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Blizzard Infuriate Devs, End Remote Work, Cut Profit Sharing Bonus, Insult QA

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Re: Blizzard Infuriate Devs, End Remote Work, Cut Profit Sharing Bonus, Insult QA

#11
Beware of working in a passionate industry. You will get treated like shit and there's nothing you can do about it. Someone else would gladly take that work for half or even free.

Other it businesses can't do this shit without suffering heavily, but game studios can because passionate works will be willing to join.

There are exceptions, but those are exceptions for a reason.

Re: Blizzard Infuriate Devs, End Remote Work, Cut Profit Sharing Bonus, Insult QA

#12

Beware of working in a passionate industry. You will get treated like shit and there's nothing you can do about it. Someone else would gladly take that work for half or even free. Other it businesses can't do this shit without suffering heavily, but game studios can because passionate works will be willing to join. There are exceptions, but those are exceptions for a reason.

Will stick to working an easy job and putting my passion into an AI that creates games for me so companies like Blizzard’s cease to exist.

I didn’t ask to be born and didn’t sign a contract to believe a bunch of GenX and older CEOs are “powerful people” due to political status quo.

CEOs and the like can get fucked. We are not their serfs.

Re: Blizzard Infuriate Devs, End Remote Work, Cut Profit Sharing Bonus, Insult QA

#13
post #9

could we get the link switched to an actual written source instead of some youtube person speaking for 20 mins?

There are a bunch of links in the video description that seem to back most of this up

20 untagged links starting with 2 other youtube videos and the antiwork subreddit, and ending with a dozen links to twitter. Much better to actually put a decent written source if you want people to actually pay attention to it, especially with such an inflammatory title.

This seems to be the most complete source out of the bunch for anyone looking for it: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/culture/q-a-with-blizzard-lead...

Re: Blizzard Infuriate Devs, End Remote Work, Cut Profit Sharing Bonus, Insult QA

#15

Beware of working in a passionate industry. You will get treated like shit and there's nothing you can do about it. Someone else would gladly take that work for half or even free. Other it businesses can't do this shit without suffering heavily, but game studios can because passionate works will be willing to join. There are exceptions, but those are exceptions for a reason.

This is classic supply and demand doing its thing. People in passionate industries (artists, musicians, game devs) have a hard time because there's a large over supply of people who want to do it relative to less glamorous/fun jobs which creates a supply surplus, pushing down the cost of labor.

Re: Blizzard Infuriate Devs, End Remote Work, Cut Profit Sharing Bonus, Insult QA

#16

Beware of working in a passionate industry. You will get treated like shit and there's nothing you can do about it. Someone else would gladly take that work for half or even free. Other it businesses can't do this shit without suffering heavily, but game studios can because passionate works will be willing to join. There are exceptions, but those are exceptions for a reason.

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Re: Blizzard Infuriate Devs, End Remote Work, Cut Profit Sharing Bonus, Insult QA

#18
post #3

Dropping remote work, disrespecting employees, and giving less than expected bonuses? This is how you reduce your payroll without paying severance. This is doubly disappointing because they have recently shipped some good products and have promising products shipping in the near future.

Yes. You also reduce your chance of shipping successful products

This is Blizzard, they haven't released a decent game since 2010. Just half-baked expansions, failed attempts into other genres, and Netease partnership garbage.
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