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Because Bungie was an independent contractor, Blizzard is an equal partner in a merger. Harder to extricate in this situation.
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Blizzard employees are crying and hugging in the parking lot ahead of impending layoffs - Jason Schreier
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That's sort of how I feel. A change in the workforce to target a completely different market, one with better profit margins and lower development costs.
I didn't mean to imply that China itself was a problem, just that the extended partnership and development announcements, as well as more direct goal-changing seems indicative of a shift in priorities.
World of Warcraft brought a huge revolution to the gaming world in 2006 up until 2014.
What happened to Blizzard? They were leading the industry and even managed to convince studios to release Destiny and The Division and etc...
No idea what happened besides not caring.. Morhainne is out, Metzen is out... I only know that the people that made Blizzard are long gone besides a few still there
What happened to Blizzard? They were leading the industry and even managed to convince studios to release Destiny and The Division and etc...
No idea what happened besides not caring.. Morhainne is out, Metzen is out... I only know that the people that made Blizzard are long gone besides a few still there
Sickening, considering the swimming pools of cash the top dogs at the company pull home each year - or merely for signing on - but those suits obviously deserve more money per head than hundreds of their employees.
Don't ever fucking tell me that micro-transactions and loot boxes are needed to make development sustainable when that shit is happening.
Don't ever fucking tell me that micro-transactions and loot boxes are needed to make development sustainable when that shit is happening.
Ah yeah I didn't even think of that, the scene shut down but they may have still had the entire production staff that ran that esport employed.
Wonder if thats Why Geoff has been making moves in Warhammer to slowly become a "official" caster for warhammer games, not unlike starcraft.
We don't even know how big the layoffs are. I get the current corporate landscape and the anger over CEO pay, but I'm not sure what a Union would help in this case. I'm fairly sure they will get severance, if only for the optics.
Remember when the WiIU was tanking and Iwata and execs took pay cuts so they wouldn't have to lay off any employees?
This is really depressing news. Especially that Bobby Kotick made another 28 million this year. I'm a firm believer that capitalism is failing and it's getting worse with growing populations and automation.
Also, I think the guy who asked about Jason's sources has been quoted like 100 times lol. You don't want to stick your foot in your mouth in the first 30 replies or the wrath or era is after you!
This is really depressing news. Especially that Bobby Kotick made another 28 million this year. I'm a firm believer that capitalism is failing and it's getting worse with growing populations and automation.
Also, I think the guy who asked about Jason's sources has been quoted like 100 times lol. You don't want to stick your foot in your mouth in the first 30 replies or the wrath or era is after you!
Hopefully the job offers come for those getting the boot. Videogames weren't a mistake, letting companies turn them into big business was, fucking triple A market.
Anonymous sources is better than naming someone who is then going to be blacklisted by the industry.
Cold, but no lies detected.
We're all human and many of us have experienced the fear, chaos and helplessness of being laid of, so a little empathy shows you're human. Era is full of actual humans, so empathy in this thread is a win.
Why do you think this has nothing to do with Blizzard themselves?
Sad to see so many people losing their jobs today.
Nobody knows who's going to be out of a job today. Seems a bit kneejerk to leave before knowing you might be staying on.
Isn't that the basic standard for journalism, if it's not an official statement, you need two sources?
have their been rumors about other Activision studios? I'm hoping my friend at vicarious visions is safe
I wouldn't expect that to happen for Vicarious Visions, at least not yet. They're still working on the final piece of the current annual pass that releases late in the summer.
Not sure about High Moon and the others though.
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How do we even know how many sources he has? Wtf is this derail even
They were never owned just a publishing daal. And smart lawyers - have a read of that contract, seriously, their legal department really worked Activision over.
They need to unionized, but layoff is still going to happen. Look at autoworkers losing their job with CEO making many more times
I'm sure they will be in here any moment unfortunately.
This is sad, Blizzard is my top 2 favorite studios and to see this all go down because Activsion basically...just sucks.
I wish they were able to break off like Bungie.
Vicarious was on support for Destiny 2, with Bungie getting back the rights to it I don't know what they'll be doing in the future, wouldn't surprise me to see some layoffs there.
Not exactly, but Blizzard have allowed Activision accountants to sneak in & replace the likes of Rob Pardo, who would have roared with laughter at the idea of Diablo Immortal at Blizzcon. You could tell Wyatt Cheng knew it was a shit idea, but if he told the suits no, he would have been fired, in contrast to a few years ago, the Diablo 3 team told the old CEO of Blizzard they couldn't fix Diablo 3 without removing the Auction House, it's clear devs at Blizzard have zero power now.
The company is way too bloated and WoW hasn't been bringing in all that profit like 10+ years ago and Overwatch is losing its steam to competitors like Fortnite. This is expected.
This is so bizarre to me because I still think of Blizzard as this plucky independent development studio that produces games on their own schedule.
Is that what I said? Are you suggesting that blame of these layoffs lies at the hands of developers/designers working at Activision/Blizzard rather then executives that are piloting the company?
I think that's a pretty disgusting attitude to have.
"A person". Literally in the tweet.
I'm not derailing, I just thought that posters comment was odd. You can't just go "well it's Jason so you know it's good" standards.
Mismanagement, together with some awful decisions over the gaming community and, sadly, a lack of a union.
As the people says around my country "A large oak can look solid, but hardly survives a storm".