It was solely simply final week that I used to be remarking at how pleasantly constant Eugen Systems’ support of Steel Division and their Wargame sequence has been over the previous few years. Sadly, it appears that evidently fixed stream of contemporary new content material could have come at nice human value.
Immediately after the discharge of the Back to Hell enlargement for Steel Division, almost half of the studio went on strike to protest sub-minimum wages, extreme crunch-time hours not absolutely compensated for and a failure to stick to contractual agreements, based on this (French language) post on an trade union web site.
Eugen have been fast to fireplace again, releasing a statement (additionally in French) that they’ve been working absolutely throughout the legislation, and solely inadvertently dipping under the minimal wage resulting from payslips requiring corrections, resulting in them going out late – an issue which they lay squarely on the ft of the federal government’s current legislative reforms. While I don’t imply to indicate something, this doesn’t actually sound like one thing that 21 veteran sport builders would ordinarily stroll out on to protest.
The striking developers (also also in French) dismiss Eugen’s dismissal, and declare that their complaints towards the corporate date again as a lot as 15 months. At current, the union web site hyperlinks to a crowdfunding web page to supply help for the workforce on strike till the state of affairs is resolved. It appears solely cheap to imagine that the developer’s intensive strategic information had led to a tidy, organised and colour-coordinated protest march on the very least.
We’ll be maintaining with the state of affairs as greatest we will, throughout the limits of my restricted and patchy French, and thru the help of automated translation software program. Either approach, I want the builders at Eugen luck and hope that there’s a steady studio to come back again to on the finish of this, whichever facet of the picket line they stand on.
