That was the problem in this case. He was a contractor – he went from full-time employee to contractor so he could move back to Israel and work remotely. Then the new CEO came in with a “no contractors” policy…
the ownership will not change much who works on the game and who makes designs it does.
Didn’t they just fire a quest writer because he wrote a line that hit too close to home for the CEO?
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How much time have you spent working for Blizzard? You know so much. Maybe you ought to be the new Blizzard lead under Microsoft. I’m just telling you what I’ve seen at multiple companies I’ve worked for.
i said much, but if he wrote something people liked than that improves wow, if he was fired that goes into who writting it now impacting it. for good or ill the dev team makes the game .
Clearly you’ve never worked for a company bought up by a big company right after the retention bonuses clear.
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you can have the best company owners but unless you have quality employees no money or owner will make the company good. the employees are the most valuable.
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That doesn’t have anything to do with my post.
I’m just relaying to you what insiders have been saying for years. Managers were often hired because of who they knew. Managers assigning their work to female underlings while their boss played COD. Blizzard has long had the reputation of being glacially slow to respond to the need for critical changes, which a bureaucratic management that might require 10 signatures before even the smallest change could start.
Meanwhile, developers who came back to their bosses looking for clarification on an unclear assignment often didn’t get it.
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it does, it wont change much its the devs who will make it good even if the company buys it without good employees nothing will matter no improvement.
It is doubtful that the Microsoft acquisition will actually improve WOW. It is not a console compatible game. Microsoft is buying Activision/Blizzard primarily for its mobile and console games. That is where money is growing at.
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all they do is provide the money for the companies to make the games its the devs who make the games which is what will improve it. the thing was activision under bobby is he by far is the worst CEO for a company like blizzard.
hope not, also hope that D4 doesn’t become another Diablo Immortal. Here’s hoping they fix what the current team are breaking and get the company back to its roots of making the game to be fun and not just mass produced and uncared for
Maybe. It isn’t even clear yet if Kotick will exit the company after the acquisition or not. If he does leave, he will make billions off of it.
Right, but the point is the owners and the CEO determine which devs get to keep their jobs.
I have also had the experience of working for a company that was having all sorts of stuff written about it and its inner workings by the media. Virtually everything they wrote was laughably wrong. They’d write stuff about applications I’d developed myself and implementations I was working on and they wouldn’t just get a few facts wrong, what they wrote had almost no connection to the truth. I believe nothing the gaming media writes about inner corporate goings-on. The complainers and the accusers get to speak endlessly, while the corporation has to, on advice of lawyers, say nothing, so the view you get in the press is hopelessly biased.
he was always known as one of the most corrupt CEO’s he was a buddy with epstien stayed at his island like alot of other super wealthy. i dont get how such evil corrupt people stay in power.
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a good CEO would have not tolerated the corruption day one, bobby allowed it protected those people.
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What corruption are you talking about? The CEO fired a writer because his feelings got hurt. The idea that owners and ceos have no impact on game design is ridiculous, they determine who gets hired, and fired.
him protecting people if you havent learnt what happened under bobby kotek and how he not only knew what was happened but allowed and protected those involved.