How is that false? They will need publishing staff, QA, community management, and the development roles they laid off again. It is inevitable, those roles are necessary for any publisher.
Maybe the whole video is about how that should be happening. Maybe the whole video is about how those jobs shouldn't be cut because of losses because of the reasons for the loss are because in the economic system we have continuous growth into infinitum is not possible. And maybe you shouldn't mindlessly spout " This is why this happening " with out looking at the human cost.
Activision is still publishing games. They still have communities that need managed. They are still developing games that need Q/A. And they absolutely need the art and design positions at studios like High Moon and Vicarious Visions, if they want those studios to start making their own projects again. Bolster the publishing, Q/A, and development teams for existing projects to retain the talent, and then move them onto the new projects when they are ready. That's how you avoid making the employees suffer for the bad decisions of management.
Also, man with no business experience determining how big companies should run.
Right, which is a good thing. It should be almost impossible to have large scale layoffs to save money in the US as well. Iwata's pay cut was symbolic, but it speaks to Nintendo's culture and how they value their employees. Other Japanese companies are prevented from doing mass layoffs, so they just demote or put employees in a closet until they quit (see Konami). Nintendo doesn't engage in those practices either. Companies like Ubisoft and Nintendo should be the model for all big publishers when it comes to how they value their labor.
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Which is why I don't really understand why people go fucking nuts over his videos. It's one thing to talk about MTX as a consumer (I'm not faulting him on these kind of videos, it's great to have a voice against that bullshit) but trying to act like he knows how development and business of a game company works? Come the fuck on.
You can avoid that by staffing appropriately. Activision has enough revenue and profit that they can afford to staff appropriately for projects, and they can eat the higher staffing costs caused by prior misuse of resources. The game industry needs to unionize so that they can actually demand those terms rather than mass layoffs to save money.
Why would they hold on to Destiny support when the makers of Destiny just left the company?
That's not the point of this video. Jim is responding to the fact that the company is facing losses due to Kotick's decisions, and the employees are the ones paying the price for those mistakes.
Isn't that part of the problem that the job of a CEO is to make money for the shareholders instead of leading a company to long-term success?
There is a happy medium between the two.
Because those staff can work on other games, someone who does publishing, Q/A, or dev support for Destiny can do that work on other projects.
Apparently some people seemingly think you have to be Paul Krugman to understand why Kotick is a piece of shit and why this situation is fucked up. Lots of counter circle jerks here just against Jim without actually addressing why his point about this specifically is wrong
Who is telling you they are are mutually exclusive? Success is measured by profit to the shareholders. He has a legal obligation to maximize said profits and has been doing so for an absurdly long-time.
They didn't let go of development staff, though. The layoffs affected eSports and other departments that aren't specifically about making games, but other ventures tied to gaming. It still sucks that so many people lost their jobs, but let's keep things straight here. Activision cut those jobs because they're related to ventures that they experimented with, lost money on, and want to get out of before the real financial hit comes in the next year.
That is the whole problem in this fucked up system. Seen time and time again that shareholders and the stock market doesn't measure success like any normal human being would do. Fucking Apple lost 30% of it's market value because they only made billions in income but less than years before.
What does that have to do with firing Kotick? He should be fired after you just admitted it's the system around him that's at fault? How is it right to fire a person for doing a damn good job of the damn job they were hired to do?
The e-sport guy is gone though, along with almost everyone working on e-sport. The head does take responsibility.
