A former Blizzard Employee of 6 years has taken to Twitter to CALL OUT the company for seemingly rehiring for EXACT roles that were recently vacated as part of the 800 job loses. But they haven’t been offered to the sacked personnel.
so sad blizzard… shame on you!
Enjoy your time off the forums I guess (Aka just don’t get involved)
just let everyone know how blizzard treats their loyal employees…
it’s business. Want fair developement - make indie games alone
so yeah they did great progress on all thair games whit +800ppl… let me tell you… ALL blizzard games are boring and bad atm… look at BFA… look at Diablo LOL! so where is the developement?
This is what happens when you get into bed with Activision.
Screw players, screw passionate developers.
Anything to make more money.
I can already see the type of people that are going to get hired for those positions lol
just tell me what do you think… will they be cheep and easy to manipulate?
This is business, yes it can be shady but it is what it is. Life has always been like this, the rich get richer while the poor get poorer. If they want to get rich then they work harder than everyone else.
Sheep, and people willing to work for as little money as possible.
Yeeep.
What probably happened (at least somehwat) is they fired people who had some seniority benefits and/or they felt they were overpaid, but couldn’t legally lower their benefits. So it was cheaper to just fire them, then give the position to someone they can offer far less too.
Similar thing happened with my friend’s mom, actually. She worked at Taco Bell for 19 years. Was months away from getting her retirement and all that. But, you know, over the course of 19 years she’d gained several raises and benefit increases. Thus is the way of things.
So they found a very small infraction and fired her. (It was something stupid, like she clocked in 3 mins late twice in one week or something, I can’t remember exactly).
That left them open to fill her position with someone new, or at least newer, and pay them near half as much.
It’s just a scumbag company tactic. All companies are scumbags, and sometimes I think people forget that Blizzard is, in fact, a company.
Ah yes the age old “bootstraps” philosophy.
Fixed that for you. 
Activi$$$ion wanted Esports out of the two freshly made game: OW and HotS and here are the results. For the others, new expansions/DLC’s with new features to the old games (BFA, D2: Forsaken) to make an Activision layer on every Blizzard game.
It has been proven to work, it just takes tenacity to do so. When your down you have to get up and keep on going. The would isn’t like Sisyphus.
That works too
It’s always shady, as if the game is stacked in favor of those at the the top. It’s almost as though the system requires an underclass. It, as they say, isn’t a bug, but rather a feature.
I wonder if the starcraft forums get these threads too…considering this literally has nothing to do with the overwatch dev team
Yes, the system does require an “underclass”
That underclass also expands often.
so overwatch is made by bluehole or Ubisoft?
Isn’t that the gist of the problem? The top of the pyramid holds more of the wealth each year while the underclass continuously expands. You’re not supposed to get ahead; the system is designed to prevent that from happening.