Microsoft Lays Off 1900 Activision Blizzard, ZeniMax & Xbox Employees

[remixedcat]

They suffering from Hollywood disease ... finsafe sequels and no risk taking or innovation

 

[Chrispy_]

They suffering from Hollywood disease ... finsafe sequels and no risk taking or innovation

It's worse than that, both studios are actively making old mistakes that they'd previously corrected after learning from them the first time.

It's so frustrating as a gamer because the quality of the games is regressing - the development, design, UI, feature, QoL mistakes they'd made in the past was something they learned from and corrected. But all of the people who learned from those past mistakes and fixed the problem left the studios to work somewhere good years ago.

What's left is a bunch of n00bs making those original mistakes that were bad enough in 2004, and are now completely unacceptable. It's no wonder these games are review-bombed because aside from the shinier graphics, it's dated game design with dated mistakes that we though we'd all finally seen the last of...

 

[Slizzo]

Are people here not remembering that when an acquisition of a company happens, there's always a lot of overlap on job roles? In those cases the redundancies are eliminated.

I'd wager that pretty much all of ABK's financial staff was let go, and any other ancillary staff in positions like that as well. Sucks for them, but in roles like that there really is always something available somewhere.

 

[Aquinus]

You don't spend $69 billion AND keep your own people on board.

You hit half of the problem and that's the $69 billion spent to acquire other businesses. Generally speaking this kind of thing isn't done with on-hand cash reserves and is done via loans. What a lot of people don't realize is that these kinds of business loans are not the same as personal loans that have fixed interest rates. Here in the US it costs a lot more to borrow than it had for many years prior and the market was not prepared for the interest rate hikes. When you have large loans like this, the calculus changes because now a much larger slice of revenue needs to be spent to service those loans.

 

[lexluthermiester]

So people have been saying that the microsoft takeover of Activision/Blizzard would be a disaster... And here we are, the beginning of the unpleasantness.

Gee, who oh who saw this crap coming...

 

[remixedcat]

It's worse than that, both studios are actively making old mistakes that they'd previously corrected after learning from them the first time.

It's so frustrating as a gamer because the quality of the games is regressing - the development, design, UI, feature, QoL mistakes they'd made in the past was something they learned from and corrected. But all of the people who learned from those past mistakes and fixed the problem left the studios to work somewhere good years ago.

What's left is a bunch of n00bs making those original mistakes that were bad enough in 2004, and are now completely unacceptable. It's no wonder these games are review-bombed because aside from the shinier graphics, it's dated game design with dated mistakes that we though we'd all finally seen the last of...

And when the issues brought up they don't wanna hear it either...

 

[Easy Rhino]

Thankfully books still exist.

 

[Chrispy_]

Thankfully books still exist.

These books may be relevant to your interests:

"No longer the underdog, Blizzard North takes Diablo out of murky dungeons and across deserts, jungles, and snowy mountaintops. Success comes at a cost. Corporate greed threatens to overshadow artistic breakthroughs, new talent throws company cultures into flux, and a passion to be the best result in brutal work schedules, broken relationships, and creative burnout that incapacitates visionaries and leaves their teams directionless.

Weaving together the making of bestselling products and the crucibles of the people who made them, Stay Awhile and Listen: Book II tells the story of two teams that formed an unstoppable juggernaut even as they proved too combustible to co-exist."

 

[ThrashZone]

So people have been saying that the microsoft takeover of Activision/Blizzard would be a disaster... And here we are, the beginning of the unpleasantness.

Gee, who oh who saw this crap coming...

Hi,
Culling the herd nothing really earth shattering new here.
I suspect they'll be doing another culling once MS gets more of an idea of where the rest of the dead weight is