Apparently Activison/Blizzard laid off a bunch of people because the e-sports scene isn’t going so well. It’s due to covid but Overwatch took a big hit and the company decided that there would be some severance pay and a $200 blizzard gift card
Source: screenrant,com /blizzard-fires-employees-battle-net-gift-cards/
Article claims Blizzard is moving away from live e-sports. Waving the white flag?
Way to spread the fake news OP.
Activision Blizzard has announced the layoffs of about 50 employees working in the Esports division.
50 is not a lot. And 3 months pay and a year of health insurance is not “some severance.” It’s a really nice severance package
Well, if they are burning money and still not getting views, what are they supposed to do? What is any company supposed to do? I think you guys mistaking game companies for charities.
Makes sense considering there can’t be any live events for awhile. It was never doing great so now is a good time to drop it.
Overwatch is slow to update the game. People want to play the game and it isn’t even getting any important content till like next year. They should have saved some of the overwatch 2 heroes as steady “prelease” content or something.
Esports is a waste of resources for a company
~50 people is not “a lot” in terms of a company the size of Blizzard.
I feel bad for anyone who loses their job and there is plenty of quality control issues at Blizzard but this certainly isn’t one of them.
They got some thicc severance packages tho ngl
That is a GOOD severence. 3 months is plenty of time to find a job with a ACTIVISION-BLIZZARD pedigree and a year’s worth of likely good Health Insurance, in the United States, is worth its weight in gold.
Plus, you know, I wouldn’t complain about the 200 dollars Blizzard Fun Bucks thrown in. Imagine PLAYING the games you worked on?! That’s a nice cherry on top.
Yep as it turns out e-sports is garbage when it’s ran by the company itself. Just because League and DOTA can do it doesn’t mean that WoW and overwatch can. As it turns out Blizzard games attracts an entirely different type of audience, imagine that.
California probably pays well in unemployment after the 3 months. So this is basically a lottery ticket for a year.
I dont visit those articles at all…
They are usually misleading and clickbait
They only just now noticed?
scrap the e-sports garbage already… it does more harm than good to the game balance wise.
I have been mentioning the past couple of months a new PVP map was missing this expansion or big participation/teamwork map. I think it is one of those things that put a big damper on the current expansion.
Wotlk: Wintergrasp
Cata: Tol Barad
MoP: Had new maps
WoD: Ashran
Legion: A new PVP talent system, ranks and reward system
BFA: Warfronts were a huge missed opportunity but I participated in them the whole expansion.
SLs: I think this will be the first time we didn’t receive anything.
Other expansions also implemented a couple of new maps. I personally enjoy the bigger scale teamwork tho. I think Warfront participation should solidify this for the playerbase. (I couldn’t have been the only one)
WoW has shifted the competition into PVE, example: Mythic +, I think this has overall made the PVE community more tense and not as friendly. Definitely not towards new players. Which can overtime have repercussions. Now I am not saying… that Mythic + competition was the worst idea ever and I do not believe it should be removed. I just think this complete neglect of “competition” in a category that is dedicated to it PVP (player vs player) should be getting more attention. This overall would keep everyone a lot more happier. (community)
I did read no one at World of Warcraft was laid off, still I am sorry to hear that people within the company were. If the company genuinely wants more players participation in “e-sports” get your employees to create something interesting in PVP. They could’ve potentially shifted these guys. From what I read this is common there. Hoping the people that got laid off will be ok and I hope it wasn’t anyone with a lot of talent. Unsure of all the details.
Blizzard making all these cuts to the game and wondering where all their customers are going. . . . not just in PVP but no good incentives in raiding either. Even leisure activities are bare minimal this expansion. I wish they would stop with the cuts in so many different aspects.
I mean…I didn’t read the article so what I’m saying is based purely off what I’m quoting but layoffs during a pandemic aside, shouldn’t we be celebrating?
Plus, they were working at Blizzard, so they will get a higher paying job somewhere else I’m sure.
Are there a lot of openings for people coming from E-Sports I wonder?
Esports not getting viewers has nothing to do with Ion. On the other hand, Blizzard doing well in the financial statements has a lot of to do with him.