[STEAM] Game workers protested outside MindsEye studio Build a Rocket Boy as it held an ‘extravagant playtest’ for fans

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Former employees protested outside the office of MindsEye studio Build a Rocket Boy on Saturday as the company held a playtest for fans.

The Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) protested outside the studio’s headquarters in Leith, Scotland, claiming that the “all-expenses-paid playtest event” was seeing fans “take on testing duties usually carried out by professional staff”, at a studio where it estimates more than 400 employees have been laid off.

In a statement to journalist Chris Bratt, IWGB Game Workers Branch Chair said: “This extravagant playtest event is a waste of money, and a kick in the teeth for the fired workers who are seeing fans brought in to do jobs that would otherwise have been theirs.”

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