He’s not “playing games”, he’s making $$$. Dual wielding jobs, apparently.
According to a producer at Blizzard on Twitter, Ybarra hasn’t met with the developers even once since he was appointed studio co-lead three months ago, but apparently has the time to run Mythic keys during work hours.
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If you have so much experience why aren’t you the one hiring the VPs?
Do you know the reason she wasn’t paid the same? What does selling boosts for in-game gold have to do with this?
Because that would require them to hire someone who isn’t a barely qualified white dude. Which would then cause people like you to whine that the minority “only” got it because she’s a minority.
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You don’t know anything about me. Quit making up crap!
I only said that other person didn’t have any clue what they were talking about. They literally have zero experience!
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I’m going to guess, due to the fact that she quit over it, and the people involved, and the company involved, and the reputation of both the people and the company…
Sexism? Pretty sure it was sexism.
If a company that is only gradually starting to regain their footing after a prolonged scandal over multiply-confirmed harassment and discrimination claims and several pending lawsuits is so completely unaware of the optics of paying her even a penny less than someone who shared her identical job that they tried to bargain-hunt on her salary and call it ‘unlike qualifictions’ like it was 2005, basically the company is too stupid to be allowed to continue to exist.
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Agreed 110%.
Instead of just putting Jen in charge of Blizzard, a dumpster fire of sexism and discrimination, they put “gamer bro” in there which is the exact opposite of what they needed to do.
BK is a buffoon, as is every member of the Board.
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Even as someone who is wanting to finish TBC (at the least), and to play Diablo 4, I wouldn’t mind Blizzard just being shut down.
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Arthas voice: Blizzard must be purged!
He wasn’t his guild leader was . He was just streaming the runs
Ok fixed it
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I do not know nearly enough to make an informed decision on what she should or should not have been paid or even what she did or did not receive in terms of compensation. What I will say is a lot goes into how much someone makes. Assuming what she claims is true about the compensation, maybe she did not have as much experience, did not graduate from as prestigious a school, the list goes on and on.
Again I am not trying to justify what they did because I do not have any information to allow me to make an informed decision. I just know that everyone here is jumping the gun first off assuming what they say is the truth and second, acting like they know for a fact it was apples to apples when comparing the co-leads compensation.
If WoW and Blizz were humming along just fine, I think it would be great for him and more devs to showcase the game.
But this is an all-hands-on-deck situation. As the director of Blizzard, he should burning the midnight oil fixing his company (and actually meeting his employees too apparently) instead of streaming, running keys and doing boost runs.
He’s been playing “gamer bro” for the last three months and look where Blizzard is. . . worse off than it was three months ago.
Great job, Mike.
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So you guessed, got it
This is a complete lunatic take. Good lord.
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You know how rich people give universities donations so their kids can stay even though they should be thrown out?
We don’t know if it’s that kind of donation.
Two popes soooort of worked.
Crying on forums about the woman leaving? Lol…Progressives (aka Marxist lunatics) will never get it. The whole “woke” mentality is taking WoW down faster than any of us could have ever imagined. Disastrous.
The issue here it seems is that it started from the very top, Activision, and by Bobby Kotick’s hand no less. He chose to do nothing and let things fester.
I just assumed Jen did what a lot of executive management does. Leveraged her position at Blizzard for a better position at a different company. Preferably where she is a sole president or higher ranking. She just can’t go too much into details about her departure and plans, because may be her contract at the new company hasn’t been finalized yet with contracts & legal.
May be there’s more too it. idk. I don’t trust Kotaku for reliable news, but WSJ is more credible.