Microsoft Layoffs 09/12 - Mostly Activision-Blizzard

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which departments?

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This kind of crap makes me feel like just not playing anymore. 650 people don’t have jobs today so they can transfer what they would have been paid to upper management and shareholders.

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It’s odd, the memo says the people being laid off are “mostly in corporate and supporting functions” but then the person posting appears to be a developer.

It’s never cool when someone loses their job, though, especially when the company is doing well and riding high off a successful new release. I hope the people who got let go go on to bigger and better things.

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This is a sign of things to come. Be careful what you wish for. Do you really think MS has your best interest at heart?

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^ This

And right after or right before major releases. (D4 expac around the corner)
“Thanks for your help, byeee!”

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Are you saying Micro$oft doesn’t really love me?

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I have ads on my start bar now :frowning:

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I have a few names i could have suggested

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It happens all the time, especially in a job market as crowded as game development is.

Or do people conveniently forget that when spilling their hearts out?

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Exactly this. It literally says:

As part of aligning our post-acquisition team structure and managing our business, we have made the decision to eliminate approximately 650 roles across Microsoft Gaming — mostly corporate and supporting functions — to organize our business for long term success.

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Yep, very sad. Just happened with Square-Enix (Visions of Mana) and Ouka Studios

They released the game and kicked them to the curb.

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Especially in a job market so lacking in unions and other worker protections.

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Unions have nothing to do with it. It’s an oversaturated job market.

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How does it personally impact you and what are you going to do about it? I’m curious, since you’re so passionate about this conversation. I’d love to know what your next move is, and what you hope it will accomplish.

Unless, of course, you’re just talk.

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Except that the person who posted to Twitter was apparently an encounter designer? That’s not really “corporate and support”. Granted, that’s just one person, and “mostly” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence, but still.

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I know, right? It’s very upsetting, to say the least. My faith in game management has already slipped into the gutter but now I don’t even trust the company to do the right thing. Game quality has declined so much that WOW is no longer fun, fair, or deserving of my time.

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It’s a fallacy to require action on each and every piece of information (or even ANY information). The two are unrelated, and knowledge without action is not meaningless.

Just take the L. It’s ok to be wrong sometimes, geezus.

People can’t ever seem to just say “Oh, yea, that’s a good point” and move on. Gotta get the hackles up and fight in the face of logic.

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And you think Blizzard has for over the last decade? You really believe Bobby did lol. Only interest he had was his yachts.

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This mean that Blizz is going out of business long term?

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So, looking around on Twitter, I see another post from someone who’s a producer on Warcraft Rumble, and someone in Story and Franchise Development - they do the cinematics. Also someone in corporate tech infrastructure/IT.

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