I thought big companies prune / restructure their staff every so often, certainly if they aren’t doing so well. I wouldn’t worry about it.
they are over greedy idiots that fire 8% of staff despite doing their best year EVER financially just because even their best financal year ever wasn’t enough to hit their redicoulous goals. so they can goo ffffff themselves
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I would agree that it sucks for those who have lost their jobs. Hopefully those people can get something else.
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hopefully they will
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Since you became green, you are far more pro Blizzard . It wasn’t too long ago, when you would rip them a new one for blatant exploiting the playerbase and crash grabs, during Legion. But now you are deffending an abomination like Diablo Immortal?
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These posts, together with people who are this subjective / talk without any knowledge should be banned. Permanently.
I’m not far more Blizzard, my views haven’t changed.
I thought it was a stupid announcement to make at a Con full of PC gamers. Complete PR disaster. I said as much at the time. But it’s been and done. Repeatedly going on about it isn’t going to change that it’s going to be a mobile released game. I don’t really think the people at Blizzcon are going to be their target audience although many may actually try it to make up their own minds.
The reason it doesn’t have any forums is because it will just be full of salt and ‘Don’t you all have Phones’ memes.
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Judging by the latest stuff i been reading it seems like the shareholders have been unhappy about Blizzard focusing on esports too much and not publishing enough new games. There has also been some investor ramble about not reaching enough players in Asia pasific area. I think the whole Diablo Mobile might have been done to get something new out and to appeal to Asia market as well. 
I honestly doubt they even expected it to be well received in the west,if it did,good,if not,doesn’t matter
The Chinese mobile market is about half of the total combined profits in the video game industry,so much in fact,that they don’t need the approval of either PC gamers or western gamers.
Making a mobile diablo game was either going to be a win,or an epic win for them
Source or it didn’t happen.
It’s China, it’s a volatile market, your games can get banned with the snap of a finger, because the Country is ruled by a literal Emperor. I have no idea how stupid you have to be to try making buisness in an environment where nothing protects your rights.
It’s Diablo, it is banned by nature in China, I would laugh my bottoms off, if the Country decides to axe Blizzard products. This would kill Activision, I can not thing of a better future - you like China’s market so much, enjoy China’s government!
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well considering it was the pr section, esport section who got layd off I am not supriced.
heck the pr people have not realy done a good job at all, think about Blizzcon, that was the pr section who made the decisions there, and oh was that bad.
Esports again are more or less run buy independet companies anyways now, so Activision has no need to make their own if they do not want to.
offcourse I feel sorry for those who got layd off, things like that is never good.
Now that would be a sight to see.
Seek, and you will find.
Sometimes you gotta mess up big time till you understand what you’ve done wrong.
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It is not half, it is about equal to that of the United States, those being the top two gaming markets by far, followed by Japan and Korea.
From a financial pov, it’s definitely not stupid. First of all, the fact that it’s Netease doing the whole business thing there means its the biggest Chinese company dojng it, and those won’t get screwed by the Chinese govt. Second, nothing is banned by nature there, but by whim. Third, their investment in DI is actually low.
The drawback is that with each such act as launching a chinese ripoff mobile game, Blizzard are losing smaller or bigger chunks of the gamers’ goodwill that they had accrued over the years, and that goodwill was the basis for an important part of their revenue so far - and this is something even Jito can’t deny. How high this cost is, will it be completely offset by mobile phone profits? Nobody knows yet, we shall see. But judging how EA worked for years without customer goodwill, it’s unrealistic to think Activision will completely die off when in that situation.
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please stop
I love pet battle , thank you very much
I see no one posted the new one yet so let me do you all a favour:
throws video out oopsies! Oh me oh my, my mistake.
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