Such an aggressive move in corona time. Activision Blizzard doesn't deserve my money anymore. France was just the tip of the iceberg.
This isn't an Activision Blizzard problem, this is a capitalism problem. Every time this happens, everyone with an axe to grind about Blizzard comes in screaming ignorantly about how this is why their video game is bad. None of you actually care, you just want to #$%^ on Blizzard. If you actually cared, you'd realize that this is going on at every big company all of the time. You think Bobby getting a $200 million bonus is bad? Take a look at how much health insurance executives make, look at the bonuses they get for making sure the least amount of claims are approved. If you want to do something about it, there are a million things you can do that are better than yelling about your video games not being as good as you want them to be. Supporting unions and fighting for more fair labor laws is one, voting for representatives that will put healthy regulations in place is another.
The problem guys, isn't the need to lay off, it's 'the need to layoff to INCREASE a bunch of people's pockets, in detriment of the majority of those that did their job, pretty well'.A 'leader' should be the FIRST to take the front, and do the example. Seems more of a bad decision in the longer term than a 'good' one. And 'video games', along with streaming platforms are those that didn't suffer THAT much from the pandemic, hell, some even thrived from it.'Cut expenses', yeah, if you join the groundforce, those people not in the higher ranks, of course that would be the majority of the 'expenses' of a company, but if those in higher ranks don't do their parts, then we see riots. And that is happening everywhere.
Every company on the planet routinely does this, gamers freak out because they only hear about it happening with game companies.
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People are so ignorant, this isn't JUST WoW, its all their games. They just hired a ton of people too.
Glad I live in a country that still gives a damn about workers' rights and welfare, especially in a time of pandemic - all layoffs frozen until the end of the year. Equally glad I don't live in some 'land of the free' hellhole.
DONE WITH WOW CANCEL SUBS PEOPLE THESE COMPANY IS A PARASITE !We are in a pandemic while we all throw money at them mean while people loosing jobs and struggling even with food these @#$%s of blizzard despite increasing profits lays off people DONE WITH BLIZZARD ! 'land of the free' hellhole. indeed
so not only is this a ^&*!ty move in general, but putting ALL of Europe's operations in the UK...who is not part of the EU... seems like a really stupid move.
I had already cancelled mine to use tokens, but we as players really need to start cancelling subs en masse with "layoffs and poor management" as the reason.
Well naturally, of course. You only need one person to run the entire company. What's with all these thousands of people working like they mean business? Just need one!
