Calls to boycott Wordle, Connections show where game industry strikes could go
Calls to boycott Wordle, Connections show where game industry strikes could go
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If The New York Times is a gaming company, thanks to the massive numbers of players it attracts for its Wordle, Connections, Spelling Bee and Crosswords games, then a strike this week by New York Times tech workers is, in part, a gaming strike—arguably gaming’s biggest.
The picket by the Times workers is a potential preview of how a strike among traditional PC and console game developers could unfold.
On Monday, hundreds of NYT Tech Guild workers began picketing the midtown Manhattan offices of The New York Times and asked Times gamers to digitally show support by abstaining from the paper’s games.
“The Tech Guild is asking readers to honor the digital picket line and not play popular NYT Games such as Wordle and Connections as well as not use the NYT Cooking App,” the union said in a press release on Monday.
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