Damn bad time of the year to get laid off…right after the Holidays…
This was well summarized in Plato’s Republic. In the sense that democracy is the will of the public to be schizo. Plato’s observation was that the hive mentality produces nothing of value until a tyrant aligns the interests of the many. Aka democracy leads to tyranny.
That’s how I view the move from ATVI to MS though. Blizz just had a project in dev for six years that was going nowhere. Perfect example of Plato’s point. MS is wanting to cull the hive mentality by acting the tyrant and that makes for a sharper more value-added product line. I’m not saying the next expansion is going to be amazing. Time will tell on that.
It will also in the long run be good for the people who were let go. The sickness of the modern era is believing that everyone should be able to do everything. If someone is stressed over money, deadlines and work hours perhaps just gutting the work hours solves at least two of their three problems. Maybe even all three.
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Oh, so you’re just a bad person then. Got it.
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If that’s your assumption, we’ll go with that c:
#CutAnother1900
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Good riddance to Mike Ybarra. Don’t let the door hit him on the way out.
Dirty carry seller, and fanboyed so hard on M+ to the detriment of literally every other kind of content. We went from having the best raids in Legion, BfA and SL to having the some of the very worst ones. PvP is even worse for wear because all the tuning is centered on M+. Augvokers ruined class balance. Cherry on top is all the M+ DF dungeons except Brackenhide are some of the worst ones. Nokhud is the worst dungeon in the entire game. No, wait, cherry on top is him publicly insulting WoW streamers like a neckbeard instead of listening to their advice, wrecking the company’s image further.
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And then they’ll pay our rent, bills and for our food so we can spend all day doing what we wow players enjoy. Playing wow all day, every day
Completely normal after any buyout/merger. Drop 20-25% of the employees.
Don’t worry though Activison/blizzard still probably has well over 6000 more employees…
I think the state of wow will be fine. Seeing how it’s one the top money makers for blizzard still.
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my governor wants to replace ppl with ai, so im sure thats where this is all leading to.
suddenly companies are laying off ppl en masse, least my dude was honest w/ his reasons lol.
Didn’t Mike perpetuate the IO culture and the boosting culture, etc?
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Wonder if the people that got canned were a bunch of the people that were reported to hr over all the horrible things that Bobby was allowing the frat boys to do to people…and wonder if the real reason Mike “wasn’t laid off and quit instead”.
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Yeah. It was a bad look with a lot of self-imposed blinders on. There has been a culture of a lack of professionalism for a long time from a lack of discipline and judgement in small to big picture sense. It’s better that they went in another direction. Changes at large companies are always top down. Act-Blizzard should had brought in someone from outside who was unabashedly apolitical and unapologetically professional instead of promoting MY on the outset and that decision should had been a no brainer…
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You know, it’s nice to have professionalism, but I also quite enjoy humanism in my content. I don’t want everything to feel like it’s a washed out corporate husk at events, I want passionate developers that get me hyped up not because they have to, but because they love what they are doing.
I want to feel that love when they speak about their changes. I want them to do things and sell it to me. Not because they have to, but because they love it and they want to share that. There’s moments where in a few years past BlizzCon felt like a corporate husk, paint by numbers talk about stuff.
Seeing Metzen again brought back my imagination, seeing the way he speaks, how he truly does care about what he creates and truly does care about the fans, there’s a connection there. With the design philosophies adapting to modern culture I can see Ion even becoming less of a corporate NPC, every time I saw him speak at Blizzcon after Metzen left I had this feeling he hated what he had to sell to us because he even didn’t believe in it himself. This time around it was different and it felt better, he’s not Metzen, but I do enjoy seeing what he is trying to sell us too and in some way I would miss it if it were gone.
There were other members that are getting there, but I want them to hit their stride naturally and less like a teleprompter.
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The two are not exclusive. There are many wildly successful and passionate CEOs or BOs. Generally companies tie in human resources to handle morale amongst the rank and file and sometimes hire outside parties. Team building outings, etc.
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And everyone is running wild screaming the world is ending. lol
Who among you are honestly upset or surprised that the company that spent $70 billion to buy Activision blizzard is now deciding what to do with the company they paid for?! lol
It’s not greed or any other of the nonsense it was a purchase. Microsoft owns Activision blizzard now they can do what the darn well please with it.
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Okay, hear me out. We trade Malfurion for Sheogorath.
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If someone’s stressed about money, removing the source of their money is probably going to overall significantly increase their stress.
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Not always. You’d be surprised I think the number of people who are relieved in poverty. Ownership is obligation. The famous Tyler Durden quote is “The things you own end up owning you.”
Everyone who has ever had too much to worry about can relate to that quote.
We live in a rather sick society. Where people cannot make ends meet and it’s not because they’re not working. So deleveraging is the answer.
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…I’m listening.
Whenever you have a merger, you eliminate positions. It’s sad for the employees for sure, but it makes sense for the company: There are going to be lots of overlapping positions.
The survival game was by all accounts not coming together. It’s good they killed it.
I would imagine WoW and Diablo are safe because those are the primo IPs. The King team are going to churn out more crap micro-transaction games I’m sure. What happens to Overwatch might be interesting.
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Eh the survival game was reset 3 times swaping engines from unreal 4-5 and finally their mobile engine Synapse which waa making progress slow and expensive. Makes sense to can it. Whats really disgusting is announcing all affected employees would be moved to other new IPs. Seen a lot of former employee posts saying that never happened and the whole team is out of work