The amusing thing is I see this so many times. “Don’t leave, it will hurt people!” Well, staying seemingly hurt people and if I MUST choose between supporting a company that makes money and then ditches employees because it wasn’t enough or a company that loses money and then ditches employees in a bid to survive… Guess which way I’m gonna choose?
Eventually, if enough folks leave, the executives pay. Might take a while, but it happens.
In the real world, people don’t spend all their time obsessing over a company. These content creators are joining in on the circle jerk of obsessing, projecting and literally inventing new reasons to “hate” Activision.
Then again, if you just didn’t go to the GD, YouTube or Reddit your perception of the game is most likely going to be completely different.
The problem with outrage culture is you’re getting outraged at everything instead of anything substantial. It’s literally why they keep asking for constructive criticism instead of blanket whine/cry/qq.
Psychopaths = people who understand business? OK.
I cannot in good conscience support this thread with cookies since well, the OP is against supporting any company that is profit based. (That is not to say I do not feel compassion for those that lost their jobs and wish them well though)
(selfishly munches on cookies)
(Puts out a tray of cookies)
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Why thank you (happily takes a cookie and sneaks Spiçy a cookie on the sly).
Take it easy. Azeroth will be here if you decide to come back.
Well, I am certainly impressed by the sacrifice you are making and I want you to know that I believe your words will move even the coldest person to your cause. eyeroll
They’re cutting non-development jobs while increasing developer teams by 20%.
On the contrary, I’m gonna support Blizzard games even harder. This just means they’re harkening back to their roots of developing world class games.
Companies are not a charity. They’re not in the business of giving people a paycheck out of sheer benevolence. If you don’t serve a purpose, you are cut.
Hope you don’t support anything. Cuz every business does this.
And it’s not callous. It’s business. As an employee, are you not supposed to look for other jobs unless you let your employer know?
People need to stop with this “callous” statement. It’s pretty ridiculous and you seriously need to grow up.
Well that’s just plain rude. Thanks a lot OP. Now we are all being punished!
And on the other extreme, you got guys like this who completely buy into the PR spin. Adding 20% more dev could be like 5 guys compared to the hundreds laid off or could be 20% more that’s all going towards their mobile platform.
(sneaks Solarwynds a cookie)
(giggle)
Yay!!! 
Let’s get outraged and make life-changing choices based on speculation, shall we?
From what I understand, most of the people layed off were from areas that were not making money or worth their investment. A lot of them were related to esports and that has been a major money pit for Blizzard. A company can’t make profit by keeping on dead weight and throwing more money into something that does not make them money.
Is it sad that people lost their jobs? Yes. Was it expected? Yes. Hopefully this means Blizzard is putting their focus back where it matters and stops chasing unicorns as hard as they were.
It’s not callous, and any record profits are irrelevant.
We all KNOW that “WoW is dying” and EVERYONE there will be unemployed soon.
Maybe they are just giving those 800 people a headstart on their job hunts?
They didn’t announce record profit. They announced record revenue followed by saying 2019 was going to be trash.
A) Revenue doesn’t take into account costs. It’s just how much money they earned. It’s the difference between your Gross pay and your discretionary budget.
B) These layoffs aren’t the result of 2018, they appear to be in preparation for 2019.
Let me guess, you’ll vote with your wallet but not with your actual ballot for people who will support unions and corporate regulations that would have prevented this?
Saving the World of Warcraft, but not the real world. Well done, heroes. Ugh evil corporations, how awful, but doing something to combat that? Meh, who cares.
You guys are like if Sylvanas burnt down Teldrassil and the rest of the night elves just stood around being like “Ugh how awful, someone better do something about that”.
If it means we possibly get better content then I’ll support it. Diesnt mean I’m not sad for those losing their jobs (
Ysenths) but I understand businesses do what they have to.
sneaks cookie