Activision Blizzard starts massive layoffs after strongest year.

[Methais]

That's what happens when you pay $5m a month per WoW server.

EDIT: Dammit Gelston. Reported.

[Stumplicker]

That's what happens when you pay $5m a month per WoW server.

EDIT: Dammit Gelston. Reported.

Is that what they teach you at teacher school for mentally challenged goatse enthusiasts?! Reuse other people's witty comments that already got wittily commented?!

Weak. Somebody should subpoena your IP and tell your Principal.

[Methais]

Is that what they teach you at teacher school for mentally challenged goatse enthusiasts?! Reuse other people's witty comments that already got wittily commented?!

Weak. Somebody should subpoena your IP and tell your Principal.

You keep trying too hard. Scale it back some.

[Stumplicker]

You keep trying too hard. Scale it back some.

I ate lunch today so I have far more energy right now with which to flip shit at people for no raisin. It's usually naptime on my feet about now.

[Methais]

I ate lunch today so I have far more energy right now with which to flip shit at people for no raisin. It's usually naptime on my feet about now.

[Some Rogue]

Revenue is not profit. Also, they have no new games really scheduled to come out, so they laid off people who don't work in development and hired more developers. Shocking!

[subzero]

From my experience (and I do work in the gaming software development industry) when a major project completes, gaming companies tend to lay off the majority of the staff because they don't have work for them. You can have an awesome year, but if the next project the company is starting is already staffed, requires less staff, or requires a different set of skills - you fire your current staff.

The same thing happened when Bioware released Star Wars: KOTOR - my current co-worker was staffed for that project, it finished, went into support mode, the entire staff other than the support staff was let go. Not because the game did terrible (it did pretty well out the gate), but because the company had nowhere to assign the staff.

It's a pretty common cycle in gaming...

From what I've read, they're keeping their dev teams and may actually be investing more in the dev areas. Some of the 'big' names I've seen released were CM/PR positions so far. I figured there would probably be a lot of artists, audio people, etc getting the boot.

[subzero]

Weak. Somebody should back trace your IP and burn your house down.

[Androidpk]

Revenue is not profit. Also, they have no new games really scheduled to come out, so they laid off people who don't work in development and hired more developers. Shocking!

They don't have a single new game coming out this year.