Blizzard Lays Off 600, Including About 60 Developers
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Re: Blizzard Lays Off 600, Including About 60 Developers
#2Not really sure what to make of this…been a Blizzard fan since ToD, saw Blizz growing, merging, corporated, massive growth…
3 Major Projects in the Pipeline, 1 Untitled Project, and it lays off 600 people? It's a money printing machine with it's stranglehold on subscription based MMO (as opposed to freemium), I'd hate to think they're laying off people to appease the shareholders and maximize profit.
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#3Presumably the era of "printing money with WoW" is over, then?
Re: Blizzard Lays Off 600, Including About 60 Developers
#4Not really sure what to make of this…been a Blizzard fan since ToD, saw Blizz growing, merging, corporated, massive growth… 3 Major Projects in the Pipeline, 1 Untitled Project, and it lays off 600 people? It's a money printing machine with it's stranglehold on subscription based MMO (as opposed to freemium), I'd hate to think they're laying off people to appease the shareholders and maximize profit.
So, instead they can keep the 600 people, piss off shareholders and reduce profit?
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#5I look forward to the companies that will be spawned by ex-Blizzard folks
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#6I look forward to the companies that will be spawned by ex-Blizzard folks
Yep, hopefully now we won't have to wait a decade for a better version of Diablo.
Re: Blizzard Lays Off 600, Including About 60 Developers
#7Those 10% are related to game development, but that doesn't mean they're developers. I would guess that it's more likely to be slightly more "disposable" roles like testers.
It still sucks though. It seemed like Blizzard was just printing money.
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#10Not really sure what to make of this…been a Blizzard fan since ToD, saw Blizz growing, merging, corporated, massive growth… 3 Major Projects in the Pipeline, 1 Untitled Project, and it lays off 600 people? It's a money printing machine with it's stranglehold on subscription based MMO (as opposed to freemium), I'd hate to think they're laying off people to appease the shareholders and maximize profit.
So, instead they can keep the 600 people, piss off shareholders and reduce profit?
I see it a little differently, I wouldn't feel good about keeping people around doing nothing of worth for the company. I guess they could have thought of other projects for them but that could put stress on other parts of the company. At least some of these people can now work for companies that do need them.
It might be because I never want to work for a company that thinks of me as dead weight. It wouldn't be a good environment to work in.