I had a boss who would go from white face to red faced angry and veins popping out of his head in about .001 second. He was not the person to piss off or get on his bad side. He never got angry unless someone royally deserved it, though.
Okay, part of the backstory to all that, is that they ruined Garrosh first, which most Horde players didn't like that much back in MoP, either. Another instance of "he went bad because of corruption." Boring, but whatever.
"No negativity in the dojo" can work to your advantage if you're assertive enough to bulldoze any attempts at dissent. Prob good if one person is driving most of that though. I'd imagine by that point, most of the new people at Blizzard were only there because they were 'fans', so it's not like they were his peers or something.
I still can't figure out how one could stoop so low to hire "fans" to work on a product. Their judgement about it is clouded by definition.
But if you need to mow a lawn, you could hire goats, they'd do a somewhat shitty jobs, but they'd do it for free/cheap. That's really all it means, people with passion can be exploited to work more for less.
Yeah they should hire diverse feminists who have never played a videogame... oh wait... that's the other thing they did.
Because as stated numerous times Blizzard has something fundamentally wrong with it at its core when it comes to management. For whatever reason the most idiotic people are continuously allowed to make the most idiotic choices possible and theres no checks to stop that.
i think you just have to be really careful about who you hire for it. some one with a mind for architecture and structure who can produce product would be great. but a lot of enthusiasts are super one dimensional in a space like that.
Seniorty is king at Blizzard, that's what it is.
But you need to have engineers to make sense of it. In the case of Blizzard, is there even anyone left that wasn't hired post-launch from the pool of fans?
