The start of the school year did not take place at Spiders. On Monday morning, September 2, just ten meters from a busy Parisian ring road, the esplanade of the offices of this French video game studio, creator of the titles greedfall AND steel liftingI was busy by several dozen people who responded to a strike call. The employees complained of deteriorating working conditions and strained relations with their management.
Not far from there, in the 20thmy In the Paris district, workers at another French studio, Kylotonn, also started a strike movement on Monday. This synchronized disconnection is designed “in support of his fellow Spiders,” explains the Video Game Workers Union (STJV) in a press release. The opportunity to deplore “Similar problems. Among other things: hiring, turnover, constant lack of information about the future of the company and production…”
A solidarity movement that also has to do with the fact that the Spiders and Kylotonn studios belong to the same company, the French Nacon, a subsidiary of Bigben Interactive. And although both have highly anticipated productions to be released… GreedFall II: The Dying World for Spiders, September 24th and Try the unlimited solar corona For Kylotonn, it’s September 12th: their strike comes amid a global economic crisis in the video game sector.
A long list of complaints against Spiders
From their picket line, where two chairs and a camping table with cakes and coffee were set up, the strikers (about fifteen employees in total) at Spiders did not say that they feared primarily for their jobs, even though the industry has made significant layoffs in recent months (more than 11,500 jobs worldwide by 2024, according to the count of the Game Industry Layoffs site). However, they regret several internal problems that, according to them, in the long term threaten the equilibrium of their studio and could have “a consequence in the quality of the games”explains to World Nicolas. Programmer and union representative of the company, does not want, like the other Spiders employees whom he The world spoke, let his name be made public.
On August 27, a long list of grievances (“growing instability”, “general disorganization”, “Rotation and hiring issues”, “flagrant lack of transparency”, “denial of problems”…) is detailed in a twenty-page letter signed, according to the action committee that brings together the studio’s employees, by 43 of the 95 Spiders employees, and transmitted by the STJV. “The false and even defamatory accusations made by the STJV do not in any way reflect the reality of the daily work of the company’s employees and constitute an attack on the reputation of the firm”The management reacted in a press release.
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