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I'm 7 months into the new job and this meme perfectly sums up the circumstances of my departure from my former employer.

Open beta was very late, but tons of people were playing long before that. People who got to a high level in the stress tests got invites to the closed beta that had already been running for many months, and people had been in the Alpha long before that. You can find some very interesting...

Called what? A completely made up rumor?

A lot of companies have people are on softphones, especially contact center agents. Some are on phones reprovisioned as traditional H323 VPN phones, others are SIP remote workers, while some companies issued VPN routers to people to take home. Some people are just using SIP softphone clients...

When COVID started I spent 2 weeks of my life getting Avaya to spin up mothballed licensing servers to generate license keys for remote agent features for way-past-end-of-life PBXes for Quest and then going around finding said servers on their network and setting up WFH for all their call...

That's still better than making everything BoP. The D2 bnet economy was remembered fondly and all you had was Trade Chat. The problem with an AH is that it commoditizes everything, and opens up the whole thing to be manipulated by bots.

'Zoltun Kulle Story Bro' was the highlight of that game if you ask me.

PoE at least has a player economy, it just doesn't have an ingame AH. There's some games like modern D3 where you can't even trade items.

Yeah that was probably the single decision that broke Blizzard in the eyes of the fans.

Yeah, people are actually actively pushing for games to not have a player economy at all due to how poorly the RMAH was received. I still don't think it was the fault of the RMAH directly, I think it was the difficulty cliff making people feel like they had to go to the RMAH to progress from...

I bet it's Kaiser. The two healthcare companies I've done the most work for were Kaiser and Quest Diagnostics. Kaiser was a 6/10 on the shitshow meter while Quest was about a 13/10.

How the fuck is the memory market due for a slowdown?

And anyone that thinks Activision isn't the biggest part of problem didn't play Destiny 2. Destiny 2 was fucking horrible when Activision was calling the shots and has been so much better since Bungie was let go on their own.

To be fair, MOBA players are fucking retarded.

Misleading Y-axis porn.

Blizzard has always been good at the whole 'different, but balanced' thing. Unfortunately, that has worked against them, as the prevalence of data and simulation has completely removed the relevance of experimental and experiential gameplay towards making a decision; people just go on a website...

Why do people listen to this guy? He just talks and talks and says nothing.

Aside from Conduit Energy, which is fucking retarded, I don't see what is particularly restrictive with the Covenant system. The fact that the players want meaningful choices AND the ability to change those choices anywhere at any time on any whim is what is wrong with WoW in the first place.

They didn't really innovate in the first place, so there was nothing to "keep innovating." They rested their laurels on a giant cash cow that was WoW for a really long time instead of pushing the envelope to develop something huge. The fact that they just let WoW pay the bills for almost 2...

I think they just got too good at making gameplay that is addictive and obligation-filled and yet not fun.

Is it though? This was a company that basically copied other people's designs, iterated on them a lot, and never really innovated at all. Is it a real shocker that after the initial shininess of their games wore off, that they were really just iterative grindfests underneath?

Blizzard has been dead for a while.

Hey that shit made me 18k in 4 months back when I was broke as a joke.

The tweet in question is from 2 years ago.

OW was fun until I realized it wasn't a shooter, it was a "hide behind the tank and wait for cooldowns" game.

That person is not employed by Blizzard, for the 2nd time.

In my honest opinion, retail is the best its been in the past 4 seasons. However, that's not saying much at all, incredibly low bar.

She's not a Blizzard employee.

These are my trigger words.

Who the fuck is going to work for 40k a year in one of the most expensive places in CA other than naive+dumb woke kids? Pay shit wages, get shit employees.

Oh noes, they're actually going to try to fight unemployment scammers, weird, let's freak out and call it Orwellian for no reason.

Badges for raid gear was stupid. But reroll coins were brilliant.

The base engine of WoW is not very good. It's better than that shit Gamebryo engine that other games were using around the time WoW came along, but it's still not fantastic and hasn't aged particularly well. The Overwatch engine is considerably more impressive. I wonder what it's true...

I think today is the day I get out of my Greyscale ETH shares and take my profits.