I’m sure the executives addressed everyone first with, “Profits are the best ever thanks to people like you!”

So... first they (Activision) cancel the Diablo 3 expansion. Then they say: “Hey you got no games or projects comming out this year, now you have to cut costs!”, they drove Blizzard into that situation.

Anytime you let Finance people make decisions is fucking dumb. Of course they will make more money because of demand, where do you think Diablo Immortal spawned from. And pumping out annual releases. Which CoD do you even care about now or is it only the newer one? It will kill what makes Blizzard special, release…

Hey, they finally did something with Pokemon Go that actually simulates a real-world Pokemon experience.

I kind of wish his design wasn’t complete garbage though. Trubbish is at least cute, and it’s literally a bag of garbage. 

I still think this thing is nightmare fuel. It looks like a Ditto that went through some terrible experimentation. Like one of Sid’s toys from Toy Story.

Amen. I learned that the hard way myself when I was literally coughing up blood in the office one time (after a period of declining health and managers convincing me to “wait until after the project”) and the project manager threatened to fire me if I take time off to go see a doctor. Her exact words to me: “We don’t…

This is one of the reasons I’ve been so much happier since getting out of the industry. It’s deeply cynical and trades off of your love of games to get extra work out of you and dumps you in the trash the moment they don’t need you. You feel obligated to buy and play the games that are relevant to whatever you’re…

Those laid off were encouraged to begin applying for unemployment as soon as possible and were told their health benefits would run out at the end of the month, just nine days later, according to a source and to social media postings by ex-developers. They had 30 minutes to leave the building.

Hiring someone from across the country knowing you’re going to shut down in a week is extremely super fucked up.

I’ve been through two layoffs that didn’t pay me my last month’s salary. The second also absconded with my previous 3 months of retirement fund contributions. Just remember this when you’re thinking about whether you owe a company something or not. They often don’t feel like they owe you anything.

Asset sales. They are going to liquidate not just the hardware but all of the art and code and design work, so they need to lock the systems down so no one has an opportunity to take that work with them. It’s horseshit and indicitave of the company leaders knowing full well what they were doing with the last-minute…

Fear of their own employees. And total lack of humanity/empathy on the part of upper management (who I’ll guarantee is also getting their severance). This is just proof of them knowing that what they did was wrong and fucked up - they were banking on their employees just being to shocked to respond in any way in that…

Hey I got one of these stories!

I was in the industry for several years a while back (admittedly, this was a mobile company in the Bay Area not a big-name publisher).

I can’t (and honestly don’t want to) get into who it was (maybe someone can guess based on the time-of-year I’m giving), but: Workload would fluctuate…

The “sweetie, honey, sweetheart” thing is some low-level trolling 101 stuff.

sweetie, honey, sweetheart? whats with all the pet names you creepy fuckboy? Do you think that gives you some type of superiority?

You should let them know your thoughts!! I’m sure nobody over there has even considered a possibility as esoteric as “what if the league bombs?”

Because thats the way the other sports leagues do things, and they want to be like the other sports leagues.. now chill the fuck out on this trivial shit

Very simple answer: Because Blizzard is pushing the OWL as the “true first Esport that is going to revolutionize the world by being the closest to traditional sports”, but they forget that all sports clubs start as grassroots local teams...meanwhile OWL London team (and only european team) is owned by an American org…

Boy, looking at some of the owners, the choices of which team to root for get whittled down in a hurry.