>https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/23/wow-classic-just-lost-its-team-lead-brian-birmingham-over-blizzards-toxic-evaluation-system/
>In a transparent effort to sow division and infighting to stop union attempts they are employing new tactics at blizzard to turn teams against themselves to sabotage each others work and damage productivity and cause product quality to drop
>One of the WoW classic leads told them to go frick themselves
>They instantly fired him on the spot
How was Blitzchung four years ago and they take L after L every other week STILL?!?
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i would that dragon
Celestalon pls, she doesn't even have a dick.
implied reptile rule
i think i am incapable of feeling empathy for fetishists like scalies. theres is literally nothing remotely sexual about that character yet people can somehow feel turned on by it. it has baffled my mind for decades. it just makes zero sense. i watched this video of this troony that was sexually attracted to an arcade cabinet of Sinistar (no joke), but that makes more sense to me since that person obviously has some severe brain wiring issues, but people don't acknowledge that with furries and shit. why is that the case?
Dude it was obviously a bot post.
even if it was, you're not gonna tell me there aren't people like that out there, are you?
there are bro, why do you think dragonflight exists?
>'member mop and li-li? please stop making fun of our troony dragons.
MoP was kino but SoO ruined its reputation
>kung fu panda for manchildren neckbeards and chinese pandering investors
yeah real kino
Yet another moron who never played it and has seethed ever since.
mechanically it was fine and miles ahead of all the shit that came after. ill never argue that, but the setting and story was some of the worst gayest shit in the world and paved the way for the marvel-ization of the writing going forward. so no, it wasn't "kino". you are just pea brained zoomer that grew up with it so you have good memories with it.
>marvel-ization of the writing going forward
That was Wrath
>the setting and story was some of the worst gayest shit in the world and paved the way for the marvel-ization of the writing going forward.
I played from Vanilla to Legion and I'd unironically say that MoP had some of the strongest writing besides Vanilla. It's not winning any Pulitzer Prizes, but by default it's better than
>Actually Kael'thas and Illidan are cuhrazy lmao
>The Lich King is a Saturday morning cartoon villain now, also there must always be a Lich King
>Go'el
>DRAENOR IS FREE Spires of Arak was kino though
They were in the game since vanilla moron
They were in WC3, actually.
>umm anon the obvious joke race was fricking super canon and very very important to the story and lore the whole time moron newbie zoomer homosexual Black person!!!!!!!!
you are so stupid its not even funny
A Panda literally helps found the Horde.
>>umm anon the obvious joke race was fricking super canon and very very important to the story and lore the whole time moron newbie zoomer homosexual Black person!!!!!!!!
This, but unironically. Pandaren is one of the main characters for orc campaign.
I don't remember, wasn't it an optional hero you get as an easter egg?
Later in the expansion it was added to "main crew" in thrall mini campaign but his origin was meme hero. It is not a stretch to call him "le drunk funny fat panda added for reddit audience"
lol lmao even
Thunder King was the fricking cream of lore.
Nothing since has come close.
thunder king was admittedly the ONE cool thing in mists. thats it.
I liked it up until the end. throne of thunder was really good. timeless isle was nice too
>Microsoft stopped doing this because they found team output and quality control dropped by 60% on average.
>This is WoW right now.
Chad Daddy Phil...
>telling a few people to keep improving actually drops quality
surely nobody is dumb enough to believe this, right?
The issue was that it caused people to spend more time creating reports for their toxicity flaggin system, and more challenge to leadership, because under the toxicity system a leader saying he wants stuff done their way is toxic.
Imagine trying to manage, but at any point a person can say no ill do it my way but first I gotta submit a toxicity report for the next 3 days first.
God, I love not being a burger and dealing with this dystopian shit.
This is your brain on boot licking
>three employees all at 55
>Suits say manager has to rank them on a curve
>two MUST become 45 and 35
>manger either has to essentially pick at random or the one they like the most
>two employees that get fricked give up and start looking for new jobs or go into maintenance mode
See easy if you think for two seconds anon
If you're not a burger you're already living in dystopia. In burgerland people still have rights+freedom of speech, oh and guns. So at least burgers still have a chance, unlike you.
Hyper copium.
In every other first world country, this thread wouldn't exist because they couldn't have fired the guy on the spot.
>In every other first world country, this thread wouldn't exist because they couldn't have fired the guy on the spot
You're pathetic if you actually believe this. This kind of bullshit is constantly happening in my country and only gets found out years later. By then all the damage has already been done
(you)
>yeah so ummm we have hecking epic guns so we can rise up against government tyranny! when will we do that? ummm.... s-soon! very soon, h-hehe! the united states military industrial complex is no match for us: a couple dozen rednecks with ar15s!!! the revolution will come soon burgersisters!!
Seems to work for you m8, the message is hitting you loud and clear
help me burgerman! i am stuck in a country with high median wage, free healthcare, free education, high life expectancy, etc. but i dont have the freedom to buy a gun at walmart so i can shoot cans in my backyard with!!!! ouuuughhh!!!! i am in such a shithole!!!!!!!!
thought the Black person had a gun in that sign
>armed citizens
>the nog is calm and collected, not burning anything down to a crisp or stealing any TV
huh
The funny thing is, that if you do this just ONCE, you can motivate someone that already is doing an OK job and wants to advance, to try even harder. Now you have someone that use to just be average into being an amazing worker and you didn't even have to lift a finger. If you do this to an above average worker though, you only demotivated them. They think "Well what is the point of trying harder, I'm not going to advance" and the problem only compounds itself when you do it again and again, even if they are doing poorly. Company policy like this is an absolute horror. It's trying to game the human psyche and not everyone reacts the same to stimuli. I would almost put it on an emotional abuse level and Blizzard is looking to get sued AGAIN for such bullshit. If any video game company deserves to go under at this point, it's them. I would love for Microsoft to fully acquire them at this point, just put it out of it's misery.
>They instantly fired him on the spot
Based
What is your solution, company doubles the bonuses because everybody is "good", makes everyone senior etc? There would be 0 low performer in that case, all managers would rank everyone as high performing. Which is probably what this guy is trying even though I doubt they really are.
If you mark eveeyone as high performer then it means everyone gets lesser shares from bonus pool and you are conning the actual high performers
Much better that you get less despite working just as hard. Why? Because you lost a coin toss.
Why in the frick would you keep putting in extra effort when you where just punished for doing so.
>Tell me you're a literal child without telling me challenge
>States exactly why the system is bad and how it lowers productivity merely to incite competition for no good reason
>but why is that bad though
Fricking burgers are so buck broken you'd give a chinese factory worker a run for their money.
Imagine you worked equally as hard as A and B, but your manager has to scale you.
You get paid 80k, B gets paid 90k and A gets 110k because your salary/bonus is adjusted. Entirely because the "rules" say you have to scale everyone even when everyone worked equally. Its absolutely insane as a concept.
>everyone worked equally
Yes, absolutely insane as a concept
If as a manager, you can't find one bad employee in out of 20 then it means you are the one. The actual ratio would be a lot more than that
Why in the frick do you think it's just 1 person you are giving a bad review? Can you not read? Do you not understand what a curve is?
Can't you read? I am saying 1 in 20. Not a literal 1 person.
The company expects 5% low performants which is more than reasonable and making it a policy. If you are a manager with 20 employees then it is reasonable to assume you have at least have 1 bad employee under you
Right. So you don't understand what a curve is, nor what is going on here at all. What you are saying makes sense, is exactly what Blizz was doing instead of the moronic policy from higher up.
As a game dev that works in another company with similar size I know what I am saying.
They are not enforcing the actual percentages, just a reasonable ratio of it. 5% is not the middle of the curve when it comes to bad employees. The higher ups are 100% right at enforcing at least some elployees to be marked as low performant.
scandal after scandal and people still buy their crap and get "hyped" for whatever slop they release
blizzard is truly unstoppable
How do you go from one of the most respected companies in the world where having worked there even a mere 3 months is a guaranteed ticket to getting into nearly any position with any other company to... this?
All the devs behind the good games left to either found their own studios or joined preexisting ones
Really mind blowing. When I was in high school the Blizzard logo was like a seal of quality. You couldn’t pay me to play a Blizzard game now.
i remember the feeling of seeing the blizzard logo light up across the screen was such a nice, warm and fuzzy feeling since you knew you were in for some good ass shit and now it just feels like the intro to the latest epic cringe compilation video. how the frick could they allow themselves to stoop this low?
its the too big to fail attitude paired with pc culture that snuck in over the years.anyone with a spine fricks off the moment this shit infests your workplace unless you have nowhere else to go.costumers should do the same unless you want to experince a slow motion car crash like 343s halo.you cant afford to have attachments to these kind of things anymore.
>pc culture
You people have so many brain worms you can't even stop to read the op.
Blizzard just got fricking rectally ravaged by the state and the feds for rampant discrimination, a whole bunch of shit came out about the king sex pest and his gaggle of bros, shit like day drinks at your desk was rampant.
This thread is about out-of-touch corporate meddling.
I don't care if ever single dev is a blue haired trannie and there are 50 disabled gay dragons in every expansion, Blizzard the company (i.e the suits) are the opposite of woke.
Einstein was a sex pest, he was still a genius.
All they have left now is homosexuals, feminist and trannies. Which would be fine if they were good at their jobs and liked their players, neither of these are the case however.
>Blizzard the company (i.e the suits) are the opposite of woke.
Is this what you tell yourself when every megacorp flies the gay flag during pride month?
Weird how they only do it in the places where it earns them more money. Almost as if they don't give a shit and just uses it for more profits.
If disney were solely concerned with profits they wouldn’t shove Black folk into all their movies since they know it alienates the chinese market. Countless individual members of these megacorps have explicitly stated that they have woke agendas in skype calls. You are not the counter-culture, leftypol turbogay.
https://streamable.com/2gft7m
>watch muh video
If you can’t summarize a basic argument you’re a brainlet and not worth engaging with.
>Noooooooo you can't just do the popular thing. You must listen to a racist minority who doesn't watch what they make in the first place
you're bending over backwards for a 0.5% minority that's mostly pedophiles
I just told you they aren't interested in listening to you.
many antecedents led to this situation and it will take time to roll them back
>"LGBTQIA+"
>INHALES
They don't do it in the places they don't do it so they can still be able to sell games there and keep the avenues of propoganda open, it's nothing to do with not actually believing it, it doesn't earn them a cent in the west either
Blizzard is proof that conservative rightoid culture doesnt work /misc/tard. The company is collapsing because of dudebro culture, sexual harassment and pandering to capitalist demands.
bro culture doesn't exist, it's just what feminists screech during their power games
>sell your brand to big publisher
>everyone still around cashes out and leaves
>brand goes to shit before most customers even realize
we told you frickers 15 years ago
c'mon kitty don't be upset let me kiss you on the head mmwah
here's another one mmmwwah
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this isn't a wow dev
Not anymore at least, he's Riot's problem now. He was the leading druid autist and theory crafter back in the day before he got a job at blizzard.
its more equivalent to squatting as i am bombarded with troony shit no matter where i fricking go on the internet.
ITT: zoomer trannies who can’t read the article or the source material. Bobby bought out good ol’ Blizz in 2008 and has been ruining it with corporate policies ever since. That doesn’t mean all of Blizz is trash, just some of it more than it used to be. But Activision is really to blame here.
No but you see, hating blizzard pisses of the trannies. Therefore random people getting fired for stupid reasons is based.
Just a victim of late stage capitalism friend. Blizzard was sold out and is now being squeezed for every last growth and profit potential, regardless of product quality or consumer satisfaction.
Always trust in the Three B's,
>Blizzard
>Bioware
>Bethesda
Was bethesda ever good tho
When I was a teenager and my older brother went to MIT to do computer science, I told my parents I wanted to learn to program and work for Blizzard when I grew up.
Glad I did Physics instead now.
Yea it would suck making a lot of money WFH and putting maybe 3 hours top each day
t. making a lot of money WFH and putting maybe 3 hours top each day
haha imagine being able to be like
and just take a day off whenever someone calls you dumb, or any other harmless insult that isn't even a slur, in an online game. What a terrible life.
Yea man life is so hard here
>got a stomach bug, will be sick for next X day
t. once every other week in our team slack
Take a look at a picture of Blizzard's employees during the 90's vs. now and you'll understand what happened.
It's been like this for years but it all came to a head in like 3 weeks and kept getting shittier. Kind of like the roman republic
>people STILL ignore Activision's incredibly obvious presence, pressure and influence over modern Blizzard
At this point i'm content to consider you posters legally blind.
I'm glad Blizzard is finally dying, or at least losing every bit of good grace they once had. Really hope the industry actually collapses soon, it's looking more and more likely.
The reality is, nobody playing wow is going to leave over anything but awful content. Since classic is set in stone this will do nothing.
The problem is that a lot of these mistakes lead to awful content. Losing core staff. Losing major income souruces.
>awful content
It's classic, it was made 10 years ago. They can't really ruin classic, even if they want to.
Blizzard was incredibly lucky to bring out classic, if not that for wow would be dead as frick now.
Should have been set in stone. They changed wrath classic so the zoomies wouldn’t get bored.
LMAO that can't be true.
This company is made of literal morons and the only reason it's still standing is because of brand recognition.
>massivegoyslop.com
The wow classic team is dogshit and deserve to be fired. Literally all they had to do was copy the private servers but they went out of their way to frick it all up.
This, these dumb fricks went out of their way to make their "classic experience" noticeably worse than any other offering
Nostalgia doesn't work. It's never as good as it used to be.
Lol what a gay. I work for a big corporation that uses stack rankings to determine raises and promotions. They literally publish the metrics so it's incredibly easy to prioritize your work to hit the metrics the company is looking for to make yourself look like a great worker. I'm not saying it's a great system or anything, but it's easy to succeed if you're not moronic.
That's the point. It's an easy system to game for some people but isn't actually useful for overall productivity.
>This sort of policy encourages competition between employees
good?
>sabotage of one another’s work
so fire their asses instead of bribing them to not sabotage you
>a desire for people to find low-performing teams that they can be the best-performing worker on
also good. distribute good performing employees between teams
>and ultimately erodes trust
I would not trust a manager that says "we are all good boys"
>and destroys creativity.
how
>how
You are now spending all your time manipulating a rating rather than doing your job.
Danger hair terminally online twitter devs have absolutely nothing to do with Actiblizzard's fricking arms dealer tier corporate team's shitty mandates.
It is either massively moronic on disingenuous in the extreme to correlate them
Who do you think hired the twitter trannies into the devteam in the first place?
If you think the board and the executives of a multibillion dollar operation are personally approving new artist hires you're even more underage than your corporate ass eating suggests.
>Actiblizzard board are woke because of a fake pride month exclusivly in the west
Google who's actually on the board anon.
>Google who's actually on the board anon.
Don’t have to, I already know they’re israelites.
blizzard sisters...
>commie manager wants to promote everyone because commie
>none of his direct reports are actually good save for maybe 1 or 2 that carries the team
This is probably what happened. The higher ups saved the team by firing the fool before he causes that 1-2 good employees to quit
A couple shitty employees will probably also quit because they are not getting the promotions they didn't dessrve on the first place. So even better
>creates system to combat toxicity and racism
>white man whines like a baby about it
>gets fired
good.
>b-b-b-but-
good.
just checked his twitter
"Former WoW Classic lead. Blizzard Veteran. Social Media NOOB. Dad. Gamer. Straight white male. Feminist. LGBTQIA ally. He/Him. BLM. Opinions are my own."
Based Blizzard for firing straight white male leads to increase diversity within leads. Now they should hire one of the letters
He is a feminist, gay ally and supports blm.
It's for the best.
>Feminist. LGBTQIA ally. He/Him. BLM
based self annihilator removing himself so a diversity hire can replace him. Hopefully he annihilates his family next so his entire family line can be replaced as well
Nah, will probably just go work at any other company in the area and earn 2-3 times as much.
>Nooooooo, you can't just not want to use a system that has been proven over and over to do the opposite of what it is supposed to
>Supposed
No, it's working as intended, it is in the interests of capital to keep the worker divided and in competition.
It is against capital to incentivize workers to work less.
What does /misc/ even belive anymore?
>Greedy israelites and their israelite corporations bad
>Except when they're owning the commies, then they're good
>Straight white men good
>Except when they stand up for their subordinates, bad
>Diversity hires, bad, except for when they replace straight white men with white families, good.
pol is full of commies anon, calm your feminine penis.
And yet they seem to do nothing but praise capitalism and fascism. weird that.
Oh well. I've been done with WoW since they troony'd Chromie. That was the last straw for me.
Based and Gankerny as frick. Video games exist to defend shit that I read about on /misc/. Trannies are everywhere and us based gamers must fight them.
YWNBAW
>managers can't find 5% to mark ss "developing"
Kek how about no. In any corporate companies there are tons of slacking employees and crayoneater level IQ people. If your managers are not reaching that number then they are not properly evaulating people.
Blizzard is probably prepping for layoffs.
>Blitzchung
Didn't they take that one to save their presence in china?
HAHHAAHHAHAA
seems like troony flight was dead on arrival
played it for 3 days and once I saw the homosexual dragon in a wheel chair I never touched the game again
you are stupid as frick for even buying it in the first place. thanks for being part of the problem you fricking idiot. you morons that buy the expac + sub time and flood forums complaining about the game literally just boosts the games success. stop fricking buying blizz products and let the company fricking die already
>you’re part of the problem
Why are you leftypol homosexuals always like this? If some loser wants to put himself into debt over gacha jpgs I laugh at him and move on. You seem to have a physical bodily reaction at the thought of Bobby Kotick having a sound fiscal year.
are you a fricking Black person or just low iq? it incentivises the creation of more goyslop dogshit like this, you moronic homosexual. i want these shitty fricking games to be unsuccessful so that their design becomes less prevalent in our culture.
>it incentivises the creation of more goyslop dogshit like this
And you can’t just ignore that goyslop and play good games because….
Sure you did, Jim-Bob. You are too moronic to even get past the start menu, let alone, actually play current content.
amazing how relevant this is and how many companies this applies to now.
This is the video I always use to explain to zoomers why Apple is a shit company and Steve Jobs is one of the scummiest motherfrickers to ever lead a business.
You gotta hand it to him, he really took it to heart that it's not about making a good product, it's about finding a way to make morons THINK it's a good product.
i admire him as a scammer. hes gaslit the western world so hard that women will find you less attractive if you use an android. isn't that incredible? you can show an appleoid right to their face why their overpriced phone is inferior in every way price/quality ratio and it just goes in one ear and out the other.
Can you morons frick off.
WoW is fine.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1716470696?t=00h23m00s
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