Here they lost 11
…gamasutra.com/view/news/338327/209_were_laid_off_from_Blizzard_as_part_of_earlier_Activision_Blizzard_cuts.php
I mean, you’re posting from a Panda DK. Proof is all over this thread that if you didn’t play 8.3, you sure “wasted your money”.
Thanks for the laugh.
Oh yeah, let’s take Mr. “Give me views for money!” Bellular when he tells you exactly what you want to hear so you give him views for money.
Everything I bought since August has been with tokens ;^)
And still have 1.6 mil gold
so give me a source… because i’m looking directly at the layoff sheets, and the only thing I see from QA, is one (singular) QA engineer… so I don’t think it’s unreasonable to ask for a source if someone wants to claim something as “fact”.
Ok, let me give Blizzard 20$ in exchange for some of that. Thank you for telling me this, as if you weren’t a happy purchaser of tokens, I wouldn’t be giving Blizzard this money.
Free market at work. You give me gold, I give Blizzard money. Without you, Blizzard is not getting money.
you rely on youtube sensationalists for “facts”?
Hey keep moving the goalposts m8 xD
My money goes to Swtor :3
Well to be fair, that was the only thing you said that was factual.
The rest was a tantrum.
BFA isn’t the worst expansion, definitely not the best, but not the worst.
HotS was abandoned because it was garbage
Mobile, streaming and VR games are the direction the industry is headed, but theor “Got phones” comment was crass.
Overwatch was a great game but not all great games stay on top forever.
Blitzchung dug his own hole and Blizzard, same as any company, was in their right to ban him.
An apology does not need to have action be done to make the apology sincere. An apology in and of itself is an act of contrition, a recognition that you did something wrong.
It’s normal for companies to show things not ready yet. Cyberpunk and Star Citizen say hello.
SCII tournaments aren’t abandoned at all, it’s just a niche e-sport.
WC3 is being review bombed, so you really can’t take that seriously at all, nor is it factual proof of anything more than outrage culture. Though the outrage is justified.
Here is an interesting question. BFA was launched Aug 2018, the cuts too place in Feb 2019. Now anyone who played before the cuts knows the game has some major bugs and crazy balance issues. It was clear that testing wasn’t really a focus over there in Q&A. So they cut some employees but did the game really get any worse in the sense of bugs and broken crap then it was before hand?
Cutting employees is never a great thing but if you cut them because they weren’t doing a great job to begin with…
I mean, it’s technically not that far fetched, they recently announced they were dialing back Heroes of the Storm. Why wouldn’t some jobs in Q&A be up for cuts ? One less project to Q&A means less requirements for actual testers.
Not to mention with testing automation increasing more and more and market tools improving year after year, you need less actual humans testing things.
Like I said, people like no bully refuse to accept reality or facts unless it comes with a signed document from some official, everything else is fake mews
People also blindly assume the cuts were made from WoW teams alone, which isn’t true
I love seeing Ralph’s avatar pop up in the replying section. His posts are like a train wreck. You know it’s going to be bad but you just can’t help but look anyway. Like a day time soap.
For a minute there I thought you were talking about the company I work for. It is not right to put half of these things at the feet of just Blizzard. At lot of this is just standard business practice for a lot of large companies. Restructuring the company so higher paying jobs are reduced or removed then hiring someone to do the very same work with just a different title for lower pay. Firing long time employees in order to hire someone for half the pay. These things are not just Blizzard’s consistent failures but business wide failures.
I would say a great example of humanity’s major weakness is blind idealism, which is what it seems you had for Blizzard. Now that the company has shown itself to be less than ideal the rage is real. The sense of loss, grief and anger in this post is concerning. Blizzard games are not all trash, I still enjoy a few of them. Is my enjoy the same as it once was, no. But I still get more enjoyment from them than what they cost. When I stop getting enjoy from them I stop paying for them. This is why I have always paid month to month unless I have been gifted time.
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I mean, you hinted the lay offs were massive (800) when the facts don’t hold up (only a few of those were from Blizzard, the rest were in other Activision properties), and you further hinted the Q&A lay offs were also big (which the figures I’ve seen hint at 5% of the department at most) when in reality, they seem to be inline with typical business goal realignment.
AKA : You listened to an Internet sensationalist with little actual work experience try to talk about a subject he has no clue in, and you took it as a big conspiracy. Up next : Aliens!
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In the eyes of the investors you are. Thanks for your MAU contribution.
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Most important point in this entire freaking forum right here.
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And suddenly someone brings investors in when nobody was talking about them, it is almost like you are desperately trying to win some kind of mystical argument
Break down for employees laid off was 208…
41 from IT
29 from marketing
Live experience team 29 <—no clue what the heak that is
HR 18
Global insight lost 15 <—another no clue
Publishing Lost 12
QA lost 11
Latian America publishing lost 11
Mobile team lost 9
And finance lost 8
But this does not show how many took the buy out around 100 and left so maybe more in QA but only blizzard knows that
indeed.
so i’ll stick with the paperwork which has come directly from blizzard, instead of some random youtuber who gets paid for views.