Bryan Bedford, Senior Character Artist, for Overwatch 2
Jess Castillo, Senior Test Analyst, for Overwatch 2
Ying Liu, Senior 3D Character Artist, for Overwatch 2
Justin Groot, Senior Writer & Narrative Designer, for Overwatch 2
Danny ???, Senior Character Artist for Overwatch 2
Dylan Snyder, Senior Game Designer, for Overwatch 2
Megan Leigh, Community Manager, for Overwatch 2
???, Senior Mission Designer, for Overwatch 2
Chalres Icay, Senior Animator, for Overwatch 2
Iâve written and edited this comment a few times but I donât think thereâs anything I can say about ActiBlizz leadership that wonât get me suspended.
Well there goes what little hope anyone had for a decent PVE what a S show
Seems like those $20 skin prices arenât going to anyoneâs pockets over there and yet people still want to buy stuff and still think that itâs going to go back to this game and make it a better game at that.
Under no circumstance is that the reality we are living in. ABK leadership is literally disgusting. #FireBobbyKotick
The sale to Microsoft is in jeopardy too. The CMA wants to block it unless Microsoft divests Call of Duty. And without that IP why would Microsoft want the rest of this company?
Bobby Kotick will remain in charge if the deal falls through so itâs only gonna get worse.
YeaaaaaahâŚ
https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/microsoft-defend-activision-deal-eu-hearing-feb-21-2023-02-14/
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-ftc-commissioner-christine-wilson-resign-2023-02-14/
People actually thought that Activision was gonna put Overwatch profits back into the development of the game?
Youâd be shocked at how many people truly believe that, yea.
honestly, there needs to be some kind of law protecting our culture so that greedy goblin banker types cant run rampant and destroy what we love for profit. I donât know how this would function, but there needs to be something protecting beloved IPs from being purchased with the sole purpose of making money at the expense of itâs integrity and artistic purpose. Its killing everything.
I figure itâs less about law stuff, and more about how Blizzard was/is on the upswing in recovering their reputation for Overwatch and World of Warcraft. They need all hands on deck to pull in those record breaking profits. And this could be a big setback for that. Like itâs just bad, from a âMaking Profitsâ perspective.
It really makes you wonder why people continue to develop titles for such a company.
Perhaps the worst examples of what we hear arenât actually the status quo?
So TLDR:
Team4 really likes their fellow members in Team4.
They donât like upper management
A considerable number of staff has left blizz.
Higher ups blame productivity loss on remaining staff.
Implements a Return to Office policy, and tells staff if they donât like it quite
Which leads to more people leaving.
Devs are concerned because they have multiple major releases coming up
Itâs in jeopardy because Sony is bribing all these boards and doesnât want to be challenged. What the hell do you think those meeting jim ryan is having behind closed doors is about?
It is incredibly disappointing to read these dev posts. If nothing else, they donât seem to feel supported. I wish that something could be done to support these folks. While I donât agree with everything that Overwatch 2 has become, it is evident that these people care about their game and team.
Things are sounding a bit bleak.
doesnt look good at all. wondered what happened and it does look kind of bleak for this games future
maybe⌠they are gonna do massive lay-offs again. also why would you want to be a part of blizzard/activision/king or whatever its called when you would get paid more somewhere else. riot games is killing it nowadays and so are the creators of fortnite i guess
Ah yes the old myth, Micro transactions support a game and itâs developers. Right up there with âtrickle down economicsâ. I mean we already knew this, OW1 made record breaking profits first few years with Loot boxes, didnât really see any of that reinested into the game.
They blew most of it on Overwatch League and then working on a âsequelâ.
So pay has not changed at all and still being extremely meager while asking workers to come back and work inside their crap offices. Even upper management is also grilling employees for staying in their company even after all the things from lay-offs, lawsuits, and world-wide conditions. They had so many employees leave and their grand plan was to grill the hard working employees of their game (Who are underpaid) even harder?
What exactly is their plan to remain a company? Iâm trying to connect dots and Iâm struggling to.
its sad but its probably best if the game just dies. of course these upper management, suits, and ceo bobby kotick will move on to something else and consume the next thing/whatever but thats how it is in video games nowadays. till the next big thing happens
If anything, maybe this would make it easier to sell to the FTC, to just approve the Microsoft Merger.
Which they are on-trial with the UK equivalent to the FTC, this upcoming Tuesday.