So, someone please explain to me why it’s okay to lay off 800 workers after the games they work tirelessly on make you what I am expected to believe are “record profits?”
Rhetorical question, I know why they’re doing it. CORPORATE GREED!!! Blizzard, is, and this is going to be a nuclear take for all of you, NO BETTER THAN EA. I said that. Yes, I just said that. And no, I am not taking that back, I am not apologizing, and if I have to, I will double down, TRIPLE down if necessary. This is COMPLETELY unacceptable. Some people may dismiss this thread by saying, “but they’re a private company; they can do what they want.” Fair enough… But, does this dismiss the moral question in this situation?
No, it doesn’t. This is an immoral act, being committed by a company that doesn’t care about its staff, its consumers (Blizzcon 2018), or its fans, and is quick to make statements that are completely out of touch like, “what? You guys don’t have phones?” Yes, we do, you idiot. We also have PCs, consoles, and have supported your brand for decades, and it’s comments like that that really show how out of touch Blizzard has become. I have had it. I’m done. Feel free to ban my account, because I have already uninstalled my Blizzard games, and Battlenet upon hearing the news that Blizzard unfairly fired 800 people, despite making record profits.
This is corporate greed, crony capitalism 101. Screw you, Blizzard. I hate you, ALMOST as much as I hate EA.
With recent events in mind EA is slightly better than ActiBlizz. Don’t worry I bet they will figure out how to get to top of most sleazy, greedy, snake people list.
Stocks are funny things don’t you think? If they rise employers wont even know it. If they drop they lose their job.
It’s a business. Their number 1 goal is money. Always has been, always will be. You think them doing x, y or z is purely for the benefit of the player? No, it’s not keep people happy so they continue to spend money on the game, and maybe they’ll get their friends to pick it up too.
You act as if they’re being left on the side of the street and aren’t being given severance, benefits, and support to help them along, the cost of doing so for so many people will easily be in the millions.
Even we as a community have aknowledged that Activision Blizzard has had some resource management issues with non-development departments and that has had both direct and indirect effects on the actual development of the games. Them cutting on excessive (as they stated) non-development related resources and focusing even more resources on development itself is what we’ve been asking for and what they’ve deemed to be right for not just for the games but for the company itself. Just because they had a slightly better fiscal year than last year doesn’t mean that they shouldn’t improve especially since their expected growth wasn’t met.