I’m seriously thinking of quitting the game, not just because of this kind of things (which is enough of a reason), but the way they treat workers and the way the look at us, the clients is something I can’t support
This may seem childish, impulsive or whatever, but look at what we allow to ourselves as a human race… It is just a game but it’s the prime example of everything that has been happening lately in the world.
People doing fantastic job and having great ideas to make something entertaining and fun with a lot of quality behind it, are chained and being dragged around by some greedy **** who just can’t get enough.
Hundreds of people getting fired in the middle of the crisis, not because the company doesn’t do well, but because they could do “better”, cutting the “unnecessary” loses and providing an unfinished product with less investing (but finished enough to keep people playing) and milking the money from us.
And we are the ones enabling it. Not just here, everywhere in the world.
P.S. Sorry for the outburst and the long text, dunno if anyone cares
Closing down an office of 285 people just to gain more control and more profit to the higher tiers of the company isn’t something that should be considered normal, at least from my point of view.
You can’t justify this by arguing that “it happens anyway”. I am glad someone is calling Activision out for their outright immoral decisions regarding employee rights and the compensation of lower level employees such as customer service.
Yeah its sad to see Blizzard slowly being eroded bit by bit. Simply put I’ll leave the game when another viable option is there. I just dont like anything else on the market. I refunded shadowlands but may repurchase if i see enough improvement in beta.
None of my real life friends play WoW anymore so the things that keep me here are getting less and less.
That is the main problem and it wouldn’t be if there was a border to how far it can go like that.
Let’s say I have a monopoly of Bakeries and I plot to sell a bread that’s left from yesterday instead of baking new ones to cut my loses and also in the process firing all the bakers who wanna bake fresh instead. Would that be the world that you want to live in?
Wow is just an example of consumerism and the era we live in .Fat Ceo and the employees skip meals .
Rearranging numbers to feel that the game has improvements or they added new stuff , hype , streamers promoting pretty much 0 content . A pallet of colors for prepatch ? A squish ?
There’s anti monopoly laws and if you sell stale bread the market will soon put you out of business. Bad analogy.
I’m sorry I hope fired people get a job soon, but there’s no moral argument. I had a small start up a few years back, market changed and we had to lay off 15 workers, alternative was worse, so yeah, whatever.
Obviously that was one extreme example, but within each year it gets closer to that.
Something like that happens of course, but this was not done because the market changed, it was purely out of greed.
Dude whatever you believe in, that’s fine and I don’t mind, but you realise that the people who got laid off a year ago or so were told they didn’t have a job the day they came into the office. No heads-up, they arrived in the morning and left before they had time to have lunch. And all that after Activision-Blizzard announced they had a great financial year but decided to cut costs anyway.
Of course we all get the idea of having to lay people off when you need to, but Activision-Blizzard at no point needed this money. This was a cheap move, and not just for the people who were working their dream job but also the people who have to support their families while having to live in some gentrified part of California.
While I agree that getting laid off is sometimes part of life and sometimes necessary, there’s no need to stick to the basic principles of a capitalist society while ignoring the practical side. Motivated employees will work harder and provide better results. Consumers who actually enjoy the game will keep playing it not because they are stuck with it, but because they appreciate the quality and the craftsmanship of it.
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Also, yes, I am glad I get paid for my work, but I am not working there simply because I get paid, but also because I feel appreciated and like the work I am doing, and because my employer is supporting me in my aspirations and ambitions. Something that I value a lot more than my compensation.
no the way you are about things is disturbing and arrogant, a very narcissistic and self-entitlement point of view, i dont know your age but you seem like the perfect bi-product of todays Generation raised/brain washed by social media, or i might be wrong? maybe its just a empathy problem in your personality
