In case you missed the news, World of Warcraft’s development team—which is approximately 500 members strong—formed a union late last month, attached to the Communication Workers of America (CWA).

It all comes as somewhat of a milestone ending to a vicious 3-year saga, starting with harrowing reports of harassment, sexual misconduct, and abuse at Activision-Blizzard that led to several employees simply leaving in 2021.

In 2022, Activision-Blizzard settled an $18 million sexual harassment lawsuit with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. A year later, it settled a seperate California civil rights suit for $54 million, with an extra $47 million being funnelled to help employees, though the settlement concluded “no widespread harassment or recurring pattern or practice of gender harassment”.

Before the settlement, former CEO Bobby Kotick characterised employee’s complaints as “a very aggressive labour movement working hard to try and destabilise the…