
Raven Software Quality Assurance (QA) team initiated their organization in January 2022, well before Activision Blizzard King was bought by Microsoft. Initially, they encountered opposition but eventually decided to unionize in May 2022.
In the same year as its acquisition bid, Microsoft pledged to stay impartial regarding any employee unionization efforts. This decision encouraged numerous teams and studios within its gaming division to unionize over the past couple of years.
Teams from Bethesda Game Studios, ZeniMax Online Studios, ZeniMax Media QA, Activision’s User Research team, Blizzard Entertainment developers working on Overwatch 2 and World of Warcraft, and many others have also organized themselves.
Raven Software QA workers are the second group to approve a contract with Microsoft, following the QA testers at ZeniMax Workers United who finalized their contract in June.