Hey, I just wanted to say that QA and CS are not just some “temp. job on the road to something else in game design”
They are unique skills and you should want to keep that talent.
I say this because President of Blizzard, Mike Ybarra, thinks different.
Its extremely disappointing with all the changes happening at Blizzard to route out the toxicity that this thinking remains.
It can be hard to enjoy a video game, when you know the people behind it are treating the people who made without any value.
The President of Blizzard made some very stupid comments to his people. Even if he believes that those jobs should only be considered minimum wage jobs, he shouldn’t have phrased it in the way he did. Instead, the company should have just added a job wage cap document into their orientation package so that when people apply and are hired for those jobs they will see that they will not make any more money than the cap, no matter how long they stay in the position.
His attitude is why this game is so buggy and has no depth. When you only think about the bottom line, it shows in the work that is being done.
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The bugs in the game are def a management problem.
I bet you QA has reported all these bugs. But there’s problem not enough engineering hours to fix them all.
I am sure that QA has done the best they could with what they have. I also bet that this motivation will have decreased after that meeting and the staff is probably at the point of just doing the bare minimum required and is not going above and beyond.
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Yeah, can’t wait for the next major patch and everyone is complaining about the bugs. And we can just look back to this fiasco.
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It would have been interesting to be a fly on the wall in the meeting room. I wonder how many bosses groaned as he was saying these things. 
And I can guess how many employees rolled their eyes.
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I’d hate to be a QA Manager right now. Like how do you motivate your team now?
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Oh I agree. I spent many years managing people and it would be really difficult to try to recover from this faux pas. Of course the big boss might be hoping that the QA people that have been around for quite awhile quit so that they can hire new people at minimum wage. But what I have learned over the years is that they will only lose the really good people and all the ones that probably should have lost their job long ago will stay.
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Oh yeah, it seems like Big Boss Mike wants to get rid of the Senior QA and CS. But that’s just going to either extended development time or ship a buggy product since you have to bring up all those people on their systems.
Also, and this is the most important, its just morally wrong.
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Looks like management treat em little better than dirt.
This game gets the quality it deserves.
Wow it’s like they learned nothing from the lawsuit and the walk outs. I’m shocked.
(I’m not, I am disappointed though.)
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His comments sure do explain the quality of wow right now with more bugs than ever before. Game breaking in some cases. Good job!
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I suspect their job availability listings will just keep getting longer or one can hope. From long experience, until management feels the pain, they won’t do a thing, nor will they care.
My last job laid off whole departments, figuring they could do it cheaper elsewhere. What they learned is elsewhere didn’t know the work, didn’t know the regulations and now had to hire a whole new set of people who had to learn what needed to get done because everyone was gone and bridges were burned.
That mindset is really bemusing to me still, but it doesn’t kill the company so it persists. 
I suspect the OP works in QA or CS, and neither is doing competent job. Get back to the office and stop watching youtube while you pretend to work.