Please don't release SL without first

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@Aerenas-deviate-delight

They can’t, they fired the people that did that.

GD’s definition of smart:

1. Define problem.
2. Blame problem on “the 800 people that were fired.”
4. Feel better about yourself because you’ve mastered condescension.

Y’all need to lurk sections of these forums that don’t contain rampant BS, like Customer Service, where you see exactly the behavior in 1-4 above - but it’s squashed immediately by fact, truth, and intellect.

I’ve seen the “800 fired” trope presented in reaction to:

• Customer Service
• Billing
• Developers
• QA
• Any game bug
• Baseless complaints

How shallow does one have to be to use this “800 fired employees” thing every time there’s an issue, despite knowing literally nothing about who the 800 were or what departments they came from?

“The 800 were most definitely fired from QA, and I am mad”:

Obsidian Sanctum gives wrong mount as loot and doesn't give loot to anyone else in the party

Look Vindolyn, I understand you are frustrated, but the only unknown in this situation is what you had set. The logs indicate you were set on 25. There aren’t any other reports of any bugs showing any similar behavior. There is no indication that our servers aren’t updating fine. I think those mythological QA folks, that people like making up to try and sell their false narrative, might be a little cramped sitting with all the QA folks that haven’t gone anywhere since that didn’t impact QA.

“The 800 were most definitely fired from Customer Service, and I am mad”:

Absolutely zero customer support

That isn’t actually how it works. Game Masters have policies and procedures that they have to follow. They can’t just grant a request because you want it. For most bugs, they are unable to help directly as that is a QA and Dev process. In some situations though, when a known issue is causing a problem that a hotfix/patch may not be able to restroactively resolve, or that otherwise blocks progress, our staff is sometimes able to help. In your case, Mikitan, I can’t say what happened. It isn’t a…

ITT:

The 800 have been fired from internal alpha/beta testing teams.

When you get crap loot in next week’s Mythic+ chest, it’ll be 800 developers that were fired. Gear look crappy? 800 artists were fired.

Be better and smarter humans.

From Variety(dot)com:

More than a quarter of the roughly 800 people [that Activision / Blizzard laid off] … worked in the Blizzard side of the company, according to records obtained by Variety from California’s Employment Development Department. Those 209 Blizzard layoffs hit in cities around the country including Califonia’s Irvine, Santa Monica, and Burbank, as well as New York City, Austin, Texas and Bloomington, Minnesota.

The department that took the biggest hit by the Blizzard layoffs was IT, which lost 41 employees. Marketing and Live Experiences lost 29 employees each, followed by a global insight department.

The rest of layoffs are spread across the company’s different divisions, some of which have not yet been reported. Shortly after the announcement, King-Owned mobile game studio Z2Live was shut down, resulting in the loss of 78 jobs. King is also shuttering its San Francisco studio. The company also laid a dozen people off from developer Vicarious Visions. Internationally, there are reports that 15 people were let go from Activision’s Mexico City offices and that Blizzard’s Versailles office in France will be losing 134 people.

Be better and smarter humans.