Comments on: Activision Blizzard cuts 600 jobs, says game development teams not affected

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:52:00 +0000

They cut a lot of support staff. It a good call on the short run, but bad on the long.
They are really feeling the strain from Bioware (aka: Starwars The Old Republic). Realeased 2 months ago. Wow already lost about 2million from the 11 million user base.
Also the lates expansion (Cataclysm) was not the best and lots of people left anyway.
Support staff are the people you call in game (ticket) if you encounter a bug or if your account is hacked. Say you have 2K support people for just WoW and you cut that in half, then people with ticket will have to wait twice the time to get their issue resolved (say 96hours up from 48). This is something you wont notice immediately only on the long run.
Anyway WoW is their cash cow, they should care for it much better.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:52:00 +0000

By: Han

Han — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:56:00 +0000

Man, if Blizzard can’t keep it all together, what hope is there for the rest of the industry?

By: zipthebunny

zipthebunny — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 04:49:00 +0000

yeah, kinda bad that your headline states one thing and the quote in the article states other.

anyone know what groups got hit the hardest? 600 is alot for even a big company.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 23:27:00 +0000

Rue Liu way to twist a report. Did you even read it.
development team “largely unaffected” does not equal “unaffected”, as you try to make it out in the title. That means anthing from 200 to 50 people were laid off the dev. team and the 350+ from other areas.
Hence the post on the forum says “mostly non-development”.