Most tech in general at the moment (and probably a hell of a lot of service industries too) seem to be on the march to "many less staff, think of the poor shareholders". It's a capitalism driven thing, basically everywhere right now. They've worked out if they all level down together, everyone gets more profits as everyone becomes as bad as each other (so it's not like people will go to "someone better") and the consumers will continue to provide profits. Consumers/customers? pfftEmployees? pfftSHAREHOLDERS. Yes. The only people that matter.Etc/end rant.
I should have expected this... Microsoft is too big. They do this sort of thing sometimes. It was logical they would do it again. Real shame... Seriously, bad news about BLizzard never seem to end. I really do miss the good old days - pre 2011. It was all fun and rainbows back then.
Sad :(
Hype Hype Hype! Please stop these hype articles. They are misleading and cause general panic among the uninformed.I feel bad for the people who lost their jobs. It's sad, it never seems fair or reasonable when its you getting called into the boss' office.It is an unfortunate, but normal process when you merge two major corporations to immediately consolidate resources between your projects and employment hierarchy. You have a messy situation with duplicate HR departments, duplicate talent/recruitment offices, duplicate payroll services, duplicate food services, duplicate housekeeping, duplicate building maintenance services (plumbing, electrical), duplicate IT (telecom, info sec, networking), duplicate building design and planning (architects), duplicate acquisitions and supply chain management systems, duplicate regulatory compliance (legal departments), duplicate employee education/training departments, duplicate employee assistance programs. There is no way you can justify all the positions for the merged conglomerate. There will not be enough work to do for everyone, for all those jobs. In these situations, practically overnight you'll have 5-10% of your people clock in, play with their phones all day, schedule useless meetings to occupy the calendar that accomplish absolutely nothing, and clock out while having generated no added value for the company, or the customers.Do not be surprised when the next article talks about how Microsoft is selling off hundreds of millions of dollars worth of unneeded, unused hardware, and some very expensive and totally unnecessary real estate holdings all over the world.They are setting these employees up with severance packages and unemployment, and references, and being laid off in accordance with all legal statutes and I'm sure many of them will have jobs very quickly at any of the many thousands of companies right now that are desperate for QUALIFIED and SKILLED workers of all career paths.
sooo,can we talk about what this is going to do to the player base that has their launcher on their microsoft ran PC.like the support for games has fallen off alot sense covid .like everyone used that as an excuse to just not do anything anywhere and games that we do play are either a bunch of the same rewash content sold back to us ,over and over again , or just slugging along and overhyped garbage.looking at you diablo 4. i loved blizzard when i really started gaming .i loved all the black ops stuff not halo.that's all companies are doing so that makes the companies we were watching to see what happens no better than the rest offem.are they going to bring in better people or what .where does it go from this.
Also probably the end of Blizzcon as an event. Maybe we'll get Microsoft Gamescon or something as a replacement where they can show of ALL the new stuff under their umbrella - Xbox and PC.CES and other mass game reveal events are on the decline anyway. Most prefer to do their own thing these days.
At least we finally know what the skull flag meant for 10.2.6 now.
I dont understand this at all, laying off sad but okay but then having the audacity to keep up the job offerings only to be replaced with less pay.
Hahahaha good!