They weren’t all QC and they weren’t all in World of Warcraft. The cuts were across all Blizzard Ent ip. Even within Blizzard for example WoW CM’s were let go and they aren’t QC.
Regardless, was it a good decision? Hard to say from the outside looking in. But the 800+ were let go in 2018. We’ve had patches since then in 2019. So it could be just redirection of resources from a lackluster BfA to Shadowlands? Tbd.
Just setting the facts straight - it was over all of their games and most of the people laid off didn’t have anything to do with the actual making of the game either. But nice narrative you are trying to push.
Did you see the person who was mad at customer support, claiming 600 people were laid off from customer support…
one of them doesn’t even work.
regardless, the links don’t show what you’re claiming.
what part of “most of those people had nothing to do with testing/development” is relevant to the point you’re trying to make?
Take a look at the pages embedded in this article.
Point people directly to the pages which would be relevant.
If you cut off 8% of your body. From random spots.
Does it matter fully from where you’re cutting it? The entire body’s performance is affected.
Firing community managers, quality control, and quality assurance will hamper, in that order:
Communication between players, devs, and the community.
Testing.
Publishing the things after polishing and fixes.
Removing any number of those people is bad.
ha ha how original and funny never seen anyone post this before…
I can’t access the glassdoor link
Was able to get it on Bing, but it doesn’t load on Google. I got this bit:
See All Reviews (842)
January 8, 2014
Helpful (10)
Blizzard Entertainment Logo
“Do not work in Quality Assurance”
Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
Doesn’t Recommend
Negative Outlook
Approves of CEO
I have been working at Blizzard Entertainment full-time for more than 5 years
Pros
Cons
This is probably one of the reasons why development for PvP is abysmal right now.
And that was from 2014 and is the highest rated.
One (laid off) very often gets help finding a new job, and will get a stellar recommendation letter for their future employer since they were an excellent employee, but were laid off for financial reasons rather than performance.
The other (fired) doesn’t, and may not even get unemployment benefits if they were fired for cause.
so the answer is no.
i provided you with a document which specified where the layoffs were, and you aren’t able to point to anything which backs up your claims.
it’s a business.
not a human.
i just removed more than 8% of my kitchen utensils, appliances, crockery, cutlery… and the kitchen is more functional than it was.
your analogy is just as bad as mine.
Bing is vastly superior than Google for… certain searches.
Not exactly. It’s been four days now, and there’s still quite the number of iMac users who can’t even play WoW due to constant freezing and crashes — me included.
I have noticed that the overall quality for the iMac client has dropped since BFA’s launch, with each patch being worse than the previous.
And my computer is only a couple years old, with the memory storage not even half filled.
I got the iMac for work reasons. It is a good working computer.
I don’t feel comfortable justifying the money to buy a dedicated gaming PC purely to play WoW.
Blizzard has had iMac clients for their games dating back to Warcraft 1 — it’s a huge shame to see them drop the ball on this. 
I built the pc I play wow on with spare parts.
You can’t build a mac with spare parts.
Let’s not turn this into a PC/iMac debate, huh? They both have different strengths, and if your place of employment is dedicated to one kind… you go with it. 
The point of this thread is that this patch has some rather nasty bugs and glitches.
Alright. I won’t divert to computer type anymore. /bows
There are indeed some coding issues that need to be worked on despite the type of computer being used.
I said this same thing about this is what happens when you get rid of 800 employees. There for all you fired layed off people I said got rid of. They no longer are doing their jobs at blizz and it shows. No one ever said QA lost 800 people but do u for one sec think a company can shed 800 people and not have to move people around into other jobs. Blizz needs to do something to make this up to the entire player base. If they continue down this path the dumpster fire we see will soon turn into a full fledged raging inferno and wow will go down in flames
What does this have to do with anything?
No, it won’t
Warlords of Draenor already has that title.
People always get annoyed, it’s the era of crying about anything and running to the internet as fast as they can to whine.