Microsoft Lays Off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox Employees; Mike Ybarra Leaves | MMORPG.com

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• Rienni Member UncommonPosts: 43

  January 27 edited January 27

  These layoffs hit more companies than are being reported. The community manager from Fallout 76 got laid off for example. https://www.reddit.com/r/fo76/comments/19ffz6j/thank_you_and_goodbye_3/
• vonryan123 Member UncommonPosts: 514

  January 27

  Oh the fireworks are flying now. Hope the season 1 and season 3 dev team for d4 was on the list.

  
• Theocritus Member LegendaryPosts: 9,976

  January 28 edited January 28

  Scot said:

  Theocritus said:

  
  I dont really have much faith in Blizzard anymore, especially in making a new game....They couldnt even come up with a decent plan to make WoW2.
  

  Making a second version of your MMO is hugely problematic tough. I liked EQ2 but it had all sorts of issues for EQ "1" players. Same for AC2, its fraught with difficulty. But should they have tried to make one by now sure, it never seems to have got past the ideas stage.

  
  I guess they could have gone a completely other direction, maybe make Starcraft a MMO or something.....also how many are in that division if they could layoff 1900?
  

  
• Terazon Member RarePosts: 407

  January 28

  I last saw like 10,000-13,000 employees in Acti-Blizz I think?

  
• Neoyoshi Member RarePosts: 1,450

  January 28

  So... are we just going to let the phising weblinks go about freely? Do you guys not know what those look like anymore?

  
  
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