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Blizzard CEO denies culture of harassment and blames unions for company problems

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Re: Blizzard CEO denies culture of harassment and blames unions for company problems

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Post by darth_avocado »

I was a huge Overwatch fan. Seeing them stop development on it and announcing Overwatch 2 as a whole new game was what made me leave the game. The promise of Overwatch 2 was a story mode, a skills system, more maps and more heroes. Now after years of development and selling the game with future promises to millions of fans, all they have is cancelling PvE and skills system, and one or two heroes and maps.

This is not a game dev problem. This is a company that has excellent game dev talent but is run by Harvard MBA types who aren’t gamers problem.

Re: Blizzard CEO denies culture of harassment and blames unions for company problems

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Post by alex_lav »

outside1234 wrote: post #2

Looks like Satya is going to be making a replacement soon. Or not, because DEI was never actually more important than money. Will be interesting to see

Blizzard as a company sucks though. As in, even if you’re a brutal capitalist and don’t care at all about people stealing and drinking their coworkers breast milk, they just keep failing spectacularly at actually shipping games and getting people to play them. If you’re Microsoft, I’m not sure why you’d keep most of their exec team _even if you don’t care about the culture_

Re: Blizzard CEO denies culture of harassment and blames unions for company problems

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Post by justrealist »

darth_avocado wrote: post #3

I was a huge Overwatch fan. Seeing them stop development on it and announcing Overwatch 2 as a whole new game was what made me leave the game. The promise of Overwatch 2 was a story mode, a skills system, more maps and more heroes. Now after years of development and selling the game with future promises to millions of fans, all they have is cancelling PvE and skills system, and one or two heroes and maps. This is not…

> but is run by Harvard MBA types who aren’t gamers

This is going to piss people off, but that's because people who sink huge portions of their spare time and energy into video games do not become CEOs. "Getting high on your own supply" doesn't set you up for professional exceptionalism.

Re: Blizzard CEO denies culture of harassment and blames unions for company problems

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Post by tmpz22 »

darth_avocado wrote: post #3

I was a huge Overwatch fan. Seeing them stop development on it and announcing Overwatch 2 as a whole new game was what made me leave the game. The promise of Overwatch 2 was a story mode, a skills system, more maps and more heroes. Now after years of development and selling the game with future promises to millions of fans, all they have is cancelling PvE and skills system, and one or two heroes and maps. This is not…

* Announce Overwatch 2

* Stop all updates for 3 years - including balance updates

* Announce this is necessary for PvE rewrite

* Release Overwatch 2 without PvE with f2p Battlepass monetization model - change to 5v5 instead of 6v6

* Shut down all Overwatch 1 servers with the release of OW2

* Announce PvE is cancelled

Re: Blizzard CEO denies culture of harassment and blames unions for company problems

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Post by nvy »

darth_avocado wrote: post #3

I was a huge Overwatch fan. Seeing them stop development on it and announcing Overwatch 2 as a whole new game was what made me leave the game. The promise of Overwatch 2 was a story mode, a skills system, more maps and more heroes. Now after years of development and selling the game with future promises to millions of fans, all they have is cancelling PvE and skills system, and one or two heroes and maps. This is not…

Kotick didn't go to Harvard, doesn't have an MBA, and in fact dropped out of university.

It's not about MBA vs not. He's just shit.

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