So only white men can be qualified for these jobs?
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One shut of learn blizzard no honner or moral code.
Look at there overwatch 2
or the new diablo
Blizzard was company game for gamers with passion atm its Games to print money there is no moral code in there leadership or any honner.
That died years ago SO i am not amazed
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Nope, those are the polar bears of every western company nowadays.
From what I can see, Microsoft has owned Activison Blizzard since October 13, 2023.
So they’ve had time to look at the situation and are now acting on their findings.
When 2 companies come together there’s likely to be people doing similar jobs, so some job losses should be expected. Or in some cases some jobs may no longer exist.
As for how it’ll effect WoW, we’ll have to wait and see.
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I see several people here still aren’t familiar with Microsoft. It will be funny when it dawns on them. It’s gonna get much worse. 
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Microsoft have had ESO for awhile can’t say I’ve noticed any real differences there.
2K people divided by the number of all employees, comes out as a 8%. This is not alot, and I’m almost 100% certain, that they will layoff more people in the upcoming months.
Atleast in my experience, around 25% workforce was usually cut off during these mergers. I’m also including people that quite themselves to prevent being fired just to be clear. However that number is much lower compared to the people getting fired.
And that instantly makes him the bad guy?
From what I have been reading, it was mostly from the new announced survival game.
This.
It’s not unusual at all when 2 companies merge, but ofc we all worry how or if it will have an impact on WoW.
I am afraid that step by step Microsoft will continue to transform WOW in a politically correct game, where alliance and horde will continue to dance and fight together for the greater good. And they will continue to release expansions that has nothing to do with the original WOW or WOW history. Until now we blamed the writers for this new path but maybe it is Microsoft request to follow this awful path. After all, the writers are just employers who has to respect the management requests.
when a CEO has a 70000000000000000000000000000000000 income and his company (ok is not his but the company he leads) fires 7000000000000000000 people just to raise the value… i, as a simple minded man, identify this CEO as the bad guy.
But this is capitalism (and not a late evolution. but a bad evolution).
A lot of recruiters have been laid off aswell looking at cringedln.
Although this is standard, I’m still saddened by this.
Blizzard has always been a unique Company to me, atleast I saw it as one.
As a kid my dream job was to work on wow and now with my apprenticeship coming to an end I genuinly thought about applying… but now with each passing year I am reminded more and more that, what I hoped to do is becoming more and more a thing of the past, and it pains me.
Things like this make me just so dissapointed, think of all the young employees that were inspired and joined because they have such a love for the game… only to be fired because they were seen as disposable.
As far it WoW is concerned I am not neccesarily worried, even though we aren’t the number 1 game anymore we are still an insanely valuable one, both with the IP and the actual revenue of our subcriptions and purchasings of the newest expansions every 2 years. If they change WoW for the worst in the sense of attempt to kill, I don’t think anyone would see that as worth it money wise, and so I doubt they’ll do it.
All in all, I’m just saddened by this.
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It’s very sad news. I have not been very active in the last 12 months due to a new role at work, I was planning on returning this year but after learning all of this yesterday, I have contacted blizzard to be removed from the MVP program. Over the last 12 years being an MVP I have had the chance to meet quite a few people at Blizzard and consider many of them friends now, friends who will likely be looking for new jobs soon. Very Sad.
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Saw an article which also said the support sector.
He wasn’t the CEO and until recently that was Bobby Kotick. But I get the jist of what you are trying to say, even if I don’t agree. 
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It is indeed not limited to one cancelled game. You only have to log on twitter to see all the people being let go across the board in various Blizz games.
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It’s funny how the only people who say Blizzard CS is good is Blizzard. Ask any player and they’re horrible and can’t even read your tickets without sending you to some automated response that does nothing.
Maybe we’ll finally get CS that reads tickets when it gets sent somewhere else.
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