Buried in a series of Tweets about the scandal is a statement that says WoW is basically on (temporary) hiatus.
To quote a tweet from lead Systems Developer Jeff Hamilton’s Twitter (I’m too much of a dinosaur to link it directly, go find it if you don’t believe me):
“I don’t know what to do. I don’t have all the answers. I can tell you, almost no work is being done on World of Warcraft right now while this obscenity plays out. And that benefits nobody - not the players, not the developers, not the shareholders.”
The game isn’t responsible for these problems, nor is everyone who works for Blizzard. You are basically saying that hundreds of regular, innocent workers should lose their jobs. Try and get a sense of decency and proportion.
I feel conflicted. I want current WoW to die. Modern Ion style WoW to die. The WoW that has been built on the literal corpses and misery of women to die (yes, that stretches back a horrific amount of years).
But it would be nice for WoW itself to not die forever. To somehow come back with all of this trash gone, monsters who torture others and crawl through cubicles like bars included.
I’m assuming you’re talking about Mike and that other guy who I’ve forgottens studios? I’m sure they are quite well off but I don’t know if they have the kind of money to buy the Wow IP
Oh, I do feel sorry for the 800+ that are being fired on a yearly basis.
Oh wait, people get fired all the time, do they not?
I apologise, why should I start caring more now than then?
Personally I just recently lost my apprenticeship and thus my pay. Know what I did? I found a new place. I expect that other people are capable of the same.
How exactly am I wrong?
There is nothing to be wrong about here, it is really just choosing how you want to feel about this.
And losing a job from a game dying out, is no different from getting fired because a company finds your current position a waste of ressources.
