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Masakari

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The people I know still playing Classic are giving the acquisition news zero thought other than “Huh…that’s interesting. So are you coming back for Black Temple?”

I think most are just going through some sort of midlife crisis and Classic dulls the pain with the warm embrace of nostalgia.


It's a drug man, some just need a fix and then it's back to reality :)
 
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Even if the board removed him prior to the sale he was poised to net like $270 million in compensation. If the board decided to terminate with cause he'd still net something like $240 million in compensation I believe.

The only way he would get basically no compensation would be if the board removed him for failure to adhere to fiduciary duties, and this may be shocking to some of you, not doing much about sexual harassment when you can claim you delegated that shit to HR/legal doesn't rise to that level. The only scenario that he would lose all compensation would basically be if he went to a competitor while still CEO and leaked things like new IP information or pending patents.

Microsoft buying Activision is probably the best thing that could happen to Blizzard because now all the useless positions fielded by Karen blue hairs are now redundant, which means there will be a large RIF coming within a year or two. There will still be Karen blue hairs, but there will be far fewer as the wheat is separated from the chaff.
 

Masakari

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Even if the board removed him prior to the sale he was poised to net like $270 million in compensation. If the board decided to terminate with cause he'd still net something like $240 million in compensation I believe.

The only way he would get basically no compensation would be if the board removed him for failure to adhere to fiduciary duties, and this may be shocking to some of you, not doing much about sexual harassment when you can claim you delegated that shit to HR/legal doesn't rise to that level. The only scenario that he would lose all compensation would basically be if he went to a competitor while still CEO and leaked things like new IP information or pending patents.

Microsoft buying Activision is probably the best thing that could happen to Blizzard because now all the useless positions fielded by Karen blue hairs are now redundant, which means there will be a large RIF coming within a year or two. There will still be Karen blue hairs, but there will be far fewer as the wheat is separated from the chaff.

Is Microsoft not filled with Karen blue hairs?
 
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The blue collar/white collar divide is a huge one in this country and no one is talking about it. Specifically, as you mentioned, the white collar service workers who have never truly worked a day in their lives that look down on people that make everything service workers do possible. Make that fucking engineer lay his own goddamn fiber lines that make his internet work for a day. He would kiss the crew's feet when they told him he could go back and sit at his desk. Fuck him and everyone like him. This is coming from a sales person whose hardest physical job was McDonalds. I understand and appreciate how vital blue collar work is to our way of life.

Now go tell that to a woman.
 
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Mist

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The whole "it was a conspiracy to crash the stock price" meme doesn't make any sense because Microsoft is paying 45% above market value.
 

jayrebb

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Yeah people do tend to look down on blue collar shit, and trades too like they are some second class citizens.
Yeah just a few people you know. Not a whole gender or 50% of the country or anything.
 
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Now go tell that to a woman.

There is a whole different conversation to be had about the last 2 or 3 generations of women who have forgotten that blue collar works exists and fuels their independent woman don't-need-no-man lifestyles.
 

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I'm sad we don't get to live in the timeline where Steve Ballmer and Chris Metzen both run out on stage at Blizzcon going WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! about WoW 2.
 
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kinadin

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Is Microsoft not filled with Karen blue hairs?
Yes, but you're missing my point. A lot of the Blizzard blue hairs won't be absorbed due to redundancy. It's like Thunderdome - two blue hairs enter, one blue hair leaves.
 
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Aaron

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Yes, but you're missing my point. A lot of the Blizzard blue hairs won't be absorbed due to redundancy. It's like Thunderdome - two blue hairs enter, one blue hair leaves.
I'd actually pay to see something like that IRL!
 
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Yes, but you're missing my point. A lot of the Blizzard blue hairs won't be absorbed due to redundancy. It's like Thunderdome - two blue hairs enter, one blue hair leaves.
Now they're freed up to go 'work' on other games you love.
 
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If bobby starts another MMO, yall going to pay attention? This could turn it around for Pantheon...
 
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jayrebb

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The people I know still playing Classic are giving the acquisition news zero thought other than “Huh…that’s interesting. So are you coming back for Black Temple?”

I think most are just going through some sort of midlife crisis and Classic dulls the pain with the warm embrace of nostalgia.

Many sneakily crawled back after pretending to quit. I caught a bunch of these rats on discord the other day. They couldn't just man up and say they went back, had to weasel the re-sub.

A portion of the "fuck blizz" camp has 5 accounts 25 characters and a lien on the house to pay for microtransactions.
 
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Tearofsoul

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Bobby is gonna buy out Pantheon, and of course get some hookers and coke along the way, Oh boy Brad would love the guy.
 

Caeden

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There is a whole different conversation to be had about the last 2 or 3 generations of women who have forgotten that blue collar works exists and fuels their independent woman don't-need-no-man lifestyles.
The day is coming. A lot of guys are saying “fuck this” and walking away. Especially from corporate blue collar work where you run some machine in a dungeon for a bunch of suits. Combine that with the retirement of the current 55-65 year olds happening now and the general “I issa Bombad Infuencer” generation idiocy…it shall get bad.
 

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