Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees
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Re: Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees
#2Who could have predicted this? /s
Re: Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees
#3"primarily laying off roles at Activision Blizzard, some Xbox and ZeniMax employees will also be impacted / work out to roughly 8 percent of the overall Microsoft Gaming division that stands at around 22,000 employees in total."
2k employees look like a lot, 8% looks kinda better. I need Starcraft 3 badly :)
Re: Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees
#4Yikes, how many are artists replaced by LLMs?
Re: Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees
#51900 salaried workers with good benefits laid off from Activision
19000 to be hired by Chipotle to make burritos for minimum wage
By the labor stats, this is a net gain of 17100 jobs
Re: Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees
#6"primarily laying off roles at Activision Blizzard, some Xbox and ZeniMax employees will also be impacted / work out to roughly 8 percent of the overall Microsoft Gaming division that stands at around 22,000 employees in total." 2k employees look like a lot, 8% looks kinda better. I need Starcraft 3 badly :)
> I need Starcraft 3 badly :)
I do too, but I don't think Blizzard are going to be the ones to make it[1].
Re: Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees
#7"primarily laying off roles at Activision Blizzard, some Xbox and ZeniMax employees will also be impacted / work out to roughly 8 percent of the overall Microsoft Gaming division that stands at around 22,000 employees in total." 2k employees look like a lot, 8% looks kinda better. I need Starcraft 3 badly :)
Quick web search indicates that Activision Blizzard was 13,000 before MS bought them and Zenimax was 2,300. I have no idea how they split that layoff up, but 1,900 of ~15,300 (or 12.4%) is more accurate.
Re: Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees
#8"primarily laying off roles at Activision Blizzard, some Xbox and ZeniMax employees will also be impacted / work out to roughly 8 percent of the overall Microsoft Gaming division that stands at around 22,000 employees in total." 2k employees look like a lot, 8% looks kinda better. I need Starcraft 3 badly :)
> I need Starcraft 3 badly :) I do too, but I don't think Blizzard are going to be the ones to make it[1]. [1] https://playstormgate.com
Have you already seen Zerospace?[1] I think it also looks great and there are some SC/SC2 pros involved in making it
Re: Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees
#9Yikes, how many are artists replaced by LLMs?
it hadn't replaced much yet since it's hard to make consistent high quality art
Re: Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees
#10"primarily laying off roles at Activision Blizzard, some Xbox and ZeniMax employees will also be impacted / work out to roughly 8 percent of the overall Microsoft Gaming division that stands at around 22,000 employees in total." 2k employees look like a lot, 8% looks kinda better. I need Starcraft 3 badly :)
I recently saw that ZeroSpace is raising money. Looks like StarCraft 2 and the investor brochure confirmed that there's lots of ex-Blizzard on the team.