he has a twitter
here you go and since he talks about the game on this you might as well
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Look, no one on here said that a human life isnât important⊠but at the end of the day, the player base is paying for a product and more communication about the product is what is being asked for.
Speaking for myself, I work at a place where 20,000 plus people work and leave in 24 hr period on a 2.5 mile strip continuously through the pandemic and nothing got shut down⊠things got harder, but we still have schedules and deadlines to meet to produce the products that our customers expect and are paying for.
Itâs no different for blizzard. We care that they are getting the workplace in the shape it should have been from the get go instead of a big frat house, but the game still has to be good.
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Really? Who you hear that from or where did you read it? Just did a cursory search and found everyone who was ever someone of note with blizzard still in their linkedin profile.
You canât honestly think, other than the specific individuals involved in scandal, any game company wouldnât snatch up people from Blizzard who have extensive experience because they worked at Blizzard. Thatâs simply a farce.
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Thatâs what is becoming clear to me. Heads have rolled and Kotickâs days are numbered. Time to put away the pitchforks and start earning a paycheck.
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This is a big thing as well, and it definitely needs to be considered. From the outside at least, it sounds like the Blizz employees have been put through absolute hell. They need time to heal themselves, to clean house - and when they are able, maybe focus on getting things back to where they were originally.
A change needs to happen, both for the employees and for the players. The employees take precedent, of course, as well they should. But they also have to know that if things donât change with the way the games are right now, then itâs not going to turn out so well in the long run.
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What is heck for them not having 3 soy breaks? Only being allowed a 30 minute lunch? Time to heal for stuff that happened a decade ago when they work from home now?
Though what idiot thought allowing alcohol inside of work was a good idea.
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Anyone that starts a thread with âDo you want something from me?â ends up being so demanding and one sided itâs never going to happen on either side.
âGET BACK TO MAKING GAMES!â
What do you think they are doing? They fix the issues internally so they can get back to making games, and thatâs exactly what they are doing, more staff in support roles to help the existing staff get through all this and make sure it does not happen again.
That on top of the Microsoft acquisition to hopefully end up weeding out all the employees who donât deserve to be there. What did you think, it would take 3 days and some change to get back on track?
Ok, fine - then I am telling you that, if you truly care about these people, tell them to sharpen up their resumes⊠and âspent X months/years healingâ isnât usually a marketable bullet, unless you are in medicine.
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Never been in an abusive workplace before, or are you the one dishing out the bs? 
I get that, but the OPâs attitude was that he doesnât give a crap about the actual lives of the people working at Blizzard and just wants them to be video game-producing machines. I also care about them producing a good product, but Iâm not going to sacrifice the safety and security of the employees for it.
The way I see it, weâre not going to get a good product until the employeesâ issues are dealt with anyway.
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Iâve seen plenty of stuff. You didnt answer the question. In the end a job still needs to be done.
So all I need to do is drop everything for something that happened a decade ago⊠many other industries would boot you to the curb.
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Sure thing. Those 8 posts you have, certainly convinced me. Yeop.
(BIG /S, for the cubistic amongst you.)
I will not be answering something that is obviously horse pucky, to anyone who has ever run a business, or been employed professionally beyond a few years and has encountered a crap working environment.
I would have to disagree. The plain old truth can be painful to hear especially when the person being told is not willing to listen.
All of us who have played wow since its inception know that we were ripped off and a fair portion of our billions in sub fees were not turned back into the product we paid for.
Time and again weâve been outright lied to. Goodwill? That was spent by blizz long ago. Thereâs not a single vanilla player who doesnât acknowledge that.
So if you are a blizz employee better heed this message and right quickly, these games can and have just âpoofedâ away when the game has become something that can not be called a mmo-rpg.
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It work youâre going to encounter it. Itâs up to you to allow it. Sorry if you are unable to understand such a simplistic concept.
Just like the people complaining that they couldnât eat at blizzard⊠are they enslaved? What prevents them from getting a better paying job?
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I actually was. Absolutely was. I addressed the person directly, no response. I elevated it up the chain. No response. I then knew that exit was the next logical step, so I took it and I life got better. The individual was then fired within the next year. I got to say âI told you soâ and they are now a better company for it.
What I did NOT do is: stop working and producing product, have zero self-awareness, and effectively organize to burn the house down around me.
But they are entitled to make their own life choices. It just wonât end well for them if this continues. I can promise you that.
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Yup, and I bet every employee actually wants to work there, the work environment is perfect, and the customers are super satisfied with the product.
No company Iâve seen or heard of has that.
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Quote it again in five years then.
Spoken like someone who hasnât actually entered the work force.
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Fair enough. Hoping this is all just OBE and in 5 years we are back talking about how great the last 2 expacs have been and how Blizzard is thriving and back to some golden years. One can hopeâŠ
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