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New Report Sheds Light on Blizzard's High-Profile Departures | MMORPG.com
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New Report Sheds Light on Blizzard's High-Profile Departures | MMORPG.com
A recent report from IGN has shed additional insight into the string of high profile departures from Blizzard over recent years. The report points to a feeling of decline, layoff, and lack of major releases.
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All time classic MY NEW FAVORITE POST! (Keep laying those bricks)
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So they have no hopes in their Diablo Immoral?
Diablo Immortal is not developed by third party studio. If anything, they are in collaboration, but I heard very little info lately about that Chinese company. I think Blizzard took the entire development of D:I into their hands.
About the article, all I can say is that I'm glad Blizzard is in this mess. Starting from 2018, their actions and games ( x-pacs ) have been very sub-bar to .. "Blizzard Standards".
As of now, they have 2 choices : 1) Go back to their .. roots and fix their huge mistakes & 2) Keep going like this and Activision will take full control over Blizzard ( if isn't the case yet ).
If they keep going with this .. "route", in 5 years Blizzard will be just another studio within another studio within another studio, milked to death.
Reporter: What's behind Blizzard success, and how do you make your gamers happy?
Blizzard Boss: Making gamers happy is not my concern, making money.. yes!
IMO there are two pictures to be painted.One they were making less money now and felt they could easily make more doing it alone.I also feel past departures saw just how easy the Blizzard games are to make and likely felt a lot of wasted overhead so wanted to strike it alone and do it cheaper.
A huge spike in the coffin i am sure was the reduction in bonuses but that would only lean towards them not really being there to make great games but to make lot's of money.
Kotick's insane salary plus perks is a VERY good reason why Activision needed to grab the reins on the very sketchy spending by Blizzard.It was EASY to fill your pockets with money when lots is coming in but then this raises questions....red flags.
Ok so then WHY are we hearing of higher profit numbers?WHY did they lay off so many and yet were heading into a payout that would net Kotick close to 200 million?So has Blizzard been lying about the numbers,i mean huge corps like this have ways to move numbers around in the books even with watchdogs looking over their shoulders.
my best input would be based off of Hearthstone a game i played since beta and right on through.A VERY greedy operation looking for more ways to manipulate cash shops/monetization than putting effort into the games quality.They aded an insane amount of new monetization with modes and various card pack sales and buying hero pictures etc etc.The game has NO tournament UI,how sad is that for a game that has made hundreds of millions?
WOW another game that brought in hundreds of millions to have no housing is again VERY sad.How do the ywant to launch the new Diablo game after a lot of controversy with D3,well let's announce a MOBILE game because you know we can make loads of money off that.So their premise was to make money and not a higher quality game.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
Sell out for as much as they can to the same gaming giants they claim are the worst thing ever...
So who are the ones that caused the problems? Who jumped into bed with the giants for a pay day? Trying to come off like victims after getting a payday...ya I am gonna cry a tear for them....
All that and not to mention that the company seems to keep making more and more cash....get railed on, pointed at, kicked in the gnads, and backstabbed by those sellouts...and yet the shareholders keep laughing all the way to the bank....
Actually he seems to be a perfect fit for his main role: "Bulatao has specifically been hired to oversee the Call of Duty Endowment, a non-profit foundation co-founded by Kotick that helps former service members in the United States and UK transition to civilian careers."
Then he is also going to be responsible for some "key administrative functions". So I do not see any relevance to having gaming industry experience.
All time classic MY NEW FAVORITE POST! (Keep laying those bricks)
"I should point out that no other company has shipped out a beta on a disc before this." - Official Mortal Online Lead Community Moderator
Proudly wearing the Harbinger badge since Dec 23, 2017.
Coined the phrase "Role-Playing a Development Team" January 2018
"Oddly Slap is the main reason I stay in these forums." - Mystichaze April 9th 2018
I came to WoW from Everquest1........YOu could see that all WoW did was take EQ, dumb it way down, and put it into Warcrat lore.......THe ease of it appealed to a whole new line of gamers, and you could run it on a kitchen appliance, so that made ease of entry more simple......I give them credit for what they did with WoW, but once the copying of EQ was done and they had to go on their own, the game was not the same.