses always think you’re replaceable or even irrelevant until you stop showing up to work.