Wow. I’m as unhappy with Qhira as the majority of players, but that’s dumb, even for a conspiracy theory.
There’s no way she’d have gotten where she was in game development and remain there as long as she did if she didn’t have a thick enough skin to deal with community backlash.
Rather, she’s not going to be forced to stick with a very speciifc interpretation of said pre existing character. It’s not like they could give aggra a chain sword.
Please humor me and tell me this community is not so insane and blind that they truly thought Lana left because of Qhira’s youtube ratios on the reveal video.
Honestly, it’s a fair thing to say. Regardless of your opinion of qhira, no one is suddenly going to quit their job because people don’t like what they made. I definitely saw some of that idea days ago and it was as dumb then as it was now.
“To make maximum MONEY, you just have to cut down your work force by 50%! It’s really that simple! Just force the remaining employees to work twice as hard; Because they definitely weren’t putting their heart and soul into their work already! No backlash guaranteed!”
If you follow her on Twitter, you’ll see she recently bought her first car. Think about that she’s been working at blizzard for at least 4 years but she had to change jobs to be able to afford a car…
But then cut off revenue streams by pulling support from games if anything, MORE money should have been put into hots (particularly advertising) and additional support given to the second cancelled starcraft IP outside of the rts genre.
Its common industry knowledge, at least if all the anonymous dev letters are to be believed, that blizzard pays less than industry standards for triple A companies, but they put up with it because of what blizzard games meant to them growing up and likely inspired them to join the industry. So of course she could afford to buy her first car. Good for Lana. Everyone deserves fair, competitive pay in an environment where your job can be taken from you at a moments notice (looking at you, EA and all the studios you’ve acquired and immediately dismantled).
But yeah, I’ve heard things at blizz aren’t doing too hot as far as employees and morale is going, somewhat similar to how how Bioware is doing right now. I’d definitely jump ship as well, though Riot’s whole sexism stuff is concerning. I hope they fixed that or it’s at least lessened.