Potential Activision Layoffs, Feb 8 Hotfixes, Holiday Rare Reward - Lvl 110 Required

Potential Activision Blizzard Layoffs Next Week
Bloomberg is reporting that Activision is planning to cut hundreds of jobs next week.

Activision Blizzard Inc. plans to announce job cuts Tuesday in the face of slowing sales, according to people familiar with the matter, bringing fresh upheaval after spotty results roiled stocks this week. The shares dropped as much as 2.5 percent to $42.88 on Friday.

The layoffs, which could number in the hundreds, are part of a restructuring aimed at centralizing functions and boosting profit, said one of the people, who asked not to be identified because the changes haven’t been announced. Activision employed 9,800 people at the end of 2017.

The game maker, one of the largest in the world, acknowledged on a November conference call that some key titles, such as Overwatch and Hearthstone, were seeing flat or declining numbers of users. After disappointing sales of Destiny 2: Forsaken, the company parted ways with its developer, Bungie Inc., a move that could reduce annual revenue by as much as $400 million.

Patch 8.1 Hotfixes - February 8, 2019
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Classes

Dungeons and Raids
  • Battle of Dazar’alor
    • Jadefire Masters
      • Marksmanship Hunters’ Trick Shots now correctly deal damages to Force.
    • Stormwall Blockade
      • Fixed a bug preventing Sister Katherine and Brother Joseph from correctly using Translocate if they were channeling Tidal or Storm's Empowerment.
      • Fixed a bug preventing some Voltaic Flash patterns from hitting players on the docks on Mythic difficulty.

Events
  • The most-rare item containers from holiday bosses, such as Big Love Rocket, now drop for player characters at level 110 or higher (was level 98).

Items

Blue Posts
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Love is in the Air Rewards – Level Requirement
The annual holiday, Love is in the Air, begins on February 12 and ends part way through the day on February 26. For this, we are applying a hotfix that makes it so only characters who are level 110 or higher will be eligible daily to receive the box that contains the most-rare items from this event’s bosses (for the last two years it’s been set to level 98). You will also see this reflected in the next official Hotfixes update post.

As a result of this, if you are hunting the Big Love Rocket you will want to get characters to at least level 110 for the event.

Good luck collection hunters!

is it still stupidly rare? You seem to be actively encouraging people to farm it on as many characters as possible which doesn’t strike me as a healthy gameplay habit to be encouraging.
The drop rate hasn’t changed. We are aware of how some people push to farm it and wanted to avoid anybody feeling like there was a stealth change while we keep the availability focused on more active play. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Holiday Rewards – Level 110 Requirement
Got some info back on this one, the Big Love Rocket mount will now only drop from the Heart-Shaped Box that players level 110 or higher receive from defeating The Crown Chemical Co.

(This will also be the case for Coren Direbrew and the Headless Horseman later this year.) (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
This article was originally published in forum thread: Patch 8.1 Hotfixes - February 8, 2019, Holiday Rare Rewards - Level 110 Requirement started by chaud View original post
Published on 2019-02-09 04:02 AM
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  1. Gratlim's Avatar
    Time to buy Activision stocks!

    For those saying that they did not mention WoW. This is because WoW hasn't been close to the the popularity / moneymaking of HS and OW for awhile. And those 2 were the "big" games for Blizz.

    Them acknowledging those 2 are on a downtrend as well mean Blizz no longer has any game in growth / popular phase. D3 and HotS are on server maintenance mode, WoW is mostly there with cashcow content to minimize losses. That is pretty critical.
  1. Indil's Avatar
    what about they start making good games again, instead of watching shares and profits only and "randomly" firing ppl
    smh
  1. Teph's Avatar
    Next their reason will be, that the fanbase isn't what it's used to be. Their recent policy and games are fine .
  1. ArenaDk's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Gratlim View Post
    Time to buy Activision stocks!

    For those saying that they did not mention WoW. This is because WoW hasn't been close to the the popularity / moneymaking of HS and OW for awhile. And those 2 were the "big" games for Blizz.

    Them acknowledging those 2 are on a downtrend as well mean Blizz no longer has any game in growth / popular phase. D3 and HotS are on server maintenance mode, WoW is mostly there with cashcow content to minimize losses. That is pretty critical.
    Source ? For that. I can’t find were it is said that wow makes less money
  1. Kuja's Avatar
    Not surprised HS is losing players. So boring cards lately! And packs are expensive as fuck! I know I won't buy any more packs myself.
  1. ophion1990's Avatar
    I guess they hadn't had any bad publicity in about a week or 2.
  1. PuppetShowJustice's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by mmocfd1b0ab5a3 View Post
    "is it still stupidly rare? You seem to be actively encouraging people to farm it on as many characters as possible which doesn’t strike me as a healthy gameplay habit to be encouraging."

    Is this guy for real? Like is someone pointing he with a gun and say to farm it?
    At least I can structure a sentence. Yes, I am "for real". A lot of people in the mount collector community dread this holiday event and for good reason. I won't be farming it like crazy this year but I have over four thousand kills on this particular holiday boss under my belt at this point. And I know of people with a lot more attempts than I'll ever have.
  1. spxhqtn's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Reverie View Post
    as a blizzard employee i can tell you its gonna be fun around here if you're an outsider who wants to see the death of the biggest mmo ever created
    Ok blizzard employee. Why does blizzard remove old models while data miners have proven they have zero technical difficulties for maintaining them?
  1. GMZohar1's Avatar
    sinking ship sinking ship sinking ship sinking ship
  1. THEORACLE64's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by PuppetShowJustice View Post
    At least I can structure a sentence. Yes, I am "for real". A lot of people in the mount collector community dread this holiday event and for good reason. I won't be farming it like crazy this year but I have over four thousand kills on this particular holiday boss under my belt at this point. And I know of people with a lot more attempts than I'll ever have.
    Watch out guys - he can structure as sentence! But yes, that mount is an absolute pain to get.
  1. Acidz's Avatar
    No surprise really. Still lizzard shills will tell you the company and game are doing great for lack of proof saying otherwise rofl
  1. tikcol's Avatar
    Share drops mean nothing right
  1. Dystemper's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by RobertoCarlos View Post
    they just got $9000 alone from one guild transfer (limit) im sure they're doing fine.

    Hosting WoW servers isnt as expensive as people think
    But the cost of doing business in commiefornia is very very expensive . It's why do many businesses are fleeing the state
  1. Lolsteak's Avatar
    Bruh look at this dude
  1. Dystemper's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by ArenaDk View Post
    Source ? For that. I can’t find were it is said that wow makes less money
    That's some fine white knighting there
  1. Beatman's Avatar
    Activision Blizzard Inc. plans to announce job cuts Tuesday in the face of slowing sales
    Guess why, Activision.
  1. Acidbaron's Avatar
    Start the count down.

    Step One, acquire a profitable company and set unobtainable profit numbers based on exceptional good fiscal years.
    Step Two, see the company fail to repeat said goals and start speaking of losses instead of less growth.
    Step Three, start cutting costs, stop experimenting at the first stage and only follow market trends meaning you'll always be catching up. Further reduce the staff that don't generate a direct revenue, such as customer support, Quality Assurance.

    Acti-Blizz is essentially the new Enron on the block. Or Valeant if you need a more recent example. I hope short sellers take them to the cleaners and one can only hope EA will follow.
  1. Daedius's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Beatman View Post
    Guess why, Activision.
    Fine, I'll admit it!

    It's all my fault, I stopped playing WoW within a month of BfA's release... and it's had this knock on effect that has led to this!!
  1. Niwes's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Zyky View Post
    I mean, he's right though. When an allied race is released token prices skyrocket, when token prices skyrocket Blizzard is making money. People can say "lol I'm spending gold for it" but the reality is someone spent $20 on that token for you to get $15. The same thing applies too when a store mount or pet is released, the token prices skyrocket and this is fact with evidence in the history of token prices.
    exactly this.
  1. MrCool's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by ArenaDk View Post
    That sounds like a excuse to hate on the game. Imagine if we use the same anecdote for classic releases and call it a failure
    But classic is a failure
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