I was just watching a video about China starting off with layoffs. So, it's really upsetting to read this, considering all of the big plans they're supposedly making. I just hope they'll actully be supported.
Hearing that many CS people are gone, you guys should do an investigation on which divisions are affected and how this will impact WoW.
Most of these lay offs were probably duplicate positions that MS got after acquiring Acti-Blizz. And Ybarra gone, who cares he was a yes-man of Kotick. Maybe bring back the other Mike? (Morhaime)
Majority of these jobs are more then likely just overlaps and some are probably worthless departments that do nothing but bleed money.
I wonder if now that Mike's out maybe Warriors can get some positive changes without risking the "Well it's the class the president of Blizzard plays, of course it's going to be OP."
This is a standard procedure. Nothing new, and to be expected.Everyone that has been part of a company merger knows that this is part of the process. It is the last part of the process, and it means the merger is close to finalizing.L.E: Also, know that the way you guys act you are demonstrating that you are the Karen.
Almost nothing of value was lost, if anything a big purge was long due and most of us knew it was coming and to be frank, necessary... I just hope they got rid of most of the "problematic people" within the company (Improbable, but let me dream...)I'm not happy about people losing their jobs, but I'd be quite glad if they got rid of some of the people destroying something I love. I just hope that the remaining employees take this opportunity to turn a new leaf, learn from past mistakes and strive to improve themselves as much as I hope their working conditions do the same under the new administration.My only real regret is that Ion hasn't been demoted from game director. Incredibly talented encounter designer no doubt, but no one should remain as a game director for so long, stubbornest settles, pride takes over and before you realize it we end up with... well Shadowlands and not because of lack of talent or resources.
For those losing their minds. This is actually pretty standard following a 90 days post-acquisition. I will agree with the person that said 8% is low...The layoffs don't come from just Blizzard, its from across Microsoft / Activision / Blizzard / King and Zenimax. There are salary caps, positional changes and a ton of other things they have to figure out. A company even through acquisition cannot fully expect to maintain duplicate levels or jobs. It's sad for the folks that got laid off but other companies are hiring still for projects.
Bobby Koetic come on down.....
Yeah this is normal for a merger. Lots of overlapping jobs when you combine companies. Tons of administrative positions don't last. HR, marketing, financials, legal, and mid management positions are almost always cleaned up.
Ybarra leaving after the aquisition was a given, he's Spencer's old Microsoft buddy and was basically in that role to aid the merger.
Always a sad thing to see people celebrating people losing their job, their livelihoods.From what I've heard so far it seems CS is one of the major groups impacted, it real sad to see if this is true.
These are post-merger layoffs. It's unlikely to involve significant parts of the rank and file of development on titles which were not dropped. There will be layoffs from the dropped blizzard game, probably a bunch of HR and management.I'd guess a big hit was taken in actiblizz IT as traditional internal server infrastructure will be moving to azure. And if production game servers are moving into azure as well that's a bunch more redundancies yet to come.
Alan Adham leaving is a big deal.