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No?
Then execs don't care.
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In BFA? Yeah, very possibly.
It's really the only recourse in the current system. The minute Activision consumed Blizzard, it was the beginning of the end. Unless Blizz can pull a Bungie, there's no separation between the two for the consumer.
Bungie was never owned by Activision. They were always a 3rd party developer, they just had exclusive publishing rights with Activision for Destiny.
Blizzard on the other hand is wholly owned and operated by ActivisionBlizzard. There can be no separation of the two.
That ship just sailed. This is likely a consolidation move where stuff like community management gets more centralized across activizzard until there's no difference between the entities.
The one nice thing is this isn't a bad job market to be thrown into. 6-12 months from now? Likely much worse.
Capitalism is a disease.
And I didn't even get an exit survey. They don't even care why I left. Good riddance and fuck them.
Asmongold put it kind of bluntly but to paraphrase he basically said that prior to this event, considering all other factors working at Blizzard was still basically working your dream job in one of the best companies in the industry, and the idea that your future prospects are probably going to be working at some mobile developer who's churning out some scuffed Mario clone all because some corporate asshole who makes a living rotating between companies like a locust eating signing bonuses at the cost of employees' jobs is a reality crash that's hard to reconcile in the best of cases.
These companies will continue to flail.
That is what today demonstrates.
I’d say the same but other than Destiny and Overwatch I don’t know any games they publish that I follow. Bungie managed to split the Destiny rights out with themselves so unless there’s a sequel to Overwatch (increasingly seeming unlikely) I won’t be buying from them anyway.
I think I mostly don’t buy their other games, but apparently they’re publishing Sekiro? Damn.
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The VODS were shit last year too. Took forever to go up.
Guess I won't be picking up that Spyro Remaster after all...
Just jumping in to say this isn't true. At least two WoW encounter designers are gone.
Wow, really? They specifically said they are not cutting developer roles.
https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/blizzard/22887360/message-from-j-allen-brack
I bolded the relevant part of Brack's post. He claims they aren't cutting development teams. Guess Brack's a liar liarface.
Perhaps the encounter devs have been reassigned rather than let go.
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You have to guess this?
Jim got on this one pretty quick.
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I think I'll skip the game awards this year and just watch the trailers later.
I remember reading an article a long while back by a regular journalist who was writing about the games journalism industry. One of her assessments has always stuck with me and that was from her point of view it was hard to tell where a game company's PR team ended and the games journalist began.
While she did criticize the "journalism" side of games journalism she did also say she understand the why. Games journalists are completely at the mercy of game studios. If you want exclusives, interviews, tours, early review copies, passes to events, etc etc then you can't really be critical of those companies. You can't ask actual questions during interviews or press members of the industry on particular topics.
If you're not getting those things then your competitors are and you're losing out on clicks.
Which is largely why I just don't bother with em much anymore.
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Places like Giant Bomb and Waypoint typically aren't afraid to speak thier minds and ask hard questions, (Jeff Gerstmann grilling Phil Spencer about shipping broken ass games like MCC and Waypoint bringing up labor conditions spring to mind.)
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How many articles on Gamergate did Giant Bomb publish?
Jeff has said several times now that he regrets the site didn't wade into that and tell people to cut the shit.
Not much, outside of Patrick and Alex taking about it on their morning show. I was more referring to Axen's statement regarding the relationship between press and the companies they cover.
Shows that they're better journalists in the present though, which is what is relevant to the current topic