Preventing games started in under a year and all new games is still a big portion of leverage, so it didn’t give away “it’s only leverage”.
It was probably negotiated so that any companies that had years and $50+ million invested into a game wouldn’t go bankrupt or have to lay off 100 people due to a strike.
Really, it seems fair. Everyone involved in current production games already signed and agreed to contracts, and invested a lot of work. This strike is a small percentage of all the employees involved with making a game. Causing them all to potentially lose all of their work they’ve put over a year into would be closer to extortion than contract negotiating.
Preventing games started in under a year and all new games is still a big portion of leverage, so it didn’t give away “it’s only leverage”.
It was probably negotiated so that any companies that had years and $50+ million invested into a game wouldn’t go bankrupt or have to lay off 100 people due to a strike.
Really, it seems fair. Everyone involved in current production games already signed and agreed to contracts, and invested a lot of work. This strike is a small percentage of all the employees involved with making a game. Causing them all to potentially lose all of their work they’ve put over a year into would be closer to extortion than contract negotiating.