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Kaines
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Yep it sucks. But this is what happens when companies merge. Duplicate roles are generally the first to go.
www.theverge.com
Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees
The cuts primarily affect Activision Blizzard employees.
www.theverge.com
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"Blizzard’s previously announced survival game has also been canceled as part of these changes. Booty says Microsoft will be “shifting some of the people working on it to one of several promising new projects Blizzard has in the early stages of development.”"
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Palum
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Blizzard is dumpster fire, everyone expected that game was on its deathbed. What are you even arguing about?
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Kaines
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Hekotat
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Fogel
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It takes a long time and a lot of people to remove all the microaggressions they had coded into WoW
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Kaines
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I misread the statement. That includes Microsofts dev teams as well. They don't say how many were Blizzard. Just that the majority of the 1,900 will affect Blizzard
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Hekotat
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I know you're joking but are you really (Body type 1 & Body type 2).
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Mist
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What?
CoD is the most profitable franchise in the world.
WoW still prints money, mostly due to mounts.
Also, King is part of that company, so all the Candy Crush games.
ABK is an absolute juggernaut, despite being retarded.
I think people are missing how many games and franchises are under the ABK umbrella.
OU Ariakas
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This should tell you all you need to know about the quality of the Blizzard developers and the product they produce.
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Hekotat
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CoD is still dogshit too, even 22k is nuts just for that many things. but I see that value was not correct so whatever.
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Animosity
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It seemed pretty dead with how they didnt mention one thing about it at Blizzcon. Another Project Titan/Starcraft Ghost to add to the pile.
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Never really got the hype around Ybarra. He always seemed more of just a background guy to me - but then again, I never really gave a damn about Developers unless I had direct proof that their decisions were the leading causes to my game of choice being shit. IE. Ian Hazzikostas or w/e.
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Hekotat
is right in my book. The amount of employees for the limited amount of games that they have is just insane to me. I stopped associating the amount of employees a Blizzard game has to the amount of content and the quality of content it has a long, long time ago. The sheer amount of people that worked on Diablo 4, to me, means that that game should have had years worth of content in it at release. Not the piddly shit we did get. The amount of people that they bragged about hiring for Dragonflight should have produced the same desired result I had about D4. Yet its the most limp dick expansion Ive ever played, next to Shadowlands and its cucketry. Activision has the same problem with COD, and a fucking skeleton crew of devs can work on games that King covers. Or in other words - this companies bloat is fucking MASSIVE in my opinion, and thats based simply off comparisons to similar franchises that arent under some big corporate conglomerate that are AAA and well received.
But
Hekotat
is right in my book. The amount of employees for the limited amount of games that they have is just insane to me. I stopped associating the amount of employees a Blizzard game has to the amount of content and the quality of content it has a long, long time ago. The sheer amount of people that worked on Diablo 4, to me, means that that game should have had years worth of content in it at release. Not the piddly shit we did get. The amount of people that they bragged about hiring for Dragonflight should have produced the same desired result I had about D4. Yet its the most limp dick expansion Ive ever played, next to Shadowlands and its cucketry. Activision has the same problem with COD, and a fucking skeleton crew of devs can work on games that King covers. Or in other words - this companies bloat is fucking MASSIVE in my opinion, and thats based simply off comparisons to similar franchises that arent under some big corporate conglomerate that are AAA and well received.- 1
