News of mass layoffs, terrible working conditions, and strikes over said conditions has unfortunately become quite frequent in the gaming industry. This time, it’s the GreedFall 2 developers declaring a strike, with the workers’ action coming just three weeks before their game was scheduled to ship in early access.
Earlier today, members of the Parisian game studio Spiders published an open letter through STJV, an independent game developer union based in France. The 20-page document was addressed to the studio’s management and detailed the myriad of issues the GreedFall 2 developers will be striking against, including gender pay parity, lower wages than industry standard, lack of transparency or employment security, and more.