Termination, Labels and Frogs

This week on the UDP Broadcast, there has been an outbreak of terminations and misconduct between EA releasing 200 QA testers for Apex Legends from their Baton Rouge, LA studios, Nordic Games breaking the Sweedish Discrimination Act with investigateive help from Gender balance to investigate 2 men, and Activision blizard - AGAIN - for firing 2 QA workers for using strong language while in a group of peers when presented with the news that they would have to return to the office. We had no IDEA that JRPG was taken as a compartamentalized western concept for games coming from Japan. @SkillUp after going to Square Enix HQ in Japan and interviewing Naoki Yoshida - Yoshi-P - as a derragatory statement near the beginning of home console video game history. For as the positive connotation is now, we explorethe effect of what we did not know about using JRPG to descripe Japaneese RPGs Finaly we talk about @videogamedunkey and his publishing company BigMode as they were interviewed by Gameindustry.biz. WE LOVE YOU DUNKEY! Terminations Nordic Game Report - Sweedish Discrimination Act Sources: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/investigation-finds-nordic-game-likely-violated-discrimination-law https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/nordic-game-report-reveals-possible-violations-of-swedish-discrimination-act https://nordicgame.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Summary_of_Gender_Balance_report_on_Nordic_Game.pdf https://www.gamedeveloper.com/culture/nordic-game-organizers-launch-whistle-blower-system-after-harassment-investigation EA Layos off 200 Apex Legends QA staff https://www.gamesindustry.biz/report-ea-fires-200-apex-legends-qa-testers https://www.gameinformer.com/2023/03/01/ea-reportedly-lays-off-more-than-200-apex-legends-qa-testers-over-zoom https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/over-200-apex-legends-qa-testers-have-been-abruptly-laid-off-by-ea https://www.eurogamer.net/ea-reportedly-lays-off-200-apex-legends-qa-testers https://gamerant.com/apex-legends-ea-layoffs-2023/ https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/ea-lays-off-over-100-qa-workers-from-baton-rouge-office CWA ABK Fired 2 QA testers https://www.eurogamer.net/union-sues-activision-claims-it-unlawfully-fired-two-qa-testers https://kotaku.com/activision-accused-of-illegally-fired-qa-testers-over-r-1850171073 Labels --Yoshi-P Final Fantasy -- Skill Up YT video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZTNoV2Iey0 https://www.gamespot.com/articles/final-fantasy-xvi-producer-doesnt-like-the-term-jrpg/1100-6511939/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f https://www.pcgamer.com/the-face-of-final-fantasy-doesnt-like-the-term-jrpg-once-considered-it-discriminatory https://www.eurogamer.net/final-fantasy-16-producer-naoki-yoshida-sparks-debate-the-term-jrpg-as-discriminatory https://kotaku.com/ff16-yoshi-p-jrpg-square-enix-yoshida-previews-ps5-1850169822 Frogs Bigmode - sources https://www.gamesindustry.biz/bigmodes-journey-from-youtubers-to-publishers Segments 0:00 Intro and Titles 1:50 Important Announcement - trevorproject.org 5:44 Termination -EA, ABK, Nordic Games 41:30 Labels Yoshi-P and JRPG 55:30 Frogs BigMode and Video Game Dunkey 1:05:00 Roundtable