Those are those bootstraps that repiglicans are always talking about. Taking an ‘L’ to get the foot in the door and working harder than everyone else to hope the poverty fairy notices and decides to give you a raise. I mean, it probably happens at least 5 times a week on America TV shows, so it’s gotta happen in real life occasionally, right?
It’s Blizzard. You don’t leave a company like that unless you want your foot in the door of the industry to be cut off and the door locked behind you. You get your years in and get into bigger things after having that name on your resume.
If you really were not that deep in your greed, you may have realised that keeping high morale in your staff makes it more likely for them to create a good product, which in turn will let you get and keep more customers and thus earn you more revenue.
I hate suits in leadership positions, they are so extremely disgusting.
That said.
It is all also a result of microtransactions in gaming - the sooner people realise this the better. Microtransactions does not support game developers, au contrair, it endangers their jobs as a shift can easily happen with a focus turning from making a game, and instead just expansion of an online store.
As much as I wish they had, no game developer contract has a line in it, where it says that developers will get added pay if a game does well.
These are low paying gig call center and QA testers working out of state. This is not a “foot in door” position. Go read Glassdoor or Indeed and no path for advancement is one of their big complaints.
Indeed, not to mention there are some kinds of career paths that are difficult to break into and walking away could end a lot of future dreams or, at least, push them much further into the future.
And there’s the rub. I guess one might assume they are just happy to be working for Blizzard and therefore willing to put up with some bs. But why? Go where the environment and pay are good, no matter how much you like Blizzard games it apparently doesn’t/didn’t mean you’d enjoy working for them.
At some point, the pigs were able to change history and turn minimum wage into “teenager pocket money” instead of a “minimum standard of living” like it was intended. Then they robbed the piggy bank for SSI. That’s how these problems start. The erosion of public support (entitlements, social safety net, unions, etc) to force people ever more dependent on corporations.
At the stage we’re at right now, idiots (and I mean the gullible kind, not the dumb kind) will actually defend the system that’s keeping them in poverty, that’s how successful the corporate propaganda machine had been. There’s no use arguing the point because they’ve been indoctrinated since birth to think that if you just work harder, everything will be alright, just like Boxer from animal farm.
They definitely have offices in Austin. The GMs are based out of there last I checked. I was scheduled to go fly down and interview there prior to getting my current job.
