I bet their board game releases right on schedule.
I bet their board game releases right on schedule.
This is the Blame Game. Jeff Hamilton has the right of it, the blame rests with HR and the management structure.
The official response is the most hilarious though... "this is just a witch hunt by the California because they hate business!" Are. You. Fucking. Kidding. Me. This is a disgusting deflection of the issue at hand written likely by a man, or a woman in a prestigious untouchable position. The employee response letter was right... that corporate response shouts from the ivory tower "nothing is wrong here!" and completely invalidates whatever experiences employees have had or are having. W O W.
This company has gone to shit.
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Exactly, which is why I find it amusing when people keep trying to point fingers at the merger and all that nonsense. It's the developers being the same as they were many years ago - leads changed hands but even some remained the same. It's their fault not some company buyout - though that still has influence, I won't disagree on that part. But I digress!
Exactly - they're way too big to fail off of something like this. But will they change? Ehhhh.
That's a big ol' probably not. I'm sure some people will get fired and there will be a shake-up on some key management positions... But if a huge majority still reside in the company, I don't see that mentality changing.
Anyone who believes that work on the game is going to stop for more than a few days is kidding themselves. Yep, there will be meetings and such but people are going to mostly be back at it this week sometime. As far as their customers go, that's how they get out of this. The people on the ground: the coders, the engineers, the producers pull management's fat out of the fire for them. Was there a disruption? Sure. Is it going to go on for weeks or months? No, it won't.
"...money's most powerful ability is to allow bad people to continue doing bad things at the expense of those who don't have it."
All I'm saying is that it's very easy to sh*t on Blizzard while most of us don't give a sh*t about far greater injustices in the world. Ones you can actually avoid being part of. It's seems very selective and convenient to me.
Your whole 'being Jesus' statement basically tells me that you don't want to be consistent, you only care about the injustice you can afford to care about.
If Brack is allowed to stay around, that will be on him. He strikes me as someone who, when they get really determined about something, will do what it takes to get it done. He's taken a very large hit on this with the Afrasiabi thing so he now has something to prove. Internally I expect he will be something of a hard-ass about this. It might work. Then again, he might be gone by Friday.
"...money's most powerful ability is to allow bad people to continue doing bad things at the expense of those who don't have it."
Uhm, no. You know nothing about me. I cannot improve the welfare of those people that got abused, how am I responsible for there being asshole in the company that can't respect other people. They need to face the fact that the value of the product will not be on par for the foreseeable future and not guilt trip paying customers into not cancelling their subs when we have another mid expansion 8 month content drought.
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Will have to see - I haven't looked deeply into how brack actually is received by the company employee's and if he actually puts in motion what he believes in. Maybe he does? I would love to believe he'll dig heels in and pull back on everything, tear up the bad apples and make sure things get figured out. But I don't know about that honestly.
Him being gone is a possibility anyways, so none of it may come to fruition like you mentioned.
I care a great deal. I stopped eating meat years ago, I don't drive a car, I buy clothes maybe once every 10 years. All I'm saying is, be consistent.
To me it seems you pick the things you feel you can be indignant about. Not because it's justified, but because it's convenient. That's being a hypocrite.
My brother still plays daily, and has not stopped since Wrath. He doesn't like drama and doesn't care to keep updated about it, and even he is noticing people quitting left and right.
He has two accounts and I don't know how many alts, and he told me yesterday that on his main guild so many people quit that they had to completely re-do the raiding teams, went from three down to just one. On his other casual guilds, one is almost deserted and the other went from having 200 people online last monday, to just 60 this Monday.
This seems like might have unprecedented effects on sub numbers just from that small sample.
You buy clothes? I find that completely unacceptable. How dare someone who purchases clothes sit on their high horse looking down on others. I am a level 4 vegan, which means i dont eat anything that casts a shadow, and you think just "not eating meat" is enough? Complete hypocrite.
Sorry, but all the things you've mentioned don't change world injustice, not even a little bit. And you are perfectly aware of that, aren't you? So much for not being a hypocrite. The solution to the problems of the world isn't about "living like an Amish", as someone said earlier, but actively trying to improve other people's lives, e.g. harassed women at Blizzard. I can't do a great deal for people being brutally exploited in sweatshops in Bangla Desh or some other random third world country, unfortunately. And no, you don't buying those clothes doesn't change their crappy situation in the slightest, so it's perhaps time to do something different.
Nothing about that is guilt tripping.
Literally all that was pointed out was "if you're taking hearing there will be a delayed and complaining about that, you're probably part of the issue".
Which is completely fair to say, because anyone who can see why this is so disturbing it happened would also logically understand it's going to affect the game.
Anyone who hears it and starts still complaining about the content most likely doesn't care about what happened, hence they become part of the problem.
Trying to sugar coat it as "but I have to pay monthly!" isn't justifiable either because you can just cancel until the next patch.
You're not responsible for what happened.
But if your reaction isn't going to extend sympathy, then you can hardly complain if it's pointed out how insensitive that can be.
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That's a terrible logic that I see people around here spreading to try to defend their sunk cost fallacy.
With that logic anyone that ever bought an Iphone or clothes in the West should just stop trying to be better and demand better services, as we already used products that came from child labor. Can you imagine what kind of society we would get?
"Oh I already supported this terrible thing! In order to not look like a hypocrite Ill just support ALL terrible things!"