Oh I agree, but there is a difference between saying you don't like something and saying "good" when a company is going through a downturn on stock and is cutting jobs as a result.
People should be complaining that there aren't unions protecting these workers from these situations to begin with. From being used, discarded and then going through it again. It may give a voice to those that also don't agree with some of the practices that we don't like.
I think there's room for both frankly. I would love to see developer unions, but as a consumer it doesn't really feel likes there's anything I can do to make that happen. The only thing that will make a company like Activation change its business strategy, is the value of its stock price tanking.
I don't think that making a generic mobile game, in an ocean of mobile games, is going to be what turns blizzard around. In fact I think it may do very well in the short term, blizzard will chase that profit. But that game isn't going to cause blizzard to hire more developers, it may actually convince them to license out more of their franchises.
Valve is a company that used to make video games... Then became incredibly successful because of their pseudo-monopoly steam.
Epic used to make unreal tournament... I'm pretty sure that has just been completely canned now.
Its not crazy to think that a company you love might stop making the things you enjoy. The Diablo immortal thing really feels like a drop in the bucket. Heroes of the storm is on its deathbed, its been a good amount of time since we've had a new diablo, starcraft or main-line warcraft game. I can't imagine that they are secretly working on a new mmo. Activision has lost Bungie, given their new CFO a $15 million bonus and announced hundreds of layoffs. Didn't their CEO step down at Blizzcon too?
This doesn't feel like a company "going through a downturn", this feels like a company in crisis, that someone is trying gut and repackage.
It's hard for me to imagine any scenario where the success of Diablo Immortal will be good for the developers working at Blizzard. Activision is run by vultures, Blizzard will be a corpse by the end.