600 Blizzard People Axed

[Demon_Skeith]

Approximately 600 employees of Blizzard have been fired by the company. Blizzard says it anticipates approximately 90% of the affected employees will come from departments not related to game development. The World of Warcraft development team will not be impacted. Blizzard's release schedule won't be affected either.

"Steve, I thought Blizzard was making a crap-ton of money. What gives?" you may be asking. Well, the video game business is a little more complicated than that. Here's how Blizz explains the firings:

"Constant evaluation of teams and processes is necessary for the long-term health of any business. Over the last several years, we've grown our organization tremendously and made large investments in our infrastructure in order to better serve our global community. However, as Blizzard and the industry have evolved we've also had to make some difficult decisions in order to address the changing needs of our company," said Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment. "Knowing that, it still does not make letting go of some of our team members any easier. We're grateful to have had the opportunity to work with the people impacted by today's announcement, we're proud of the contributions they made here at Blizzard, and we wish them well as they move forward."

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that sucks.

 

[tetutato]

I wonder if these people who got fired are part of developments for Diablo 3

 

[Ghost]

^^Well they said the people will come from places other than game development (and only later references WoW). I'm assuming by game development other games were being included in that.

However, it is still a shame

 

[Shole]

I wonder if these people who got fired are part of developments for Diablo 3

No developers got fired just people that are not from the gaming districts probably marketing experts and such

 

[Ghost]

Shole, I don't know about the marketing experts thought though either...If WoW is trying to make money and stop losing subscribers, yo uwould think that marketing experts would be the some of the best people to have around. However, maybe they are going for 100% game output.

 

[Ikram45]

Lots of people are looking for co-op games and the best thing about those is you don't have to put out 14.99 a month. People are slowly and gradually moving away from WOW.