You clearly have no experience with layoffs. It has nothing to do with how good you are at your job or how hard you work.
Also the boring old blizzard defense rubbish is old and tired. MVPs have their own opinions. We criticise like anyone else does.
Seems its you that can’t handle the truth. Your comments read like they were written by a moody teenager.
Perhaps you two should sit down and settle this over a good old cuppa tea and biscuits.
He is not wrong though . Most lay offs are always all about how good you were with networking. It almost never Has anything to do with your performance.
If you think different its pretty obvious you never workes in management.
And its all fun and games and anecdotes untill you learn that someone whom you fired pepsied himself. Then it changes you forever because you will never know if you were the literał straw that broke camels back. Or IT doesnt if you are a sociopath - and there is a lot of those in management .
Peopel who speak lightly about firing others never experience how it is when you see like 40 year old Dude crying and shaking like 5 year old from shock . Because getting fired is always a huge shock nobody anticipates that it will be him
Well, you are always biased and always one sided.
That’s all.
I think that’s what makes it all so much worse, when they read about their jobs being at risk on Twitter first. Then have to just wait a hours or even a day to find out if their job is gone. Ofc in the US that’s it, they have their system access revoked , empty their desk, and are gone.
Slightly different in the UK ofc, but not as long winded and protected as it was with Versaille office being closed down in France. So after seeing the news on twitter, they then have to wait to be told their job is at risk and then go through the consultation period.
Companies often lose their best staff this way too because they will just seek positions elsewhere, unless their severance package is really worth waiting for.
the survival game was stuck in development hell for 6 years, there was a struggle when it came to the engine, i guess the actual devs wanted to use Unreal where as the higher ups pushed for the in house engine.
Synapse was the other engine.
I know nothing about engines but they really wanted to back to Unreal.
They pitched a prototype with Unreal. The Synapse engine was not made for survival games, more aimed towards mobile. Using an engine not suited for that type of game can result in buggy and broken messes cough Mass Effect Andromeda cough.
Higher ups wanted the Synapse while the devs knew it wasn’t possible.
I doubt Microsoft will do that. Because Microsoft has a lot of games in their IP portfolio that still feature War and Conflict.
Do you really think they will remove the shooting and blood from Call of Duty, a game franchise that defines itself through senseless violence on screen? Or take Age of Empires. They didn’t take out the War from that game either.
Microsoft doesn’t care about politics. Microsoft cares about Money. And “sex’n’crime” still sells well in the entertainment sector (both public and more private parts of that sector). And when we look at games like Doom and Wolvenstein, there isn’t ideological cuts from the core gameplay/story either. Even Wolvenstein New Blood was about shooting the bad guys in all blood and gore.
It implies that Activision were actively removing “conflict” from CoD.
He’s not talking about themes, he projects his agenda on everything he interacts with, and horde and alliance being not at war at the moment somehow connects to sjw and wokeness in his mind
Nah, they were busy turning it into Fortnite.
I assume you mean Frozenbones?
I learned a few weeks ago that Mass Effect 1 was made on Unreal Engine back then. So I can understand why some studios want to go back to it. Really wish UE wouldn’t be a company product but open source like Blender and Godoh.
And how exactly latest CoDs look like fortnite?
Oh, I didn’t meant the art style. But that they put “famous people” in it as “operator classes” or something like that. Idk, I don’t play Call of Duty.
But I doubt Snoop Dog in CoD as a Character adds to the game. It only ADS the game…
Ah yeah I can understand it from this PoV.
To be honest they have similar target audiences who like this kind of collaborations
Probs he was there for the merger the whole time, doubt he was asked to leave.
He was good, the boosting meta is just a microtransactions in different, more organic package, so ofc he was pro gold boosting, it was his job.
Hopefully MS will go full artistic freedom and make Metzen Chief Creative Director and Overall Head of Blizzard.
good
focus on WoW
let this dead horse indie sideprojects die
Finally!
Unfortunately, World of Warcraft is beyond repair, both the current anime version and all those Season of Jokes/wannabe WotLK fun/future Cataclysm realms.
Just don’t kill the good old Vanilla (Classic Era) as we fought so many years and Nostalrius developers and community actually made this happen and resurrected the failing World of Warcraft w/e expansion.
Keep that in mind, Microsoft and do the right thing for this player pool that will always enjoy the original World of Warcraft.
I wish Warcraft was anime
I don’t really care for Mike, he has some takes that make it quite clear he had no idea how the average player has it.
I feel like he never really understood the casuals