> Meanwhile, in a press release to investors this afternoon, Activision CEO Bobby Kotick wrote: “While our financial results for 2018 were the best in our history, we didn’t realize our full potential. To help us reach our full potential, we have made a number of important leadership changes. These changes should enable us to achieve the many opportunities our industry affords us, especially with our powerful owned franchises, our strong commercial capabilities, our direct digital connections to hundreds of millions of players, and our extraordinarily talented employees.”
We did great! But we can do better with the help of our "extraordinarily talented employees"! Many of whom we are laying off!
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-04/activisio...
TBF that makes sense for a lot of gaming projects. Its tough to keep an FTE artist when all the art for a project is completed, but it doesn't really make for a great environment for talent.
Those towers are really really tall, and bright, the setting sun makes them even brighter. Beautiful lights are shining through the glass, cold but colorful.
Among those towers, one of them looked especially alive, the one skinned with a big big screen. And on the screen, was the live view from the company's executive meeting, hosted by non other than the CEO, a well dressed, brilliant, sharp, humorous and polite man.
It was too far to make out what he said, strong wind and echos makes it hard to hear. The only few fragments I could recognize was:
"... Our financial situation this year were the best in our history ..."
"... Change must happen ... to help us reach our full potential ..."
"... the future with our extraordinarily talented employees ..."
Could be a very good scene for a game.
The Activision Blizzard case here is just short-sighted corporate greed. "Best financial results in history" but the bonus coffers of the C-level executives are not filled enough it seems.
It has been interesting seeing Blizzard slowly become a shell of its former self.
Now it's increasingly being eaten by micro-transactions and riding popular franchises.
The redundancies are mostly in 'publishing and esports', by the way.
Hope they atleast get to keep their phones... shame really I assume they don’t fire the management first...
Epic is making more money with Fortnite alone!
And the new game (Apex Legendary) had a successful start as well which is created by people behind the old Call Of Duty series!
