Activision-Blizzard Thread: Just announced the Layoffs of 1900 jobs.
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Even ignoring all the "Other" stuff.. Dunno if I could be interested in new WoW expansion.. because it looks like they just keep going back to the older stuff instead of pushing forward again.
Wrath Classic! Time to run through everything in a week and then leave the servers dead again!
On the one hand, their team rep choices did seem a bit performative when framed that way.. but on the other hand, if they did have all men on those, they'd get ripped into from the other direction. Is there even a right choice here?
Apart from the head trashheap(who's getting the boot once Microsoft fully moves in), what's the trash percentage at now, I wonder. Has there been any news on that union they were trying to assemble?
And as a thought experiment, what else would it take for Microsoft to do to "wash the stink out" as it were? Dissolve the entire company and reform it(which hurts the people there who were on the victim side of things, and let's be fair - if they were going to do that they wouldn't have bought it)? Changing the name obviously does nothing. We're all hoping they're going to do a clean sweep for any leftovers, but that remains to be seen. There's the union thing if that hasn't happened yet.
Or is it impossible for Actiblizz to earn back any trust at this point, even if they totally reformed the company under completely new leadership?
As for the new xpac announcement, I'm seeing a lot of (relatively) well-known dragons I follow talking about picking it up again because of this, so they're definitely getting the attention of the scaly crowd. Setting aside all the outside-the-game issues, I'm leery of if they'll pull the new talent trees off well, just how much customization is actually going to be on the dergs, and how the gameplay will actually feel. The new spell mechanic sounds a lot like ESO's heavy attack, and FF players are saying it sounds to them like it's basically WoW:Heavensward. Lot of pretty trailers and videos, lot of hype, but no real sign of how it'll actually be when the rubber hits the road.
so nothing has changed & nothing will change. Got it.
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Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick is re-elected to the board for another year
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Guess they still ain't getting my money any time soon, then.
Considering what they just did with diablo immoral: I have no intention of giving them my money anytime in the next century.
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Granted, we've got a new expansion in Alpha but still. They're giving away Shadowlands and a boost to try to get subscriber numbers back up.
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Ironbite-AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
Maybe they'll buy EA instead.
Ha, not if they're still insisting that their CEO be put in charge of the entire parent company that buys them out! Microsoft wants to stay in business, after all.
Word's starting to come out that its not that cut and dry. For instance the new girl is free if you already own OW1. And there are non-paying ways to unlock new characters.
Activision Blizzard illegally withheld raises from unionizing workers, labor board finds | TechCrunch
Activision Blizzard converted about 1,100 QA contractors to full-time staffers and increased pay, but unionizing employees were excluded.
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So Overwatch 2 came out. Let's see how Blizzard's doing with fans.
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Ironbite-that good.
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Ironbite-that good.
And I was kinda tempted by Overwatch 2, too. Oh well.