Wow.
Activision-Blizzard Thread: Just announced the Layoffs of 1900 jobs.
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I need to start drinking. Hard.
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Don't think of this as an automatic win for Blizzard. They're still in a lot of trouble.
Ironbite-just that two of the three lawsuits they're facing are hugging each other up.
The Activision Blizzard Lawsuits Have Hit a Major Snag - IGN
New information linked to the $18 million settlement between Activision Blizzard and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission [EEOC] has shown potential ethical violations that may have a wider effect on the wider lawsuit between the company and California's Department for Employment and...
Don't think of this as an automatic win for Blizzard. They're still in a lot of trouble.
Ironbite-just that two of the three lawsuits they're facing are hugging each other up.
Sadly, people who actually care about any of that stuff are a lot rarer than you think. Companies like EA, Activision, Ubisoft, and Konami wouldn't still be the biggest and most successful ones in the industry if the vast, vast majority of gamers weren't utter sheep who will shell out for a turd in a plastic box year in and year out, and that's not even getting into what the company gets up to behind the scenes. EA was voted the "worst company in America" for two years in a row and it hasn't hurt them one bit.
This is my shocked face.
Blizzard's "Co-Lead" is leaving the company
Also getting a cool million to the non-profit she's a board member on. Literally "I'm going to pay you to hug off."
Blizzard's "Co-Lead" is leaving the company
Also getting a cool million to the non-profit she's a board member on. Literally "I'm going to pay you to hug off."
Oh hey....it got worse.
So despite this looking really really bad for the company, they're sticking with him. And there was a spontaneous 100 person walk out 2 hours after this broke.
Ironbite-THINGS ARE LOOKING UP FOR BLIZZARD!
So despite this looking really really bad for the company, they're sticking with him. And there was a spontaneous 100 person walk out 2 hours after this broke.
Ironbite-THINGS ARE LOOKING UP FOR BLIZZARD!
As long as players keep eating the bait, the bills keep getting paid, and nothing changes.
Also, the email that Fran Townsend allegedly sent that kicked this whole thing off? The one that even Kotick decried as "tone-deaf"? Turns out he was the one who actually wrote it, and sent it from her address.
She'd only been working there for a few months at the time. At this point I'm willing to bet Kotick hired her specifically to be a scapegoat. I wonder what he offered her—or, more likely, threatened her with—to get her to go along with it.
She'd only been working there for a few months at the time. At this point I'm willing to bet Kotick hired her specifically to be a scapegoat. I wonder what he offered her—or, more likely, threatened her with—to get her to go along with it.
Oh boy. Activision-Blizzard had a massive walkout over some layoffs in the QA department at Raven Software over CoD's latest infestation(tells you how bad that game's gonna be), and then the employees decided to get together in some form of business union. Activision-Blizzard has responded.
Ironbite-they be scared.
Ironbite-they be scared.
seems they've decided to solve this problem the old fashioned way: throw someone elses' money around & let the bad jive fall out of the news cycle.
www.cnbc.com
Striking employees were apparently unaware of this.
Microsoft to buy Activision in $68.7 billion all-cash deal
It will be Microsoft's largest acquisition ever.
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Striking employees were apparently unaware of this.
Good God, Microsoft is just determined to rescue every terrible game company from the consequences of their own actions, aren't they. It was one thing when it was just serially-incompetent Bethesda, but... no, Activision does not deserve to go on existing. And we don't deserve to go on coexisting with it on this planet.
Yeah, about that...
www.businessinsider.com
Remember back in the 90s when Anti-Trust laws kicked in and caused Microsoft to break apart for like...six months? Not even on the horizon at this point.
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick will reportedly leave the company after Microsoft acquisition closes
Microsoft is buying "Call of Duty" publisher Activision in a $68.7 billion deal. Kotick is expected to leave once the deal closes, according the WSJ.
www.businessinsider.com
Remember back in the 90s when Anti-Trust laws kicked in and caused Microsoft to break apart for like...six months? Not even on the horizon at this point.
I can accept this as long as Microsoft cleans house and fires all employees who were involved in the sexual misconduct (which sadly, I know won't happen considering the state of the video game industry and how they protect their own when such accusations fly).
However, this makes me want to see Banjo, Crash, and Spyro meet in a crossover game.
However, this makes me want to see Banjo, Crash, and Spyro meet in a crossover game.
Honestly their willingness to bail out a company that's been involved with such terrible jive just makes me want to know how much dirty laundry of their own Microsoft has, and how long we'll have to wait until it's all made public. If someone has, perhaps, been on the fence about leaking the company's deep dark secrets, now would be an excellent time to do it.
I'd wait for some actual allegations before I suspect Microsoft of being guilty by mere association. Until then, I think this is just a case of Activision's plummeting value making the acquisition affordable by Microsoft's standards.
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