I can understand why people see it that way. I mean, I guess it doesn’t directly impact the game.
That said, I don’t understand why people don’t feel bad for all those people who got sacked. In a period of economic prosperity. I mean, I can understand laying off staff if they lost a lot of money, but to do it during a gain, and then to brush them off like that in a cheery-toned-message, is just low.
Yeah for me it’s not about whether or not the layoffs affect the game. I know they won’t. It wasn’t devs who got the cut. But it still was a heartless, cruel, POINTLESS thing to do, and I don’t see how it’s defendable. People who think it was fine: why you want Brack and Gallywix to have all the money? What benefit are you under the impression that brings you?
That is incredibly generous, but I really couldn’t accept. Money isn’t an issue for me; I’m just neurotic about spending it sometimes.
Heck of a problem to have, right? ![:clown_face:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/clown_face.png?v=6" ":clown_face:")
I think this is a real thing and the fact that so many people are reacting to it this time is an expression of broader trends. It is bad out there. It’s been bad for a while, but it’s worse than ever and getting worse at an unprecedented rate. There are a lot fewer people who are still comfortable in any way, a lot of people who are increasingly afraid, and increasingly angry (those two things are often correlated), and almost nobody left who has the luxury of thinking about the corrupt rot at the heart of our economic system as somebody else’s problem.
Change is coming. At this point, it’s just inevitable. I am hoping it is smooth change, coming through reform and preserving our republic, which existed long before modern crony capitalism and deserves to far outlast it.
I fear the other kind of change. Corrupt sociopathic elites like Bobbywix never believe consequences can happen to them until the first dozen guillotine blades have come down, and by then it’s too late–for everyone.
If our new friend Hex comes back with anything we goofy gamers can do to help, I say we rally around. Stuff like that is positive action. We need positive action above all. Because this is much more than a WoW thing, it’s a human thing, and the good in humanity needs to be reasserted, never more than when the bad is on display.
Yeah, I really hope that the change that comes is positive. A negative change; while still likely to eventually round-about into positive change …that’s something that really shouldn’t have to happen.
It shouldn’t have to take a literal guillotine for these people to realize it’s time to stop, sort themselves out and NOT be driven by greed.
I won’t pretend I know the first thing about how the current broader problems (of which there are many) will be solved. What I can do is face what’s in front of me (however small the action). I think I may be completely done with Blizzard, I’ve found a lasting MMO home in FFXIV (also the other players I’ve encountered are a delight), I can’t find a reason to support a company that does this to it’s employees so long as I can help it.
You know it’s downright weird how friendly the community over there is. Playing FFXIV for the first time feels a lot like how other WoW players have described coming to Wyrmrest Accord for the first time. Everyone is eerily nice, it’s like digital Canada.
For real. The worst you see is people being weirdos, which I’d still take literally any day over the population of most WoW realms.
I think I already mentioned how on my first visit to Ul’dah I passed a couple of cat people getting hot and heavy in public. That’s literally the worst thing I’ve seen, and they kept it strictly over the clothes so even that’s not as bad as my first visit to Moon Guard.
I mean, if it was a really warm day and they had lots of stuff to carry, then of course they’d be hot and heavy.
/bricked for being a smartass
So I just watched Jim Sterling. He has a video up called Fire Bobby Kotick!
Just saw that earlier too.
I chuckled at the bit about SoPrick’s dating life. I had no idea, and hearing about it was hilarious.
If I could post links there’d be so many wheeze memes in my chat box right now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOmjIpvl0cg
Let in never be said I am not a kind and generous soul. ![:stuck_out_tongue:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/stuck_out_tongue.png?v=6" ":stuck_out_tongue:")
First second of the video has me nodding in agreement.
I don’t even need to watch the video to know I agree with the concept. Plus it’s Jim Sterling, so I’m pretty sure I’ll agree with what he has to say about Robert “Make people fear for their livelihoods for profit” Kotick.
My favorite part of that video was where Kotick has apparently asked people to stop photoshopping devil horns onto his picture. He actually made that request, out loud.
Dude does not have the faintest idea how the internet works.
Hah. What’s his twitter, I’ll tweet one at him.
Dew it!
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https://twitter.com/BobbyKotick Found him.