>Blizzard president Mike Ybarra is departing Microsoft. Allen Adham, Blizzard’s chief design officer, is also leaving the company. Blizzard's previously announced survival game has also been canceled
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WTF is going on?
microsoft has a bad habit of destroying everything they acquire
so does every other company ever
has tencent destroyed any of the companies it bought? as far as I know they basically just buy shit so they can publish it in china and literally don't mess with the original devs at all.
>has tencent destroyed any of the companies it bought
league of legends
Yes, because blizzard was amazing before the merger.
yes, that's why I wanted them to buy activision so badly
let the death of activision begin!
They won't need to do much work with this one
why would senior people want to stick around after an acquisition
An incompetent studio that's 3 years away from going third party just killed another gaming studio.
>doublefine
>bethesda
>now abk
Microsoft saved Bethesda, neverthougheverbeitheless. If it wasn't for them, Starfield would be unplayable trash instead of playable trash.
But starfield isn't playable
Starfield is playable
Now image this shit if SNOY had bought bethesda
PUT THIS SHIT IN YOUR HEAD FOR A MOMENT And think how bad it would be if Sony had bought the company as fricking Altman wanted before he died
How bad would it be? Please ellaborate. Sony has done a lot of good 1st and 2nd party titles.
After the latest shit of exclusives sony did over the last 5 years
It was for the best
Frick SONY
>Now image this shit if SNOY had bought bethesda
it'd be the same shit but Xbox fans would be shitting on it while PS fans would praise it
Anon who paid for the entire third party pajeets in starfield before the acquisition was Sony, Providence Equity(a ESG arm of Blackrock funding bethesda for years) and The entire board of directors led by altman
I can’t believe people are still so poor that they can’t afford a PC, a PlayStation, and a switch, and the console wars are still a thing. The only people participating in this shit are 25+. Get a fricking job. It was pathetic in 2006 and it’s gotten more pathetic over time
>If it wasn't for them, Starfield would be unplayable trash instead of playable trash.
The end result would have been the same. Embarrassing for Microsoft that they didn't realize this.
>3 years
No, 2 more weeks
>doublefine
lmao
Here's your (You), snoygger
And if anyone's going third-party, it's Nu-PS. Jimbo destroyed the brand.
microsoft is preparing to leave the gaming industry
Western devs dying.
Imagine making 200 million dollars games that lose to asian gachas and indie games.
Microsoft is forcing Blizzard to heal.
Gaming is healing
Activision/Blizzard as a company got a fate worse than death
Bethesda is next
>Gaming is healing
>most games releases in the west are woke shit and movie games
and now gachashit like genshin invaded the west.
>Turning games into a GASS unmoddable shit led by Square and Sony
No thanks, i welcom a Crash worse than 83 than that
Microsoft is giving chemo to big devs.
Shame starfield was probably already in development yeah?
Get woke, go broke
>he bought the top
Plus MSFT truly doesn't give a shit their stock is trading at an all time high and currently has trillion dollar valuation
Ybarra probably made literal hundreds of millions in stock from the Microsoft buyout, he's just retiring
Phil-sama cleaning out the woke trash from the company.
The Microsoft curse. It happened with Rare. It happened with Skype. And now its happening with Blizzard.
Correction for the covid bubble, everywhere in the IT
no one is going to convince me that spotify needs 10 000 employees just to fail at adding hi-fi playback for 10 years and make their app shittier with every release
COD MW 3 is underperforming
OW2 is underperforming
D4 is underperforming
Warcraft Rumble is underperforming so much that it's likely going to be shutdown within a few months
Hearthstone is underperforming.
Basically every single major game from Activison and Blizzards side of ABK is underperforming.
>Warcraft Rumble is underperforming
They made a 2008 game and it took them 5 years for releasing...
titty milk part 2
Just the usual post acquisition stuff
>WTF is going on?
palworld came and now they think their survival game wont be good enough
oh, and the president from blizz quit
>as a result of Palworld coming out Blizzard cancelled a project they've been working on for 6 years.
You're an actual moron if you believe this. The survival game was cancelled internally over half a year ago, just like the PVE for OW2 was cancelled for half a year before it was announced.
It's typical Blizzard incompetence. Announce a game and sit on it for years without progress pumping out concept art before you're finally forced to release it by mashing everything together at the last minute.
>sit on it for years without progress
It went from an ARK style survival game with Blizzard fantasy creatures to a Tarkov style extraction shooter with survival elements, to basically just H1Z1s survival mode w/ a skill tree before it was scrapped.
We just never saw any of that because it was all done behind closed doors.
>unhinged rant about ESG nonsense
I don't care.
You were proven objectively wrong, so you have no rebuttal, it's quite simple.
>WoW has hemorrhaged players for the past decade from mismanagement and staff rotations leading to wildly inconsistent and typically bad product, and on top of this they fumbled their Chinese re-publisher, NetEase, leading to the loss of that contract and *destruction of all relevant equipment on the Chinese end, they were so pissed off about Blizzard,* so after managing to reinstate the contract later and probably losing all those Chinese players to FF14 in the meantime, all that equipment has to be reinstated and the terms of the new contract are likely heavily NetEase-favoring... and there's still no guarantee the players will come back from other games
>Overwatch is not an esports success, at all
>None of their other games have been successes enough to offset the failures in recent memory, at all, including Warcraft 3 Reforged and its attempt to lay intellectual claim to any content produced for it (on top of looking shit)
>Activision has no relevance to anything anymore that isn't CoD, and has direct hand in the choking death of Crash Bandicoot and Spyro as IPs after a short revival. The last game that wasn't CoD, Crash or Spyro they published was fricking Sekiro in 2019
>King is probably the one branch of the three that isn't doing poorly out of the whole shebang and that's because of Candy Crush, which is also the reason A and B wanted K, to keep them afloat forever with Candy Crush's influx
woke=broke manifesting, it's a beautiful thing.
WE
FRICKING
TOLD
YOU
Ms literally buy studios and kills them afterwards. Why do you think so many people were hyped for that merger besides the stupid console war idiots?
>it's microsof fault starfield was shit ok sirs
Unironically, yes.
Wokeness destroying sales as well as being buttholes with nuking paid subscriptions because of feelings has caught up with them.
I hope Larry's ESG funds was worth it
blizzard hasn't produced a decent game since like 10 years
Microsoft bought a defunct company to acquire CoD and all of it's IPs and someone at a meeting asked "why are we paying above-average salary for 5,000 people who don't make games" and then took a knife to Blizzard. Now console warriors blues have decided to make "poor Blizzard they are such a good company they didn't deserve this" the hill they die on.
no one is saying Blizzard was in a good position. Even lefties hate Blizzard because of the whole metoo thing. The point is that everyone was claiming MS would "save" Blizzard when their track record said otherwise.
but anon
they are saving blizzard
>sometimes dead is better
A massive studio just got integrated into an even more massive studio, resulting in an incredibly large number of overlapping staff roles that are now redundant, as well as fat trimming from the employee bloat in the tech sector that happened during COVID. All of this is to be expected.
The real story is what is the reason behind Mike and Allen's departures, as Mike was previously saying he would have to be "dragged out of Blizzard" when the deal first went through.
He probably is being dragged out of Blizzard because Blizzard is a total shithole under his management. Either that or he was jealous of Bobby Kotick's golden parachute.
Anyone with stock options in Blizzard at the time of the purchase still got very shiny parachutes once the deal went through so I don't think Mike is really too worried financially about it, I suspect either the possibility of office politics getting in the way, or Mike just really didn't want to have to work at Microsoft again after a couple months of being under their thumb again after working there already for 20 years earlier.
As for the general employees, I'm guessing its MS trimming the fat from Activision's publishing division, as that entire branch is now redundant when MS already has their own, and from the sound of things on twitter, it was mainly the survival game team that got hit as well, but according to some people claiming insider info that project has been in dev hell for a while, even if the staff was still passionate about it. Personally I think cancelling the survival game was a misplay, especially since we are currently in a survival game resurgence with still no polished AAA offering in the genre that I was really interested in seeing if Blizzard could fill that gap. (I haven't been interested in Blizzard games in over a decade, but even now I still think Blizzard was good at releasing polished games, even if they are polished turds, and a lack of polish is what I feel really holds the genre back.)
The ironic thing is they probably decided to cancel the survival game like 4-6 months ago internally and just never announced it or told the team working on it, and now some months later, a couple of days before they're set to announce the survival game being cancelled, Palworld comes out of nowhere and absolutely obliterates the entire scene.
Even before PalWorld, you already had Valheim's massive launch that showcased that there is still a very hungry audience looking for literally a single survival game with AAA polish that isn't just a 5 years in early access release. But if the game was in dev hell, even if the team was still passionate there is only so much passion can bring before you have to make the call and cancel the game. After Redfall I don't expect to see MS fricking around anymore on projects that seem destined to fail. If we were to play arm-chair CEO however, I would consider the prospect of simply restarting development from scratch (outside of maybe art assets) and trying again, since the market is still there.
Yeah a big thing about these survival games is they lack content due to their tiny dev teams. Valheim, V rising etc especially have this problem.
Blizzard's nepotist worthless upper end of employees can't cope with being told to do their job and not sit on Twitter all day
This was pretty much expected with the acquisition. Blizzard is full of homosexual senior staff that collect a check to do literally nothing
Hopefully MS goes after their bloated pozzed marketing team next
This. Ybara literally sits on wow all day while he's "working"
Nothing of value lost
Blizzard's upper end of employees are federal agents, war criminals and ex-multinational suits anon
They are a government money-laundering scheme that is folding in on itself
Yes all check collectors that don't do an actual task all day. Like I said.
He's a fricking homosexual and deserves to be homeless
You didn't say anything I said, my point is so far removed from yours it's not in the same solar system
Anon was right
This IS the crash
The promised videogame crash is finally here.
Post YFW
Nah, this is what happens when a company who doesnt care about games founds it binge bought a hundred studios it doesnt want or need
Anon, more layoffs coming across the whole gaming industry and tech industry
he's gonna keep putting an L on his forehead and dancing around about how they deserved it until his own favorite company he previously thought was "un-woke" starts doing mass layoffs too
>YOULL BE MAD WHEN IT HAPPENS TO YOUR PET CORPO!
imagine giving a frick about companies
imagine thinking "y-y-yeah w-w-well YOUR BRAND will get owned TOO!" is an own you should try and throw at someone else
don't see that happening with From Software, sorry bud.
Well yeah no shit your favorite Japanese company is going to be completely unaffected by western crashes. Who cares what you think when you're nowhere close to the sphere of influence
btfo, but it's ok anon times will change this year it will start.
The Troonocaust.
Big tech is collapsing.
Get woke, go broke.
It's standard practice for a company to get rid of the seniors of any company they acquire to prevent them from pushing back against changes, this is the norm in literally every industry, they are not "departing" or "retired", they are being told to get out and not being given any option, they allow them to announce their retirements to save face
if you ran one of the largest companies in a particular industry and bought out one of your competitors that was failing, would you keep all the people around that were responsible for the company failing? companies as big as Blizzard fail because of their leadership, it's not the fault of interns and low level devs
Palworld and its consequences have been a blessing for the vidya race. We will still be talking about this generations from now.
Stop asking questions
Xbros... they finally noticed all the revenue is coming from Candy Clicker...
>Cancelling the survival game when Palworld just blew up
bakas
>wanting a blizzard made survival slop
lol lmao even
>survival world in diablo world where you have demons as "pals"
I dont know could be fun.
If Blizzard was smart they'd do a Diablo spinoff as a soulslike action game and a Starcraft spinoff as a Dead Space style survival Horror game.
What if this is what all their talented devs were working on the last decade? Would explain a lot if so.
They're probably cancelling the planned survival game to make something like Palworld.
>Palworld
FoTM won't even be mentioned past feb
>Ark blew up
>Valheim blew up
>Sons of the Forest blew up
>Palworld blew up
And that's not even counting smaller games like Enshrouded. Even if Palworld is FOTM, it's still a rapidly growing genre that people can't get enough of. Absolutely boneheaded move by MS and Blizz.
>Sons of the Forest blew up
It kinda did if you compare it to Valheim with a 500k peak and ARK with 250k. I mean sure, I never heard anyone talk about it outside the initial few days at most but it did apparently have a pretty decent player count.
not to mention the rumor mill saying that the blizzard survival game was like 99% finished back in 2023. seems really fricking weird that they'd cancel it now.
Someone from MS must have seen it and it was that bad.
I bet they wont nurture another Redfall and Starfield so soon.
given blizzard's recent track record, it probably wasn't woke enough. probably had too many strong white men and too many sexy women in it and not enough gays and browns.
>given blizzard's recent track record, it probably wasn't woke enough
? Their track record has extremely woke shit everywhere.
which is why the survival game was cancelled, for not being woke enough.
Ms execs can't tell good games, they said Baldurs gate 3 was b-rate and starfield/redfall were ground breaking.
I mean, they've learned their lesson I bet, if they didn't someone inside there did.
>they said Baldurs gate 3 was b-rate and starfield/redfall were ground breaking.
i mean, that's just them saying "competition bad us good"
Nah they could have secured BG3 as an Xbox console exclusive and had it on Gamepass day one but Phil offered them a pathetic amount of money while spending 100 million on that new mid Star Wars game that people played for a week and EA didn't even agree to day on gamepass.
Kids like star wars, right?
99% finished but the 1% missing was it being a good game probably
Sure thing coper.
It was probably a typical Blizzard mismanaged shitshow of a project that wouldn't be a viable product for 5+ years. I'm guessing the bean counters ran the numbers and some ROI assessments and that's why it was one of the first areas to get axed.
You figure a Valheim meets Sea of Thieves clone with no planned NPC's would stand a chance against Palworld? Even if Palworld only had the pink bunny and pink kitty and nothing else but placeholder things running around that would be an easy win for Palworld.
I want a survival game where you're a lowly Terran marine surviving against zerg hordes.
so you want vermintide/darktide but in starcraft?
yes and with crafting
good luck with that, modern blizzturd would never make anything thats not a safe normalgay genre
Microsoft already has Palworld why would they need another one?
Kekekekekekekek
They should fire the 3 homos in charge of overtrash, the game is dead anyway
blizzard could have their own pokemon shit by just doing a game with the pokemon battles of wow
WoW already has pokemon battles in it, it has for years.
what i mean is they could separate it into a separate game
They are adamantly against giving player housing. That's what people actually are desperate for.
take you garrisons and be grateful WoDcuck
>cancelling the survival game when the market is now utterly dominated by a single title
It's a miracle enshrouded is doing as well as it did
the survival game when Palworld just blew up
>bakas
They told the creator of dota to frick off when league of legends didn't even exist
Been in development for over 6 years and they had nothing to show.
but that's just your typical blizzard development schedule
i swear the amount of tolerance higher ups have for THOUSANDS of people who are incapable of making a brand new video game is staggering
Well, now you know why it was canned
Remember Phil Spencer said Baldurs Gate 3 was a b rate PC game and Microsoft thought Starfield was gonna be "really special" and turn the Xbox around.
Black person you dont get to rewrite history, even Ganker was confused and befuddled at Baldur's gate 3's popularity because it was just a crpg.
A survival game with AAA polish could've actually been big but between this aka Project Odyssey, Project Titan, the real OW2 with campaigns and Starcraft Ghost Blizz has proven they're absolutely awful at following through with any new IP just like Valve they're too up their own ass obsessed with perfectionism and make too much money from WoW/Steam and won't just release shit if it doesn't meet some bullshit standard of quality.
Palworld is a gamepass/xbox seller. Why would Microsoft want to compete against themselves?
90% of sales are on Steam. The Xbox version sucks.
it once AGAIN shows how fricking pathetic MS is, when every memes they cancel games isn't even a meme at this point, I just want to know where the people are who said this merge was a good thing for the industry
They already have palworld and Blizzard would probably make some generic bullshit anyway.
The world of AI is upon us.
wtf microsoft?
That was $70 billion well spent.
>microsoft burning the deadwood
They deserved it.
good ol microshaft ineptitude
Man, those 1900 devs leaving one of the most successful companies in the industry are going to cause an explosion of small companies and indies creating incredible things now that they've all got time on their hands, right?
Oh! Actually, those 1900 people don't have the capacity to create anything, and they're surpassed even by teenagers using RPG Maker.....
shitzard was down the shitter nothing that happens right now can make it worse
>Microsoft bought Activision Blizzard just so they could fire everyone there
I'm sorry Microsoft
Insanely basefd
They re intentionally moronic heroes cant wait cod fall
*boops nose*
i kneel microsoft-chama
can't wait for them to do the same thing to Sega
https://www.sega.co.jp/en/release/211101_1.html
> Sapporo
> Place that made beer and the origin of nojima the crappy writer and the hack yoshitpiss
Its a shame that place isnt a meme of goofy shit place
You can tell Sega isn't planning to get acquired based on their upcoming releases
The trend for studios soon to be acquired is to turn everything into a live service title since those can become infinite money printers if they hit it big, though very few do. This is what Bethesda did and it worked in driving up their price even though the games ended up sucking.
Meanwhile Sega is going back to making smaller games with low budgets so they might actually have some profit for once. That's not gonna pump up their stock price.
anon, do you not read their investor reports, that's EXACTLY what "super game" is
Fricking based. Elon Musk should've done the same with Twitter
did he not?
he basically did, but Musk was forced into buying twitter he didn't actually want to and had to be sued into it
bought Activision Blizzard just so they could fire everyone there
>I'm sorry Microsoft
Blizzard has over 5000 employees, as much as 20 other AAA studios combined.
The truth is they should fire 80% of people there, its a far left parasitic cesspool where trannies pedos and male feminist sexually molest each other while doing no work.
They should try hiring actual game devs for once, instead of diversity hires.
They do need to debloat Blizzard, But Microsoft will 100% fire the talented white guys and replace them with diversity hires.
MS is just as israelited as every other big corp.
Kino
Turns out the merger actually was good for gaming!
I was wrong and could not see, Microsoft have set us truly free.
I Kneel
So is this going to be good or bad I terms of the direction of Blizz's game. They pro or anti agenda?
Microsoft has killed every popular franchise they've ever made and every studio they've bought has gone down the shitter. So all in all, Blizz will probably stay the same level of quality.
It is good. There is no evil management team to ask developers to make profitable game and developers can make whatever they want.
Ybarra is a fricking moron, now they've had a chance to see the actual state of blizzard they probably forced him to frick off
Rich gays running away before the nukes fall
GOOD MORNING SIRS
you know I love capitalism as much as the next guy, but this shit really pisses me off.
My personal conspiracy theory is that most internet communists are just actors of big corporations who's job is to poison the well in order to stop incremental pro-consumer changes. Once people start demanding reasonable measures like breaking up monopolies, or reducing the legal power imbalance between companies and customers, all these "communists" come out of the woodwork:
>Noooo, you we shouldn't pass this anti-trust legislation. Instead, we should completely dismantle capitalism and replace it with a communist dictatiorship! Don't blame heckin Microsoft/Google/Clearchannel for their own actions, its all "capitalism's" fault!
>Be me, government full of politicians elected by serving lobbyists
>About to pass incremental pro consumer law
>Suddenly communists tell me not to
>Have no choice but to kneel to them and let corporations continue to exploit consumers and workers
Politicians ignore us regardless. I mean these people stop grassroots efforts from gaining momentum. How many politically-active people do you see proposing reasonable anti-trust regulations? Now how many do you see proposing something moronic like full communism?
You're totally sidestepping me pointing out your moronic and ill informed premise.
>Politicians ignore us regardless.
And what is their incentive to do so? Conservatives live in a world where everyone just does everything because they feel like it lmao. You hide your naiveté behind aimless anger at everyone except the people responsible. The system is "broken" but somehow the system is beyond critical examination because you don't want to get lumped in with the loud online people. Think really hard for a second here, do you think twitter communists hold more sway, or the Israel lobby, big pharma, military industrial companies? I encourage you to read more books and less tweets!
>The system is "broken" but somehow the system is beyond critical examination
No, I'm saying we SHOULD see what parts of the system are broken and repair them. As opposed to throwing it away completely and adopting a completely new system with even worse problems. A couple of the things I want:
>Make lobbying illegal
>Set a financial ceiling for campaigning. Something that can be completely funded by individual donations
>Break up monopolies. These include Microsoft/Comcast/Johnson and Johnson/etc.
>Make EULAs and other "shrink wrap licenses" illegal. Or at least force them to ask us BEFORE purchasing
>Once a company gains over 30% of its respective market, start taxing it based on revenue rather than profit
>Make the "Do not track" browser header legally enforceable
>Stop having the feds work with big tech to censor people, like the Twitter files revealed
>Completely shut down PRISM
Love it when communists out themselves like this. Your kind are complete jokes. The free market always wins while you will always lose while starving to death in your gulags.
agreed
partially true, but DEI and 'intersectionality' type shit is the main poison pill we were slipped. You can't band together against big business when you're too busy fighting the cULtUrE WaR against your fellow poors.
Who are you quoting? I‘m seriously asking
It's just jeets hiring jeets and importing the worst parts of Indian business practices.
The government meddling makes this possible not capitalism.
>capitalism has never been tried
real capitalism is when you only hire home-shores workers that cost significantly more than off-shore workers
what do you mean "U.S. Steel was successful as a national institute and not a private business"
The "problem" is when people buy products from companies that hire low-wage foreigners instead of their own people. But if society doesn't care about it, who are you to say they are wrong?
When you buy stuff from China, it's like you writing on a ballot: "I don't give a shit about American workers."
Don't blame capitalism, blame people that don't care about their own citizens. Capitalism only gives them the freedom to be pieces of shit.
blame ronald reagan and richard nixon because the enshittification of the nation can be directly attributed on literally all fronts to those two as a start point
your people fought tooth and nail on the beaches of France for this shit.
we fought tooth and nail on the beaches of north korea and vietnam for literally no reason
>for literally no reason
oh you naïve gentile...
Tell me Reagan and Nixon are forcing you in 2023 to buy shit from
-Amazon
-Walmart
-Microsoft
-China
And any other company/country that treats their employees like shit and don't care about the American social well being.
Yeah, you don't have an answer, do you punk? frick off.
the deregulation of s&l caused so much fricking damage to the us economy it's not even funny and that's reagan
nixon was even weirder, you'd swear he was a democrat based on his actions in congress and that's excluding watergate entirely
I'm waiting for the answer, commie
>cuh-cuh-commie!
>defending the literal movie star moron that sold america out from under your feet
holy fricking lmao, reagan's charisma is so strong it can be felt posthumously
it is not hard to correlate the mass deregulation of industries by reagan and nixon with the mass enshittification of US industry in the adjourning decades
nixon is also why you have for-profit health insurance
Who are you talking to?
>aaaaaah!! help me!! the ghosts of Ronald Reagon and Richard Nixon are forcing me at gunpoint to support BlackRock!! aaah heeeelp!!!
MFers itt really blaming ronald frickin reagan and covid lmao
>Don't blame capitalism
But that is capitalism, you are encouraged to seek the lowest costs and sell at the highest price. You are regularly required to make these decisions in the short term to survive.
Tell that to people who buy organic products, dumbass.
What you keep bringing up is factors that pull people away from acting like a capitalist. The system doesn't give you any reason to do this, it usually makes it harder. More people would buy local if foreign goods had higher tariffs put on them and local ones were subsidized more. Switch which is cheaper instead of just letting the market decide.
And yet people keep supporting all these woke companies, are you telling me that you are against the free market?
Are you a fricking commie?
>you know I love capitalism as much as the next guy
Stay cucked then
>we just cant find the competence domestically!
And us gamers are the ones losing because predatory gacha shit is not quality.
>Why aren't people buying our goods and services?!
Because you're firing them all and hiring people in and from different countries.
I wonder if these companies realize that this min-maxing profit margin stuff is just going to lead to a big crunch for them?
Not to mention the competency crisis....
Really may be time to start our own companies.
>no website name or date
probably an old article
>about google, MS, meta
>100% garunteed not about xbox devision MS
lmao
herro sir we are calling about you are tech apointments
wionews is in the screencap, it's dated to may of last year
it's also computing companies like google and microsoft, it is not video game companies. it's irrelevant to the whole thread
>probably an old article
How did toronto become so infested with indians
Go on/misc/ sometime. They'll have a breakdown.
>May 18, 2023
Do you really think they are hiring HB-1 worker 5 minutes after firing all those people?
The article only shows what's going to happen because it this is a normal practice at these tech companies, which is what MS is.
COPE AND SEETHE
Ybarra was an overpaid figurehead for years. He never actually did anything, just a legacy employee who they gave an executive role so he can show up to meetings every once in a while and then stream on Twitch. Microsoft probably realized this and forced him out
>the tribe members are jumping ship
hmmmm
frick blizzard, frick israelites
I don't know, a Blizzard survival game probably would have had a strong audience of cultists.
a blizzard survival game would have had you playing the role of a literal troon trying not to have a nice day.
These c**ts were fired, and good look at what they did to blizzard. Departing is corpo speak that allows the big wigs to save face. Nobody at the senior leader level or above in these corporations is ever fired so they can still get a new job.
>Riot fired 530 employees
>The known 20 employees that got sacked were the homosexuals who made the game ridiculously pozzed and worse
I hope every company is kicking out all their useless staff because of ESG Score and DEI failing.
2024 is shaping up to be a pretty good year
Yeah anon I'm sure that's it and not replacing low level employees with cheap foreigners
What's sad is that I'd rather that than diversity hires.
luckily the low performance employees and woke employees are the same employees
Yeah ok lay off pol for a while hubert von heiler
MS isn't Chinese anon.
>muh pozz muh esg
Why do you care, you /misc/Black folk dont play games.
They're getting castrated. All of them.
How much did MS pay for the palworld gamepass deal?
1 whole dollar
Why are people shocked? when Microsoft acquired Blizzard I'm pretty sure there was a lot of overlap in positions.
Hopefully all of the homosexuals at Blizzard got fired
Of course there was going to be some overlaps but not 1900 people.
not 1900 people were from blizzard, they were also from zenimax and xbox... it's probably blizzard > xbox > zenimax from largest to least
It's 1900 across all over Microsfots gaming division, you moron. Literally 10s of thousands of employees. FAR less per capita firing than Riot
Metzen is kept there forever now
as a do nothing consultant to trick people into thinking the writing will be any different
You could have just done what Capcom did Blizzard
just continue making full pc/console games
even if some of them suck you could have just learned from your mistakes and do better next time
but nah, it's all just short term profit squeezing with live service shit untill the company just dies
>tfw I've been waiting 22 years for a sequel to warcraft 3
imagine being a kid in the early 2000s and thinking about how bright the future looks
sequel to warcraft 3 was WoW moron
>sequel to a game in a series is a game in a completely different genre and series that's just uses the same IP
no it wasn't
it finished all the plot points warcraft 3 had
it "finished" them because it draggen on for 20 fricking years until they depleted absolutely everything possible about warcraft lore, the game itself was still just a spinoff, not a sequel
They would have done the same thing if it was an RTS, not that I didn't want Warcraft IV
Black person, you don't even know what you're talking about. The entity known as Blizzard hasn't existed since 2008, all the devs that made the games what they were have either left or moved on to form their own companies quite literally. The only people working at Blizzard are Z list devs, the type of people that work at modern Bioware, these people are so devoid of talent they get paid in honor points instead of money. Unironically ActiBlizz is the last resort for low effort pieces of shit and twitter activists that want to languish in their own mediocrity.
seeing how wow turned out from the start merging races , you wouldn't want warcraft 4
i wonder if that chick who posted her "day at blizzard" being eating a sandwich, attending meetings, and posting to social media kept her job
yes she did. Especially if she was HR
she was part of god's chosen small hat tribe, so of course she kept her useless makework job.
>literally doesnt do anything
>wins
how?
They re stale too if the mmo gays gets tired with shittrail
Yoship-Sama I kneel!
Allen Adam is literally the founder. Interesting how the post forgot to mention that
blizzard couldn't get worse anyway...or can it?
So far everything that MS has made Blizzard do has been based
>Big patch for SC2
>Big patch for HotS
>Rumors that SC3 is being greenlit
>Season of Discovery for classic
>1900 layoffs
How are they supposed to maintain Classic + Retail and shift to a 20 month expansion cycle without staff?
Nobody from WoW was fired
2 raids per expansion.
1 major patch.
gonna laugh my fricking ass off is metzen is out as well again soon
lmao microsoft originally said they werent going to change anything. now they'll probably just going to be shitting out CoD games every 4 months and nothing else
its keeps being yearly cod shit, but with stuff transferring over.
you /misc/gays are really too retared to realize who is ruining these games
Do not redeem WoW token sir
yeah it's le pajeets who are forcing blizzard to make nothing but excessively monetized live service shit and pull funding from other projects
please don't blame the executives of the company (I mean in case they are white, if it turns out one of them were israeli or some other shit then it was absoultely their fault)
gotta eat up all that /misc/praganda slop
>Monkey's paw
except the product being dumped on my is trash either way. so its not really like im facing the issues here. its the artists/pink haired devs that are facing it.
they could absolutely make spin offs on starcraft and diablo that are successful. could do a cheapie RTS of diablo factions with demon/angel units etc. could do it in a similar style to northgard or something. they have a ton of lore/stories that people like that they blow up and waste constantly.
So how many rapes did he commit?
not enough
Its not like you cant just play or make a private server unlike another dead mmos
Private servers are filled with the moronic troonys that were making retail, plus BRs, plus chinks. Just the absolute worst trash of humanity.
Big Vidya is just copying Big Tech, they hype up their shit, make big bucks with shareholders and investors, "grow" (i.e hire more people than they need and make up fake positions), then they do massive layoffs and actually get to work on making their shitty products
What are the chances that Ybarra was only there to make sure the deal went through? He was part of Microsoft before this after all
blizzard's been phoning it in ever since the buyout got announced so it's no surprise they did nothing but hold it together until it went through.
just look at the glacial pace their games have been getting updates.
>year is 2027
>new wow expansion is out
>attempt to log in
>computer starts making loud unsettling WHIRR noises
>get sucked into a yellow guy with a blue cap's butthole
>wowgays were saying mircodick was going save them a year ago
you are expecting an actual brain activity from something that still, in a year 2024, plays world of warcraft?
WoW is already doing better than ever.
Really? Or is this bait? I hear this every expansion at some point especially toward the start but usually not the end.
I only enjoyed WoW in vanilla thru WOTLK and MOP. If I played today, would it give me that same quality? I hated BFA and shadowlands and quit after that for "good".
Yeah. Dragonflight has more players now than at launch and Season of Discovery had something crazy like 4 million characters created in the first week.
it's bait or a genuine blizzdrone
it's the same garbage it has ever been but now with a season pass
yes, they introduced a season pass in a game with a box price and a monthly sub
implying firing everyone wouldn’t improve wow
No they were not. The only people happy about the acquisition were people playing the stock market, because one of the terms of the buyout was that Microsoft will pay a higher price for Blizzard shares.
but it is? any firings at blizzard is a good thing and if they are replaced by based indians then even better.
>make this dude a transfurniture homo
>ser
>it’s ma’am
>maam, i’m sorry but i will not betray my religion
Ybarra was a dumbass homosexual that sold Mythic runs and endorsed buying WoW tokens. He knows nothing about how to make a good game. Not that it manow though. WoW will probably be in maintenance mode now with low paid unskilled workers
I cannot believe that Microsoft would do something like this. All of those poor people losing their jobs. I don't think Sony or Nintendo would do something like this.
At the end of the day, we need to remember that we are all in this together. No console warring y'all. Just having compassion for those who lost their jobs.
Phil does it again!!!
Fricking piece of shit withers everything he touches
Feels like we're going through/about to go through another games industry crash tbh
Unfortunately not, we would need a huge economic crash for that to happen. It's just standard restructing after a corporate take over that's about it really, ESG/DEI and all that shit will remain it'll just be rebranded for anyone that cares to know.
>muh eee ess geee
>Nooo noo stop talking about it
Black person, Larry Fink fricked up so badly he's had to hide what he says. People caught on this rubbish and it stinks.
Yes it would actually be nice if you mentally deranged /misc/acks stopped spewing your garbage on Ganker
The problem with you ESG morons is twofold.
First you assume that you're shedding some brillint insight that the lowly stupid peons just don't know about. We all know about ESG. We don't care because it's no where near as influential as you morons think.
The second, is that you're putting 100% of the blame on shitty games because of ESG mandates instead of just general incompetence from low quality hires in a field that exploded in job positions over the last decade.
The minute one of you morons starts spewing about ESG the rest of us take it as a sign to just ignore whatever you're saying because you're an unhinged and brainwashed /misc/tard.
>oy vey stop noticing you anti-semites
Exactly my point.
You're inferring that we don't see the ESG stuff as well. We do.
We just don't let it dictate our entire lives and personalities like you morons do.
>j-just ignore it, the problem will go away eventually
the real problem with esg is that it changed work culture in the worst way possible and now nothing can get done without bad-faith morons talking about feelings.
but of course don't forget the obvious brain drain and incompetence it also brought to the workforce
The real problem with ESG is morons like you use it as a catchall scape goat for anything and everything that can go wrong in a studio.
>proven objectively wrong
lol no. I didn't bother reading it, but I know for a fact your unhinged rant didn't prove anything other than you're brainwashed and obssed with the idea of ESG.
I accept your concession. Proceed to seethe over the fact your skull measuring program was outted and that your anti-intellectual dogma is reviled.
>your skull measuring program
>>you entire spend all your time crying about ESG, or you're explicitly part of the system and support it
Another typical moronic argument from yet another ESG moron.
Fun fact. Blizzard having a skull measurement program for their character models, or the fact that there are some characters that are black or gay or not-white is not the problem with blizzard. The problem with blizzard is their games are dogshit. Even if the entire cast of OW2 was whatever your perfect idealized version of characters are, a bunch of blonde haired white dudes and ladies probably, OW2 would still be a massive pile of shit. Having the ESG nonsense proliferate the character designs certainly doesn't help things, but the problem with Blizzard games are so far fundamentally removed from ESG that when morons like you blame only ESG for the problems you completely ignore the ACTUAL problems that caused the shitty game in the first place - ie incompetent straight from college hires replacing skilled programmers in an effort to lower the overhead cost of production. Something ESG has very little to do with.
>b-but blizzard games are so far removed from esg!!!
>game gets worse over the past 5 years
>cast of characters gets both uglier and gayer over the past 5 years
>fans get absolutely pissed over it
thank you for outing yourself as a know-nothing homosexual
>>game gets worse over the past 5 years
Blizzard games have been getting worse and worse since around 2008. You probably don't realize this since you werent born yet in 2008 though.
And like I said. It really doesn't matter if the character designs are amazing or are dogshit, if the core fundamental gameplay that houses those character designs is also dogshit. Which it has been. For closer to 20 years than 10.
>i-i-its always been bad, dont question the sudden shift or the massive sweeping changes outside of normalcy!
nah frick you
have a nice day you dumb mouthbreather Blizzard's been bad since the Activision merger. Social credit score memes lazily applied to video games are irrelevant at best here. Your "sudden shift" happened 16 years ago.
>booty blasted
>anal annihilated
>rectum rekt
so its been bad for 16 years
for 16 years youve been seething and screaming at something beyond saving in your opinion
for 16 years youve been a massive butthurt homosexual about a videogame company
ah yes i remember now
i remember facing off against the lich king in WoTLK, and being told trans rights are human rights, and the quest to re-unite the two gay lovers in their new ghoul forms, truely its always been this way.
you
fricking
moron
holy fricking shit bro you murdered xem
Knowing when a company went to shit and pointing out that fact doesn't mean you'e been seething and screaming about them for 16 years anon.
Whats the point in actually engaging with you morons when all you do is take our words and twist them into some bullshit argument that isn't even remotely close to what was being said or inferred?
the problem with your words is that basic common sense and recorded history proves them entirely wrong, and you're mad about it
>bad quality can only come in the form of huggy-feely tumblr bullshit
>b-but they have always been bad!!
>mw2 is good and also a 2009 game
cope homosexual, the recent decline is too easy to see and it takes no effort whatsoever to prove
>ie incompetent straight from college hires replacing skilled programmers in an effort to lower the overhead cost of production. Something ESG has very little to do with.
Dude are your serous?
In this environment personnel is chosen and promoted according to diversity points and loyalty to woke ESG cultism. That has nothing to do with gaming creation performance and you end with entire company filed with useless psychotic troons and blue haired lesbians.
>In this environment personnel is chosen and promoted according to diversity points and loyalty to woke ESG cultism
No, it really doesn't, and you need to stop getting all of your information from random shitposts on Ganker.
Or keep getting all your information from shitposts on Ganker and keep acting like you're well knowledge and smart. I don't really care one way or the other, you'll still be a moron to me.
And you’ll be a bad faith moron to everyone else
You guys actually think you’re subtle as well
Lmao, hilarious
Why would I or anyone ever engage in a good faith arguement with you morons that do nothing but disingeunously argue bad points on purpose and move goalpsots when your position is starting to slip?
You can't act like a moron and then expect to be treated like anything other than a moron.
You would never engage in good faith to begin with
You’re a communist homosexual
You are absolutely worthless to everyone
More than half of my posts in this thread are in good faith. See
and
for the most recent posts as examples.
>common sense and recorded history proves that you have been seething about Blizzard being awful for 16 years
Hows that, exactly?
>anon fails to realize that he (xhe?) is dealing with more than one person
if you can't see the recent trend of shit that esg/dei mandates caused at actblizz and other companies, then you're either underageb& or genuinely part of the problem
You are hyperfixated on "ESG/DEI mandates" and other people are saying the enshittening of Blizzard came with Activision nearly ten years prior
"You are seething for 16 years" is not a good point or even a point in the first place when your own argument is predicated around that you have been seething for 5 years instead about a completely different set of criteria
The recent trend is totally and completely irrelevant to the company having been bad for ten years prior
>no argument
>again
>still fixated on a year after xis favorite activision game came out
there are even games they made that existed since then that only became shockingly gay within the past 5 years
It is extremely easy on Ganker to cuck out and say "no argument" so you don't actually have to respond to anything in the post you clicked on
the real problem is, there was no argument in their (xheir?) reply
>f-frogposter!
>still too moronic to understand multiple anons are making fun of xim
lolmao
why do all frogposters have glaucoma
seething israelite
spineless frogposter
you want people to forget about your ESG investing, you might want to use another website than this anonymous anime image board...
>if you can't see the recent trend of shit that esg/dei mandates caused
See there you go again.
I can see it. I understand it. I just don't care, and I don't let it rule my life, and I'm smart enough and old enough to know that the problems at blizzard long predate the ESG shit catching on. I'm also old enough and smart enough to know that the problems with the gaming industry go much deeper than ESG mandate nonsense, and is fundamentally a problem with the talent being hired.
If you want to get serious about it, prospective employees do not care about making their own worlds and creative ideas anymore. They grew up playing video games, falling in love with the IPs, and now they want to put their own spin on the IPs they grew up with as opposed to making something original. Obviously that's a bit of a generalization, but that is, as far as I'm concerned, the single most damaging problem with the gaming industry as of 2024. The talent simply isn't there anymore, and will likely never be replaced or seen again.
The talent is there, it’s just not being hired by massive studios because nobody wants to work with a bunch of homosexuals and the studios don’t hire based on talent anymore, they hire based on the pozzed list of criteria that these companies now work with
bro these massive debatably profitable studios don't have talent because uhhhh gays and israelites and no meritocracy like the good ol days
Literally yes
literally braindead
Brain dead is hiring the homosexuals modern studios are hiring and expecting good results
Those moronic comments are meant to be proof of something when you’ve diarrhead all over the thread? This is what I mean
You’re just throwing out whatever bullshit you can as a diversion
Another bad faith tactic
We have all the proof we need esg and other Marxist rot is all over western dev studios
It’s everywhere you look
Your bad faith tactics don’t work anymore
We can see you in broad daylight and we’re going to keep coming after you until your rot is gone
>We have all the proof we need esg and other Marxist rot is all over western dev studios
>It’s everywhere you look
I'm not denying that it's there.
I'm saying that I don't give a shit, and that it doesn't matter anywhere near as much as you guys seem to think, and the fact that you people use it as a catchall to excuse everything wrong with gaming is going to be far more detrimental to the gaming industry than people like me that simply do not care and are tired of hearing about EGS and THE JOOS every fricking thread.
You are handwaving away real legitimate problems in the industry and blaming ESG when ESG has nothing to do with them.
All you had to do was say "I meant Aerith + Apex, but I couldn't think of what it was called" instead you invent this secondary persona that is totally not you that also just so happens to correct the other poster and know exactly what he was talking about. Goddamn dude, it's okay to be geniune on this board and admit when you made a mistake.
It does matter, because it’s a mentality that has permeated through the companies culture and affects it on every level
The type of people they’re hiring, their personality types, the things they value all matter and all affect the culture of the company and the quality of games
>The type of people they’re hiring, their personality types, the things they value all matter and all affect the culture of the company and the quality of games
You do not work in the games industry and do not know anyone in the games industry and are just taking whatever bullshit shitpost you see that backs up your argument as fact.
I promise you the ESG stuff isn't anywhere near as prolific as you seem to think it is.
that esg/dei isn't making the industry worse
I never said nor even remotely inferred that. ESG is absolutely a problem and is making the industry worse, but there are far bigger problems involving the lack of talent going into the industry and the peak of talent leaving the industry that have nothing to do with ESG whatsoever.
>talent leaving the industry that have nothing to do with ESG whatsoever.
this is pure unbridled ignorance
sounds blissful as frick
It absolutely is because you can see it everywhere with the type of people they choose to hire and it comes through constantly in the games themselves
It’s not 1-2 people anymore, so you can stop lying and acting like it hasn’t impacted the culture of the company
>please bro I promise you have to trust me
Nope, we’re not buying it anymore
We’re done with this trash
ESG hires are 90% HR/PR but go off I guess.
>b-but moneymen have always been the real problem!
>implying that esg/dei isn't making the industry worse
kek homosexual
Cope, troon.
We can see themselves "proud" twitters posts and public profiles of these Blizzard troons, we dont need you tell us how it its.
>no argument, just a seething reply
i know you want to call it something comfortable like "equal-opportunity employment" but that would be another esg/dei bullshit lie
>Long word salad that doesn't disprove anything but seeks to undermine the person making the point because he can't actually make a rational argument
Black person, Blizzard has an officer of diversity that mandates what's appropiate in their games and a LITERAL SKULL MEASAURING program to make sure the characters are diverse enough. ESG equates to DEI on a massive scale which means instead of a game being developed on meritocratic grounds it's mandated to act in accordance with the values that eschew creative freedom and embrace racial marxism. The only moron running damage control for ESG are bad faith actors.
>Blizzard has an officer of diversity that mandates what's appropiate in their games
anon learns what a PR department is
>a LITERAL SKULL MEASAURING program
that also comes out with winston the gorilla automatically winning any diversity contests because he is not even human, yes, that's something designed to make /misc/ types shit their breeches at mathemetizing the idea of diversity. very blatant smokescreen. free publicity
No, your literal skull measuring program was even lambasted by the hyper partisan leftoids on twitter because you got homosexuals got outted. You said the quiet part out loud.
>the rest of us
You’re not in good company
Communists are moronic homosexuals and almost everybody, especially here, hates you
You’re a disease and a cancer, so frick off and die already rather than act like people want you around
>we
>we
>we
STFU homosexual
Open duckduckgo, type aerith + .... Frick, the woke ESG shooter, it's a top 5 shooter so type that shit and stay silent
Fricking westoids protecting gays
What exactly am I supposed to be ragingly mad about on here?
>fail instructions
>act smug
if i was you id be mad my mom dropped my on my fricking head, for a start
Not him but I want to know what I'm supposed to see
>fail instructions
>why this not work?
>it said to hit pipe, turn wrench, flip switch
>i hit the wrench and nothing happens?!?!?!
PEBKAC.
Your instructions were unclear unless you wanted me to put in "aerith + .... Frick, the woke ESG shooter, it's a top 5 shooter so type that shit and stay silent" into the search bar, you absolute clown.
im not the person who told you to do it
im just someone who understood what they were saying, and decided to mock a smug moron for their failure.
its apex legends btw.
thats the game the other anon couldnt remember.
you moron.
you moron.
you absolute mongoloidian inbred.
>that totally wasn't me bro we just type exactly the same!!
I'm supposed to just know that your moronic ass was trying to tell me to DDG "Aerith + Apex" when what you posted was
>aerith + .... Frick, the woke ESG shooter, it's a top 5 shooter so type that shit and stay silent
?
Frick outta here you absolute Bozo.
>that was you, that was you, i know it was ive been here since 2021! i know how Ganker works!
lmao you dumb frick.
>?
oh god that french canadian stink, away away, begone foul beast
>Make fun of someone for searching wrong
>Didn't have the brain to just search the name of the shooter you wanted to reference
come on man
ok, and what is your point here exactly?
>this slow and dumb
normally the internet doesnt give out participation trophies but for you ill make an exception
"You moron lmao."
enjoy.
So you give moronic instructions (as I followed your instructions literally to the last letter).
And now you are absolutely seething about me following your moronic instructions?
Damn, that's funny
OY FRICKING VEY STOP NOTICING THINGS GOYIM!!!
>the rest of us
there is no us here homosexual only you
you will NEVER be a woman
>We don't care
>We
I'm pretty sure israelites like you are just a loud minority
>it's the israelites that are saying shut the frick up that are the loud minority
>not the loud minority of morons that keep screeching MUH ESG MUH JOOS constantly and without end
Tell yourself whatever you need to if it helps you sleep at night.
Haha fricking seethe
restructuring*
That's modern tech for you it's like 20 actual people doing the work while 1500 morons in adult daycare make everything in to a political message.
Phil-sama is saving gaming, I kneel...
They're not saving gaming they're just replacing them with low cost pajeets that created the likes of Starfield.
>laying off the staff at Zenimax, the company that made Starfield
>to hire people who did things like make Starfield
Very well-constructed post, anon. Top tier logic. Surely you are literate.
>we would need a huge economic crash for that to happen.
well...
>It's just standard restructing after a corporate take over that's about it really
Dude like a dozen other tech companies, even Riot included, also laid off hundreds of employees in the past month alone. You're delusional.
>we would need a huge economic crash for that to happen
about that... 2026 be there or be square
I won't be there. I will be drowning in nuclear fire.
Blizzard is such an unproductive shit show. Thousands of employees doing god knows what all day, every day.
Based mike, they probably told him he needed to add more homosexual centaurs to wow
Holy shit based MS they're actually saving blizzard
aaaahaha. they only wanted the IPs...
get woke go fu*k yourself ex-employees
>buy a studio
>lay off all the employees
>????????????
Sony and Microsoft have both done this recently, I'm utterly baffled by this. Not that anything of value is lost laying off Bungie and Blizzard employees, but I'm left wondering why even bother.
you need to get rid of useless shit
I get downsizing and cutting costs, but looking at the example of Sony and Bungie, now all of their shit is facing massive delays and their reputation is in tatters because they basically don't actually have staff left to make the fricking games because Sony went way overboard slashing payroll. I have no confidence the same situation isn't about to unfold at ActiBlizz.
They are firing most of the activision blizzard people who arent making games in the first place. So no problems there.
The thing is that the qualitative attributes that you point out don't really matter all that much to the shareholder. Because the shareholder is somebody following the advice of a broker who knows just about the same amount of nothing and is buying pieces of Microsoft in a diversified low-risk product.
I don't know why I bothered to type that out. The point is, Microsoft is so fricking big that nobody juggling their stock really gives a frick how Blizzard is contributing to the whole operation's performance. Like, okay, if the games fricking suck or something then they might notice but let's just remember that Blizzard has been shit for longer than it has been good and their users have never actually had the restraint to let the company shit itself because they just eat it up before it begins to stink.
And so Microsoft does what basically any other company after an acquisition does and just slashes workforce to fatten a return/cost ratio that every broker automatically calculates. And even if the ratios look bad (i.e not super positive), in the long-term it's always growing, it never stops growing. Because the fact is that Microsoft can't not make money because they aren't actually incompetent. Faith in Microsoft exists for a good reason: Gates steered the ship towards reliability and security after the anti-trust thing, Balmer spent hundreds of millions rescuing XBox RROD TWICE, and Nadella has basically said that Microsoft is here to frick now after the company gave up the search, mobile, content delivery, and social media space.
Whatever shit the consumer of Blizzard products may feel, the management won't give a frick because the shareholder doesn't give a frick. Only the gamers care and they aren't ownership, they happily pay the ownership.
Any development studio that needs an entire campus for all their shit is too fricking big.
Simple as.
Bungie and Blizzard both must be cut down, drastically.
>I'm utterly baffled by this.
admitting to be a drooling moron doesn't really make for a good post
Acquiring name recognition. Which will be a dying business model within 5 years trust me, with the flow of information right now, people will recognize that, they already did 10 years ago in their childhood with nu-Star Wars, they must know by now that it's just a name being taken over, the soul/quality isn't there. As of today, this conversation between 100IQ normalgays probably happened 6 million times. This is why I'm saying that within 5 years this knowledge will be ubiquitous just like the "Chad" meme meaning.
>Acquiring name recognition. Which will be a dying business model within 5 years trust me, with the flow of information right now,
by the time when all pc publishers except MS and valve dies, MS will successfully become a PC publisher and windows become gaming console OS, can keep OS market share being stable and collect enormous data from users to AI research.
To acquire IPs and technology infrastructure, and to remove redundant positons now that they're being merged into a large conglomorate.
Video games don't cost as much as they've been spending to make, these companies are mostly dead weight.
>buy company
>it has HR and marketing and payroll and accounting divisions
>i have the above divisions already so i don't need these
It's literally what the word redundancy means.
>>buy a studio
They bought CoD.
Blizzard was just dead weight attached to it.
Now its time to cut off that dead weight.
Don't get it twisted anon, they bought Candy Crush and the entire King catalog, which accounts for more than 40% of ABKs revenue, getting them firm footing in the mobile gaming industry - something they woefully lacked prior to the merger.
Activision and Blizzard are deadweight and only useful for the handful of IPs they own. CoD is on a downward slope and has been for a few releases.
They also want COD mobile and whatever mobile games Blizzard pumps out too since a ton of people play them. Also they want the activision devs to start making their own games since MS wants more games out of their developers.
>CoD is on a downward slope.... ACK!
CoD is literally single title that keeps PlayStation afloat
That's Playstation's fricking fault that they don't have any exclusives, they shuttered all of their in-house studios to focus on Naughty Dog and Insomniac!
Dude. Think about.
If PlayStation is literally CoDstation today , what happens on Xbox that was dudebro CoDstation console since 360?
Sony and Nintendo always win because of their currency.
Elon did too
but god for fricking bid they tell the FCC "we wont do anything bad we pwomis ;w; plz let us buy" then pulls this shit, how is it not illegal to lie like that
They're buying the IP. The employees are dead weight, if they weren't they wouldn't have to sell out to competitors.
>literally who
Xbox kills everything they touch. Activision and Blizzard are the best developer in the industry and now they're gonna be making slop thanks to microsoft since they're getting gutted.
Come on now
You can't expect the woke trash in the company to make the likes of Starcraft 3. Based Phil taking care of things early.
You really think this sounds good after Slopfield? Please.
Microsoft only kills studios
>why didnt they fire Bonnie ross and kill 343 studios and cancel redfall?
>Why did they cancel this shovelware game and fire all these useless employees
You cant win either way, people will hate you for anything.
And this is why nobody with 2 brain cells should be worried about MS buying blizzard. They're already destroying the company and it hasn't even been a whole year
>Western video game industry falling to pieces
you love to see it
microsoft seething over palworld, they know no one will play that survival game
>MS: Are you a CoD?
>Bliz: ....no?
>MS: Then, DIE.
pfffffttttttttt
does this mean blizzard will be less or more pozzed now?
it would be foolish to think that microsoft have suddenly removed all the worthless positions that have accumulated over the years. They still employ useless sensitivity officers and what not, these massive layoffs target every department not just specific ones.
what does blizzard even do besides push out seasonal content for bad games nobody plays? id lay off half the company too
sniff cocaine
Nice.
Phil buys ActiBlizz and fires all the gays and troons.
Xbox keeps winning!
I wish I had billions so I could buy things I hate and then destroy it. What would you buy? I think I'd buy Game Freak or Deep Silver.
i would buy crapcum
change nu-resident evil to something different and resident evil as it started
apply for dmc/sf/mvc/ds
You'd be hard pressed to get Game Freak seeing as they're part of TPC which is above Disney at the peak of its profitability.
Nah, TPC is 1/3 part of GF, not the other way around.
TPC is the actual merchandising and media company that handles Pokemon as an IP and also publishes the games in Japan (Nintendo publishes the games internationally, bit of a moot point since they're also 1/3rd of TPC), Game Freak is the game developer. GF (and Creatures) is a part of TPC, not the other way around.
I've always wondered how much of the torrid release schedule for Pokemon games (the main reason they suck fricking dick in recent times) is the fault of Game Freak and how much of is the fault of TPCi demanding material to push merch.
I think I'm just mixing your wording up. But it's definitely not the same as Marvel or Star Ward is to Disney. GF, Nintendo, and Creatures are higher than TPC. All three own it equally. So GF will always be the developer of the mainline titles, Nintendo will always publish it, and Creatures will always do the merch and cards or choose the one who prints the cards.
Though I think I realize I'm a dumbass and I misread you. TPC exists as a separate entity and property of all three of these companies, the three companies do own TPC and not the other way around. Japanese companies are cool because they don't tend to do dumbass mergers like western ones just to own a part of eachother and then be forced to work with eachother on everything (unless they're so big they can ignore eachother and they mutually agree noninterference), they just make a third company they all joint own.
There's a bit of both going on, apparently on Game Freak's end they've got a lot of head-in-the-clouds boomers that are resistant to new blood and TPC definitely wants things to keep going since they're the most popular media franchise in the world and have been since the 90s.
We are both dumb and tongue-tied. I kneel.
Paradox Interactive
another big western PC publisher
frick blizzard and everyone that keeps supporting blizzard slop
blizzard hasn't made anything good in a very, very long time
Welp. Time to hire more trannies.
sony is going to close 1 or 2 studios too most likely
embracer is also going to close many more
this year is going to be slaughterfest for western game development
Oh yeah we're probably going to see AAA development die very very soon. Sony's internal letters from Insomniac show even they're aware it's unsustainable and there's no visible difference between a $100m game and a $300m game. But they're addicted to spending such huge amounts of money. Microsoft's inability to get any kind of foothold even with Game Pass will kill its gaming prospects and Sony's inability to stop spending hundreds of millions of dollars trying to be Hollywood will kill its own gaming prospects. I will be very surprised if there's a PS6 and new Xbox forthcoming.
>meanwhile Nintendo is thriving and flourishing, massively expanding its operations and venturing into new markets like theme parks and films
Almost like Iwata and Yamauchi were right twenty years ago and it's all finally coming to a head
In fairness Nintendo floundered hard in the home console space after the SNES (even as they landed extremely solid entries that pioneered other 3D games like Star Fox 64, Ocarina of Time and Super Mario 64) and the Wii was an unprecedented and enormous windfall that they desperately needed at the time, which they promptly squandered on the Wii U. Switch is them finally realizing that their future lies in powerful handhelds if they want to keep going in the console space, and holy shit are they going, that thing is set to beat the PS2's lifetime sales.
Did you know they've got a patent for hall effect sticks on joycons that they got last year? It's set to use ferrofluid as the magnetic sensing mechanism and it allows for haptic feedback through the stick itself by increasing or decreasing pressure within the ferrofluid as current passes through it. If that goes anywhere we're also gonna see Nintendo be the first first-party company to adopt hall effect sticks for the first time since the Sega Dreamcast.
What in the frick is that second part of your post about, hall effect sticks?
https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadPdf/20230280848
If you haven't heard of hall-effect sticks before they're drift resistant because they use magnets instead of potentiometers to tell where the stick is in physical space, no moving parts to deteriorate. (The underlying electronics can still deteriorate and cause drift, hence they're resistant, not immune.)
So basically joycons with a magnetic base instead of whatever is currently being used that causes the drift to begin with.
Neat.
Basically. Joycon sticks aren't really any more or less fragile than existing potentiometer setups in Dualsense and SeX or SeS controllers, but the smaller stick makes player input a bit rougher so they do drift a bit faster on average. Nintendo is probably the only company taking that fricking seriously since neither of the other big companies' "elite" controllers have drift-resistant sticks or any option for them. The Chinese meanwhile are ALL OVER hall effect sticks and they populate loads of handheld emulation devices and aftermarket controllers these days, Gulikit is famous for developing a drop-in replacement stick for joycons (and the Steam Deck) that uses hall-effect.
It's not as simple as put HE inside and call it a day. Many HE modules are inferior in accuracy to Alps sticks and have problems with centering. More known brand like Gamesir, 8bitdo and Gulikit have very good HE sticks but the cheapo chink controllers with HE sticks are usually trash.
It was a necessary move for Nintendo because the Wii U and gamecube proved that a Nintendo console can crash and burn and sell only 20 million units lifetime without any proper warning at all despite putting out the same high quality games. Hell, there's no reassurance that the switch 2 can outsell the switch right now, people can just straight up lose interest and not buy a nintendo console for some reason.
layoff will happen cross industries because soft landing is achieved, covid is gone and joe is seeking re-election.
Embracer is a failed investor scam. Theyll go bankrupt in one year top
>Microsoft shits the bed
>b-but Sonee
Cry harder your tears are tasty. Can't wait for Hi-Fi right to come to PS5.
i don't shill for anything
The entire western game dev scene is in collapse mode
sony is barely breaking even on game dev
microsoft has spent 80b and gamepass is no longer growing
embracer bought up the entire AA scene and is killing studio after studio
ubisoft is barely holding on financially and has been looking for a buyer for two years now
that all together is something like 15000 jobs lost in one year
>that all together is something like 15000 jobs lost in one year
And yet it's a minute fraction to the overall jobs lost in the tech sector in one year.
All of these companies drastically overhired during Covid when they were getting kickbacks and zero interest loans for doing so.
Now the kickbacks have stopped, the zero interest loans are raising their interest, and the studios are left with tons of redundant positions and employees.
>sony is barely breaking even on game dev
I use their 1st party as ad. Why you want to make money from Ads
>microsoft has spent 80b and gamepass is no longer growing
microsoft only want to use gaming to stabilize their OS market share. As long as cost is acceptable, they will cool..
is lucky stat worth it?
Microsoft always loses
Does that mean we'll get Hi-Fi Rush on PS5 ?
>that esl
i cant tell if its a joke or not
HAHAHAHAAH ALL THE homosexual ASS DIVERSITY HIRES GETTING CANNED
BASED DADDY NADELLA CLEANING HOUSE
PAJEETS I KNEEL
He'll just hire more pajeets instead
so is it going to be canada all over again where the indian population influx causes them to remove H1 visas
Is it true they only fired newbies zoomers and trannies ?
thank god. hopefully they shut down blizzard. I will never forgive those fricking homosexuals for what they did to WC3. They deserve to fricking burn
The survival game was going to be ass. Boring zoomer setting with nothing interesting going on
Holy shit how did I miss this. The people whose in charge of creating that upcoming TMNT The Last Ronin just laid off half of their staff. They're apart of the Embracer Group.
expect every embracer project to be cancelled and the developers to be shuttered
kingdom come deliverance 2 and deus ex are next
Is there a base location that has a dungeon and quartz in the sacred mountain area?
Phil Spencer is so wholesome
video games are dying and you're celebrating
*AAA* video games are dying and I'm celebrating
>games are dying
>and youre laughing
Yes.
Entertainment in general is heading for a huge bubble burst Crash in a year or two.
What we are now is the year prior to the 83 crash where shareholders started to sell their shares and hide for the inevitable crash.
Oh frick, all makes sense now
Disney's shares are in free fall right now, WB and Paramount too.
They've been dead to me for quite a while now. I'm just laughing. And Phil firing the pozzed trash from the company is great news, btw, based af.
phil probably fired them because he doesn't have the money to deliver payroll for them
>but daddy microsoft
is about 0.5 seconds away from severing xbox as a brand lol
>0.5 seconds away
2 more weeks
Video games have effectively ruined an entire generation of young men, so uea I'm glad they are dying
"big ESG-loving studios" are dying
real video game creators are now starting to thrive once more
it's actually worse, they're becoming owned by a select few company
I've got hundreds of old games to play. New ones mostly suck and the industry deserves a crash.
No good video games have been made since 2006 so that's ok
>People ITT saying that MS killed Blizzard
Lol wtf
They were dead for the longest time now, MS is just cleaning the corpses.
>Phil convinced his superiors to buy this rotting corpse for 70 billion
He's going to get fired isn't he?
King probably makes more money that the entire rest of the Xbox division.
He might be king over there, no pun intended.
AI IS GO- the future is shit
>fire american
>outsource
kill all boomers
fire all ESG defenders
>wow players cry for years that 90% of blizzard staff should be fired for ruining xyz blizzard franchise
>Microsoft grants their wish and fires a bunch of people
>NOOOO HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN
lol this is just like what happened with riot, same thing, league streamers go on and on about how of they were in charge they'd fire half the riot dev team, the execs listen to this feedback and then these content creators act shocked
like, what exactly did you expect? you wished for this
It's funny because it's happening RIGHT NOW with Diablo 4 and the absolute state they released the new season.
It's completely fine. Most of blizzard is worthless as game developers
>"Miss me yet?"
no
you will never be a meme
When is Microsoft buying Palworld?
They don't need to, it's already on Game Pass
Do you think MS will make a perfect dark on a proprietary blizzard activision engine now?
Why? They could put it on idTech. That'd be much better.
The industry really is crashing, isn't it?
Yes
https://twitter.com/ZhugeEX/status/1750530203468849230
>That’s 5,900 video game industry layoffs in 2024 so far, nearly 60% of 2023s total, and we’re not even at the end of January.
I think i can now see why some many game developers were fricking mad with palworld being a low effort game and selling just like pokemon. Funny.
The western AAA industry is, Japan is thriving. We'll see a massive sift in the agenda in the coming years.
Japan thanks to the new government bent to Blackrock and ESG thanks to fricking Becky's and Stebe's
They want to be westernized
Sure anon.
You should watch mahou shoujo ni akogarete, super EGS show from Japan.
Japan is seeing tons of gachas EoS, anon. Investors injecting money into the gaming industry during COVID wasn't only in the West, it happened in the east too but now they're investing in other things instead so that money is gone and games are shutting down and devs are being fired.
>Covid did it
lul
That is exactly what happened, correct.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-05/video-games-post-covid-hangover-triggers-exodus-by-vc-investors
>boomerberg shill media
now i KNOW youre moronic
You can follow the money trail, the VCs are no longer funding gaming like they were. Companies got fat and bloated with that investor money and expanded. Now the money is gone so they downsize and all that money led to increased budgets for games, which is now unsustainable. It's that simple, AAA is fricked and you should be over the moon about it.
Don't bother engaging with anons like that.
They get all of their "facts" from random posts on Ganker that align with their beliefs and screech anytime anyone dares challenge their stance. They absolutely cannot handle when you challenge their stance with actual proof or articles to back it up.
>Japan is seeing tons of gachas EoS
Is it Thursday already?
>crashing
Getting ride of worthless people is not crashing.
Now get rid of all those frickers on the WoW story and game design team and bring in some fresh young (white) people who arent california plants
>Allen Adham
Never seen it spelled this way, incredibly israeli
how will this affect me as a ff14 player
You have your own problems to worry about
>transwoman voice actor voice a woman character
You will ERP more often with your fellow transwomen from WoW.
Love to see wokescum leftists suffer. Great news.
seems like they lose presidents ever other year
>Blizzard's previously announced survival game
Why do I not remember this announcement?
The one that had a trailer and they aped as their new IP after X years
final fantasy 14 won.
>be mike ybarra
>how do I save blizzard
>thinks real hard
>concludes that sudoku is the best move
Thank god.
The only thing that can save Blizzard is its death.
>Entire industry laying off swathes of people
>Studios closing down left and right
>Microsoft fires a smaller % of their workforce than almost anyone else
>THIS IS HUGE NEWS Ganker, HUUUUUUUGE
It's all so tiresome
Its okay when MS does it
>wow under 500k subs
>d4 can't even hit 30k players
>starcraft dead
>HotS still dead
>tumblrwatch struggles to have 9k concurrent players
>stupid survival game in dev hell for over 6 years
Yeah I can see why MS is firing people lmao
MICROSOFT IS GIVING EVERYONE THE ROPE!
i don't even know who ybarra was, but adham was the last of the founding trio left at the company. everyone who made every good game blizzard ever released already left decades ago, but the adham leaving is kind of an official obituary for the company now that nobody who created Blizzard or anything good it ever made remains.
Nice