I just hope it didn’t impact the quality of the upcoming expansions…
Could be a or a bad thing…
Awful to be stuck not knowing if your job is safe or not, sad to see Ybarra go, he actually played the game and interacted with the playerbase. Also sad to see the survival game cancelled.
and people where shocked about riot and co. holy this is a number.
AI taking people’s jobs. 
Yep…
But we can never know. The thing is with cancelled projects is that there is mostly a lot of Missmanagement in the play from Higher ups.
And yes, ybarra played the game, which is a good thing, let’s just hope what comes after him has also some degree of understanding in the game.
The cancellation can also , maybe, be a sign that they want to focus their energy in existing and running IPs.
But that is just wishful thinking.
Cause blizzard management is very far from reality.
It’s a Microsoft decision:
Blizzard’s previously announced survival game has also been canceled as part of these changes. Booty says Microsoft will be “shifting some of the people working on it to one of several promising new projects Blizzard has in the early stages of development.”
Wondering if Ybarra decided to jump ship/leave in protest, or was planned for him to leave.
Frankly doesn’t seem that encouraging but let’s wait and see for some more announcements next week.
It looks like he stepped down as a result, he wasn’t laid off.
chances are he was unhappy with the decisions and chose to go down with the ship
leaving a toxic work environment is usually the best action
it comes to no surprise that this happened, it was inevitable with the merger of Microsoft and blizzard
i just hope microsoft see the value in WoW and dont pull the plug or turn it into a Gacha game
a hell of a lot of lost souls would be left wondering the gaming community should that happen
WoW is one of the few games that is still on a subscription, there is no way for it to be axed since it makes a steady amount of money. It might not have the potential for growth, but it is still a money printing machine.
The problem is that if they are cleaning house, and more people are axed, they might have a problem with finding more people. Just want to see who the next president is gonna be, cause this will show much.
Sadly I think this is exactly the route it may be heading toward. Bearing in mind the acquisition was more for King than Blizzard. Blizzard was just part of the package. Don’t think the game is “doomed” but I doubt it would be the core focus or viewed as the “cash cow” moving forward. Patch cadence and quality is a sure sign of things to come in the future.
As long as games make money they are safe and WoW still makes money so I don’t think there is any worry on that front.
what history has shown with lay offs and covid in the past, we ended up with terrible expansions
i just hope history does not repeat itself
we seem to be on a repeating cycle of issues with blizzard in the past 5 years
- we need a W from Blizzard. not an L
Being laid off was not a scenario in my book, was just wondering for the reason.
Was it in protest, was it planned anyway, was it due to a renegotiation in his contract?
Now we can have someone that can be hired that do care about this game or we can get AI to make this game better, and hey maybe DK can finally be reworked.
What a fine wishful thinking.
Also depends where these layoffs have been targeted.
I just hope it didn’t hit the devs on wow.
I just hope it was a part that wasn’t important to the actual quality and content of the games that are running.
I hope it was ow2 XD they ruined that IP either way.
Do you really, honestly, seriously think these layoffs had anything to do with WoW lore?