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Nightkaira
Profile Joined March 2011
Singapore412 Posts
March 01 2012 14:00 GMT
#241
I thinks its due to the fact that the games are at closing stages, and will have less projects in the future, so why hog so much of the talents in the industry ?

But letting GMs go is srsly crazy, I think my WoW ticket of 21hrs 4min average will go skyrocket to about 1 week ? =S

KingHillBilly
Profile Joined November 2007
United States105 Posts
March 01 2012 15:31 GMT
#242
I was also laid off. On an upnote, I can stream and play sc2 for whoever and whenever I want now .
Simply the Best
StarStruck
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
25339 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-01 15:36:42
March 01 2012 15:32 GMT
#243
That's supposed to happen when fewer people play.

It is the right move for the business. You won't like it, but it's one of the first cost cutting measures.

Besides that, holy crap. So many generalizations in this thread. X_X
Teeny
Profile Joined March 2010
Austria885 Posts
March 01 2012 15:42 GMT
#244
Of course noone likes to read something like that and i am sorry for everyone they send home but they now have over 2million less customers to support than before. Plus they are near a release of a big title where it is kinda normally that some people have to go. If someone of you guys would run a company and you would have 20% less customers you would have to let someone go too.
Rupyness
Profile Joined January 2011
52 Posts
March 01 2012 15:58 GMT
#245
I have a friend who works as a free lance story writer on multiple blizzard projects including titan. He was unaffected by this downsizing.
[F_]aths
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Germany3947 Posts
March 01 2012 16:01 GMT
#246
On March 01 2012 22:22 PrideNeverDie wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 01 2012 22:02 [F_]aths wrote:
On March 01 2012 21:52 PrideNeverDie wrote:
Blizzard became a corporation and tried to milk its customers for more money while it produced an inferior product. This led to lower income and the need to reduce employees. Blizzard realized that Diablo 3 is not fixable and therefore fired the developers on it while hoping the fans shell out $60 based on branding.

Why do people still waste their time with trolling of such magnitude?


sc2 bnet ... have u played d3? its unfixable
I played both SC2 beta (now retail, of course) and D3 beta and I consider both games great games. Since patch 13 I see that Diablo 3 now gets into the final stages of development. Even though the beta limits the char level to 13 and the content to a fraction of Act 1, it is enough to see that it will be an outstandingly successful game because of the polished and vast content.
You don't choose to play zerg. The zerg choose you.
XicalaAera
Profile Joined December 2009
United States51 Posts
March 01 2012 16:01 GMT
#247
"we remain committed to shipping multiple games this year" That kinda scares me. What happend to "when it's ready"? Not saying they won't be good, just that the wording scares me.
“Ability is nothing without opportunity.”
Excalibur_Z
Profile Joined October 2002
United States12240 Posts
March 01 2012 16:02 GMT
#248
On March 02 2012 00:31 KingHillBilly wrote:
I was also laid off. On an upnote, I can stream and play sc2 for whoever and whenever I want now .


Well that explains why you disappeared at least! What was your position?
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KingHillBilly
Profile Joined November 2007
United States105 Posts
March 01 2012 16:08 GMT
#249
I worked in QA for 5 years. Nearly 3 years on SC2 as a functionality tester (Game Balance, replay system, AI, game mechanics), A bit over a year on WoW, during cataclysm I was in charge of combat and pvp (all spells, talents, battlegrounds), most recently I worked on the combat team for Diablo 3.

Simply the Best
The_Unseen
Profile Joined March 2011
France1923 Posts
March 01 2012 16:45 GMT
#250
Shit I wanna work for Blizzard, sounds so interesting :D
I got five reasons for you to shut up
JimmyJRaynor
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada17181 Posts
March 01 2012 16:45 GMT
#251
well well well ... what a coincidence....
1 day after the layoffs are announced we have profit warnings from Vivendi
Ray Kassar To David Crane : "you're no more important to Atari than the factory workers assembling the cartridges"
nam nam
Profile Joined June 2010
Sweden4672 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-01 17:01:46
March 01 2012 17:01 GMT
#252
On March 01 2012 20:55 Monsty wrote:
Wow going through these pages there's a lot of people worried of doom and gloom. It was clearly written that the franchises are perfectly safe, and they're over employment even considering their current projects and "Titan" and can't continue to pay people for doing jobs they aren't completely actively taking part of.

By the end of the year, they will be over capacity when Diablo 3 is finally out the doors (especially when most of the development is complete) and HotS coming closer to more major announcements. For the first time, blizzard has a high probability of releasing 3 major titles in one year, which is overkill for such a company when you really think about it.

What's written is pertty irrelevant. When have a company ever tried to spin layoffs in a bad light? "We just lay off a lot of people and we anticipate our products to be worse because of it!"
Yoshi-
Profile Joined October 2008
Germany10227 Posts
March 01 2012 17:06 GMT
#253
They are just kicking everyone who isn't bald
Like a Boss
Profile Joined January 2011
502 Posts
March 01 2012 17:10 GMT
#254
On March 01 2012 03:51 Arthemesia wrote:
It's gonna be hard to develop all those games at a high quality with less people . I hope we don't see lower quality.


Look at all that is missing from starcraft 2, even with all those people their game comes up short. Regardless laying off people is a bad sign for any company.
JimmyJRaynor
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada17181 Posts
March 01 2012 17:57 GMT
#255
somebody throw a microphone in front of Rob Simpson and get him to talk...
it's interesting that the entire SC2 team is dead silent right now
Ray Kassar To David Crane : "you're no more important to Atari than the factory workers assembling the cartridges"
Thurken
Profile Joined September 2011
961 Posts
March 01 2012 18:16 GMT
#256

On March 01 2012 03:51 Arthemesia wrote:
It's gonna be hard to develop all those games at a high quality with less people . I hope we don't see lower quality.


They had less people when they released WoW, WC3... and those games were still high quality, don't be afraid.
It's common sense to have staff reduction when you have less suscribers than before, and then hire new staff members when you release new products...
fenrysk
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
United States364 Posts
March 01 2012 19:30 GMT
#257
it's interesting that the entire SC2 team is dead silent right now

they're probably too busy with HotS crunch, and aside from maybe Samwise and Chris Sigaty, they probably aren't afforded the internal managerial ops knowledge to be able to add to anything to what we already know.


I worked in QA for 5 years. Nearly 3 years on SC2 as a functionality tester (Game Balance, replay system, AI, game mechanics), A bit over a year on WoW, during cataclysm I was in charge of combat and pvp (all spells, talents, battlegrounds), most recently I worked on the combat team for Diablo 3.


my respects to you sir, and best wishes on your future endeavors. hope to maybe read about some of your experiences in QA in the Trenches comic someday
http://fenrysk-art.deviantart.com
ambient_orange
Profile Joined January 2010
170 Posts
March 01 2012 20:00 GMT
#258
its definately true that they want gamers to feel guilty - see, less subscribers means we have to throw people out of job..
DOA: "Where are the signs for Nestea?" MC: "In Korea."
NuKedUFirst
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Canada3139 Posts
March 01 2012 20:18 GMT
#259
And to say their service couldn't get any slower.. Laying off customer service isn't a good move imo.. but then again I don't run a multimillion dollar company..
FrostedMiniWeet wrote: I like winning because it validates all the bloody time I waste playing SC2.
JethroSC
Profile Joined October 2011
Sweden83 Posts
March 01 2012 20:36 GMT
#260
It's many, many people from the Battle.Net part of Blizzard from what I heard, I get quite a lot of such news to where I'm currently working. Software Engineers, Leaders, LOTS of things.
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