Blizzard dies and Bobby rides

Masakari said:

i'll just leave this here...

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Best part is the person commenting about male favoritism has an Astolfo avatar.

For those uninitiated:

Honestly people just need to be paid on their ability to complete the work asked of them.

If you're thinking about hiring, or giving someone a promotion, or extra bonuses based on anything other than the work they complete, you're already fucking up your job.
Problem is, even if you remove 'diversity' from the equation, you're still having middle management that acts like assholes to their subordinates.

Race/gender has nothing to do with middle managers acting like pieces of shit to their subordinates. It's a tale as old as time. Just with 2021 politics, you're forced to consider gender/race/etc when doing so, so that you DON'T piss off people that will go to news media source, twitter, etc, and complain.

But actually considering that leads to accusations that you are doing so, because it's impossible to say you aren't playing favorites on gender or race when you start including something like gender or race into consideration for promotions/hires.

Blizzard committing to hire 50% 'diverse' hires means that they aren't solely considering the persons' ability to do the job, communicate with their coworkers, and not be an asshole when bringing them on board. That's a problem.

Also I think that should be illegal - but isn't - they're basically openly discriminating who may apply for their jobs based on race and gender.

Ion interview with Venturebeat

bullet Points

• The team created an internal process for employees to flag pieces of the game for review that haven't aged well or could be seen as offensive, and a diverse group reviewed them for change.
• These changes did not take away from development time and would likely have gone unnoticed if they weren't spotlighted from datamining.
• The team understands that they aren't fixing systemic injustice by these changes, but why not do it in tandem with working on larger cultural community.
• The WoW team is also working closesly with the Overwatch team to try and catch toxicity in game right away without relying so much on manual reporting.
• In the end, the team wants WoW to be a positive place to escape the trials and tribulations of the world.
• Diversity makes a better game. They don't want WoW to be for a niche audience.
• There has been a lot of work towards allowing more open communication and feedback within the team about things going into the game.
• 9.1.5 was born out of the team being allowed to pitch ideas and try out things that they think will make the game more fun.
• Ion acknowledges that they should have reacted to player feedback earlier about conduit energy, and knows that they can do better about communicating not only that we are being heard, but why things are not necessarily implemented or changed right away.
• 9.1.5 reflects a shift toward more accessibility and letting go of old lessons instilled on the team from the past that don't necessarily reflect the way that the game is enjoyed today.
• Cross-faction raiding is a bit more on the radar now. If Jaina and Thrall are working together, why can't the players?
• They will be talking about the conclusion of Shadowlands in more detail in the future.
• 9.2 is coming, and we will hear about it soon. They have much more planned after that, but it's hard to say too much more without spoiling some of the story that is coming.
• At this point, your characters are heroes and there is no way that they can go back to being anonymous adventurers, but the team also wants to go back to simple core fantasy and not so much more escalating cosmic adventures.
• The team wants to keep expanding on ways to better use what they have built over the years into the game, but it's not quite there yet.
• There really isn't a time when the game becomes so old that a reboot is needed. However, they need to be mindful of bloat.

What I would like to know is that if diversity makes a better game then why is it declining in subs? should it not be surging with all this diversity that they are trying to push?

Serwol said:

• These changes did not take away from development time and would likely have gone unnoticed if they weren't spotlighted from datamining.

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This is just disingenuous, enough autists play WoW that people would have noticed. Assholes are trying to downplay annoyance from the community pretty hardcore here.

I can picture Ion doing that thing where he looks up and to the side while bullshit spills out of his mouth, eyes not fully open.

Pyros said:

"Ion acknowledges that they should have reacted to player feedback earlier about conduit energy, and knows that they can do better about communicating not only that we are being heard, but why things are not necessarily implemented or changed right away."

Pretty sure I've read that a few times before(replacing conduit energy with whatever other bullshit mechanic).

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"Reacted earlier" means "communicating that players have been heard" and "explaining why things are not implemented right away".

Note that there is nothing about actually DOING the feedback. So it's a politian answer and buisness as usual.

The company I work for keeps pushing this diversity shit so hard, but the funny part is even the diversity hires are tired of hearing about it. They've done 3 surveys on the company now and all 3 were at damn near -100% on the diversity shit and they still keep pushing it.

It's absolutely bizarre seeing so much time and effort being put towards diversity rather than the product and how to improve the new factory which has tons of faults and issues. They just keep doubling down even though the CEO acknowledges that they are getting tons of feedback to back off of it, lol.