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On March 01 2012 03:50 CyDe wrote: That really sucks. I wonder what positions they mean when they say "non-development." Because that could mean anything from a janitor to website moderator.
Likely, marketing and production
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im so sorry to ask this but who is mike boy in blizzard?
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In times like this, I think it's a good idea to be introspective and think about yourself and where you are in your career. What role are you performing in your company and also whether there are opportunities to move up. Also, how well are you performing in relation to your peers and how much they're paying you, too.
Because if you are paid relatively high for your position but your contribution isn't really that much more than the guy sitting next to you, how does the company see that when times are tight or they need to tighten their belt(for any reason?). Support staff are vulnerable because you're not adding to the bottom line. You're consuming it, where as Sales staff and other income-generator type roles who add to the bottom line...unless you're not making your quota...you'll be safer.
What also bears mentioning is whether your particular job can be off-shored(done by someone else in a different continent altogether for about 1/10th of your salary). If it can...that's something to be looked at as well. Remember the good ol' days a few decades ago, where being an engineer was just...the thing to do? Now these days engineers are all accessible throughout the world, never mind software developers.
I'm sorry for this depressing talk but it just goes to show that if it comes to all of us just waitering tables, it's nothing to be ashamed about. At least it's a job where they need you to be physically present to serve the customer.
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Really sucks a close friend of mine also lost his job at Blizzard today and he worked there for almost 8 years really sucks. Best of luck to those 600 employees
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On March 01 2012 04:50 royal.cze wrote: I wonder if Mikey boy took a salary cut.
Compensation for 2010 Salary $749,665.00 Bonus $381,950.00 Restricted stock awards $5,583,600.00 All other compensation $23,908.00 Option awards $ $2,473,817.00 Non-equity incentive plan compensation $7,331,214.00 Change in pension value and nonqualified deferred compensation earnings $0.00 Total Compensation $16,544,154.00 he get 16 million dollars per year???
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On March 01 2012 05:23 ShadowWolf wrote:Show nested quote +On March 01 2012 05:02 Excalibur_Z wrote: I suppose this makes sense, and yeah it fits that it was mostly GM and Tech Support staff. That would also explain why they're looking to expand the ranks of the MVPs (unpaid but essentially support staff). Knowing Blizzard they probably had some pretty generous severance packages, so best of luck to you who were laid off in finding a new job. As much as getting laid off sucks and is really unfair to the people being laid off, nearly everyone who has been let go here has landed a job often times better than the one from which they were let go. Most big/good companies to work for have amazing severance and job placement packages, so it's really likely that most people will land something good. But for the people let go it's probably really hard to look at that optimistically.
A severance package is usually about a week's pay+benefits per year of service. I doubt that Blizzard is letting go of many long tenured employees.
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On March 01 2012 05:44 Mawi wrote: im so sorry to ask this but who is mike boy in blizzard? founder and ceo of Blizzard. Mike Morhaime.
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On March 01 2012 05:49 papaz wrote:Show nested quote +On March 01 2012 04:50 royal.cze wrote: I wonder if Mikey boy took a salary cut.
Compensation for 2010 Salary $749,665.00 Bonus $381,950.00 Restricted stock awards $5,583,600.00 All other compensation $23,908.00 Option awards $ $2,473,817.00 Non-equity incentive plan compensation $7,331,214.00 Change in pension value and nonqualified deferred compensation earnings $0.00 Total Compensation $16,544,154.00 he get 16 million dollars per year???
not quite... a lot of it is in terms of stock and incentives. These will change in value over time. Could go up or down, but it gives more motivation to keep making the company grow and perform better. The day you see them cash out is the day you should worry about blizzard
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On March 01 2012 04:59 Condor Hero wrote:Show nested quote +On March 01 2012 04:50 royal.cze wrote: I wonder if Mikey boy took a salary cut.
Compensation for 2010 Salary $749,665.00 Bonus $381,950.00 Restricted stock awards $5,583,600.00 All other compensation $23,908.00 Option awards $ $2,473,817.00 Non-equity incentive plan compensation $7,331,214.00 Change in pension value and nonqualified deferred compensation earnings $0.00 Total Compensation $16,544,154.00 Lol who gives a fuck what he makes. Blizzard is obviously wildly successful, you expect his salary to be janitor level? He should probably give himself a raise for reducing costs after firing all 600 people. That's how business works. Pretty inappropriate to say when 600 people lost their jobs.
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On March 01 2012 05:29 JimmyJRaynor wrote: Has anyone heard from Dustin Browder or David Kim since this announcement? Possibilities 1) The have zero insight on the layoffs, because they aren't involved in Blizzard's business decisions at that level. They know some people who were laid off and obviously can't publicly comment on it. 2) They were both laid off
One of these is very likely. One of these is very unlikely.
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On March 01 2012 05:54 Kennigit wrote:Show nested quote +On March 01 2012 05:29 JimmyJRaynor wrote: Has anyone heard from Dustin Browder or David Kim since this announcement? Possibilities 1) The have zero insight on the layoffs, because they aren't involved in Blizzard's business decisions at that level. They know some people who were laid off and obviously can't publicly comment on it. 2) They were both laid off One of these is very likely. One of these is very unlikely. OMG.... Browder and Kim were laid off!!! That must be it!!! Starcraft is....
Poll: Starcraft is....Saved (46) 68% Doomed (22) 32% 68 total votes Your vote: Starcraft is.... (Vote): Saved (Vote): Doomed
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i wonder how long it will take activision to ruin every blizzard franchise?
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Let Bobby Kotick be the first to assure you, there will be no reduction in the standard of dividends Customer Service.
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On March 01 2012 05:54 Kennigit wrote:Show nested quote +On March 01 2012 05:29 JimmyJRaynor wrote: Has anyone heard from Dustin Browder or David Kim since this announcement? Possibilities 1) The have zero insight on the layoffs, because they aren't involved in Blizzard's business decisions at that level. They know some people who were laid off and obviously can't publicly comment on it. 2) They were both laid off One of these is very likely. One of these is very unlikely. A man can always hope!
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:/ Always a bitter time. Wishing the best to those affected.
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I'm going to assume this mostly, or entirely, support positions directly related to WoW.
As WoW declines, so does the requirement for people to directly support that game- account management, game masters, things like that.
Pretty normal for the product life cycle, surprised they wouldn't keep them on until the new "Titan" game. Unless they're starting to get wary about the economic climate for another MMO (frankly, I'm not entirely sure I can ever play another MMO the way I played WoW. I think I'm just MMO'd out)
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pretty easy to understand that they were getting ahead of anyone being unhappy about being let go. Additionally with WoW coming to the end of it's lifespan it makes sense they are cutting back on customer support type positions. From what I can tell it's largely where the lay offs are coming from.
Does it suck for people being let go? yes, of course it does.
Is it realistic to keep lots of GM's around and support staff for a game that is near the end of it's lifespan? no, it'd be wasteful spending on blizzards part.
In the end a lot of people need to be less gloom and doom about lay offs. It happens all the time especially in the MMO market even with a successful game. Blizzard was just making a PR move to explain what's going on before it becomes rumors and conjecture. Not that it will stop all rumors (obviously), but most people should be able to figure out what's going on and not panic about it.
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I wonder what these "un-announced" projects are o.0,they already have an mmorpg, an rpg and an rts and a moba... blizzard fps?
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Rob Simpsons twitter has remained silent all day
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