Animosity
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Dreamhaven
Dreamhaven is a new video game developer and publisher based in Irvine, California.
www.dreamhaven.com
Big Mike Morhaime starts a new studio.
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There was also that report that came out this summer of blizz dev's talking about how bad the pay scale was there. Sucks to see this company going downhill.Hearing rumors that a bunch of current people are jumping ship after some stock bonuses finish vesting on Oct 1st.
I guess after the Bungie splinter Activision suits came down hard on the Bliz creatives and the COVID attitude has made things untenable.
I wish then the best. You can have merit or you can have diversity. Blizzard chose the latter.
There was a time when it seemed like the best way to make money was to give people what they wanted, i.e. capitalism. These were people who loved games and gave something back, Now these companies are run by people who love money above all else and don't care about the product, and are now looking at the bottom line above all else. It's the Critical Race Theory of Gaming. You could re-do the intro that Cate Blanchett gives at the beginning of the Fellowship of the Ring but rather than Sauron, have a giant Bobby Kotick come out of Barad-Dur wearing gold chains swinging a slot-machine arm. "The power of the loot box could not be undone."
Sounds like capitalism went to capitalism.
Says the poster using terms favored by the Far-Left to describe the "stage" of capitalism. People acting unethically isn't capitalism; that's just people acting unethically. It happens under any economic system. The only difference here is they don't shoot you when you complain.so perhaps, early/mid stage capitalism to a later stage. I'm at a loss as to how critical race theory is equivalent to pure capitalism. y'all getting radicalized here or something?
That was mostly the Q&A/GM staff. Litterally the lowest on the totempole of employees, paid minimum wage despite being in Irvine.Having seen pictures of Blizzard employees, I cast doubt on the skipping meals bit.