I feel bad for you, I really do. It’s not an either/or dilemma. Here’s a sample of a few ethical CEO’s that have made decisions with their company, their employees, AND their profits in mind:
People who have absolutely no regard for anyone else might find it hard to understand that there are CEO’s and other business moguls who feel a responsibility for those they employ. These people run their corporations ethically because they have ethics. It really IS that simple.
Your bringing up communism is just stupid and hasn’t a thing to do with it. It’s just called being a good person.
I always find it a little amusing when people who do nothing but accuse Blizzard employees of lying and constantly tell them how awful they are at their jobs, express faux outage when Blizzard lays people off. Anyways, Activision Blizzard is looking to hire 3,000 people over the course of 2021. Funny how that little bit of information is completely absent across all these threads.
Why do you think YOUR sense of ethics is universal? Random WoW forum harpy presumes to be the arbiter of ethics for the modern era and anyone who disagrees isn’t a “good” person. Seriously?!?
When you get hired, it’s not for life, it’s for as long as they need you. Unless you are related to the owner or part of the management team, getting laid off at the end of a project is normal. It’s not like you are being marooned on a desert island, go collect unemployment and find another job. Nobody owes you anything!
Companies do not exist to employ people, they exist to make money, workers with no work don’t make money, companies with no money go bankrupt, bankrupt companies employ no one.
Probably, though that also depends upon one’s perspective. As a manager myself I often consider the work of my reports to be “harder” in a lot of ways, but when I encourage them to try higher duties they usually become intimidated and frightened by the responsibility - something that doesn’t worry me at all. A family friend of mine had a mental breakdown from anxiety after years of being a successful executive because of the stress that his signature could make or break millions of dollars for his company.
Also, CEOs and business owners assume a higher level of risk than professionals of those industries. And our society only exists as it does today because we can - and should - celebrate entrepreneurs who take those risks. If everybody was a doctor or a teacher, progress would would still and we’d never develop our society any further than we currently are.
I hope nobody mistakes my prior posts to suggest Bobby doesn’t deserve a high salary. My only argument was that people greatly overestimate the influence of CEOs in achieving market outcomes, which suggests to me that his $200m payout may have been a result of cognitive bias rather than considered decision making. CEOs still work long hours and shoulder a great deal of stress and responsibility.
So although we’ve witnessed an inspiring conversation about the merits of Bobby Kotick and also the merits of one company’s CEO worthy of receiving a 200m bonus, to get back to the OP:
Do we think that Blizz has both the means and the opportunity to hire more Game Masters? And would it help to combat things like exploits and botting?
I personally think having more GMs would be an awesome thing.
You could give me the $200 million and I’ll try real hard to replicate a classic experience you will all love, but instead fail miserably after two months because I don’t actually know what I’m doing or want to do it, and then we can all accept that I tried peacefully.
There’s always a simple solution, I’m here to help.
Thank god someone understands the law of averages, there are always outliers but we all know eventually the average catches up. (Terrible over simplified description)
The bottom line if you care is better served by reinvesting into the product lines so that the quality is good. Play retail and you will know what I’m on about. Classic has a few bugs, and questionable functions but it’s overall a flawless masterpiece when compared to the hack job that’s retail.
