Real reason he is not fired (this is btw very top secret information and i am risking everything here to reveal this) is that he is the only one in the company (probably also in the world) who understands Ions talking/logic and they need to keep him around for translation purposes. As soon as google translator will crack the code there he will be gone as well.
What Blizzard? There is no Blizzard lmfao. It has died long long ago.
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I know and you are right. But i think from pc to mobile it won’t be same people who move to the new games, like it worked old times. I personally won’t be swapping my heavy duty gaming machines with big screens and good controls to something i am tapping my finger in tiny screen.
The more likely reason is that he has been employed longer than Ythisens, and/or that Ythisens is younger. It’s not unusual for Managers to choose the green people in a department, if they have to choose any for layoffs.
Just a guess.
I don’t know. Diablo III on the Switch is arguably a better game than on the PC. Even on Console it might be.
PC Master race, I know, but still…
That did not come across very easily.
That very top secret information part really didn’t give it off? ![:rofl:](https://d1bg94bbsh66ji.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/rofl.png?v=6" ":rofl:")
I got to work on my posting skills.
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How is it non-professional behaviour ?
It sucks to be laid off, sure. But saying a company is just not allowed to ever shift directions or change in any way ? That’s just ridiculous.
Actibliz needs more games and less support/esports/community mgmt, so they lay off support / exports / community mgmt and reinvest in developers.
There is nothing wrong about this, nobody is “entitled” a job where they can stay as long as they decide, no matter what.
Between these kinds of comments and the ppl screaming about the new CFO’s contract as if blizzard just conjured up a magic and ridiculous number and threw it at an evil, soulless monster just so they could both swim scrooge mcduck style in a pool of cash, it’s like most of the people on the forums have no idea how the world works.
No it isn’t, my point was more if you have lost your job it makes little difference to how you feel about it, rather than the language used to describe it.
I don’t think you can judge how those people feel.
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Now Game Workers Unite is demanding firing Bobby Koteck.
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As if someone with the power and influence of that guy will ever be fired
That parasite has been at it for years now,and never faced any consequences
How’s that helping anything? No offense to Game Workers Unite, but they’re preaching to their choir.
I mean, if Bobby Kotick was fired, then the board would just hire another CEO to take his place. And that CEO definitely wouldn’t be some bohemian socialist hipster if that’s what anyone thinks is possible.
American corporate culture is just crap. If they want change, then they could start voting for more corporate regulations, stronger worker rights, increased capital gains taxes, a stronger safety net, and begin to actually form unions so the employees can secure a fair salary and proper benefits.
But they don’t.
They vote for Trump and republicans and tax cuts for the wealthy and fewer corporate regulations and think unions are a failed communist experiment.
It’s their own mess. As a society they have all the means of fixing it themselves, they just don’t seem to want to.
Bobby Kotick is no different from any other CEO in any other major US corporation. If people don’t like what their society has turned into, then they can exercise their democratic right to vote and do something about it. But they don’t.
And Game Workers Unite are just calling for the dude to be fired. Call for the people within the game industry to form a union instead, that would be 100x more effective.
Stupid Americans.
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Yeah, right - join some union and everything is going to be all right
/sarcasm.
If anything, this will backfire. The same way #metoo backfired.
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I want to play good quality games made by people who are happy and don’t have to split their mental resources on wondering if they got job tomorrow. Made by people who think first “what would be super fun” and not “is this kind of idea that makes enough money but doesn’t cost too much, to keep me employed for another quarter”. Any movement or peacefull act trying to fight this gets my thumbs up. This moment reputation of Actiblizzard as a workplace for game makers is moving from “the cool place to work” to place where you can get randomly kicked out not matter if company makes profit or not. This will matter to quality of the games when best talents are going to work somewhere else and we are left with the leftovers. Already other game companies are hogging the people who got laid off.
Whether this or other movements matter and how much doesn’t take the value off for them trying. I believe their main goal is to make noise and cause bad publicity to Actiblizzard. This might matter on next time when they want to lay off people while making huge profit and giving bonuses to big bosses. To keep getting top talents to their teams they can’t make their company look like a place where you can get laid off whether making profit or not, out of the blue, just like that.
This article tells about athmosphere now on ActiBlizzard:
https://kotaku.com/the-fallout-of-activision-blizzard-s-massive-layoffs-1832597892
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Who’s judging anyone?
If you have lost a long term job you are heavily invested in, you will understand at least some of the emotions involved, and it makes no difference if it was due to circumstances outside your control or something stupid you did. That is the point I was making, from the perspective of someone that has experienced both.
I’m not going to presume to know how it feels for someone else to be in this situation, so I’m going to treat the whole thing with respect and not say they were fired. I’m going to correctly acknowledge that they have been laid off.
I really don’t know why that is such a problem.
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a copy and paste
“Being laid off is NOT the same as being fired because it is not considered to be the fault of the employee. It is, actually, the fault of the employer. A layoff is often called a “reduction in force” or “down-sizing” and usually more than one employee loses their job.”
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I think there is a slight difference between expanding to a different genre and completely switching platforms Diablo going mobile is the biggest gaming idiocy of the decade. Considering it had BF5 and Falout76 as competators it is very impressive
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