Engineers and tech workers in general in California are way too spoiled. Being paid 400k-500k to sit at home on TikTok doing nothing all day. It couldn’t last forever.
Microsoft has been on fire for the past decade. I trust they know what they are doing.
It’s all of MFST game division according to a BBC article, so hopefully not many from Blizzard.
Either way I’m not bothered. He appeared to have a similar management style to Mr Kotick. And encouraging boosting, hopefully we see a clamp down on it.
Blizzard are well known to pay very poorly, only Ion and people at his level might conceivably paid that amount. The tech hubs in California are also considered very expensive places to live. You can bet most of the people fired will be lower paid workers.
Kind of like amazon they’ve been living off of cloud computing. Did i read somewhere that half of all revenue comes from Amazon,s cloud business. I suppose the next thing will be AI clouds.
2024 couldn’t possibly be worse than 2023 right…right?
Have to agree with this.
Comparing salaries and expectations from the US compared to the rest of the world, and trying to set these…as standards is just borderline insane.
It’s also only the US that’s having these lay-offs, you don’t read about this anywhere else.
This is what they’re saying. Now it has normalized.
Damn, that means my english sucks harder than I thought :<
I own a tech recruitment business, their level of entitlement is next level.
Like, we would literally deliver a $700K offer to a guy with 3-4 years experience and he would complain if there was no free catered lunch in the office, or if he had to go to the office more than once a week.
Dude, like really?
I’m not even joking. I wish I was.
Good,i never liked his mentality toward game,hes one of the reason for this boosting fiasco,openly selling boost via his twiter.
It’s a big number but also “only” 8% of all the 22 000 workers for Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees. Not that it’s ever nice to hear aboug, being a person who works in the gaming industry.
Weird to see Mike Ybarra stepping down. Only 2 months ago he said he would stay at Blizzard forever and that they would have to literally drag him out of there to get rid of him.
Excuse me, but WTF?
3-4 years of experience and whining about a 700k offer details?
Bro, get real…
Most people would jump to work at a gaming company for less than 10% of that money.
Skilled ones even.
His mentally didnt changed anything about the game.
I hate boosting as much as other people, but its allways better to have someone in charge that actually plays the game, especially on a level of understanding it.
Him going wont change much about boosts.
I think it did,as a president if you see that boosting is out of control,and feats means nothing anymore,yet you decide to advertise your boost’s speaks for itself.
This guy did computer science in Stanford and worked at Google and Apple. He was very qualified. But I think the point with all these tech layoffs is these companies have had enough and are trying to regain back control/power. I think a lot of these engineers forgot they are there to make the company money, not the company make them rich in stock options while they sit at home tweeting and redditing
That for sure… thats why I hope it hits as many bluehaired people and redditors:
Mimimi I have to go to work and cant browes in the internet all day.
If if the experience is toxic.
Nothing about experience in this case can be toxic…
Boosting wont change anything about him knowing how to play the game.
How sad… Though I know companies are all the same, it kind of breaks my heart to see people laid off this way, especially for a company where I imagine atleast some of them have worked very hard to get in, and put a lot of passion in.
I couldnt agree more with you,but still him advertising boost’s is a big no from me.
Don’t get me wrong, its worrying for the game on the whole, but the fearmongering that the game is going to end is more what my comment was in relation too.
I feel for all those poor devils in the gaming industry atm, first they read about great profits the companies they work for are making and then find out on social media that they may or may not be laid off. Then get to wait hours or days before finding out the news. Can’t be good for anyone even if they aren’t laid off. Such a terrible practice.
As for the pass I have no idea but we are seeing players notified that they will be swapping to their own local currencies for subscriptions.