Game workers protested outside MindsEye studio Build a Rocket Boy as it held an ‘extravagant playtest’ for fans
Former employees protested outside the office of MindsEye studio Build a Rocket Boy on Saturday as the company held a playtest for fans. The Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) protested outside the studio’s headquarters in Leith, Scotland, claiming that the “all-expenses-paid playtest event” was seeing fans “take on testing duties usually carried out by professional staff”, at a studio where it estimates more than 400 employees have been laid off. In a statement to journalist Chris Bratt, IWGB Game Workers Branch Chair said: “This extravagant playtest event is a waste of money, and a kick in the teeth for the fired workers who are seeing fans brought in to do jobs that would otherwise have been theirs.” Read More...
Former employees protested outside the office of MindsEye studio Build a Rocket Boy on Saturday as the company held a playtest for fans.The Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) protested outside the studio’s headquarters in Leith, Scotland, claiming that the “all-expenses-paid playtest event” was seeing fans “take on testing duties usually carried out by professional staff”, at a studio where it estimates more than 400 employees have been laid off.
In a statement to journalist Chris Bratt, IWGB Game Workers Branch Chair said: “This extravagant playtest event is a waste of money, and a kick in the teeth for the fired workers who are seeing fans brought in to do jobs that would otherwise have been theirs.”
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