Apparently Activision Blizzard issued warnings towards their investors regarding potential loss of money, profitability, and overall productivity following the release of 800 employees.
I’m genuinely curious what are your thoughts on this?
I personally think this would’ve been borderline amusing, if it wasn’t for messing up the lives of 800 people.
Title of article is “Activision Blizzard: 800 job cuts could “negatively impact” our business” published on gamesindustry.biz.
(Sorry, don’t know how to post link without triggering “you cannot post links” error here on forums)
Goes to show that these clowns at the top have zero understanding of macroeconomics, it’s purely a world of connections and willingness to be the guy who would throw anyone under the bus if asked. Anyone who defends their absurd over the top payroll should reconsider how much of corporate culture dogma they have been brainwashed into.
“In February 2019, we announced a restructuring plan under which we plan to refocus our resources on our largest opportunities and to remove unnecessary levels of complexity and duplication from certain parts of our business,” the filing reads.
"While we believe this restructuring plan will enable us to provide better opportunities for talent, and greater expertise and scale on behalf of our business units, our ability to achieve the desired and anticipated benefits from the restructuring plan within our desired and expected timeframe is subject to many estimates and assumptions, and the actual savings and timing for those savings may vary materially based on factors such as local labor regulations, negotiations with third parties, and operational requirements. These estimates and assumptions are also subject to significant economic, competitive and other uncertainties, some of which are beyond our control.
Odd can’t find were it states the lay offs were to save money , sounds more like a shift in focus back to development
basically the OP is pointing out that he saw a video by heelvsbabyface talking about this issue.
i think we need to talk about people like heelvsbabyface and how they can damage companies by spreading awareness on these types of issues. I watch his videos too but i don’t spread it like people do on these forums.
this is like shane dawson and the pizza thing that caused alot of drama latley.
Yeah I saw that clip then went to the article to verify if that’s what it really happened or not since people tend to emphasise the negative aspects for views and drama. Apparently the warning is true in spite of how much we like it or not.
I was more concerned about the QA and CM part of those layoffs. I don’t care for other titles that much. I mean sure, if there would’ve been no WoW personnel sent home I wouldn’t even bother with following the information.
However since the quality of the last expansion is debated, in my opinion firing the QA is not exactly what I would consider a natural course of action.
To be frank, we dont need so many CMs. before people decided to care no one actually carted. The way Blizzard works devs directly communicate with players.
I dont recall anyhting about Blizzard QA people however as you said BfA had a fair few bugs so they werent; doing a very good job,
FF14 has absolutely no public testers and their releases are bug free. I dont recall any bug ‘scandals’. (Balancing isn’t a bug!)
I was told in college ‘back in the day’ that Japanese QA is second to none. I still can’t disagree with that.
It is pretty interesting considering they are now warning investors about exact things players were worried here on forums when first lay off news came in.
Further, there can be no assurance that our business will be more efficient or effective than prior to implementation of the plan, or that additional restructuring plans will not be required or implemented in the future. The implementation of this restructuring plan may also be costly and disruptive to our business or have other negative consequences, such as attrition beyond our planned reduction in workforce or negative impacts on employee morale and productivity, or on our ability to attract and retain highly skilled employees.
They are not people. Sorry to be the one to inform you but in big corporations you are not a person but a resource similar like a printer which has an expiry date. If you want to work in a place where you got subsidies or perks and have a personnel department you will need to time travel back to the 70’s. There are companies that are great to work with but they are few.
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