If they were serious about that, they’d pay them industry standard wages. This is just to keep them somewhat happy in the short term. Too bad it completely screws over the customers, again.
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True, maybe someone should start a petition for that. I wonder how many people will give the employees backlash for asking for that too.
If you feel like this completely screws you over idk what to tell you man. Y’all being pretty hyperbolic about this. You’re all gonna forget these changes happened in a few weeks like you eternally outraged people always do
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pffft. Sure, whatever you say. I’m never spending any money on WoW again unless they do a complete 180 of this crap. You can have whatever strawman in your head when you talk to me, it doesn’t matter. I don’t like things I’ve spent half my life playing getting changed to please a group of people who can’t even function in society.
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Assisting with the investigation instead of directly working against it and trying to smear the name of the organization investigating you is a good start.
As I said, we don’t know. But that doesn’t mean we can’t doubt it’s happening.
Gear isn’t borrowed power. Building a character entirely with the intent of a large portion of their power (artifacts, heart, corruptions, etc) being attached to a newly introduced expansion specific system that requires expansion-long grinding and catch up systems and vanishes with the next is borrowed power.
Artifacts were great, but implemented initially terribly. They heavily punished people for playing more than one spec as until AK got high enough you had to pour every bit of AP into your main spec to unlock very powerful traits that were part of your spec’s core design.
We have never felt weaker at the start of an expansion than we have since they introduced borrowed power systems in Legion.
Correct, many have unsubbed. I only play for Classic (hence this character) and have no desire to return to anything modern Blizzard does. At this point nostalgia and the desire to re-do the content is all I’m here for and I will probably not play past TBC.
Blizzard is still making changes to Classic, but I don’t know nor care if they’re making these specific changes to it.
I already play FFXIV (though in a lull) and am loving New World.
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Maybe they should pay their employees more so they don’t have to work two jobs, and they should give them better benefits too.
But this costs nothing to Blizzard and is a lot like a pizza party. Those gullible enough eat it up, whereas the more savvy realize it’s meaningless and insulting.
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First, it’s the devs and the devs alone making these decisions.
Second, if they wanted to make their employees happy, they would start being better employers.
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Honestly, when you read some of them on twitter, you can’t help but feel they deserve to work at a place like blizzard. Leave the better jobs to better people.
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Wth?
There is no proof of this.
Is this what you want
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Since when did the employee matter more than the customer?
If they don’t like the environment where they work so much…quit.
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It reminds me of the people who buy in to Walmart’s (or any other terrible employer) propaganda. They just… stay there, not understanding they’re being manipulated and abused by their employer, and have this cult-like love for it.
I remember I almost fell into that with another retail job when they were dangling management over my head. Now I make over twice what I would have as a manager and don’t struggle with mental health.
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If you don’t like the game so much then quit? It is the same thing except that the employee gives much more to the company than $15 a month.
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The employees JOB is to appease the customer not the other way around.
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Do you think giving a pizza party to an employee is meaningful, rather than a better wage and benefits?
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False, very very false. The employee’s job is to do what the company wants them to do.
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Kinda weird since Blizzard very obviously wanted their employees to bow their heads and not blow the whistle for the abuse they suffered.
The relationship between employee and employer is one of mutual benefit. The relationship between customer and provider is more an exchange, and the provider is supposed to ensure what they are selling is up to standard. They are not the ones who should decide to tarnish the product.
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Nope, what does that have to do in any way with what I said?
That’s partly true…but not all the way.
If employees were not responsible for making sure the customer was happy I’m pretty sure that next time you asked someone in a retail setting for help they would tell you to “F off”.
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Bottom line…
Blizzard is garbage.
Their employees are pandered to.
The game is suffering.
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