No, he’s right.
I’m surprised, you’ve never been suspended then.
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Maybe something has changed in regards to the new forums. When I was suspended on the old forums (multiple times), I was recieving emails quoting the exact statements that resulted in my suspension. This is how I was able to easily appeal the suspensions, because I knew what I said and argued that what I said wasn’t worthy of a suspension.
US should just really cap officer compensation to a certain multiplier of their median employee salary.
Having them make 400x more then their developers is absurd. And for the mucked up job that Activisions executives do, you think shareholders would start to consider fiduciary negligence actions. They’re trying to cash out.
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I wish it still worked like that, that sounds fantastic.
The only times I’ve been suspended are both days where I spent most of the day on the forums, and replied to a LOT of posts, sometimes sarcastically, and often aggressively. I no doubt deserved the timeout, and don’t dispute that, but frankly without any sort of indication of what crossed the line, I’m stuck guessing.
I’m sure I’ll be suspended again at a future date too. Can’t be helped. They won’t clarify where the line is.
The industry has needed to unionize for a long time now.
The problem here is that the colleges and schools are flooding the market with talent that can easily compare and replace experience.
Let’s be honest here, everyone wants to make video games. Colleges know this. It’s an easy sell to potential tuition paying students. So you now have Universities and Colleges from all over the country offering “video game” training.
So what do you do? Well, you need to unionize.
Protections need to be put in place to insure that those IN the industry can’t be easily replaced or signed on to short term, low paying contracts.
Make things too difficult for the company though, and you risk them just moving production over seas to India or China, which have obviously VERY comparable talent in their backyard.
So good luck solving this problem. You may very well cut off your arm to save your hand.
Uh oh be careful talking actual logic with that dude he can’t comprehend it
It totally does work like that. Del got me a temp ban just the other day for calling him a blizzard bootlicker lol. I know BECAUSE I received an email.
I’ve been “blocked” by his ublock script 5 times now.
Imagine trying to humblebrag about a ublock script but not even knowing the forums have a built-in ignore feature.
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I don’t know what to say man, I never got an email.
I guess they only do it sometimes now?
A fair wage is minimum wage plus whatever was agreed on.
If someone does not like their pay. They can do what everyone
else before them did. Find a better job.
Of course this is the generation that thinks you should be
able to make a decent living by working at McDonalds.
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Great point, and probably less than 10% if you consider the split between Classic and Retail, and the age of the title.
The world has changed quite a bit. There was a time that pumping gas or working at a diner went a lot further than it does now.
Transactional inflation, coupled with built in insurance bloat makes it harder on everyone that insists having their own house, car, etc
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I think it is partly that. You get either kids right out of school, or people that are bottom of the barrel. I also think, to a degree, it is a generational thing. Game artists and developers are not as good as they used to be. I see very little real original content, mostly copying stuff developers did years ago. Not to mention a lack of work ethic.
It is a shame really, technology has advanced to a point we can do wonders in gaming, but the people aspect has slid down hill.
That’s not just blizz, that’s ever major dev now. Every decision made by major devs it made to extract as much money as humanly possible from a game. That’s why so many games nickel and dime you with microtransactions, and have underpaid skeleton crews maintaining them. They don’t care about your enjoyment, they care about their bottom line. And unfortunately gamers complain, but still pay anyway. So there no incentive to make good games anymore, just profitable ones. Welcome to gaming in 2020.
It’s not about lack of effort or skill today. Well made games don’t make money. Releasing a CoD game that virtually the same as last year’s except with different maps for $60 and another $60 for maps the “didn’t finish” for launch is what makes money. So that’s what devs make. There too many big players that are only in it for the money.
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WoW isn’t that bad.
People are just spoiled and expect a perfect experience/developers who can see the future.
Yah there’s been some stuff mishandled, but you’re still playing - as am I.
Imagine how many tickets a GM has to deal with in Classic right now, during a War Effort - in a game that literally revolves around NEETs vs Dads - where the NEETs intentionally exploit the system to their advantage, and the Dads open tickets based around a TOS that doesn’t exist anymore.
Of course they can’t keep up.
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Blizzard is in too comfortable position.
They no longer need to make any effort because people still just throws heaps of money at them simply for their brand name.
Kinda like Star Wars except Disney put people in-charge who actively sought to push people away, Blizz is just sluggish in their participation.
No I do not know it. I never claimed anything was easy. That is why they won’t leave their low paying jobs. Blizzard can pay what they want. People either need to do the hard thing to make their own life better or keep licking daddy blizzards boots.
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oh, you’re one of those subscribers to the bootstrap fantasy. bless your heart.
I mean you could always stop supporting Blizzard by not playing their games but here you are.
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Duh, the ceo is funneling all the money to himself.
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