Last Saturday, we wrote that, according to Bloomberg, on Tuesday Activision Blizzard must announce mass layouts. It seems that rumors are gradually becoming the truth – according to Kotaku, in the afternoon of local time the publisher launched the process of reducing staff.
According to unconfirmed information, the number of dismissals will reach several hundred. The company has already begun to notify those who lose their workplace – they include employees Activision, Blizzard And King. It looks like in Blizzard dismissal affected only departments not related to the development of games – for example, publishing and e -sports.
In Kotaku received by the president Blizzard Allen Brack (Allen Brack) said that over the past few years, many of the company’s non -game branches have expanded. According to him, at the moment, the number of these units does not correspond to the current requests.
According to Kotaku, the employees who came to work today were very upset by the sudden news – they cried and hugged in the parking lot. However, the above letter also tried to reassure the workers who are worried about the dismissal. Contractive employees were promised complex weekends, permanent illnesses for illness, career coaching, assistance in employment and other bonuses.
In addition, the event was commented by the general director Activision Bobby Kotik (Bobby Kotick). In today’s press release for investors Cat reported that, although the financial results in 2018 were the best in the history of the company, it was not possible to completely disclose the potential to completely disclose. For this reason Activision Blizzard made a number of changes to implement the future plans of the company. Large franchises, wide commercial opportunities, digital communication with hundreds of millions of players and “unusually talented employees” will help in this.
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My son has not talked for seven years. They got used to the idea that the child was born dumb.
And they are sitting, dining. Suddenly the son for no reason:
– Blizard sold.
Parents affected:
– Son, you are talking?! And before what was silent?
– And before it was normal.
I don’t know from what year https://gamesnotongamstop.co.uk/craps/ your childhood, but already long ago there is no company near Blizard, which was in my childhood. Years like 10-15 there is no it. How much you can worry?
In addition, the event was commented by the CEO of Activision Bobby Kotick. In today’s press release for investors, Kotik reported that although the financial results in 2018 were the best in the history of the company, it was not possible to completely disclose the potential to completely disclose. For this reason, Activision Blizzard made a number of changes to implement future plans. Large franchises, wide commercial opportunities, digital communication with hundreds of millions of players and “unusually talented employees” will help in this.
Or maybe Mr. Kotka should not hire PREMMENTERS for 15 LAMM, and herself periodically increase the salary as their trusted people, it may be worth doing as Nintendo in due time and cut off the salary of the company and developers to maintain and all the gender -codes
It seems that in Blizzard the dismissal affected only departments not related to the development of games? – for example, publishing and e -sports.
Well t.e. This is a normal logic that you get the best results in the history of your company, and then you leave those without whom there are no such results?
And why did you decide that the best result was provided by the marketing and e -sports departments of Blizzard and King? So, in the report, the emphasis is on sales COD, Spyro and Crash Bandicoot, to which neither Blizzard nor King have nothing. Or in your opinion, it was the Blizzard marketers that provided sales sales? You did not think that the logic is just to fire people who do nothing much, but they receive a salary?
Hey-hey, no need to count my money. I’m like a captain on a slave gallery. I am satisfied and fed, and slaves work.
Judging by the latter nearly, Blizard for the next year or two, it will definitely not be released, and therefore they need to maximize the costs of downtime during the period of downtime. I do not see reasons for panic here.
Listen to you like that, so in any large company only disenfranchised slaves work, which are kept by force and fed with callous bread and water. It is not necessary to hyperbolize, all employees have a labor contract with a fixed rate and a period of work during which you cannot suddenly dismiss or reduce your salary.
And here it is? This is to the question of being reduced, despite the good financial year and the general absence of new IP in the Activision portfolio. In Blizzard, one of the best conditions for girls in the industry, in Activision, everything is from the studio to the studio, but I think good conditions. Only the topic is not about that. And about the fact that there will always be few shareholders, regardless of the results.
The seven Blizzard child without a phone.
But in fact – all sorts of PR and e -sports departments of the company are clearly necessary if not reduced, then restructuring, because the staff there is definitely bloated.
dismissal affected only departments not related to the development of games – for example, publishing and e -sports
maybe everything on the contrary will become good. And not as now, when the same overthots were stated for tens of millions of copies sold, and only e -sports direction was actively developed.
They seem to have their own “pocket” studio, whose employees, it turns out, no one fired, and they will have to occupy them with work.
With every news I am more and more worried about Blizzard, whose games I have been playing since childhood. Something they have more than the last year have more problems than in the previous 20 (
Well, a question near “not related to the development of games” is an author’s idea that emphasizes the unconfirmed information? If so, then okay.
After such a fawl with the announcement of mobile diabla, a couple of goals were supposed to fly. Well it was necessary to think of it so.